Hidden Value with David Sherry

Step inside real founder conversations: raw, unrehearsed, and honest. No playbook. No polish. Just ambitious entrepreneurs uncovering the answers that were there all along. Because every business hides something valuable trapped under the weight of success and chaos of growth.The Hidden Value podcast is hosted by David Sherry. David works with early-stage founders to grow professionally and personally. He founded, sold, and advises Death to Stock – a media company and newsletter that serves brands like Unfold, Figma, and Spotify.

Hidden Value with David Sherry is a business podcast hosted by David Sherry, with 72 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

David Sherry hosts Hidden Value with David Sherry, a business show with 72 episodes published.

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  Stop Doomscrolling: Trade Up to Better Media

  Aug 18, 20266 min

  Trade Up Your Media: Stop Infotainment & Read for Real Change The speaker discusses feeling unsatisfied by scrolling and "infotainment," which blurs information and entertainment and scatters attention with addictive but unfulfilling content. They propose a "trading up" process: choosing higher-quality media and, when possible, moving from digital to physical formats (e.g., newsletter to book, YouTube video to film or documentary, lower-quality authors to higher-quality ones) to be more engaged rather than passive. They argue that despite easy access to great minds like Einstein and Seneca, shared enlightenment is limited because consumption doesn't translate into transformation. Citing Tim Ferriss on declining book sales since ChatGPT and Derek Sivers on life-changing sentences found deep in books, they emphasize that real change requires focus, effort, and presence, and note that reading physical material reduces the willpower drain of digital distractions. 00:00 Doomscrolling Dissatisfaction 01:10 Infotainment and Attention 01:36 Trading Up Your Media 02:32 From Information to Transformation 02:56 AI and the Collapsing Info Market 03:35 Life Changing Ideas Need Depth 04:10 Printing Podcasts to Focus 04:33 Physical vs Digital Reading 05:28 Choose Better Inputs #DeepWork #Focus #MediaDiet

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  How to Embrace Change and New Opportunities

  Aug 11, 20265 min

  AI, Change, and Opportunity: How to Adapt Without Doing It Alone David discusses how constant change in the world creates new opportunities, even when it feels scary and demands adaptation. He notes that every day brings new businesses, books, apps, and tools, and that technological advancement often drives deflation-making once-expensive products smaller, cheaper, and more powerful-while also disrupting older industries. He frames AI as an accelerating force that will change jobs and behaviors, but emphasizes that focusing only on disruption misses the expanding set of new doors opening through innovation, culture, and improved tools. He highlights the interdependent nature of the economy-companies exist because someone started them and because customer demand evolves-and concludes that while change isn't entirely on your shoulders to create, benefiting from it requires choosing to participate. 00:00 Welcome and Big Change 00:23 Daily World Shifts 00:54 Riding the River 01:49 Tech Gets Cheaper 02:36 Disruption and AI Fears 03:09 New Doors Opening 03:44 Interdependent Economy 04:23 Your Role to Participate #AI #ChangeManagement #Entrepreneurship

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  Transforming Goals into Changes and Habits

  Aug 5, 20267 min

  David Sherry explains why goal-setting often fails for entrepreneurs and how to fix it. He argues that many people set "fake" goals based on what they think they should want or what others are doing, which leads to low commitment and stalled progress; he recommends getting honest about what you truly want so you have sustainable energy to pursue it. He also warns that big, vague goals (like making a million dollars) lack actionable information and can create frustration. Instead, he suggests reframing goals around specific changes and transformations-who you want to become and what you need to do today-by focusing on habits, systems, and concrete shifts from point A to point B in business and life. 00:00 Why Goals Fail 01:01 Spotting Fake Goals 02:11 Make Goals Authentic 03:13 Goals Aren't The End 04:02 Focus On Change 04:54 Turn Goals Actionable 05:56 Systems And Habits 06:55 Becoming Who You Want 07:20 Closing Thoughts #GoalSetting #Habits #Entrepreneurship

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  How to Stop the Entrepreneur Roller Coaster

  Jul 29, 20267 min

  This video explains why entrepreneurship often feels like an emotional roller coaster, with highs and lows driven not just by business problems but by how founders relate to them. As businesses grow, more people and more problems appear, much of which is outside the entrepreneur's control, and fear about potential issues can amplify the stress. The core issue is tying personal identity entirely to the company, causing mood to rise and fall with perceived business performance. The speaker suggests the way out is recognizing you exist outside the business and building a diversified identity through hobbies, friends, travel, and interests beyond work. This creates emotional balance and can also improve decision-making by reducing over-attachment and increasing objectivity. 00:00 Entrepreneurship Roller Coaster 00:56 Why It Feels Unstable 01:50 Identity Fuels The Swings 03:07 You Are Not Your Business 05:02 Build A Life Outside Work 05:37 Objectivity And Better Decisions 06:06 Diversify Your Identity 06:36 Closing And Next Videos #FounderMindset #Entrepreneurship #BusinessGrowth

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  It's Not Burnout (You're Reinventing Your Identity)

  Jul 21, 20269 min

  What many people call burnout is often deeper misalignment: as you change over time, your current job, relationship, hobby, or identity may stop feeling resonant, leading to boredom, masking your true feelings, and a growing tension between how you feel and the story you've held about yourself. The speaker describes this as a metamorphosis process where withdrawing, coasting, and conserving energy can be a normal part of detaching from an old identity, even though it can bring shame and uncertainty about what comes next. They share personal experience leaving a founder/CEO role and taking long walks to create space, and note they're currently shifting toward an investor mindset. The suggested path forward is to use language and daily actions to try on and build connection to the new identity step by step, recognizing that much growth happens beneath the surface. 00:00 Burnout vs Misalignment 01:03 When Excitement Fades 02:07 Masking the Inner Clash 03:39 Metamorphosis and Withdrawal 05:26 Space for the Unknown 05:56 Growth Beneath the Surface 06:45 Try On a New Identity 07:37 Speak It Into Reality 08:14 Evolving Step by Step 08:55 Closing and Next Steps #FounderMindset #Burnout #IdentityShift

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