Built to Last: Resilience for First-Time Founders

​Who it's for: First-time founders — especially those in the thick of it, past the initial excitement and into the harder stretch where doubt, exhaustion, or a stalled pivot start to creep in. If you've been telling yourself you should have it more figured out by now, this is for you.

​What you'll get: This isn't a panel or a pitch session — it's a small, honest conversation over coffee about the parts of founding a company that don't make it into the highlight reel. You'll leave with three things: real support from people who are in it too, so you're not carrying it alone; a way to work through wherever you feel stuck right now, with space to name it out loud and think through a next step instead of just sitting with it; and time — actual protected time, with a short worksheet to guide it — to reconnect with your own "why," the reason you started this, before the day-to-day noise buried it.

​Hosted by Avani Bedagkar, Founder & CEO of Mun Health — bringing an empathetic lens to the very real emotional weight of early-stage founding.

​Come with whatever you're wrestling with. Leave with language for it, a little less alone, and clearer on what you're actually building toward.

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