The Founder Well-being Check
Seven questions. An honest number on where your well-being actually sits right now. Adapted from a validated clinical instrument, not a content-marketing quiz. You don't need to give us your email to get the result.
Athletes at the top of their sport get their performance measured weekly. Founders, whose performance is arguably more composite, typically do not. This is a small, honest instrument for doing it once in a while.
The check scores seven aspects of well-being that we see move together at founder stage: whether you're thriving, how satisfied you are with your life, how effective you feel in your personal life and at work, how much burnout is running in the background, how much negative emotion you're carrying, and whether your sleep is costing you at work.
Higher is better. The seven items average to a single number from 0 to 4. It is a reflective starting point, not a diagnosis. If the score tells you something you already knew, that's useful. If it tells you something you didn't, that's more useful.
Instrument: The Entrepreneur Well-being Check (EWC). Items reproduced from Freeman, M. A., Mazza, A., Johnson, S. L., & Heinz, A. J. (2025). The entrepreneur well-being check: a screener for entrepreneur mental health and well-being. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research. doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-02-2025-0147.
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. This page presents the seven EWC items with adapted framing and a browser-side scoring layer; the items themselves are not modified. This tool is for reflection, not diagnosis. If the result concerns you, reach out to a clinician.
If the number surprised you, that's worth a conversation.
A 15-minute discovery call with us. A coach takes it, not an assistant.