Founders Unplugged · 2025-07-21 · 48 min
From Headspace to High-Growth Coaching: Shona Beats on Startup Chaos and Calm In this episode of Founders Unplugged, we sit down with Shona Beats, ex-Founding COO of Headspace, to talk about what really happens behind the scenes of a rocketship startup - and what founders need but rarely get as they scale. Shona shares her journey from working with Andy Puddicombe in the earliest days of Headspace to mentoring some of the world’s most ambitious founders today. We explore burnout, founder identity, operational chaos, and the psychological cost of hypergrowth - plus what she’s learned from watching hundreds of founders go through it. This is one of those conversations that hits deep.
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