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The perfect 50-50 balance is a lie- Here's how to spot burnout | Zero Decks Given by Astha (opens the original)
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On paper, Astha had the perfect 50-50 life. It was one of the worst phases she'd ever felt. Full college schedule, a startup team, friends, and a long-distance relationship across a 12-hour time difference, balanced by the numbers, broken underneath. In this episode, Astha Verma (founder of WrittenlyHub) and co-host Raabia break down how to actually tell when your work-life balance is off, the burnout signals nobody names, why 12 hours means nothing on its own, and the one question that matters
Work-life balance is a lie someone else wrote for you | Zero Decks Given by Astha (opens the original)
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Someone told Astha that being a founder is a 9-to-5, you start Monday 9am and end Sunday 5pm. It sounded like a hostage situation. To her, it sounded like freedom. In this episode, Astha Verma (founder of WrittenlyHub) and co-host Raabia unpack what work-life balance actually means when you're building a company and why the "perfect 50-50" you're chasing was designed for a 1950s suburban household, not your life. If you're a founder, freelancer, or anyone tired of forcing yourself into someone e
Hiring is like dating: The 5 phases every founder gets wrong | Zero Decks Given (opens the original)
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Hiring is like dating with the same butterflies, overthinking, and constantly checking your phone to see if they replied. And most founders get every stage wrong. In this episode, Astha Verma (founder of WrittenlyHub) breaks hiring into 5 phases that mirror a relationship, from writing the job description to earning real trust. She explains why the most polished candidate rarely lasts, why character beats skills, and why your best people quietly quit in month 2 but don't leave until month 6. If
Casual, not careless: What real professionalism actually means | Zero Decks Given (opens the original)
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"Be yourself at work" sounds great until someone walks in at 11:30 on a Thursday and tells you they were out drinking the night before. So where's the line? In this episode, Astha gets honest about what actually separates real professionalism from the performance most of us were trained to put on. Astha Verma, CEO and co-founder of WrittenlyHub, sits down again with Raabia to redefine professionalism from the ground up. They talk about the culture rules her team actually wrote down, why boundari
Stop hiring the most polished person in the room | Zero Decks Given by Astha (opens the original)
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Most founders are hiring for the wrong thing and have no idea they're doing it. They're selecting people who can perform a 45-minute interview really well. Then wondering why those same people burn out by week three, check out by month two, and quietly stop caring sometime after that. In this episode of Zero Decks Given, Astha sits down with Raabia Khona, Senior Project Manager at WrittenlyHub, to have the conversation most hiring managers avoid. What does real professionalism actually look like
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