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Rachel Lockett

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“But just like couples need a date night, co-founders need time and space to connect with each other, to come together and say, house is working for you. Are we still aligned on our vision and our strategy? How are we working together? What am I doing that's pissing you off? What are the things that have gone unsaid and that we need to talk about? But if you're just in the hustle and bustle of running and scaling your startup, you don't make time for that conversation. So I think it's incredibly important for co-founders to make space for their relationship, whether that's a dinner every other week, whether that's going out to lunch regularly, whether that's just touching base business-wise, but having an in-person quarterly check-in. That space is critical for the health of a co founder relationship.”
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“Creates an inherent tension between blind optimism and skepticism, and it's a dance that these two roles play together. So the first part is knowing the dance you're in. So you're not just stepping on each other's toes blindly. Second step is actually being conscious about the commitment you're making to your relationship. So in a marriage, for example, people, you know, I talk about co-founder Vows and recommitments and renewals because in a marriage, you get married and a lot of the times people build a family and then they think, oh, the relationship will just continue because we're around each other all the time. We're doing this thing together.”
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“What is this other person bring into the dynamic and how am I reacting to that? So the first is just collective awareness about what is our dynamic. I like to use the Enneagram for this, but there's all kinds of tools, self-awareness tools that you can use to give a common language to what is my thing and what is your thing, a very classic one has to do with roles. CTOs tend to be skeptics. They love facts. They seek knowledge. They want depth of awareness and understanding. And they also like to be self-sufficient. This is a total generalization, but I've seen this pattern over and over again. The CEO is the person who had to sell the vision. They're a person who loves big picture vision strategy. They often are greeted at influencing others. They love to sell ahead of the reality of what the company's actually built.”
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“Fact, I know you probably know this stat 65% of startups fail because of co founder conflict. And co-founders are in a moment where they're trying to build the future for their business, but also trying to build their own livelihood. So there's so much at stake to get along with your co-founder. And I think the core, at its core, what you need in a healthy relationship is, one, self-awareness. What do I bring into this dynamic? And how am I being experienced by the other person?”
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“Yeah, thanks for asking this. I love working with co founders because I think your core values as a person come out when they interact with someone else's core values. Conflict, healthy conflict or otherwise is actually where your core values come out. So it's fascinating to watch people try to do something incredibly hard in the context of someone else's vision, someone else's strengths and weaknesses and navigate that together. So there's so much energy in the co-founder dynamic for me and for co-founders themselves. It's actually something that people don't feel comfortable going to their board about or talking to that many people about because it's a private matter. It's almost like in a marriage you go see a couple therapist, but you don't tell all your friends that you can't stand your partner. But it keeps you up at night. So it's a really tender, important relationship and there aren't enough supports for co-founders to navigate it. It's very normal.”
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“I would start small. You don't have to leave your job and redesign your life. You can stop going to the optional things that are exhausting. You can leave space between the things that are depleting that you have to go to to go outside and go on a 30 minute walk and refuel your tank. Start with tomorrow. What are the three things you're going to do to like plug up that gas leak and re-energize your spark? It might even be you love to read and you're going to start reading 30 minutes before you go to sleep every night. It doesn't have to be a dramatic life change, but recognize that only you know what is resonant and what is depleted. And it's your job to take that seriously if you want to show up purposeful and impactful in the world.”
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“And I think that it's a beautiful thing to recognize that, but then to actually address the needs of those reports also. I think often people know, oh, I don't want to have anyone at once, but just not having anyone manage those people is not going to be healthy for your company. So you have to both take your strength seriously and actively manage around your weaknesses”
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“Yeah, well, it's no one else's job to help you live in your gifts. And what I notice in big companies is people are often annoyed or frustrated with their management for not making their job more interesting. It's like, no, your manager's job is to help you perform in the job you are hired to do. It's your job to navigate your career. So over the arc of your career, how do you match your gifts with the world's needs? And if the world right now is your company, how do you understand the needs enough so that you can apply your strengths to those needs?”
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“To offer the world. So I just want to share that story because. It's helpful to be honest with the people you care about when they seem energized and when they seem depleted. Because sometimes it's a wake-up call for people to Really think about what is their spark and to protect it and to feed it.”
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“And at first, I was offended. What? You think I don't have the ability to be a great product leader? And yet I sat with what he said and I knew he was right. Both my parents are therapists. I never wanted to be a therapist. Here I am. I'm basically a work therapist. I love entrepreneurial energy. I love big vision. But I'm a people person. And I left that and I realized I love what my coach does. I got trained as a coach. I went into HR leadership and Zach, who was a gifted product strategist, went on to lead product at Coinbase and Brex and most recently Bridge, which was acquired by Stripe. And he's still my client. And we've watched our journeys over the last decade. And we've both been honing our gifts. And life is more fun when you're in your gifts. And you have more inspiration and capacity.”
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“Which of the designs to go with, I was always over leveraging our data scientists and I found myself swirling on decisions that didn't need to have so much stress involved. And one day I went for a walk with my colleague, Zach Abrams, and he was a great product manager. And he was listening to me ask all these questions about how to sell the vision of what this product would look like in the future. Said, Rach A zone of genius or your gift is not being a product strategist. But I've watched you over the last few months and you have gotten the team more motivated than I ever could. And you've influenced the entire executive team behind your ideas. And that's impressive. You're a people person.”
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“And I was excited for the opportunity. I had non-technical background, but I thought, hey, all these strategists are up there creating the roadmap. I can do that. I know exactly what our users need. So I was excited for this. I came into the team. There was, I think, 12 senior engineers, very opinionated, very skeptical, this non-technical PM. But we worked together. And what I did was I listened. I learned what do our users need? What does this team need? What's working and not working? And within a month, this team was working well together. They were, you know, reviewing each other's code base. They were really disagreeing in a healthy way in our team meetings. They felt more connected to users. And I felt like, okay, this rhythm's working. But what I was also doing is I was at home stressing in the middle of the night about the new user experience. I couldn't.”
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“So, my litness test is 80%. That's the goal. That's the aspiration. You're always going to have 20% of things you don't love doing. There's just the logistics of getting into the zone that you need to be in But I really try to push. So much more inspiring. So, I want to tell you why I'm passionate about this topic because it actually is how I ended up as an executive coach. So 10 years ago, I was working at a small company called Vermind, and I was running the UX research team. And the CEO asked me to move into the product manager role for the core product team.”
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“Here Especially if you're executing well, people want to retain you, they want to know what's going to keep you here for the next five years. And typically they think that means moving up the ladder. But maybe it doesn't for you. I think it does take the courage to move horizontally sometimes to get into your strengths. And I've moved horizontally a number of times. And I love what I do. I feel like I'm in my natural gifts. But it took me a few risks and some uncomfortable jobs that didn't feel like they were worthy of my experience in order to get there.”
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“Is kind of an implied piece of this. Yeah, I think sometimes people hire a chief of staff to help them and complement them. Sometimes people design their team with strengths and gifts that they don't have. So it's really, you can get creative once you really understand, oh, these things give me a ton of energy and these things are exhausting. But I still need to fill this need for the business. What are all the ways I can do it?”
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“It's a symbiotic relationship. If you're honest about your strengths and your weaknesses, then you can start to manage around them.”
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“And so when this opportunity to work on top talent retention came about, it was much very aligned in the realm of coaching and L&D background that I had. So she put me on that. So it's useful to name it to the people around you. What are your gifts? What are your interests? What skills are you really excited to hone so that they are in a contract with you to help you and really apply your gifts to the business's needs? So that's one thing. When you're a founder, a CEO, when you have the autonomy to consider what are the role scopes around me, then you can really hire around it. So I have some CEOs that I work with who are incredible visionaries, great strategists, really good at managing the board, hiring, et cetera. Terrible at managing their team. They hate it. So they hire a COO and they work in partnership. They have one person who's really internally focused. They get to be externally focused. That works well.”
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“If Yeah, I love your ideas. I think that the people around you need to be on board and know what your gifts are. So, for example, when I was an HR business partner, my boss bought into this and I explained to her, hey, I started at Stripe because I actually know I'm going to be a coach. I'm not going to be ahead of HR, but I love working with leaders. So I'm going to, you know, do all the compensation strategy and all the org design and I'm going to help product and engineering leaders. What I have in the back of my mind is I'm honing my coaching skills.”
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“You can also look through your calendar and note themes. Okay. Over the last month, what are all the things I look at on my calendar that I'm excited to do? What are the things I dread? Okay, why do I dread those things? What are those things have in common? So there's various ways you can get to kind of what is your zone of genius, but my invitation is to take that really seriously. It actually takes risk taking. It takes intention to design your life around your gifts.”
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“There's so many different activities you could use, so that's one. I like an activity of actually asking five to ten people in your life with a very simple email. When I walk in the room, what shows up? What are my strengths? What are the gifts? If you really don't know them and you haven't spent a lot of time in this realm, that's also an opportunity of actually asking the people who know you best what your core gifts are and when do you have the most inspiration”
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“Interesting, like, you know, there's always more attuning you can do to your gifts. Like, you're in this amazing, you've clearly been successful for a reason. You're in your strengths and you're paying attention to what brings you energy. We can always do that more. Throughout our life, I think it's a process of continually kind of tuning in to where your spark is and protecting that spark, feeding it.”
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“One tool I like to give is for people to actually take two weeks and every night reflect on what's the five, what are the five things today that gave me the most energy? And what are the five things that depleted my energy the most? If you do that for two weeks and you look at patterns, you can tell what are the natural gifts that I'm living in and what are the things that I'm stuck doing that are exhausting and they're just slowly It's like a slow leak in your gas tank that over time shows up in your daily amount of energy.”
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“But I also interact with founders who started a company with great inspiration, an entrepreneurial vision. And their job is obviously changed every six months. Once you fundraise, once you grow a team, and sometimes especially technical founders will start solving a technical problem they're absolutely obsessed with. They spend three years doing it, the product ships, and then they're stuck managing a board and a team, and they don't even realize they're doing a completely different job than the one that played to their strengths.”
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“I see this with my clients all the time. So I've also witnessed people who are still inspired and continually energetic and seem to have some secret well of some diesel battery or I guess I should say a Tesla battery that helps them through really hard challenges and they're still having a good time. And so what I make of that is that when people are in their gifts and their strengths firmly, most of the time Have more energy. We all have more energy when we're operating from the things we naturally are good at and the things we innately love doing. So I try to help my leaders see that they can design their lives. So they're spending 80% of their time in their gifts. That seems really ambitious because you're stuck within a context that requires a lot of you, especially when you're executive at a huge company”
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“Yeah. Well, first of all, I'm glad you brought it up. It's a huge problem. I remember when I was coaching Top Talent at Stripe, Patrick Carlson is really committed to retaining top talent. And I created a program with my team for the top 50 executives in the tech side of the house. And we looked at their engagement scores. We did coaching circles. And it was so sad to see how exhausted that group of incredibly creative and committed leaders was in that moment. And it's so common that people who start with incredible inspiration and incredible capacity start to feel like they've been pushing and pushing and pushing for years, their parenting, their leading, crazy things are happening to the business and they just can't muster the same kind of motivation they once had.”
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“And great leaders often say, Do you want advice or do you want some space to think about it? Like, can I, you know, can I help you think it through, or would you like me to tell you what I would do? And both are fine in certain situations. So asking is useful too.”
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“We can flip, we can flip it. I do want to name that typically when you're coached versus told what to do, you're more bought in. So if I told you, you know, Lenny, I've heard all kinds of leaders come to me talking about being too busy. Here's what you should do. Write a list of all the things you're doing. Write the things you're going to delegate. You know, cut out 25% of the things on your calendar. I could have given you a laundry list of things that I thought you should do without much context. But you're the expert on your own context and actually what resonates. And you're much more likely to do it if you came up with it.”
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“Okay, well, thank you, Lenny, for letting me just demonstrate what a powerful questions are. And the reason I wanted to do that with you is, you know, you brought an example that's actually pretty big. It's an emotional thing. It's a cultural norm. It's a way of being that we've all learned to be through growing up and operating in tech especially. So, even with that kind of topic, using a simple grow model can be useful. But people are coming at your listeners with topics that are very complicated, technical, urgent, but the same kinds of questions unlock new opportunity when it's about how to build technical infrastructure or how to influence the executive team or how to ship the go-to-market strategy. So I just want a name that's very transferable.”
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“Really want to do exactly, yeah. Say like a resonant full bodied yes to the things that are in hell. Hell yes. Yeah, hell yeah with an exclamation. Exactly.”
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“I love that. Think about everything you're saying yes to and what are things you want to say yes to that you could treat it with so really consider that it's a trade-off every time you say yes to something the more resonant you are with the end state and what's possible for you the easier it is to be disciplined in the near term”
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“So, what's one thing you could do in the next two weeks that would help you get closer to the kind of spaciousness you want to create?”
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“And I just want to name, reflect back to you how special that is and how much more creative you could be in your work. When you have that Your buckets full with care.”
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“Yeah, and I hear, I just see you feel so light and excited in that. Like you almost are giddy when you think about that spaciousness.”
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“Yeah, I love that insight. If you, what I'm hearing is do less in certain areas. And think about your team and really expanding the capacity of your team and be rigorous about the things you can hand off. You may have limiting beliefs around the things you need to do versus the people on your team.”
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“Okay, so you're stuck in this kind of addiction to doing more and signing up for more, which is so normal in our world. And probably most listeners can relate to that. Kind of the soup we swim in. So we have to be conscious of where inputs we have around us So let's explore your various options that you have in front of you. One that you mentioned already you tried was to make a list of the things you don't want to be doing anymore, like things you want to say no to and really committing to that and sticking to that. Are the other kinds of things you could do to help you prioritize and create that sacred 25% of extra time for yourself?”
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“Yeah, I'm hearing there's just a pattern. It's like a reflexive pattern of even though you set a rule for yourself to say no to certain things. You seem proud of that boundary, you naturally break it, or you fall into filling it with other things.”
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“While it's serving you in some ways, like what benefit you're doing it for a reason? What is it? What benefit does it have to you?”
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“That inertia of moving fast, taking advantage of the moment that's coming So that's a perfect shift into what are your current ways of operating that get in the way of having that 25% of free tech.”
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“That makes Okay, so the goal that I hear is not so dramatically different from today. It's that you hold on to this high quality output, but you have space for exploring and tinkering and for spending quality time with the people you love most.”
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“You're deeply naturally curious. You find new insights. Then I also heard you say, and it's a way to stay ahead, I have to do it in order to feel. Like I'm informed.”
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“Active listening. What's interesting to me is when you're talking about exploring and tinkering, when you first said it, you said it in kind of a spacious way. Like it's fun to explore and tinker.”
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“Makes sense. Your voice is moving really fast. I kind of hear you feeling behind, even in the way you're describing what you're doing.”
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“Yeah, okay. So, what does free time enable for you? When you think about, I hear your deep commitment to quality products. And quality output, but this longing to feel a little bit more playful or flexible with those parts that are essential to you.”
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“Okay You for being vulnerable enough to share that with your listeners and with me. I want to ask you. What would Dream state looks like? So let's say in six months, you're still running this beautiful business that you've created. You feel differently. What is happening”
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“Yeah, I can feel the gratitude and the resonance with what you get to do every day. And yet I hear you questioning why does it have to feel like I'm fighting for my life while I'm doing this thing I love.”
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“Path to freedom, insight. I imagine the newsletter was like a fun passion project And you couldn't help but make it this all consuming full time job.”
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“Relate to that okay, so I'm hearing Noise, barrage of needs, and just constant requests of you online, in your work life, there's always something that you need to be doing. And you've designed it that way yourself. So you're kind of aware of, I had this one intention of.”
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“A challenge. It could be a personal challenge, a professional challenge. Just bottom line, something that you're struggling with.”
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“And I just had a session with him last week. It's amazing to see him because he's so much more energized. He said the squads are moving so much faster. The teams feel more empowered and motivated. And he has time to pick his head up and plan for 2026 and spend his time and his gifts, which are product vision and strategy. So that's more of a global example of what results from leaders shifting from the mode of solving every problem to coaching.”
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“Didn't have an engineering manager and a product leader for every one of them. So this was a little bit earlier than he was equipped for because he did it out of necessity. And he also realized he needed to create some behavior change for the way he was interacting with the tech lead on each project so that they would take more ownership. He really invested in this idea of I'm going to start to set the system up so we have a product review every two weeks. They each have clear KPIs they're driving to that we co-design. And for this next quarter, I'm shifting from the role of deciding on everything to coaching. I'm going to really ask good questions in our check-ins. I'm going to align to the KPIs, ask how things are going, ask where they're stuck.”
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