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369. Deepak Shukla: ADHD, Resilience & Building a Business That Lasts

June 02, 2026 • Katie Stoddart • Season 8 • Episode 369

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In this episode, founder and investor Deepak Shukla shares the reality behind entrepreneurship, resilience, ADHD, personal growth, and the emotional challenges of building a business. He opens up about the loneliness founders experience, how therapy and self-awareness transformed both his relationships and business decisions, and why many business problems are rooted in emotion rather than strategy.

00:00 — 🚀 Introducing Deepak Shukla
03:00 — 🧠 The lonely founder chapter
06:00 — ⚡ ADHD and entrepreneurship
09:00 — 💼 Respect for business owners
12:00 — 🏃 Endurance and resilience
15:00 — 👨‍👩‍👧 Family work ethic
18:00 — 🛋️ Therapy and personal change
21:00 — ❤️ Real-time relationship growth
24:00 — 🤝 Business is relationships
27:00 — 🪞 Business as a mirror
30:00 — 🌱 Self-compassion and progress
33:00 — 📚 Lifelong learning through books

💫 About Deepak Shukla:

Deepak Shukla is a British entrepreneur, investor, and founder of the Pearl Lemon Group, known for building and scaling multiple businesses across marketing, SaaS, recruitment, and consulting. His story centres around resilience, self-development, and learning through action rather than following traditional paths. He openly shares lessons from entrepreneurship, mindset, productivity, and personal growth, often documenting both successes and failures in public. Alongside business, he’s also a TEDx speaker and content creator focused on helping others think bigger and move faster.

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YT: https://www.youtube.com/@deepakshuklaofficial/videos

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Katie is the founder of The Focus Bee, an international high-performance coach, speaker, author, and host of The Focus Bee Show. She supports founders, CEOs, and high achievers to reach and sustain peak performance through focus, leadership, stress management and alignment. Her mission is to create purpose-driven leaders worldwide.

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