Jerry Colonna is the co-founder and CEO of the coaching company Reboot, a former venture capitalist known as the CEO Whisperer, and the author of Reboot and Reunion.
Jerry Colonna believes that growing up is the real work of leadership, and that most of us spend years hiding the parts of ourselves we cut off to fit in. In this conversation, we explore the three months he spent behind a locked psychiatric door at 18, the chip on the shoulder that carried him from Brooklyn to the top of venture capital, the February morning in 2002 when the demons finally caught him, how meditation has allowed him to greet his demons as old friends, the question his therapist gave him that he still asks every client, and how Hulk and Thor turn out to be the same anger pointed in different directions. At the end of the day, what matters is what matters. #personaldevelopment #selfimprovement #leadership #mentalhealth #meditation #journaling
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Website: https://www.reboot.io
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jerrycolonna
Book (Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up): https://www.reboot.io/reboot-leadership-and-the-art-of-growing-up/
Book (Reunion: Leadership and the Longing to Belong): https://www.reboot.io/reunion-leadership-and-the-longing-to-belong/
Podcast (Reboot): https://www.reboot.io/podcast/
Timestamps:
00:00 Why the Prefix Re?
02:29 Where the Severing Began
03:38 Three Months Behind a Locked Door
05:32 I Was Patched Up - It Was Triage
07:28 Ten Years as a Reporter
12:07 Into Venture Capital by Accident
16:44 The Kindergarten Graduation
17:45 Princes of New York
21:28 Shutting Down Flatiron
25:22 When the Demons Catch You
27:30 You Do Not Have to Be an Asshole to Be Successful
29:15 Ambition Itself Is Not the Problem
31:39 Go to Canyon Ranch - The Rebuilding Begins
33:47 Greeting the Demons as Old Friends
35:15 Journaling Since Age 13
38:40 I Never Reread My Journals
40:10 Two Pens - Letting the Crow Speak
44:10 Hulk and Thor
49:10 Superheroes Are Modern Myths
51:07 What Am I Not Saying That I Need to Say
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