The Emotional Overdraft: 10 Simple Changes for Balancing Business Success and Wellbeing - Hardcover

by Andy Brown (Author)

**WINNER: BEST BUSINESS BOOK 2025 - Next-Generation Indie Book Awards **

Is it possible to run a successful business without sacrificing your mental and physical health?

Most business owners and leaders have a habit of overcoming their company's challenges at the expense of their own wellbeing. They work long hours, try to do too many things, and struggle to reconcile the excitement of the early days with the stress and exhaustion they feel now. Their businesses may be profitable, but those profits have come at a high personal cost. In other words, they've run up an emotional overdraft.

If this is you, you can be sure that not only is this damaging for your health, it's also masking some of the issues that need to be resolved in your business. Because reducing your emotional overdraft is as much of a lifesaver for your company as it is for you.

While it's common to feel this way, it's not inevitable. This book explains why you've run up an emotional overdraft and how you can reduce it, so that you can create a healthier relationship with your business, your loved ones, and yourself. In the process, you'll be helping your company to thrive in ways you could never imagine - and without having to try so hard.

Andy Brown is an award-winning adviser and coach for people-based businesses, helping them to grow sustainably and increase their value.

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Is it possible to run a successful business without sacrificing your mental and physical health?

Most business owners and leaders have a habit of overcoming their company's challenges at the expense of their own wellbeing. They work long hours, try to do too many things, and struggle to reconcile the excitement of the early days with the stress and exhaustion they feel now. Their businesses may be profitable, but those profits have come at a high personal cost. In other words, they've run up an emotional overdraft.

If this is you, you can be sure that not only is this damaging for your health, it's also masking some of the issues that need to be resolved in your business. Because reducing your emotional overdraft is as much of a lifesaver for your company as it is for you.

While it's common to feel this way, it's not inevitable. This book explains why you've run up an emotional overdraft and how you can reduce it, so that you can create a healthier relationship with your business, your loved ones, and yourself. In the process, you'll be helping your company to thrive in ways you could never imagine -- and without having to try so hard.

Andy Brown is an award-winning adviser and coach for people-based businesses, helping them to grow sustainably and increase their value.

Author Biography

Andy Brown is a leadership coach, speaker and author. He provides coaching to founders and CEOs in people-based businesses, enabling them to make better decisions and to build more resilient and valuable businesses. With 30 years' experience in the field, he has recognised that leaders subsidize their companies at the expense of their own wellbeing, which he refers to as the 'emotional overdraft'. This insight has enabled him to save numerous clients from burnout and stress. He has advised more than a hundred companies and been recognised as 'Outstanding Non-Executive Director of the Year'.