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Emily McSherry: Why You Feel Lost Despite Doing Everything Right

EPISODE OVERVIEW Duration: Approximately 45 minutes Best For: Trapped entrepreneurs who have worked relentlessly, achieved external success, yet still feel directionless and exhausted Key Outcome: Discover how to reconnect with your purpose, manage your energy, and build systems that create genuine freedom rather than just more work She crushed every goal. Then she woke up wondering why none of it felt like enough. THE BOTTOM LINE You have done everything society told you to do. You worked harder than anyone else. You built the company from nothing. You sacrificed weekends, holidays, your health. And somewhere along the way, you looked around and realised you have created a prison rather than freedom. Emily McSherry knows this feeling intimately. She was the 4.2 GPA student, the state softball champion, the double business major who did five internships and talked to professionals and still left college feeling completely lost. That same pattern followed her into entrepreneurship, where she discovered that pushing harder was not the answer. The thing is, Emily now runs Advize Hub, a platform helping students make better career decisions by actually hearing from people in the jobs they are considering. She has built something that matters. She has done it while learning to manage her energy, find co-founders who complement her weaknesses, and create systems that do not require her to sacrifice everything. Her journey offers a blueprint for any trapped entrepreneur ready to stop running on empty and start building something sustainable. WHY THIS EPISODE MATTERS TO YOU You will learn why working harder keeps making you feel more trapped, and what to do instead to reclaim your time and mental clarity You will discover how to identify when you are running on old scripts, those anxious thought patterns that keep you stuck in survival mode rather than strategic thinking You will understand how finding the right partners and systems means you stop being the bottleneck on every single decision in your business You will recognise the real cost of waiting, because every month you delay building proper foundations is another month of exhaustion and missed moments with family KEY INSIGHTS YOU CAN IMPLEMENT TODAY The hardest workers often feel the most lost. Emily did everything right, worked obsessively, achieved every milestone, and still felt directionless. Because achievement without alignment is just productive misery. When you reconnect with why you started, your effort finally starts paying dividends in fulfilment, not just revenue. Solo decision-making is silently destroying you. Emily operated as a solo founder until an advisor insisted she find a co-founder. The thing is, making every single decision alone is not just hard, it is unsustainable. When she partnered with someone who had complementary skills, everything changed. The quality of decisions improved. The burden lifted. Your business needs more than just your brilliance. Your morning thoughts are running old scripts. Those anxious thoughts that hit you at 5am, the doubts, the worries about things years away, Emily calls them old scripts. They are not you. They are just thought patterns. Daily reflection questions like "Who am I becoming?" and "How do I want to feel today?" help you interrupt the pattern and show up as the leader your business needs. Presence is the antidote to entrepreneurial burnout. Emily discovered through meditation that she was never present, always thinking about the future, mindlessly making decisions. Practices like breath work and meditation are not luxuries. They are the operating system that allows you to access your best thinking rather than running on fumes. Test before you leap, but actually leap. Emily spent nearly two years researching her business idea before going full-time. She talked to customers, validated the problem, built a prototype. You do not have to quit tomorrow. That said, you also cannot research forever. Get evidence, then move. GOLDEN QUOTES WORTH REMEMBERING "I was doing all the right stuff, killing myself so I could get the best job and have my best life. And then none of it really added up for me." - Emily McSherry "Being a human, you wake up, even today I didn't feel that great this morning. I didn't have energy. So you need to create it yourself." - Emily McSherry "I would know people would be like, what is she doing? Why doesn't she just go do this thing? Those people don't understand it. They're thinking about the safety net or stability." - Emily McSherry "Old scripts are playing. Almost like an anxious thought or a doubt. That's the old script. Get it out." - Emily McSherry "I don't think there's ever really a great, perfect time to just start the thing. Once you get on the journey, you're like, what could I have done if I just started this a couple years earlier?" - Roy Castleman...