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“Having skilled tutors, access to people with experience and a supportive peer group are invaluable.”
“SSE are a longstanding and trusted actor within the ecosystem”
In this Witness Sessions video, SSE Fellow Naomi Mwasambili shares the personal challenges of leaving a secure job to run her venture full time. She talks honestly about the emotional strain, financial risk, and doubts from people around her, and how close she came to burnout in the process. Naomi highlights the simple but often overlooked foundations of founder wellbeing: getting enough sleep, eating properly, building a strong support network, taking planned breaks, and making space for joy and fun in the work. Her story is a reminder that caring for yourself isn’t a luxury, it’s essential if you want your social enterprise, and you, to thrive in the long term.
SSE Fellow Max Tobias reflects on the challenge of maintaining work–life balance as a social entrepreneur and stresses the importance of rest, boundaries, and long‑term sustainability.
SSE Fellow Darren Brady reflects on what it means to be an authentic leader.
Junior Smart shares how supporting others in prison inspired him to create a project helping people break cycles of reoffending and rebuild their lives.