The Pulse: The Dark Side of Success No One Shows You
3/23/20261 hr
Everyone sees the success, but no one sees the weight behind it. In this episode, Shawn French and Pat Sitkins pull back the curtain on what it really takes to build something meaningful.
From pressure, sacrifice, and family impact to the loneliness of leadership, this is the raw truth about entrepreneurship.
Key Takeaways
-Building something meaningful comes with pressure no one prepares you for.
-Success impacts your family more than people realize.
-You can’t balance everything—prioritization is required (Four Burner Theory).
-Determination is doing the work even when you don’t feel like it.
-The hardest seasons often come right before major breakthroughs.
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First 90 secondsShawn French· Host0:00
Building this media company, so to speak, has been the hardest thing I've ever fucking done in my life.
Pat Sitkins· Host0:06
If you knew what you were gonna have to go through day one when you started this to get to today, would you have done it?
Shawn French· Host0:15
No. I would've stayed in corporate America, made 300 grand a year, and just been completely happy taking vacations whenever I wanted to because we had money to do it, and lived like a robot. I'm gonna tell it to everybody right now listening. Yesterday was a very hard day, and you know that. My kids are very intuitive. The moment they looked at me, they knew something was up. And I said, "Hey guys, don't worry. It's just a rough day in business. Daddy will get through it." Now, the little one, she's a witch. I was putting her down, and I kissed her right here on her cheek, and there was tears. And she goes, "Something's going on with you, and I don't know what it is." You know, that was a wake-up call for me to be like, "Man, maybe you should not wear your shit on your sleeve." That's why it's emotional for me, because people don't see that side. People don't see how the family's affected. It's just been heavy lately, man, and I think it gets really heavy right before the breakthrough. Welcome back. You are about to experience another recording with my partner and one of my closest friends, Pat Sickens, on The Pulse, the behind-the-scenes episode of the Determined Society. Today, we're gonna do some housekeeping items, some announcements about the Therabody giveaway that's starting to come to a close, et cetera. And then we're going to get into some