Unplugged - Digital Detox for Your Mind and Body - What Every Founder Needs - w/ Hector Hughes
Channel: Anatomy of a Leader
Date: 2023-02-21

What does every founder need? Uninterrupted time for thinking and clarifying ideas and strategy. Where can you get that? At Unplugged.rest. Is it worth it - hell yes. I feel 10 IQ points smarter just by spending 3 days in a log cabin, amongst the trees, away from the hustle of my day-to-day life. 

Hector Hughes was beginning to burn out running a tech startup. So one day he took himself to a silent retreat in the Himalayas. Upon his return, he did what every disillusioned employee wants to do - he quit. And then he set up Unplugged. 

This is a story of a very empathic founder who followed his intuition and created the perfect getaway for burnt out city folk who want to experience the benefits of a digital detox and connecting with nature.  

In Episode 50 Hector and I talk about our inability to stop, tech addiction, burnout, benefits of slowing down, and challenges of an ambitious startup. 

I hope you enjoy listening to this episode, but more than anything I hope you get to go on this fantastic retreat as it has completely changed my worldview. 


#digitaldetox #calm #burnout 


We Discuss:
00:00 - Trailer
02:09 - How Unplugged was born
09:34 - Back in the real world
13:44 - Living in a state of calm 
17:12 - Shift to digital
20:56 - Is Metaverse the root of all evil?
24:19 - Who benefits most from Unplugged?
25:59 - Biggest challenge for unplugged 
28:55 - How to integrate calm into everyday 
32:59 - Being a people pleaser
38:44 - Advice to younger self 
43:08 - Busy being busy 
46:14 - Company benefit
52:22 - Impossible question 


Hector Hughes: 
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/hector-hughes 
IG: https://www.instagram.com/unplugged.rest/ 
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@unplugged.rest 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/unpluggedcabins 
Website: https://unplugged.rest/ 



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