1133. The Hidden Time Sucks That’s Stealing Your Productivity in Sales & Business Growth (and How to Take It Back)

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Kelly Roach

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5 • 928 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Ever feel like you’re spinning your wheels, spending hours on tasks that should be simple?

In this episode, Kelly reveals the surprising reason behind so much wasted time in growing a business – and it’s not what you think.

Drawing from a personal breakthrough in her health and fitness journey, Kelly uncovers how lack of confidence is often the real productivity killer. From overthinking posts to re-recording videos 15 times, she shares how hidden self-doubt leads to procrastination, lost opportunities, and frustration in your business.

If you’re ready to move faster, operate in your zone of genius, and finally create the freedom you’ve been craving, this episode will help you identify and eliminate the areas that are holding you back.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

The hidden time trap that’s killing your productivity
Why lack of confidence can cost you hours each week
How to identify your personal “productivity leaks”
The rep-based strategy to build confidence fast
Why waiting to feel ready is keeping you stuck
The difference between perfection and authenticity (and why the latter wins every time)
A powerful mindset shift for moving with speed and freedom in your business

Timestamps:

0:30 – The surprising inspiration behind this episode
1:36 – How losing 15 pounds saved Kelly hours each week
2:11 – The link between confidence and productivity
4:45 – Where are you losing time because of self-doubt?
6:52 – The simple solution: reps, reps, reps
9:45 – From 18 takes to one-take videos: Kelly’s story
11:14 – The secret to writing content that connects (without trying too hard)
12:32 – Why imperfection is your greatest advantage in an AI-driven world
13:44 – The self-work you can’t delegate
14:26 – Final challenge: identify the area that’s stealing your time and freedom
15:02 – Send Kelly a DM: what’s your time-suck and how will you fix it?

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The Kelly Roach Show is your business podcast that gives you quick, actionable trainings for business growth, sales growth, and leadership. Kelly teaches about the entrepreneurial mindset and how to leverage building an unstoppable team with high performance strategies for rapid and sustainable business growth.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Kelly Roach Show, the place for no fluff, easy to implement 20 minute or less
0:11.4	business and leadership lessons to help you build a sustainable business that scales.
0:17.3	Lead with integrity and create a lasting legacy.
0:21.7	I'm Kelly Roach, former NFL cheerleader and Fortune 500 executive turned eight-figure entrepreneur.
0:27.8	Let's get started.
0:29.0	Welcome back. This is the Kelly Roach show.
0:30.8	Thank you so much for being here.
0:32.2	It is all because of you being loyal and taking the time to lend me your earbuds each and every week that we
0:38.4	can bring you this show. And it is my honor to be here once again. So today's show is all about
0:44.7	the big time sock that most people don't even know is killing their productivity and what to do
0:50.5	about it. So if you'd love to take back your time, you want to have more freedom
0:54.3	and you're looking for ways to feel more empowered operating in your zone of genius.
1:00.7	Stick around until the end because today's show is for you. So this show was inspired actually
1:06.6	by a conversation that I was having with my personal trainer, Amanda, the other day. Now, some of you may know, but I've been on a health and wellness journey for a little over a
1:14.6	year. And recently in the last, let's call it, four to six months, I've probably lost about 15 pounds.
1:22.3	And that's been a combination of working out multiple days a week with a trainer, lifting weights, getting my
1:28.7	steps in, really being mindful of my nutrition and protein, water intake, you know, all the
1:34.3	typical things that you do, right? And actually, we were having a conversation and I was saying
1:40.7	to her, you know, I found that I saved myself a couple hours a week since I lost all this weight because I can wear anything I want in my closet and feel confident in my own skin.
1:56.2	And it wasn't until I literally had those words come out of my mouth when I was sharing this
2:01.9	with her that I realize that our lack of confidence in anything is really our biggest time suck.
2:10.5	Think about it.
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