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Good Stress vs Bad Stress: What Nobody Tells You About Building a Business

The Lazy CEO Podcast with Jane Lu · 2026-06-10 · 12 min

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In this episode, Jane challenges the idea that stress is something to eliminate entirely, and calls out the rise and grind culture that has a lot of founders quietly exhausted. This one is for anyone who has ever felt guilty for sleeping in. In this episode, you'll learn: Why not all stress is bad, and how to tell the difference between pressure that sharpens you and pressure that is just noise Why the 5am club and hustle aesthetic is not a universal blueprint for success, and why so many founders are quietly exhausted from trying to fit the mould Jane's three-question framework for deciding which stress in your business is worth keeping and which to cut for good This episode is

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