What does Econa mean?
Econa is an acronym for the five universal personality traits: Extraversion, Conscientiousness, Openness, Neuroticism, and Agreeableness. These traits are genetically transmitted and environmentally formed in equal measure. Entrepreneur mental health differences, strengths, and vulnerabilities are shaped by a unique personality trait pattern.
What is the Econa legend in Greek mythology?
Mythological Econa is an island near Greece where Psyche, the beautiful goddess of spirit and soul, was born. Psyche married Eros (the god of love) and they had a daughter, Hedone (the goddess of pleasure, enjoyment, sensuality and delight). Psyche inspired the fields of psychiatry and psychology, which are named after her. Psyche, Eros and Hedone symbolize the foundations of mental health and wellbeing.
How does Econa improve my mental health, wellbeing and effectiveness?
Our resources and services are designed to enhance your wellbeing, resilience and capacity while mitigating the mental health challenges you face as an entrepreneur. After completing the Entrepreneur Wellbeing Check, you will be offered a curated and personalized portfolio of wellbeing and mental health resources that are geared to your specific needs and opportunities.
What are entrepreneur mental health differences?
The distinct entrepreneur personality trait pattern is the foundation of individual differences that are associated with unique superpowers, propensities, risks, and vulnerabilities to mental health symptoms. Entrepreneur mental health differences make founders great and fragile, awesome and susceptible, highly engaged, and profoundly alone.
Why do entrepreneur mental health differences matter?
Entrepreneurship is a social, emotional, cognitive and behavioral practice. Social, emotional, cognitive and behavioral fitness and agility is what we call mental health. Unimpaired entrepreneurs create jobs and growth. Mental health symptoms derail founders, causing personal, firm-level and ecosystem damage. We postulate that well and effective entrepreneurs who flourish as people are less likely to derail and more likely to create the jobs and solutions our world needs today and tomorrow.
Does Econa have a diversity and inclusion program?
Diversity, neurodiversity and inclusion are in Econa’s DNA. We strive to build an on-ramp to wellbeing and effectiveness for all entrepreneurs. Neurodiversity refers to the unique brain and mental health differences that distinguish people with the propensity for entrepreneurship from others who lack this propensity. Entrepreneurs come from all walks of life, every part of the world, every gender, and all ethnic groups. Founders can be any age, align with any religious heritage, have any skin color, and reflect a spectrum of abilities. Yet due to shared neurodiversity, founders often have more in common with each other than with people who appear to be similar in other ways.
Does Econa collaborate with investors, founder communities, accelerators, and university-based entrepreneurship programs?
Yes. Creating the scalable wellbeing and mental health resources our ecosystem needs is a team effort. If you represent an investor, family office, foundation, angel fund, VC firm, PE firm, incubator, university program or another entity that would like to collaborate to create wellbeing and mental health resources for entrepreneurs, learn more here.