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The ONE Thing

522. From Burnout to Joy: Sarah Reynolds on Health, Family, and Leadership

The ONE Thing

NOVA Media

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

What if the path out of overwhelm starts with a glass of water? In this conversation, Sarah Reynolds—co-founder of Empower Home—shares how building one small keystone habit led her to lose 110 pounds and rebuild her energy. She explains how focusing on hydration, then adding practices like intermittent fasting, helped her replace perfectionism with progress and even shift the culture of health on her team. We also explore how she and her husband used The ONE Thing’s goal-setting framework to stay unified in a two-entrepreneur household with three kids. Simple rhythms like a Sunday family huddle and nightly couple time kept them aligned while honoring each other’s core values. Finally, Sarah describes how stepping out of the executive “ivory tower” and back into agent leadership reignited both company growth and her own joy. Her message for leaders: your mission needs you in your joy zone—replacing yourself in the wrong jobs is not abdication, it’s alignment. Challenge of the Week: Have the courage to run after your ONE Thing—especially if it’s your joy zone. Pick one habit or role change that moves you toward it and take the first concrete step this week. *** To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: the1thing.com/pods. We talk about: How a single keystone habit can catalyze lasting health change Simple family rhythms that keep two entrepreneurs aligned at home Replacing yourself so you can lead from strengths and reclaim joy Links & Tools from This Episode: Listen to the Empire Building Podcast Her Best Life Empire Circle CliftonStrengths The ONE Thing Goal-Setting Retreat Free Resources Want to be a guest or share feedback? Email podcast@the1thing.com or send us an audio note at Speakpipe.com/the1thing. Produced by NOVA

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0:00.0

This week I'm chatting with my friend Sarah Reynolds. Sarah is an amazing entrepreneur. She's built

0:04.6

one of the largest, most successful real estate businesses in the world. Empower homes will serve

0:09.0

over 2,500 families this year, which just kind of boggles the mind. She operates in 10

0:14.2

different markets with about 180 agents. It's a huge business, lots of revenue, and they also,

0:20.2

her and her husband, George,

0:21.4

own other businesses as well, while they're also managing the demands of a family with three

0:26.3

children. So you know the drill. How do I find the balance between my work success and my home

0:32.0

success? And for Sarah, there was a third part, her health success as well. Her health journey

0:37.4

is absolutely inspiring. She health success as well. Her health journey is absolutely

0:38.3

inspiring. She lost over 110 pounds and she used a lot of the concepts of the one thing to get

0:44.3

there. She also will tell us how she looked up, found herself miserable near burnout in her

0:49.3

business, and found a path forward by replacing herself and doing the jobs that she's truly

0:54.0

called to do.

0:55.0

I hope you'll enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed capturing it with Sarah.

0:59.1

Here we go.

1:00.0

I'm Jay Papazan, and this is the One Thing, your weekly'm so happy to finally get you on the show.

1:22.2

Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here.

1:24.3

You and your husband, George, have been regulars at our goal setting retreats.

1:28.4

You obviously are a student of the book, working so closely with Gary Keller as well.

1:33.4

And I think the way we can start this is maybe through the lens of health. You know, in the book we

1:37.8

wrote, if you're going to accomplish extraordinary things, you're going to need energy to do it.

1:42.1

So you shared with me in preparation for your own podcast,

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