Build a Business That Gives You a Life
Modern Craftsman
Modern Craftsman
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
This Midweek is about what happens when life forces you to step back and ask what all the work is actually for. Tyler talks about loss, family, and building a business that creates enough freedom to be present for the parts of life you don't get back.
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Video Version:
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Show Notes:
00:43 Time Moves Fast
02:57 A Wake-Up Call
07:31 Making Better Decisions
12:06 Learning From Loss
14:20 Work Isn't Everything
16:43 Building Around the Life You Want
21:10 Don't Wait Until Later
23:37 Let the Business Serve You
29:01 More Than Paying Bills
31:16 Do It Now
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| 0:00.0 | And you look back and say, I wish I would have done things differently. |
| 0:03.0 | Well, here is your reminder to do it now. |
| 0:10.3 | Welcome back to Midweek, Modern Craftsman. |
| 0:13.4 | This episode this week is a little bit different than my typical episode. |
| 0:19.1 | So I hope that all of you enjoy it just the same, |
| 0:22.6 | if not more. Little business oriented, a little more heavily on the life side of things. But |
| 0:30.6 | lately, I've been thinking a lot about lifetime, how quickly it moves, right? My daughters are going into, |
| 0:39.5 | they'll be going into eighth grade and fifth grade, respectively, which is just mind-blowing to me. |
| 0:46.8 | And just looking at time and how quickly it's passing, right? We're already almost into May, |
| 0:52.2 | where the heck is this year gone? And if I'm using my |
| 0:57.9 | life and my platform the way that I should be, if I'm spending the appropriate time, and it got |
| 1:03.3 | me thinking about how others need to be doing the same. So another big aspect of this podcast and what got me thinking about this, |
| 1:13.8 | which there's a long backstory behind this, |
| 1:17.0 | but it's responsible heavily for a lot of the decisions that I make in my life |
| 1:22.9 | and decisions that I have made in my life. |
| 1:26.1 | But April 27th, it marks what I believed be 20 years since I lost |
| 1:33.5 | one of my childhood best friends when I was 20 years old. He was 19 years old. And he died in a car |
| 1:41.6 | accident, which obviously had a profound impact on my life at that point. |
| 1:48.7 | But it continued to have a very strong impact on my life over the past 20 years. |
| 1:56.6 | And it's something that I reflect on a lot. |
| 1:59.7 | I'm still close with his family, his brother. |
| 2:02.6 | I'll be working actually coming up shortly for his brother's father-in-law. |
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