He Woke Up Happy the Morning After Quitting His Own Podcast
Letting Go of My Failed Startup, My Failed Marriage, and This Podcast. In this final episode, I've decided to end the We Live to Build podcast after four years and 215 other episodes. I feel the show is holding me back, forcing me to stay connected to my past, my failed marriage, and my failed software startup. While I still have unfinished business—I owe my team money from the startup's failure—I'm finally waking up happy and ready to let go. This short farewell includes a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has supported the show throughout its journey. After 216 episodes featuring entrepreneurs from around the world sharing their stories of success and failure, it's time to close this chapter and move forward.
Guest
Sean Weisbrot
Founder & Host, We Live To Build
Sean Weisbrot is the Founder and Host of We Live To Build. In this final episode after four years and 215 other episodes, he announces the end of the podcast, explaining how it is holding him back from moving forward after his failed software startup and failed marriage.
Key Takeaways
- 1Letting go of a project that defined you for years is not giving up — it is acknowledging that your identity has grown beyond what that project can hold, and that continuing to carry it is preventing you from becoming who you need to be next.
- 2A podcast built to support a startup that no longer exists is not purposeless — it is an asset with a new purpose waiting to be discovered, and the work of finding that purpose is itself a form of growth.
- 3The things that make you most anxious after a failure are often not the failure itself but the unfinished obligations attached to it — the people you still owe, the promises still unfulfilled — and addressing those directly is the only path to genuine closure.
- 4Waking up feeling genuinely energetic after a period of heavy anxiety is a reliable signal that a decision you just made was correct, because the body registers relief before the mind has finished rationalizing.
- 5You do not need to be fully healed from one chapter to begin the next — you only need to be honest about what the previous chapter cost you and clear about what you refuse to carry forward.
Key Terms Defined
New to some of the jargon in this episode? Here are plain-English definitions for the terms that came up.
- Pivot
- A deliberate, structured change in product, target customer, or business model, made in response to what you've learned from the market.
Chapters
Full Transcript
Sean Weisbrot: Everyone. This is another episode of the We Live To Build podcast and it's an unfortunate day because after four years and 215 other episodes. I've decided that I'm gonna end the podcast. The reason why is because it was originally started with a purpose to promote my software company and that software company died two years ago.
Sean Weisbrot: I found that I love the podcast so much that I wanted to continue it, but after two more years of trying to make it into something that stands on its own, something that can be profitable, something that can bring me new clients or. New investment opportunities. I found that it's just not growing the way I wanted to.
Sean Weisbrot: At the same time, I feel like it's holding me back. It's forcing me to stay connected to my past, my failed marriage, my failed software company, COVID times, and I feel like the only way I can move on with my life and. Forget the anxiety and the panic attacks. And the other things I've talked about many times is to let go of the podcast.
Sean Weisbrot: I also need to let go of my startup, the company. The corporate structure still exists. After two years, I still owe my team salaries, and to that end, I'm going to Vietnam. I've been in Portugal for two years and I'm gonna continue living here, but first I'm gonna go to Vietnam immediately. I'm going to face my investor, and in order to do that, I need to not worry about the podcast as well.
Sean Weisbrot: I am going to try to make a deal with my investor to get him to buy the company and give me the money to pay off the team and whatnot. So. There's a lot of things that I need to do in my life, and the podcast is not something that I feel, it's not something I should be doing in order to be able to focus on moving on with my life.
Sean Weisbrot: Something I've been thinking about for a while, but I know it's the right decision because last night I was starting the process of breaking everything down, and today I woke up feeling really energetic. I woke up feeling happy and positive, and I knew it was because there's really only a few things that make me anxious.
Sean Weisbrot: One of them is my startup that I shouldn't be thinking about two years after it stopped operation. So getting rid of the podcast and getting rid of the startup from my mind will allow me to really thrive again, and that's why I have to let it go. But there's still 215 other episodes that have amazing guests and fantastic content.
Sean Weisbrot: So these things will remain online forever, as long as YouTube exists, as long as iTunes and Spotify exist. And I've even backed up the audio files and the video files to my cloud and my in internal, uh, sorry, my external hard drive and back them up to my internal hard drive and my external hard drive.
Sean Weisbrot: So that I have them forever. I'm never going to forget the experiences I've had and I appreciate everything and everyone, but it's time to say goodbye. As painful as it is, it's the right thing to do. Thank you.
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