Content Creation Changed My Life. Then It Nearly Broke Me. Here Is the Truth. | Founder Talk

Founder Talk with Alex Sheridan · Aug 6, 2026 · 1h 9m

Content creation changed my life. It also nearly broke me. This is the truth about 6 years of building in public.

For the first time in 115 episodes, I sat in the guest chair. Barbara Wichman flips the script and pulls out everything I don't usually talk about.

The LinkedIn crash.

The identity crisis.

The moment I realized nobody was watching as closely as I thought.

00:00:00 Introduction

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Q: What happens when you build your entire business on one platform?

A: Alex Sheridan went from millions of impressions weekly on LinkedIn to tens of thousands, crashing his lead pipeline overnight…