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I’m gonna say something that’s going to shock everyone listening.

I went to a three-day event. By myself. On an airplane. With a bunch of strangers.

And I really freaking enjoyed myself.

I’m painfully introverted. Usually three days of peopling leaves my social battery so drained that I’m never talking to another human again. This time I came home tired, but the good kind.

Here’s the thing. It was a room full of health tech founders who have been where you are and know the way out. Nobody bragged about their successes. We talked a whole lot about failures. No judgment.

Also, I was so hyperfocused on my to-do list in the hotel lobby that I almost walked face first into Kevin Durant. I didn’t recognize him. It was like seeing a fish on land.

Then on Ask L2: a listener runs a one-person business, hasn’t taken a week off in three years, and is starting to resent the thing they built to get free. Where do you even start?

Do as I say, not as I do. Turn your freaking phone off.

Chapters

00:00:00 Cold open

00:00:31 Welcome to You’re Not Too Much

00:00:45 Brace yourself

00:01:25 I really freaking enjoyed myself

00:02:00 Are we sure this is New Jersey?

00:02:54 Fancy food and one coconut cheesecake

00:03:47 Invigorating, not exhausting

00:04:17 People who have been where you are

00:05:01 Reentry whiplash

00:06:15 Nobody suspected I never wear shoes

00:06:40 Counting backward

00:07:45 Two hours of hyperfocus in the great room

00:09:17 Wait, strangers just start conversations?

00:10:02 A very tall man on the stairs

00:11:39 Like seeing a fish on land

00:11:57 "You saw Kevin Durant?"

00:12:42 The guests who wouldn’t check out

00:13:31 What else did I miss?

00:14:55 Ask L2: no week off in three years

00:15:54 Turn your freaking phone off

00:16:50 The false economy of never resting

00:17:43 All I want is to not be needed

00:17:58 Nothing will fall apart in one week

00:18:31 Love you, mean it

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