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The Saboteur: There's a Voice in Your Head That's Been Lying to You for Years | With Shirzad Chamine

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Show Notes

You've been listening to the wrong voice in your head for years — and it's cost you more than you realize.

Shirzad Chamine spent the first 30 years of his life in clinical depression — despite building a venture-backed company, attracting Silicon Valley's top investors, and landing Hewlett-Packard as his first customer. Then, at the height of his success, his own leadership team staged a coup and demoted him as CEO of the company he founded.

That devastating moment forced him to ask a question most high achievers never stop to consider: if I'm this successful and this miserable, who am I really — and what's actually running my mind?

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