Flywheel Leadership · Graham Peelle (Managing Partner, Endeavor Strategic)

Episode #65: Finding Your flow with Steven Puri, The Sukha Company

·50 min·3 clips

Stephen says remote-work anxiety is usually “a hiring problem,” not an RTO problem.

Graham opens season three with Stephen Puri. The conversation starts with a plain idea: remote workers need help focusing, finishing faster, and staying healthy. Stephen does not gloss over the rough edges. He talks about raising $21 million, building three startups, surviving two failures, landing one exit, and later working as a film executive across three studio lots. The show’s Beyond the Bio segment pulls that story out of the highlight reel. Graham asks for the person behind the résumé, and Stephen answers with examples instead of polished lines. Suka becomes the practical thread through the rest of the conversation. Stephen explains that the company experiments with soundscapes because different people settle into flow in different ways. A stream recorded in Japan becomes one test case. So do surf in Cyprus, birds near an emerald lake in British Columbia, and the lapping water on the shore. The point is simple. Put something in front of listeners, see whether it helps, and keep the options people actually use. Stephen also lays out the timing of flow. Research, he says, suggests it takes 15 to 23 minutes to drop in. If you get interrupted, it can take another 15 to 23 minutes to get back. Graham recognizes that reality right away. He says silence is his thing, and that an open office would push him toward headphones or a closed room if he needed real work done. That back-and-forth keeps the conversation grounded in the workday instead of drifting into abstraction. Stephen keeps coming back to the operational side of focus: Slack interruptions, quiet time, and the need to choose when the hard work happens. He closes by pitching Suka as a straight-up 168-hour try-it-all window with no cancellation trap, then connects the whole idea to a broader hope that more people feel in control, contribute positively, and add less division to the world.

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A clear conversation about protecting focus before interruptions steal it.

This episode treats flow as a work problem, not a mood. Graham and Stephen Puri keep circling the same pressure point: how remote workers stay focused, finish sooner, and keep their health intact while work keeps breaking in.

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If Slack keeps stealing your best hour, press play on this one first today.

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