Coping with Business Loss with Christina Kisley

The Happy Startup School

This is another recording of the live webinar that Laurence and I are hosting during lockdown in the UK and across the world. We're joined by Christina Kisley, our long time friend and Alptitude alumnus. She’s co-chair of Conscious Capitalism in Atlanta and is an executive coach for leaders, executives and entrepreneurs with 20 years of experience. For this episode we talk about loss. When we downplay loss and don't allow ourselves to grieve we store up that emotion so that next time we have a loss we feel exponentially worse. This is because the new loss, even if it's relatively smaller, lights up all the grief that's still in our system. We're all currently suffering from a loss of some kind whether it may be as tragic as the loss of a loved one or even the loss of a dream. Rather than push those unpleasant feelings away we need to lean into them and just feel. We can't think our way out of grief we can only feel our way through it. Many people try to "silver line" the loss and try to find something positive from the event. But there's no actual need to do so, it can just feel bad, and that's okay. With the help of the amazing Christina Kisley we share the Kubler-Ross model on the different stages of grief and relate them to what we're seeing around us and experiencing ourselves. We hope it helps you deal with any loss that you're experiencing in your businesses and personal lives and gives you a way to process what's going on.