Jerry Colonna

11 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 4, 2016 by Jerry Colonna · said 32 times in 8 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Nov 4, 2016
Insight
Colonna: Outside parties cannot prescribe an individual's work-life balance
“It's presumptuous of anyone to say the way you're balancing things is incorrect. What is correct is for you to keep tuning in to yourself, to those voices, to And saying to yourself, how's this feeling right now?”
Jerry Colonna Nov 4, 2016 ▶ 22:29 20VC: CEO Whisperer Jerry Colonna on How Investors Mimic Aggressive Behaviour To Cover Insecurity and Why Vulnerability is Key To Success In VC
Nov 4, 2016
Disclosure
Jerry Colonna stepped down from Flatiron Partners in 2001 due to depression
“I went to Fred and I said in the spring of 2001, I said, I can't continue. I can't do this.”
Jerry Colonna Nov 4, 2016 ▶ 6:31 20VC: CEO Whisperer Jerry Colonna on How Investors Mimic Aggressive Behaviour To Cover Insecurity and Why Vulnerability is Key To Success In VC
Nov 4, 2016
Disclosure
Jerry Colonna discloses his teenage suicide attempt and hospitalization
“I had been very open about the fact that I had been suicidal in my teenage years having been hospitalized at one point for an attempt.”
Jerry Colonna Nov 4, 2016 ▶ 6:11 20VC: CEO Whisperer Jerry Colonna on How Investors Mimic Aggressive Behaviour To Cover Insecurity and Why Vulnerability is Key To Success In VC
Nov 4, 2016
Insight
Colonna: Emotional rapport is the essential criteria when choosing a mentor
“If you can establish that rapport with that person, then the intellectual piece is easy, but the key is to really have that emotional rapport with the person.”
Jerry Colonna Nov 4, 2016 ▶ 19:32 20VC: CEO Whisperer Jerry Colonna on How Investors Mimic Aggressive Behaviour To Cover Insecurity and Why Vulnerability is Key To Success In VC
Jul 27, 2020 negative
Insight
Jerry Colonna: Nobody in the tech startup ecosystem is actually crushing it
“What I often say is nobody's crushing it. What's important about that isn't just the sort of deflating of the stultifying and crucifying image that we're all supposed to be crushing it, but it's also the notion that we're not alone.”
Jerry Colonna Jul 27, 2020 ▶ 13:14 20VC: Brad Feld, Jerry Colonna and Tracy Lawrence on Depression and Mental Health, The Dangers of Tying Happiness To Milestones & Why Fear, Anxiety and Guilt Are Useless Emotions
Jul 27, 2020
Insight
Jerry Colonna: Achieving goals often causes anxiety to return even larger
“The problem is that we achieve that goal and then all of a sudden the anxieties come back larger.”
Jerry Colonna Jul 27, 2020 ▶ 19:17 20VC: Brad Feld, Jerry Colonna and Tracy Lawrence on Depression and Mental Health, The Dangers of Tying Happiness To Milestones & Why Fear, Anxiety and Guilt Are Useless Emotions
Jul 27, 2020 neutral
Insight
Jerry Colonna: Genuine choice in work behavior requires full awareness of trade-offs
“And once you have consciousness, then you have choice. And if you choose to never take a vacation, Harry, do so consciously. If you choose to derive all of your self-worth and meaning from your job, do so consciously and fully conscious of the cost and benefit…”
Jerry Colonna Jul 27, 2020 ▶ 37:18 20VC: Brad Feld, Jerry Colonna and Tracy Lawrence on Depression and Mental Health, The Dangers of Tying Happiness To Milestones & Why Fear, Anxiety and Guilt Are Useless Emotions
Jul 27, 2020 negative
Insight
Jerry Colonna: Believing perpetual happiness is achievable worsens mental health
“It's that somehow that there's this achievable state where everyone feels great and happy all the time, and that is the biggest myth, and it actually exacerbates our search for mental well-being.”
Jerry Colonna Jul 27, 2020 ▶ 41:38 20VC: Brad Feld, Jerry Colonna and Tracy Lawrence on Depression and Mental Health, The Dangers of Tying Happiness To Milestones & Why Fear, Anxiety and Guilt Are Useless Emotions
Jul 27, 2020
Insight
Jerry Colonna: Isolating fear of failure converts normal struggle into depression
“Well, that fear of failure is almost a universal phenomena. And rather than seeing it as a means of actually empathetically connecting with other people in the industry, we inadvertently, and because of the shame producing phenomena, use it to isolate ourselve…”
Jerry Colonna Jul 27, 2020 ▶ 13:44 20VC: Brad Feld, Jerry Colonna and Tracy Lawrence on Depression and Mental Health, The Dangers of Tying Happiness To Milestones & Why Fear, Anxiety and Guilt Are Useless Emotions
Jul 27, 2020
Disclosure
Jerry Colonna: Survived age-18 suicide attempt and late-thirties depression resurgence
“First, after a suicide attempt at 18, I entered therapy, and then later again, as I've shared a number of times in my late thirties, when the depression came back.”
Jerry Colonna Jul 27, 2020 ▶ 6:05 20VC: Brad Feld, Jerry Colonna and Tracy Lawrence on Depression and Mental Health, The Dangers of Tying Happiness To Milestones & Why Fear, Anxiety and Guilt Are Useless Emotions
Jul 27, 2020
Insight
Jerry Colonna: Premature caregiving and early adulthood contribute to mental illness
“At a much earlier age, perhaps, than you were prepared for, you were thrust into a position of being a parent, taking care, being a caregiver. And that's an important statement that you just made, because while it's not the only root cause of mental illnesses,…”
Jerry Colonna Jul 27, 2020 ▶ 6:58 20VC: Brad Feld, Jerry Colonna and Tracy Lawrence on Depression and Mental Health, The Dangers of Tying Happiness To Milestones & Why Fear, Anxiety and Guilt Are Useless Emotions
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