The ikiFounder Network are creating programs to help founders change our world for the better

Our mission is to help 1 million founders build ventures that not only make a difference in our world but are financially sustainable and grounded in their WHY.

The ikiFounder Manifesto

Nick Shewring is a Founder, keynote speaker, advisor, advocate for mental health and coworking strategist. Nick Marsh is an International Facilitator in Strategic Foresight, Strategic Planning, Entrepreneurship and Organisation Innovation not to mention just a super nice guy.

We met by serendipity - both interested in how to create successful ventures and self mastery. In conversation we found a buzz between us and within a few short weeks realised that we were not the only people on the quest for some answers. So we created the ikifounder Manifesto, which is both a challenge to us, and to all those thousands of venture founders out there, who simply want to be happier.

Why ikifounder?

We started with each other and asked the hard questions about how happy we were with life, with ourselves, and with the ventures we had each been members of. We discovered that ‘frontstage’ we all talk a good game (it’s all going great, a new investor is going to beat our door down, the rewards are just around the corner) but ‘backstage’ is another story. So we started to interview other founders and got them talking honestly about their ‘backstage’.The general view was, like us, life is not as good or as happy as they thought it would be: They talked about many issues including:

TOO MUCH STRESS

Many find themselves stressed, burnt out, working too many hours and neglecting family.

NOT ENOUGH MONEY

Despite working so hard -still not managing to make enough income for all their effort - The loneliness of many venture leaders is showing up in rates of depression.

LACK OF MEANING

Many founders feel that something is wrong in the alignment between them and their venture, but how to fix it?

What is Ikigai?

We also did a lot of research about what support is out there to support founders - including mentor services, accelerators and incubators, but why is this not working?
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One day we hit gold by discovering on the internet the ikigai model. iki means ‘life’, and gai’ means value or worth. So ikigai is essentially about finding your purpose in life , "thing that you live for", "the reason for which you wake up in the morning." So we interviewed each other about what our respective ikigais were. We realised that for a founder tour ikigai needs to be aligned with our venture- where the two are in conflict then that is where to focus on fixing things. We saw that balance and happiness lies in our (honest) ikigai being strongly aligned with all the parts of our venture.

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