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The Graham Cochrane Show

Billionaire works on vacation and calls it balance?! (oh boy)

The Graham Cochrane Show

Graham Cochrane

Self-improvement, Careers, Education, Entrepreneurship, Business

5.0520 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

A billionaire CEO wakes up at 4:30am to work on vacation so he can spend time with his family later. Is this what work life balance is supposed to look like?

Today I want to unpack this CNBC article and highlight what I think is crazy about it, but also what I think is genius about it.
And more importantly at the end I’m going to share with you the 4 key components of building what I call a Dream Week so you can love your work and your family life.

Chapters
00:00 The Work-Life Balance Dilemma
09:56 The Myth of Working on Vacation
17:50 Redefining Success and Workload
26:47 Designing Your Dream Week

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Transcript

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0:01.0

Welcome to the Graham Cochran Show, where each week I help you create more money, margin, and meaning in your life.

0:08.9

I'm your host, of course, Graham Cochran.

0:11.5

Let's get into it.

0:17.0

A billionaire CEO wakes up at 4.30 a.m. to work on vacation so we can spend time with this family later.

0:26.3

Is that what work-life balance is supposed to look like? Well, today I want to unpack this CNBC article

0:32.9

and highlight what I think is crazy about it, but also what I think is genius about it.

0:39.9

And more importantly for you, at the end, I'm going to share with you the four key components

0:44.4

of building what I call a dream week so you can love your work and your family life.

0:52.0

All right, so here's the CNBC Make It article, 52-year-old billionaire CEO.

0:58.0

I've woken up at 4.30 a.m. to work on vacation so I can spend the days with family.

1:04.2

Okay? They get a lot of, can we just pause and say CNBC gets a lot of information inside their

1:10.3

titles? It's absolutely crazy. It's so

1:12.4

impressive. I know exactly what this article is about. I don't even have to read it. And I've had a ton of

1:16.9

articles on CNBC and the titles they pick are absolutely amazing. Okay. So we're talking about

1:24.4

Todd Graves, who's the co-founder and CEO of Raising Cains, which is a chicken

1:29.2

fingers restaurant.

1:30.6

I don't have a Raising Cains around me here in Tampa.

1:33.3

I don't know if you guys do, but I'm a fan of Chicken Fingers.

1:36.5

It's hard to say no.

1:38.4

So let's say a couple of things here.

1:40.4

He's a billionaire, personally.

1:44.9

The restaurant's going to do $5 billion in sales this year.

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