I started my first company at thirteen, and somewhere along the way people quit asking me real questions. My team brought me problems shaped like requests. My friends asked how business was going and accepted whatever I said. If you've built something real, I'd bet it's happened to you too.
The Solo Hot Seat is a twenty-five minute self-guided session built from the room I run for founders: a two-minute drop-in, three rounds of questions that get harder on purpose, and one sentence you'll say out loud before it's over.
Pen and paper required. Performance optional, and unwelcome.
One email a week after that, with one question worth sitting with. Unsubscribe whenever it stops being that.
Two minutes, body first, because the body doesn't perform. Every session in the room starts here, and so does this one.
Nine questions that get harder on purpose. Where you actually are, what it's costing, and the thing you're not saying. Written by hand, answered twice.
The session ends with a sentence spoken, not just written. It'll make sense when you get there.
I've spent most of my life being the person other people bring their problems to. It's a role I chose, and mostly I love it. It still took me a long time to notice what the arrangement was costing me.
I run a room where that arrangement doesn't hold. Founders, no audience to perform for, and questions that don't accept the first answer. This is a piece of that room, for one. Phone in another room, door closed, twenty-five minutes where nothing needs anything from you.
Free, and not for everyone. If sitting alone with real questions sounds like a waste of an afternoon, it probably is, for you. If something in you leaned forward, that's worth noticing.
Send me the session