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Episode · Jul 3, 2025 · 31 min

How Stoicism Helps You Stay Grounded When Everything Falls Apart — Alex Limpert of GuestReady on Leading Through Chaos

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As co-founder and CEO of GuestReady, Alex hit a wall during COVID: a crumbling travel industry, a vanished funding round, and 140 salaries he couldn’t pay. What saved him wasn’t a new strategy - but an ancient one: Stoicism.

In this episode, we get into:

•⁠ ⁠How “focus on what you can control” became a survival strategy•⁠ ⁠Why transparency builds trust in the worst of times•⁠ ⁠What it takes to lead when your startup becomes a rollercoaster•⁠ ⁠How detaching self-worth from business outcomes protects founders

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