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#219 S2 Episode 88 - Overcoming Personal Struggles to Helping Sellers become Uncrushed with Tim Clarke

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This episode of the Sales Transformation Podcast with Collin Mitchell features Tim Clarke, founder and CEO of Uncrushed, a platform and community for mental health awareness. Tim has been working in Salesforce for 9 years and counting, first as an enterprise AE, then Senior Director for Product Marketing. In those 9 years, he found success in his career, but was also secretly suffering due to the combined stresses of work as well as having to deal with the tragic loss of his father in 2013. Without a good way to process his emotions and cope with his grief, Tim turned to alcoholism and substance abuse. One day, healized what these unhealthy coping mechanisms did to his mental health, and decided to pursue a healthier avenue. His efforts with mental health awareness are contained with Uncrushed.org, an initiative that wants to break the stigma around mental health and create an environment of vulnerability and courage.

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HIGHLIGHTS

  • Early career in sales and marketing
  • Pressures of a new role plus dealing with the loss of a father
  • Work and personal lives have become more intertwined 
  • Taking care of your mental health should be normalized
  • Creating an environment of vulnerability and courage 
  • Leaders need to step up in advocating for their employees' mental health 
  • Dealing with substance abuse and taking time off work

QUOTES

Tim: “Drugs and alcohol they're just the surface level things. My core issue is that I didn't know how to handle my emotions or process them healthily.”

Tim: “Addiction doesn't discriminate. It can just come up in many forms whether it's pills, or dugs, or alcohol, sex, love, social media, work, I believe that everyone has some form of hook or addiction challenge.”

Collin: “It's so common that in a sales organization, it's like, leave your personal stuff at home. When you're here, you need to focus, you need to hit your activities, you need to build your pipeline, you need to hit your quota.”

Tim: “It's one thing for two people in the US to speak openly about mental health. But when you start looking at cultures in Asia and India, it's like we don't speak about this.”

Tim: “It's never been about me or whoever's representing Uncrushed. We share our stories to create a space of vulnerability. Really when we create the events it's about holding space for other employees to share their stories. And it just normalizes it.”

Tim: “The whole point of Uncrushed is not from the point of view of someone who's already asked for help. It's before that. The whole point that we're trying to do is hopefully you'll connect with the story. You'll hear not only what they struggled but what they did to navigate those challenges and find the light.”

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#219 S2 Episode 88 - Overcoming Personal Struggles to Helping Sellers become Uncrushed with Tim Clarke

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