Scale Your Everest: How to be a Resilient Entrepreneur

by Erik Z. Severinghaus, Michael A. Freeman (Foreword)

Entrepreneurs! Give yourself the tools to develop the mental resilience needed to succeed in the pressure cooker that is…starting your own business.

While Erik Z. Severinghaus has been to the top of the physical world (literally climbing Everest) and the business world (exiting companies for hundreds of millions of dollars), what has defined his journey is not the successes…but rather, the hard times of loneliness and self-doubt that nearly cost him his accomplishments and his life. Every entrepreneur experiences these same crippling challenges but no one talks about them, and consequently, entrepreneurs have three times the rate of addiction and twice the rate of suicide of the general population.

This guidebook passes along the lessons needed in those dark times, with the hope that it will help every entrepreneur who is going through this struggle understand their journey and build the mental resiliency to succeed.

272 pages, Hardcover

First published April 27, 2021

Reviews

[Sahara · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’m always skeptical about reading business books from white male perspectives, however, I really appreciated Erik’s POV. This was one of the more honest reviews and perspectives on entrepreneurship and I really valued how candid he was with his own personal journey. I do wish he gave more context to his exact businesses, however, he gave enough to drive home his points. I appreciated his emphasis on the toll entrepreneurship can take on your mental health and friendships. It felt very honest and real. There were some things I had to take with a grain of salt, but overall, I found myself absorbed in his writings and jotting down ideas for my future. I also really liked the fact that he included journal prompts at the end of each chapter to help the readers practice what he preached.