I’m Beliz—founder, advisor, angel investor, mentor, and inner space explorer.
Every two weeks, I publish a Substack essay on wellness, conscious leadership, and the human side of innovation.
This podcast is where those essays come alive.
Two AI voices (my curious co-hosts) sit with my latest writing. They reflect, expand, and offer gentle perspectives I often hadn’t considered. I always enjoy listening to them.
If you’ve ever felt torn between ambition and well-being, between moving fast and staying grounded, this podcast is for you.
Subscribe, listen, reflect, and take a breath with us.
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A founder sits across from a mentor and asks, “If you were in my shoes, what would you do?” It feels like the smartest question in the room. The answer he gets back fits the mentor’s life, and he is the one who has to live in it.
In this Deep Dive, two AI voices unpack Beliz’s essay on why even brilliant advice can be the wrong roadmap for your life.
What they cover:
* Why “it depends” was the most useful answer a mentor could give a deep tech founder stuck at the commercialization wall, and why Beliz stopped telling founders what she would do
* The “eye view”: every mentor and VC reads your problem through their own risk tolerance, incentives and history, so a plan that is perfect for a portfolio can mean years on planes for you
* Beliz’s own biotech start after university, when she treated her opinions as having a lower value and followed the experienced people’s answers instead
* Two paths with no winner: the rich startup founder taking on the American market, or the highly reputable builder making a bigger impact at home, and why the right one can change once a family enters the picture
* A blunt audit for a random Tuesday: put your calendar and your bank statement next to the life you say you want, and see which strategy they are actually running
This episode is for you if you have three mentor coffees booked this month to ask the same question, and part of you is hoping one of them will decide for you.
👉 Read the full essay here (https://beliz.substack.com/p/if-you-were-in-my-shoes).
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit beliz.substack.com (https://beliz.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
20 Aug 2026
Fire Your Invisible Board of Directors
You think you make your own decisions. There is a table in your head, and people from your past are voting on every one of them. This episode names them and does the math on what they cost.
In this Deep Dive, two AI voices unpack Beliz’s essay on the borrowed approval quietly steering a founder’s biggest calls.
What they cover:
* The three-why interrogation that exposes the real name behind a founder’s low-price strategy, a name he never said out loud in six years of pricing decisions
* Why “stop caring what people think” is useless advice, traced back to Arthur Brooks’s success addiction and the eight-year-old still at the controls
* The phantom tax made concrete: a thirty percent discount to keep you comfortable equals the salary of the first engineer you keep saying you cannot afford
* The line between counsel and permission, and how confusing the two makes you obey orders no one ever gave you
* The three-step override: name the ghost, find the identity you are protecting, then decide as if that person’s opinion did not exist
This episode is for you if a price, a pivot, or a hire has been sitting on your desk for weeks and you keep calling it undecided when it is only unapproved.
👉 Read the full essay here (https://beliz.substack.com/p/fire-your-invisible-board-of-directors-df4?r=273gn7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true).
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit beliz.substack.com (https://beliz.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
13 Jul 2026
The Capacity Bug Your Retro Never Finds
You audit your server capacity down to the byte. You have never once audited your own.
Every missed H1 goal gets the same lazy autopsy: bad channel, bad timeline, bad hire. This Deep Dive argues the real bug is almost always upstream of that: a founder who planned the year assuming infinite personal bandwidth.
In this Deep Dive, two AI voices unpack Beliz’s essay on why the mid-year retro most founders run is missing the one variable that actually broke their plan.
What they cover:
* Why “customer acquisition cost went up” is the comfortable excuse, and burnout is the real cause, in the $70K MRR stall case
* The fiction of the 40-hour work week: why teams only ever have about 70 percent real capacity, and what happens when you plan for 100
* Why delegation is not a light switch. Onboarding a hire costs 15 real hours a week, and skipping that is why the “culture fit” story is usually a lie
* The two-track retro: keep the mechanical postmortem, but add a capacity audit that asks what you got wrong about your own hardware
* Why the same optimism that gets a company off the ground in January is exactly what sinks it by July if nobody stops to recalibrate
This episode is for you if you are heading into a mid-year planning session and know your Q3 roadmap assumes the same unlimited version of you that January did.
👉 Read the full essay here (https://open.substack.com/pub/beliz/p/your-h1-retro-is-missing-a-column?r=273gn7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true).
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit beliz.substack.com (https://beliz.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
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