The PM Struggle is Real. But Another Framework Won't Save You.

Is Emotional Labor Your Actual Job? Is Your Title Product Manager... or Therapist?

It's time we said it out loud: Product Management is emotionally draining.

Every week, you feel drained, not from the work, but from the endless emotional labor of managing conflict, dealing with unsupportive executives, and fighting for alignment. You secretly feel like you're doing something wrong, and are worried it’s stalling your career.

• That exec constantly giving negative feedback, leaving you and the team demoralized.
• That boss making it hard for you to work the way you'd like.
• That stakeholder who keeps yelling at you, making their problems yours, even when you fix them over and over.
• The team that doesn't share feedback until the last minute, at which point it feels too late to make any changes.
• Doing work that doesn't match the job description you signed up for.
• Recovering from a layoff, feeling like a failure, hoping you don't mess up again in the next interview.

Product Management Can Feel Like a Thankless Therapy Job

Being a PM today means you're not just a functional leader. You're the human shield and the therapist for your product and your team. And you're exhausted.

We know you've tried all the prioritization frameworks and communication templates...

Only to find that the true roadblocks aren't technical.

They're emotional and psychological.

• You lose hours or even days churning over conflict, especially when it hits on a Friday, bleeding stress into your personal life.
• You know it's "not personal," but then why does negative feedback always hit so deep?
• You find yourself stuck in people-pleasing or "fixing" patterns, desperately trying to de-escalate aggressive colleagues or manage a demanding stakeholder’s energy.
• You're tired of being reactive, always handling a last-minute crisis or the yelling of some executive, instead of proactively leading your product.
• You feel like an imposter and find yourself focusing on a binary success/failure result instead of growth.

You Deserve To Do Your Job Without Sacrificing Your Sanity

You wanted to lead your product. You wanted to help customers. That's why you signed up for the job.

• You deserve to have stakeholders collaborate with you instead of constantly fighting against you.
• You deserve to feel supported and safe in your role, capable of setting clear boundaries without guilt.
• You deserve to manage your emotions and build resilience so that setbacks fuel your growth, not your burnout.

And we're going to give you the tools to do just that.

Join Sam Greenwood, leadership coach for PMs and conscious leaders, and veteran PM expert, Shardul Mehta, for a live interactive workshop where we'll move beyond surface-level stakeholder tips to diagnose and resolve the source of your most stressful PM issues, 100% judgment-free.

• Uncover the root dysfunction of conflict & stress at work.
• Identify triggers and reactive patterns associated with these issues.
• Help you get curious about your inner experience, emotionally and physically.
• Release pent-up emotional energy stored in your nervous system.
• Give you the self-awareness tools to confidently lead and transform conflict into collaboration.
• Master the human side of product management.

Best of all, we'll do a live group coaching on your submitted problems to help you identify and transform these conflicts into collaboration.

You'll come away with actionable skills for regulating emotions and managing stress so you don't get triggered by stakeholder situations anymore and can authentically respond in any future situation.

Meet Your Expert Guides

Sam Greenwood has spent the last 6 years studying modern psychotherapy and ancient mindfulness practices. He has completed 100s of hours of training in Internal Family Systems and spent over 2500 hours meditating at Buddhist training centers around the world. These toolkits are renowned for their ability to deepen one's curiosity and create lasting transformation. As a coach, Sam has worked with dozens of product managers and leaders over the last 4 years, helping them break out of stressful patterns, interpersonal conflicts, and forge a more resilient and authentic path forward.

Shardul Mehta — He's been recognized as a "Product Jedi." 30+ years in product management and entrepreneurship, 4x founder, thought leader, mentor, writer, speaker, and veteran of startups and Fortune 100 enterprises across a variety of industries. Shardul has launched and grown products from 0 to $100M+. He writes one of the fastest-growing and most practically applicable newsletters for PMs worldwide, and is the host of Street Smart Product Manager Live!

Together, we're offering a unique combination of expertise: decades of product leadership at the highest levels along with deep self-mastery based on thousands-year-old traditions.

We're meeting in the middle at product management resilience and conflict transformation.

Who Needs To Attend

This is a live workshop specifically designed for Product Managers and Product Leaders who feel the emotional burden of their role and are ready to stop just "fixing" or "avoiding" problems and start transforming their leadership and resilience!

In just 1 hour, you'll come away more supported and empowered than ever:

We'll teach you:

• How to navigate conflict by understanding the emotional triggers behind passive-aggressive behavior or yelling, allowing you to collaborate rather than fight.
• A framework to transform patterns like people-pleasing or feeling overwhelmed into the ability to express boundaries clearly and reduce burnout.
• Tools to address and conquer Imposter Syndrome by shifting your focus from success/failure to learning and growth.
• How to build emotional resilience to handle setbacks like layoffs or negative feedback without spiraling into hours or days of distress.
• Core principles to improve your EQ and communication skills — the skills essential for ascending to and excelling in leadership.

Avoid Burnout and Embrace Transformation

The fact is Product Management can be an emotionally stressful job.

If you continue to address deep emotional challenges with purely functional solutions, you risk burnout, stalled growth, and letting limiting beliefs define your potential.

Instead, this workshop will give you the inner mastery to confidently manage your emotional landscape, respond with resilience, and transform conflict into alignment.

These are the skills that separate good PMs from great product leaders.

🎟️ Register now to break the cycles of stress and stakeholder conflict and start transforming into the resilient force that drives your product — and your career — forward.

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