Running a business can quietly impact you, making it essential to prioritise self-care and seek support. That's why were here.
The mental strain can build without you noticing. It's important to focus on you early on in your journey. We put you first.
Your mindset and your invisible blockers can become the rocket fuel or the road blocks to the course and success of your new business
Your resilience is essential for business founders like you to navigate challenges while protecting your mental health.
Founders come to us to build their confidence, clarity and connection with. their 'self and others. These are the hidden keys to success.
The Founder Personality
Profile yours today
Success and prosperity in entrepreneurship require certain personality traits. Entrepreneurs often thrive with uncertainty and are familiar with risk-taking.
However, entrepreneurship has high correlations with relational difficulties, anxiety, depression and burnout. Building a business can be both the most rewarding and emotionally draining experience, filled with a whole variety of stressors: relational, financial and health related. Using our platform, programmes and 1:1 sessions to understand how you tick will stand you in good stead.
Why founders come
Self-doubt
“As a solo founder the pressure can be intense: high growth to tight timelines usually set by our VC means 1 work long hours and con neglect myself and my home lile This coupled with the doubt I can feel (am I cut out for thes? am I a good enough leoder?) stresses me out.”
Feeling isolated
“I love the highs, the excitement and the creativity of your own startup but things are tough I rarely admit it. I don't want anyone to see our business as anything but going great,guns, and I'd hate them to judge me as weak and not cut out for it. So I don't have anyone-to open up to about my fears.or chollenges.”
Co-founder conflict
“My.co-founder complements my skills in so many ways but sometimes Ifeel tensians between us. We dan't always agree but it can be hard to voice my concerns, perticulariy when things are their idea, and to get through our diterences They seem to just swim under the surface and rumble on.”
Learn the secrets, shift your mindset and...
Deal better with conflict
Be a more effective, empathic leader
Have more fulfilling relationships
Perform better at work
Manage your stress
Choose your starting point...
Annual Membership
£180 per year
Online Personality Profiling
Free quarterly webinars
Rich discussions at leader-only events
Elite pool of Executive Therapists
Executive Therapy
£120 per session
1:1 sessions with...
Experienced qualified Transactional Analysts / psychotherapists
With rich professional experience
Personally vetted by us
6-month Personal Growth Accelerator
£3,600
Curated cohort of fellow leaders
Covering culture-building, team dynamics, personal drivers & blockers
6x 1:1 sessions
First workshop in-person in central London
Coming Soon!
The Sound of Leadership Retreat
£4,900
5 days in UK countryside
Daily group workshops with Transactional Analyst
Brought to life by The London Mozart Players
6x 1:1 sessions
High quality
Executive Therapy
Now you can have someone who understands your lifestyle, what makes you tick and why you do what you do. Who’s always there, on your side, yet challenges you when you need it.
Our accredited psychotherapists and counsellors have real-world professional backgrounds and robust training in Transactional Analysis and therapy.
All have passed our 3-stage vetting process. This includes being observed live in action. So you know you're in good hands.
£120
eachFirst session included in annual membership then PAYG.
Our hand-picked therapists...
A curated pool of experts selected and vetted by us. Quality not quantity.
Meet some of our team.
Whether you're here to work on anxiety, your relationships, stress at work or your leadership style, we have someone for you.
David O'Connor
Sara Andrews
Will Daniel-Braham
Mandy Randall-Gavin
David O'Connor
Sara Andrews
Will Daniel-Braham
Mandy Randall-Gavin
Our Expertise
Philippa Richardson
Founder of The Circle Line and Transactional Analysis Psychotherapist
"I coped with being a solo founder thanks to Transactional Analysis ("TA") - psychology's best kept secret. I discovered this framework when still in my previous career as a marketer, and what I discovered changed both my life and my business. TA is your own personal 360 review. A method of psychology that focuses on your relationships and internal dialogues. TA reveals your patterns of thinking & behaving that limit you and your career: your Script, the Games you play, your Drivers. They were certainly holding me back! Thankfully I'm aware of them now so they limit me, and our business, far less."
Marina O'Connor
Serial entrepreneur and Transactional Analyst psychotherapist
" I'm a serial entrepreneur as well as a psychotherapist so have deep knowledge of the connection between the two. I have a background in developing businesses and decided to pivot my career to become a psychotherapist around 10 years ago. I now partner with VCs and entrepreneurs to facilitate the wellbeing of the start-up eco system, as well as own a mental health education business for working parents and a private psychotherapy practice"
"As a team of dual entrepreneur-psychologists we are uniquely placed to offer evidence-based solutions to support VCs, founders and sole entrepreneurs."
Only 25%
of startups survive beyond the first five years
Knowing yourself, looking after yourself, and improving your team dynamics will help you make the cut. As a Circle Line member, you're on the path to:
- Performing better at work
- Understanding your triggers
- Managing your stress
- Dealing better with conflict
- Having more fulfilling relationships
- Being a more effective, empathic leader
Sign up today to ignite and sustain your entrepreneurial spirit.