How fintech leaders can build their mental fitness for 2023

It’s unlikely that as a fintech founder, you’re adverse to challenges, setbacks, or obstacles. The current state of play, however, will test even the most robust of leaders. The sector’s more shaken up than a snow globe. We’re seeing competitors and colleagues scale back on growth forecasts and teams in equal parts.

As we zoom towards the year’s end, too, burnout and overwhelm tend to emerge as very real threats for so many of us.  As leaders we have a responsibility to our teams, our investors, and our families to take care of our mental – and emotional – well-being. Candidly speaking, the last thing our communities need is another burnt-out founder.

By introducing a few simple self-coaching practices in these coming days, you can build the Mental Fitness needed to help you navigate these last few weeks of 2022 and make the most of the seasonal downtime. So that you can go into 2023 thriving as a leader.

Cognomie’s co-founder and CPO, Kate Hesk, shares how:  

Start by understanding stress

First, we really need to understand stress. Specifically, how it manifests – it’s about having an awareness of how it presents for you. Stress is often bound up with the experience of imbalance, challenged boundaries, or uncertainty, so common in the current environment. And, because stress spirals, we tend to find ourselves reacting. We lose self-awareness, and self-agency and vitally, forget our role in the specific dynamic.