Tania Dsouza 🧠+💜@TaniaDiscovered
Decoding the emotional journey of startup founders l 2 x founder l 70% career with startups in tech, events, luxury, real-estate I Emotion science geek 🤓 Community of Madrid, Spain Joined April 2019-
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How are my Twitter friends doing? I took a break from this space to focus on business growth. Reporting back that growth definitely comes for me with less Twitter noise and more focus. But I was missing my peeps here. So hey 👋🏽
This hustle culture/workaholism was not part of many Eastern cultures or Mediterranean countries. But lately, it's a trend everywhere. I see it happening in Spain with the international companies. It's like the US is exporting this to the rest of the world.
Do I know a designer strong at building a Webflow site here? Please tag if you know anyone I could reach out.
How often do you evaluate your wrong choices? I find that continuously taking the courage to look at ourselves and be aware of where we messed up is an invaluable piece of data. Taking responsibility comes next. It's the best way to make better decisions in the future.
I didn't use Twitter for business and I had a self-sufficient, growing business. The past year I experimented with Twitter. I connected with amazing people but business wise it was just distracting. Spending less time on Twitter now and my revenues have soared.
The benefits of running your own business. Week one in South Africa done. Bringing on week 2 and starting with this view 😀
The power of emotions attached to brand. I saw this during lunch and remembered @MeetKevon Honest Greens is my happy place for food in Madrid. Kevon’s content and energy has a similar joyful vibe for me here on Twitter. 💚
Was to spend Easter in South Africa. Instead spent hours dealing with South Africa embassy cause the e-visa that didn’t arrive due to technical issues, re-scheduling flights through a call center in Angola and losing money on reservations. Why make tourism so painful?
Knowing your thrive mode is so important. I experimented a lot last year (I don’t consider it a waste of time) as it’s helped me identify my thrive mode. My thrive mode— structure, team and mentorship.
The wait between —- ‘Yes. This is excellent. Send us the contract.’ and ‘Yes. We have signed the contract. Here’s the advance payment.’ is always excruciating.
I had a big pitch today. Didn’t want imposter syndrome to kick in. Told my 🧠— ‘I know exactly what you are trying to do friend. You worry for me. But this is just fight / flight mode talking. Not my friend talking. Don’t worry. I got this’ Worked wonderfully well 🥳
The big reason we procrastinate is because we have become so good at telling horror stories to ourself. ‘What if I injure myself during that kick boxing class’ ‘My family will disown me if I start hanging out with...’ ‘What if that idea I want to try fails’
So basically everyone here is starting a AI newsletter, huh ? 🙈
Entrepreneurship and motherhood can be a very lonely journey. I heard this somewhere — ‘We need to look at loneliness as an opportunity to engage with ourselves.’ The silence attached to it allows you to hear yourself, become friends with yourself and challenge yourself.
As entrepreneurs we forget the difference between accesible leadership and micro management 🙄 As parents we forget the difference between helicopter parenting and emotionally present parenting 😬
Have you noticed the more you define yourself (startup founder/ parent/creator) in relation to others the more lost, overwhelmed and anxious you feel.
My thought during my yoga session this morning —— Do we make kids are our self-esteem projects? If we haven’t reached our business, career or relationship aspirations then we try to curate and create the ‘perfect childhood’ for our kid. Just to feel a sense of achievement.
Took the day off to enjoy #StPatrickDay Madrid style with the Irish part of my family😜 At Secret rooftop garden. It’s a space that screams emotional marketing (joy, awe, wonder..) I even got a tarot reading with my drink 😉 But I do miss Dublin. Thinking of you all ☘️🇮🇪
Competing desires and emotions are constantly demanding our attention. What frameworks or models do you use to - give your full attention to people (your spouse, child, friend, colleague etc) while engaging with them? Or -stay focussed on a project/idea?
As parents and entrepreneurs we think our answers need to always come from others like us. But sometimes our answers may come from 3000 years back e.g. reading a book on ancient wisdom or someone from a different culture e.g. travel or different phase in life e.g. parents
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My sales of my digital products is up 530% this week from last week… Did I have a sale? Nope. Did I launch a campaign. Nope. Did I do anything different? Nope. So what do I think happened?
@TaniaDiscovered I can relate to the toxic culture. Collaboration fosters a sense of community, shared success, and the importance of collective growth. Cheers to unlearning!
Yesterday, I threw the term "personal brand" in the garbage. "Be your own Head of Marketing at ME inc!" doesn't vibe in 2023. That's some 1997 language. The landscape has changed. And we've changed. The future is showing up as you, not a “brand of you.” You can be… x.com/i/web/status/1…
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We notice stuff that stands out If you want people to stop scrolling and pay attention to your content, break from the norm When Adam Grant shares screenshots of his popular tweets on LinkedIn—a common tactic—he uses a filter to subtly change the tone The result? You look 👀
@TaniaDiscovered You’re wise, Tania! As the old Russian proverb goes, if you chase two rabbits at once you often end up losing both
Listening to Beastie Boys over breakfast with my baby boy Life is good
@TaniaDiscovered EVERYBODY TANIA IS BACK!!! Missed you, friend!
@TaniaDiscovered Good to see you back Tania but also great to hear things went really well when you disconnected 🔥
I let 3 domains I’d been holding onto expire today It was the right thing to do so I can stay focused on current biz (I hit $450k for the year already as a solopreneur) But I’m still gonna pour one out for the homies…
I had a dream last night that a well-known founder was launching a new electric car company He told me what he planned to name the company and first car The names were… terrible I was helping him brainstorm better options when I suddenly woke up What happened next? I stayed… x.com/i/web/status/1…
@TaniaDiscovered Thanks Tania for tuning in here. Was hoping to get a reply from you as you're the expert in the field. How is having contractor taking away an edge? Being able to work as a team?
Serious question for people from Spain… When do you SLEEP? Been here for a week. Dinner at 10pm (sometimes ELEVEN) and at work by 9am. Weekends people in their 40s and 50s out until 3am. Are you vampires? How do you do it? What’s the secret?
Have the “I’ll teach you to make passive income from the beach” grifter crowd finally found their way to Twitter? Or is the algorithm just surfacing their content more? Either way, I don’t like it. Go back to spamming Facebook groups where you belong. This is my happy place.
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