The Joypreneur

Managing priorities, time and energy with Tanja Lau

Episode Summary

We talk about how Tanja’s way of working as a founder changed after her burnout and becoming a mom. She shares with us what her decision currency is and how she balances her ambition, work and family. We talk about her principles: family first, no employees and joy. Find out why this means limiting the growth of her company and more in this episode.

Episode Notes

We talk about:

4:03 Why instead of taking a corporate job, she decided to create her first startup
5:39 How she fell in love with product management, after developing books and conferences
7:05 Why she decided to found the product academy when she became a mum
8:11 About being self-full, rather than selfish or selfless
9:52 About the power of being told “you can’t do this”
10:46 What she learnt from her burnout about building a support village
11:30 How she setup her company, so it works for her and how she makes decisions and sets goals
14:25 About saying NO and her guiding principles
17:46 How she decides what kind of work she gets done on which day
19:13 About managing time and energy
21:33 About being an extrovert and highly-sensitive
23:39 Setting a personal vision, priorities and OKRs
26:20 About Joypreneurship: personal WHY, a sustainable business and product-founder-fit

Resources mentioned

“The Highly Sensitive Person” book by Elaine Aaron
“Measure what matters: OKRs” book by John Doerr
Self-fullness, Lana Jelenev about her path to self-fullness

About Tanja Lau

Tanja is an entrepreneur, product leader and working mum based in Switzerland. After co-founding and scaling several start-ups in Madrid, Munich and Zurich, she is now leading her own company Product Academy as part-time CEO (40%) while also taking care of her two toddlers. Like Alice in Wonderland, Tanja usually thinks of “as many as six impossible things before breakfast” and can’t go one day without eating chocolate.

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