After selling eConsultancy for £25M, Ashley Friedlein could have retired.

Instead, he poured 7 years and millions into Guild, a professional messaging platform - only to eventually shut it down.

In this brutally honest conversation, Ashley shares why conventional startup advice can be dangerous, how to know when to keep pushing versus let go, and why work-life balance might be the wrong goal entirely.

Whether you're growing a business or considering an exit, Ashley's rare perspective from both massive success and graceful shutdown offers invaluable lessons on the realities of entrepreneurship.

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8 & 9 Figure Mentors is the podcast that gets inside of the minds of the people who have started, run and exited 8, 9 and 10- figure businesses. Learn about their stories, work ethic, struggles and failures, as well as their big wins, so you can apply their lessons to your own journey.

If you don't have a multi-billion dollar network, use this podcast instead! Simple :D

Tim Cameron-Kitchen is the founder of Digital Marketing agency Exposure Ninja, and is building a group of digital marketing agencies at Shinobi Capital Group.

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