Dan Murray-Serter 🧠

Girl Dad | Co-Founder of Heights I Angel Investor In 90 Startups I Follow For Daily Posts on Health, Business & Personal growth from UK's #1 ranked health creator (apparently)

Serial entrepreneur and Angel investor in 100+ startups with over 10 years experience starting, scaling and failing multiple startups.

Co Founder of Heights - Europe's leading brain and gut health company.

I also started and help run Foundrs - A not for profit community of the best, most ambitious and compassionate founders in UK.

I recently stepped away from Leaders Media - A media company making the top business podcasts in Europe, Secret Leaders - at the top of the charts, to focus on much more important things with my time - being a dad to 2 awesome daughters.

Angel/Advisor

Beam (www.beam.org)
ATAI Life Sciences (https://www.atai.life)
Allplants (www.allplants.com)
Humanity (https://humanity.health)
BYP (www.byp-network.com)
Goss (https://www.goss.media)
Tribe VR (www.tribevr.io)
Thrift (www.wearethrift.com)
THIS (www.this.co)
The Sports Edit (www.thesportsedit.com)
Faction (www.factionskis.com)
Runway East (http://runwayea.st/)
London Union/Dinerama (http://londonunion.com/)
Neardesk (https://www2.neardesk.com/)


Tailored.to (https://tailored.to/)
Motivii (http://motivii.com/)
Earlybird (https://earlybird.fm/)
Upshot (http://www.upshotapp.co/)
Togethera (www.togethera.com)
Repairly (www.repairly.co.uk)
Zaboo (www.zabooapp.com)
Lissom (www.lissom.com)
Bloom (www.hellobloom.io)

Dan Murray🧠

The Broken Window Effect at Work.

Sometimes burnout doesn’t start with too much work.
It starts with too many small things left unresolved.

The message you never get back.
The feedback that never arrives.
The meeting that ends without a decision.
The standards that exist somewhere, but never clearly.

Each one is tolerable on its own.
Together, they quietly change how you work.

You stop asking questions because it feels pointless.
You fill in gaps that shouldn’t be yours to fill.
You manage ambiguity instead of doing the job you were hired to do.

That’s where the exhaustion comes from.
Not effort.
Uncertainty.

People don’t burn out because they’re incapable.
They burn out because they’re constantly compensating for what the environment doesn’t provide.

If work feels heavier than it should, it’s worth asking:
What small things have been broken for a long time?

They’re usually the real reason your energy keeps leaking.

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P.S. If you want 2026 to feel different, don’t start with goals.
Start with clarity.

Most people don’t need more discipline.
They need to understand what’s been draining them and what deserves their energy.

I’ve spent years refining a simple process to help you with exactly that.

Download my short PDF guide https://lnkd.in/eniDNptW

I'll see you there.

Girl Dad | Co-Founder of Heights I Angel Investor In Over 100 Startups I Follow For Daily Posts on Health, Business & Personal growth from UK’s #1 ranked health creator (apparently)

The Broken Window Effect at Work

One thing I’ve learned after building multiple teams: the most valuable people are rarely the loudest.

They’re the ones who quietly upskill when no one’s watching.

You can’t teach that level of internal drive.
You can’t force someone to care about their growth more than the company requires.

That has to come from within.

And from a neuroscience perspective, people who self-educate build something incredibly powerful:
a plastic brain.

Every new skill, every book, every online course, it all strengthens their neural pathways for adaptability, problem - solving, and creative thinking.

Those traits compound.

They become faster learners.
Better decision-makers.
More resourceful under pressure.
And over time, they outgrow people who rely only on formal training.

When I hire, I look for curiosity.
Not credentials.
Not polished answers.
Curiosity.

Because someone who reads, experiments, builds, tinkers, or studies on their own time will eventually outpace almost everyone else.
They don’t wait to be told what to learn.
They choose it.

And that choice is what makes them dangerous, in the best way possible.

If you’re that person, keep going.
Even if no one notices right now.
Your effort is compounding quietly.
You’ll feel the gap before anyone else sees it.


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Follow me Dan Murray🧠 for more on habits and leadership.

P.S. If you want 2026 to feel different, don’t start with goals.
Start with clarity.

Most people don’t need more discipline.
They need to understand what’s been draining them and what deserves their energy.

I’ve spent years refining a simple process to help you with exactly that.

Download my short PDF guide

https://lnkd.in/eniDNptW

I'll see you there.

I comment with 🔥 on your posts. How come we are still not connected?

Dynamic and results-oriented individual with over 10 years of B2B sales experience and a proven track record of driving revenue growth through strategic business development and client relationship management. 




Vlad Bronnikov

Tip of the day 👇


Refrain from using "I came across your profile" when sending peronalized connection requests on LinkedIn.

Hope this yelps.

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Me discovering new comments on my older posts that I never received notificatioms for.

LinkedIn FYI

Dear people of LinkedIn,

I wanted to take this opportunity to let you know that I won't be posting over the weekend.

Thank you for your understanding.

Vlad

I don't know who needs to hear this.

BUT

I do know who needs to beer this.

Any questions?

It's a pleasure to see so many openai-minded people on LinkedIn.

I’m allergic to companies who don’t call themselves a family.

I really don’t like how Netflix 
phrases it.

They use the term “professional sports team.”

Not a family.

Here’s how they phrase it:

“We model ourselves on being a professional sports team, not a family.

A family is about unconditional love.

A dream team is about pushing yourself to be the best possible teammate, caring intensely about your team, and knowing that you may not be on the team forever.

Dream teams are about performance, not seniority or tenure.

It is up to the manager to ensure that every player is amazing at their position, plays effectively with others and is given new opportunities to develop.

That’s how we keep winning the championship (entertaining the world).

Unlike a sports team, as Netflix grows, the number of players also grows.

We work to foster players from the development leagues so they can become the stars of tomorrow.”

Nothing says “professional sports team” like benching someone for missing a quarterly KPI.

Nothing says “professional sports team” like calling timeouts on mentorship and culture.

Nothing says “professional sports team” like substituting humans mid-season because stats aren’t hitting targets.

Nothing says “professional sports team” like drafting rookies from “development leagues” just to see if they’ll make the highlight reel.

Hard pass, Netflix.

A company may run plays and track stats.
It may even have a playbook.

But it is only a family if it actually nurtures the players — not just the scoreboard.

A company is definitely a family.

It just has to value people, not just performance metrics.

Don’t get them mixed up.

Agree???

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You know what I find bizzare?


I find the word "bizarre" bizarre.

What do you find bizarre?

Share below 👇

Unconventional truth 👇

"I just requested to connect" feels like "I just called to say I love you"

P.S. You don't have to agree

I absolutely love reading the comments on posts by some LinkedIn Top Voices.

It’s like watching a poor rap battle where the first rapper steps on stage and everyone else immediately becomes his backup dancer.

Author drops a bar:

“Vulnerability is a leadership superpower.”

Comments rush in:

“Yes. Vulnerability is everything.”
“This. Leaders must be vulnerable.”
“Exactly. Vulnerability builds trust.”
“Couldn’t agree more with this take.”

No one counters the verse.
No one questions the rhyme.
No one dares to say no.

It’s a rap battle with:
→ no diss tracks
→ no punchlines
→ no risk
→ and unlimited applause

Everyone just rewrites the same bar
with different emojis and calls it thought leadership.

That’s not a battle.

That’s a karaoke night where everyone sings the chorus and skips the verses.

Know what I’m sayin’?

I ignored several connection requests today.

Why?

Sometimes, you just can't be bothered.

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Thought of the day 👇


If people were Pinocchios, most wouldn’t last long on LinkedIn.

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