Are you a new or established entrepreneur who is: - Holding so much fear about all the uncertainties involved? - Striving to build and nurture trust with your co-founder(s) and team? - Struggling to keep the vision alive? - Losing track of your sense of purpose? - Longing for a sense of peace, by knowing what you need to do and why you’re doing it? - Craving to simply connect and share your experiences with a trusted sounding board? - Wanting to move forward with your decision-making? - Feeling overwhelmed with a lot of junk getting in the way of you and your progress? Get in touch now to schedule your initial and free sample session to show you how coaching helps and to test the chemistry levels between us. Feel free to share with others who you think might be interested: thouraya@thourayasayess.com

1. The Wild Ride of Entrepreneurship

2. 66 percent of small businesses fail, and
it is not for the reasons you think

3. Failure was not due to outside factors –
they were internal. They were not
economic – they were emotional.
The unexpected and terrifying emotional
roller coaster an entrepreneur
experiences is the greatest factor in why
most quit and ultimately fail.

4. It is one thing to identify the feelings at
each stage, and another thing entirely to
know what to do when you’re on the
ride itself.

5. Sounds Familiar?
Intrigued to learn more? The Emotional Rollercoaster of Being an Entrepreneur

6. Truth is Every entrepreneur has their moments, and no one
admits to it.
According to Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape:
“First and foremost, a start-up puts you on an emotional
rollercoaster unlike anything you have ever experienced. You flip
rapidly from day-to-day – one where you are euphorically convinced
you are going to own the world, to a day in which doom seems only
weeks away and you feel completely ruined, and back again. Over
and over and over. And I’m talking about what happens to stable
entrepreneurs. There is so much uncertainty and so much risk
around practically everything you are doing. The level of stress that
you’re under generally will magnify things incredible highs and
unbelievable lows at whiplash speed and huge magnitude.”

7. Why the code of silence then?
Well, for a lot of entrepreneurs, maintaining a
game face and showing confidence in the
project, goes hand in hand with persuading
talented people to work for them, and investors
to fund the operation.

8. Are you a new or established entrepreneur who is:
• Holding so much fear about all the uncertainties involved?
• Striving to build and nurture trust with your co-founder(s) and
team?
• Struggling to keep the vision alive?
• Losing track of your sense of purpose?
• Longing for a sense of peace, by knowing what you need to do and
why you’re doing it?
• Craving to simply connect and share your experiences with a
trusted sounding board?
• Wanting to move forward with your decision-making?
• Feeling overwhelmed with a lot of junk getting in the way of you
and your progress?

9. My name is Thouraya Sayess and I work with entrepreneurs and idea
founders that are craving to create meaning and eager to see and seize
meaningful opportunities. These are individuals who are running their
businesses and are encountering the usual founder, co-founder and
team struggles. I believe that the health of your start-up depends on
fully understanding yourself and that really, what you resist persists: If
you’re not conscious and aware, then the culture that gets created
around you is going to reflect pretty much your worst traits, the parts
of yourself that you want to push off to the side.

10. Our partnership is absolutely confidential and will require
commitment and will entail regular exercises that are meant
to stimulate, provoke, and nourish understanding of yourself
and the world. The ultimate aim is to clarify goals and stay
focused on key actions to achieve them. You will build
awareness of strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. You will
also develop the ability to think more deeply and clearly
about situations, problems and potential solutions.

11. Get in touch now to schedule your initial and free sample
session to show you how coaching works and to test the
chemistry levels between us. Feel free to share with others
who you think might be interested:
thouraya@thourayasayess.com

12. Inspired By:
• The Emotional Rollercoaster of Being an Entrepreneur, Women in Focus,
https://www.womeninfocus.com.au/t5/Community-Stories/The-Emotional-
Rollercoaster-of-Being-an-Entrepreneur/ba-p/835
• The Entrepreneur Rollercoaster, Darren Hardy,
https://darrenhardy.com/engage/terc/
• Real Success in Silicon Valley comes from rejecting almost everything shiny you
hear about it, Quartz, https://qz.com/780939/silicon-valley-investors-and-
entrepreneurs-need-to-get-real-about-how-emotionally-hard-it-is-to-start-a-
business-if-they-want-to-improve-their-chances-of-success/
• Harnessing Entrepreneurial Manic-Depression: Making the RollerCoaster Work for
You, Tim Ferriss, http://tim.blog/2008/10/03/harnessing-entrepreneurial-manic-
depression-making-the-rollercoaster-work-for-
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