I am currently struggling with this founders grief. i have to exit a club I built at my university. i see it as my first association, my first organization. its interesting because it is almost leaving me behind, so very vividly. I think i need to have an exit conversation that I have been avoiding. on the one hand, its because I don't know how to have it. On the other, I think its because I think I'm being dramatic ("its just a club"). Anyways, I build the systems, brand and culture so that this can happen. So I can leave and it keep going. Now that its happening, its both so satisfying and heart wrenching. I wonder, how can I have this conversation with those taking over?
I have read this blog post several times and each time I read it, I find something new and moving. Not attending the funeral is simply the best analogy for all the founders i have spoken to, who wanted to get the grieving over with and onto the next thing. I wish i had read this post when i was at the start of the letting go journey and realising that its an unavoidable chapter of the journey. Thank you so much for writing this (and this entire blog!)
Great post! Endings of all kinds, whether founder exits or another type of evolution of self, involve a grief process. We don't talk enough about the grief associated with letting go of a version of ourselves (vs something external). And often we are inundated with all the emotions that come up that it's confusing - and hard to process what's going on, at the time.
I am currently struggling with this founders grief. i have to exit a club I built at my university. i see it as my first association, my first organization. its interesting because it is almost leaving me behind, so very vividly. I think i need to have an exit conversation that I have been avoiding. on the one hand, its because I don't know how to have it. On the other, I think its because I think I'm being dramatic ("its just a club"). Anyways, I build the systems, brand and culture so that this can happen. So I can leave and it keep going. Now that its happening, its both so satisfying and heart wrenching. I wonder, how can I have this conversation with those taking over?
I have read this blog post several times and each time I read it, I find something new and moving. Not attending the funeral is simply the best analogy for all the founders i have spoken to, who wanted to get the grieving over with and onto the next thing. I wish i had read this post when i was at the start of the letting go journey and realising that its an unavoidable chapter of the journey. Thank you so much for writing this (and this entire blog!)
Great post! Endings of all kinds, whether founder exits or another type of evolution of self, involve a grief process. We don't talk enough about the grief associated with letting go of a version of ourselves (vs something external). And often we are inundated with all the emotions that come up that it's confusing - and hard to process what's going on, at the time.