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Hidden Value with David Sherry
Hosted by David Sherry · EN
Step inside real founder conversations: raw, unrehearsed, and honest. No playbook. No polish. Just ambitious entrepreneurs uncovering the answers that were there all along. Because every business hides something valuable trapped under the weight of success and chaos of growth.
The Hidden Value podcast is hosted by David Sherry. David works with early-stage founders to grow professionally and personally. He founded, sold, and advises Death to Stock – a media company and newsletter that serves brands like Unfold, Figma, and Spotify.
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Scaling a Hybrid Community: From Coworking Growth to Digital Leverage | Hidden Value
Oct 1600:19:05Tap to summarizeWhen Charlie Ward built Ramen Club (an online community for SaaS founders) and Ramen Space (a physical coworking hub in London), he found himself running two thriving but different businesses—one online, one offline.In this Hidden Value conversation, David Sherry and Charlie explore what it takes to scale a hybrid business model, balancing physical operations with digital growth. Together, they unpack how sequencing, delegation, and education can unlock new levels of scale—without taking on unnecessary risk.Charlie shares how he’s reframing growth from “open another space” to “build digital leverage”, and why his sweet spot lies in teaching founders how to find and validate ideas through smart market research.Key Takeaways• A hybrid model can leverage the best of online and offline communities.• Scaling a physical business requires different strategies than scaling digital.• Educational content creates scalable, de-risked growth opportunities.• Market research should come before user research when validating ideas.• Finding your “sweet spot” means aligning business potential, customer need, and personal excitement.
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Finding Alignment: The Journey from Corporate to Personal Fulfillment | Hidden Value
Oct 900:32:02Tap to summarizeWhen Saara Lampwalla left her corporate role to build something of her own, she entered a season defined by visibility, vulnerability, and the courage to be seen in a new light. In this episode, David and Saara explore what it means to align your inner values with how you show up in the world — and how that alignment shapes both your fulfillment and your freedom.Key TakeawaysVisibility is a double-edged sword — it can both empower and intimidate.Aligning inner values with outer expression builds authentic leadership.Transitioning from corporate to personal work takes courage and experimentation.Being seen and being perceived are not the same thing.Redefining success on your own terms leads to fulfillment.Chapters00:00 – Exploring Visibility and Authenticity01:56 – Transitioning from Corporate to Personal Paths05:04 – Balancing Public and Private Selves07:04 – Aligning Internal and External Values09:10 – Embracing Authenticity in Professional Spaces11:51 – Redefining Success on Personal Terms13:57 – The Power of Being Seen17:12 – Navigating Professional Growth19:39 – The Journey to Personal Fulfillment26:53 – The Courage to Be SeenCredits & LinksHost: David SherryGuest: Saara Lampwalla
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The CEO ‘Clean Your Desk’ Method to Unblock Your Energy
Jun 5, 202500:07:21Tap to summarizeI spoke with someone recently who was *really* stuck. I’ll call him Joe. Joe was not just stuck professionally, but with his relationship (on again off again) and with his work (not sure if he should change careers or Not just professionally.When some people get stuck.. they get really… really… stuck. They find that multiple areas of their life start to feel stagnant. They can’t choose where to live. They can’t decide if they should quit their job or leave a relationship. They seem to be caught oscillating between these decisions, never moving forward.The good news is that if you can start to make progress in one area, you can start to make progress in many. All it takes is a little momentum, and suddenly the damn will burst. If you aren’t feeling like you’re making progress, the good news is the worse it gets, the more likely that it will get painful enough to break the tension.Tension is what you feel when you get pulled forward and backward or left and right with no progress.The trick that’s being played on you is that you think it’s about deciding. Being so focused on a decision, such as “Should I quit my job or not?” Or “Should we break up or not?” Is actually the wrong focus. It’s not the decision that is the problem, it’s something deeper which is preventing you from trusting yourself and hearing yourself enough to make natural decisions that move your life forward without so much effort, thinking, overplaying, and pain.What we’re really talking about here is our energy, and whether or not it is flowing or whether or not it is trapped and stagnant. We stop our own energy from flowing, and that keeps us stuck.The trick to breaking the damn is to get your energy flowing again, and that involves trust. Trust is needed to move forward, because decisions we feel are important require us to take a leap into something unknown. No matter how much you want to predict your future, or how much you think you can even project the future, you can’t. Ultimately it takes a leap of faith to move forward.The good news is you can start small. You can domino small decisions into larger ones. What’s one thing that has been put off due to your inability to decide or take action? What’s one small thing you can clear from your backlog?A client of mine, a CEO of a $30M+ company, he realized that he was prone to letting his metaphorical “Desk” get messy. It was so messy with so many problems and decisions and moments of not saying how he truly felt that it was covered with so much it was hard to work.The trick was to start clearing his desk. One thing at a time until he finally started to get some space again. Then, in the future, it was about being proactive enough to clear things before they became a problem for him.Your energy unlocks when you let tiny decisions compound into bigger ones, and when you let your energy flow instead of stopping it by trying to predict and protect yourself from the unknown.
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When Fear Hijacks Your Intuition: Making the Right Decisions for Your Business
Jun 5, 202500:06:20Tap to summarizeJoin David Sherry in this episode of Founder Therapy as he discusses the crucial distinction between intuition and fear in decision-making. Learn how to recognize whether your decisions are driven by genuine intuition or by underlying fear, and discover strategies to navigate discomfort when stepping into unknown territories. David shares practical insights from his experience working with successful entrepreneurs, including a real-life example of a challenging executive hire decision. Watch now to gain clarity on making the right choices for personal and business growth.
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The Value in Choosing Your Customers
Jun 3, 202500:04:39Tap to summarizeOne of our earliest photographers at Death to Stock was Patrick Chin. Patrick had built a business in the luxury hotel and fine dining space. This meant that Patrick had to fly around to take photos at beautiful beachside hotels, or snap images of Michelin star Chef’s beautiful creations…getting to taste the dishes afterwards. Poor Patrick.Patrick showed me that who you choose as your customers matters. And that if you’re going to choose someone to serve, choose someone great.I had another friend who was a photographer for new startup retail businesses. They had very little money, fast turnaround times, and often burned through the images quickly. This other friend was constantly struggling with business and was frustrated. Given that you can choose your customers, who are the best customers worth choosing?
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Will Mannon – Surfing the Internet For Education and Ideas (BASB)
Dec 4, 2020Tap to summarizeWill Mannon is the course manager for two fast-growing online, cohort-based courses, "Building a Second Brain" and "Writes of Passage". On this episode, we discuss the future of online learning, the opportunities Will see's for people diving into the creator economy, and some of Will's favorite quotes and ways of looking at the world.You can follow Will on Twitter or check out his blog here!https://twitter.com/will_mannonhttps://www.will-mannon.com/
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Dan Shipper: Following your Career Thread (Superorganizers)
Aug 22, 2020Tap to summarizeDan Shipper is the writer of Superorganizers on Substack as part of the Everything Bundle. http://danshipper.com/http://everything.substack.com/Learn more about the host: https://www.davidsherry.me/
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