FounderFuel Show: Can we biohack our way to better performance? With biochemist & founder Louise Blair
For this FounderFuel LIVE show we’ll be in conversation with Louise Blair, from Performr.
Our biochemistry has a huge impact on our ability to perform - either feeding or undermining our physiological and mental ability to keep the pace we need. So we’ve got biochemist Louise, co-founder at Performr, coming on the show to talk about the biochemistry of entrepreneurship, what we can do to survive and thrive on the founder journey, and feed you with science-backed tools and tips that you can practically implement too.
Louise and co-founder Fizal have made it their mission to build a biomolecular wearable for high performers. Once launched, Performr will tune into your hydration, recovery and hormone levels, so you can spot fatigue and act before it impacts your output. Their hardware isn’t available yet - so you’ll be getting a first glimpse of what they’re doing on the show.
As always with our founder-only sessions, we’ll be keeping it pacey and real. Join this session for practical takeaways and a candid conversation about navigating the pressures of founder life.
More about Louise
Louise Blair, PhD, is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Performr, building a modular wearable to continuously track metabolites, hydration, hormones, vitamins and minerals straight from the skin. A biochemist with a PhD from the Francis Crick Institute, she’s led data-driven analysis at Airfinity that has informed policy and strategy for governments and pharma companies on global health matters, including during the pandemic. Now Louise is turning that scientific rigour towards a new mission: giving people real-time insight into what's actually happening inside their bodies to live longer, healthier lives.
More about FounderFuel LIVE
FounderFuel LIVE is all about fuel for life and leading as a founder: Being an entrepreneur is a rollercoaster ride - physically, emotionally, and cognitively - which is why 92% of founders say that resilience is the number one requirement. In these founder-only events we talk to leading experts, the world’s peak-performers, and sit down for deep and real conversations with inspiring founders - all to surface knowledge and inspiration that fuels you to thrive on the journey that is founderhood.
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The host of this episode will be Christina Richardson, who has made it her mission to fuel the humans behind the startups and scaleups through her work at UCL School of Management and Foundology.
Christina led the original research that lifted the lid on founder-health, starting debates in Westminster on the topic, then founded Foundology to do something about it. Now hundreds of founders all over the world are in the FounderFuel family, where they coach and support each other every month in group-coaching FounderCircles - learning from each other, problem-solving together and developing as scaling leaders. Prior to this, she co-founded two technology start-ups herself so knows first-hand what it is like on the roller-coaster. Her first technology business launched in 2012 and was acquired by Enterprise Nation in 2015; her second was a Cannes Lions Innovation award winner and used by brands like Samsung, Vodafone and Expedia.