Understanding How Trauma Affects Entrepreneurs with: Moe Abbassi

According to a survey commissioned by accountancy software company, Xero, many entrepreneurs are struggling with the psychological impact of navigating their businesses through the pandemic. Indeed, the emotional fallout is proving harder to deal with than the rather more prosaic but necessary task of getting their companies back on a sound financial footing. The question is, how can they best help themselves? Conducted by polling organization Opinium and the Centre for Economic and Business Research, 92 percent of small business owners have experienced mental health problems over the past two years. Perhaps more worryingly, 40 say that dealing with their psychological problems is likely to take longer than financial recovery.

Moe Abbassi grew up experiencing verbal, emotional and physical abuse, which led to feelings of inadequacy, being socially inept and having dating troubles. This resulted in him going through a long journey learning social and dating skills and starting a coaching business that he was able to scale to multi six-figures and traveling to over 20 countries teaching seminars and bootcamps. While on the surface level everything was great, Moe was suffering from anxiety, depression and purposelessness and panic attacks that left him hospitalized. Additionally, his relationship with his partner and friends were falling apart.

This led to Moe dedicating himself to understanding what was causing these issues so he could address them. He invested over 200k into therapy, shadow work, seminars, conferences, silent meditation retreats, and ultimately learned that most of the self improvement and personal development advice out there won’t work if the habits formed are stemming from unresolved trauma.



Today, Moe Abbassi is a mindset and performance coach that helps successful entrepreneurs work through the parts of their lives that aren’t bringing them fulfillment, dissecting their destructive habits, and getting to the root cause of their problems so they can be resolved once and for all. He joined me this week to tell me more.

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