Ed Lubowicki: Why the Best Business Lessons Come From Feeling Lost, Burnt Out, and Stuck in Your Career | E17

As entrepreneurs and business leaders, we often feel like we must have all the answers and keep making progress at all costs. Today’s guest insists that the best lessons are learned in periods of confusion, misdirection, and feeling stuck. 

In this episode, athletic retirement coach Ed Lubowicki joins Sammy to discuss how entrepreneurs can make the most out of failure, transitional stages, and feeling stuck in your routine or career. He also reveals what entrepreneurs need to cure burnout in their lives and business, how to find coaching clients with organic outreach strategies, and how to rise to the top of the businesses and organizations you admire most. 

In this episode, Sammy and Ed discuss:

(02:05) The Transition from High School Sports to Division I

(07:00) Failure in Business is Easy Compared to Sports

(13:04) The Identity Breakdown and Revolution After Sports

(18:58) How to Get Coaching Clients

(22:49) Become a Leader in Your Favorite Organizations

(28:18) Navigating Transitional Phases of Identity

(31:20) What Burnt Out Entrepreneurs are Lacking

(38:02) The Different Ways to Be a Business MVP

Ed Lubowicki is a former Division I lacrosse player at Notre Dame and ex-Deloitte consultant. He serves as Executive Director of Athletes Soul and works formally with 42U, bringing both missions together under one commitment: helping athletes thrive beyond sport. He has held 400+ conversations with athletes navigating transition and coaches clients across current athletes, retirees, and executives shaped by sport.

Connect with Ed: 

LinkedIn

Athletes’ Soul

Lubowicki Performance Advisory

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