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​Sarah Guo (Conviction Partners), Karla Valdivieso (Shappi), Yelitsa Jean-Charles (Healthy Roots Dolls), Yehong Zhu (Zette)

​Being a successful investor is important to me and so is my mental health and yours. Did you know that most of us have some self-love work to do and traumas to get over (if not now, sometime in our lifetime)? It’s good to know this and know what we can do about it.

​According to the US government, 60% of men and 50% of women experience at least one trauma in their lives. My therapist, though, says that the percentage is closer to 100%.

​Recently, my therapist told me that if I don’t master self-love, going deeper into my traumas can make things worse and that healing from them will be that much more difficult. So, I'm working on self-love by starting with 3 self-expectations. I share them below for your benefit because my situation, apparently, is quite common in the human experience.

​Set and honor your availability limits to make time for self-love (and actual work). Set your availability thoughtfully and don't deviate. It's tempting to add one more to-do or another meeting to your calendar, to make an exception for a special someone or to give in to a taker/bully who persists and lays on the guilt. You can feel like you should be doing more. But don't give in. Prioritize your bandwidth and care. You're still a good person even if you don't do it all. You don't owe anyone anything and most things are not urgent or important. Most things can wait. Sleep deprivation, poor health, and not having enough time to eat is not something to be proud of. Set and honor your limits so that you have energy and time to be human and enjoy life. Ideas on how to set availability limits: cap events you attend and create calendly links for different purposes (e.g., founder calls, LP calls) with capped time slots and number of meetings.

​Set expectations on the best way(s) others can connect/work with you to make mental space for self-love (and not lose your mind). Today people can reach us in so many ways (e.g., text, email, WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, IG, LinkedIn) and it's overwhelming. Choose your ideal form(s) of communication and let people know how to best reach you. Personally, I ask people to email (for work), tweet (for socializing), and submit forms (for requests).

​Embrace that it's okay to feel good even if others do not as a step towards practicing self-love. Yes, it's okay to feel good. Your happiness does not take away from anyone else. Rejoice in joy. When it comes to my family, this is particularly hard for me, but I'm working on it and practicing self-compassion.

​Lolita Taub, GP at Ganas Ventures
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​Congrats

​Sarah Guo raised $100M for Conviction Partners' fund I. Eric Bahn, Elizabeth Yin, Koh Shiyan raised $46M for Hustle Fund’s fund III. Tiffanie Stanard raised $2.5M for Stimulus’ seed round. Yehong Zhu of Zette (port co) raised $1.7M for its pre-seed round. Karla Valdivieso of Shappi (port co) raised $2M to disrupt the $52B LATAM cross-border logistic industry. Mallun Yen (LP) founder of Operator Collective just made it to Forbes's 50 over 50 list. Yelitsa Jean-Charles of Healthy Roots Dolls (port co) was named a Finalist for Curlfriends Trio as TOTY’s Doll of the Year.

​Sponsored | Lima fam: Ganas Ventures is in town for the Peru Venture Capital Conference and you're invited to join us for an informal startup & Twitter fam hang out on 10/27.

​Funders

​Pitchdeck | Funders: get the stats on vc fund capital raised & funds launched

​Asking for a funder | VCs: learn how to enable DEI in VC

​Axios | Black & Latino VCs: know the facts around why its hard to fundraise

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​Sponsored | Founders, funders (LPs 😉), and friends: learn how Ganas works behind the scenes in this post. We go into how we source deals, select founders to back, support them, and more!

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​Pitchdeck | Founders: get the stats on how much money VCs have to invest in you

​Asking for a founder | Parent founders: get tips on being a parent-founder

​Asking for a founder | Founders: discover affordable health insurance options

​LaaS | Underrepresented founders: get resources made for you

​Sponsored | ​​​​​​Austin founders, funders, and friends: Ganas Ventures is in town for AfroTech x Austin Startup Week and you're invited to join us for an informal startup & Twitter fam meet up on 11/18.

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​LinkedIn x HubSpot | Founders: sign up to get $1K in ad credits

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