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The Fitness Business Podcast with Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger

EP | 725 - How CEOs Accidentally Become Pessimists and How to STOP IT

The Fitness Business Podcast with Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger

Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.9 β€’ 670 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

I want to tell you something that might frustrate you.

Business does not get easier.

It just gives you a new problem.

And if you are waiting for the moment where everything runs smoothly and there are no fires to put out, you are going to be waiting forever.

Because here is the truth.

You fix one constraint just to have another one pop up.

That is literally the game.

Today I want to reframe the anxiety you feel before the next level of growth.

Because the new constraint is not proof that you are failing.

It is proof that you are playing.

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0:00.0

Like, imagine if you're watching a football game and every time your team scored, you're just like, yeah, okay. But every time the other team scored, you're like, oh, my gosh, there it goes again. There's the problem. And you're only paying attention to that. Even if you win the game, it's not going to feel very good, right? Even if you're outscoring your component, it's still not going to feel good. even if you dominate, it's not going to feel good if you're only looking at the problem, at the opposing component, right? If the only

0:26.5

thing that emotionally registers is when the other team scores, you're going to walk away,

0:29.9

feeling like you lost. And I see so many people get into that trap in business.

0:36.1

Hi, guys. Welcome back. I want to talk to you today about something I

0:40.3

realized recently and it was like, oh, dude, that's, that's interesting. I fell into a little

0:46.7

mindset trap. Okay, I'll start with this. This might be frustrating for you to hear. Business

0:53.5

doesn't get easier.

0:54.7

It just gives you a new problem and then a new problem and a new problem. Levels and levels and

0:59.4

levels. And if you're waiting for the moment where everything starts to run smoothly and there's

1:03.4

no fires, you are just going to be waiting forever because the truth is what happens in business

1:08.8

is you fix one constraint and another one pops up. It's literally the

1:12.2

game. Like Jordan and I jokingly call it whackamol. Like you fix sales and then problem with marketing.

1:17.4

You fix marketing and then you have a fulfillment constraint. And then you, that's just what you do.

1:22.0

Like that's how you spend your day, spend your weeks, spend your months. And so today I'm hoping to

1:26.7

reframe the anxiety that you feel

1:28.4

before your next level of growth because the new constraint, it's not proof that you're failing.

1:33.8

A lot of times we see it that way. We're just like, oh my gosh, what am I doing wrong now? I just

1:37.6

got my setter doing this now this happened. It's like, yeah, great. Your constraints are like

1:43.1

falling down the funnel of constraints. That's exactly what we want to have happen. It's like, yeah, great. Your constraints are like falling down the funnel of constraints.

1:44.8

That's exactly what we want to have happen. It's not proof that you're failing. It's only proof that

1:50.1

you're playing. That is the game. So if you're in a season where it feels like, man, it's always

1:56.6

something in business. This is the episode I want you to listen to. And if you're about to step

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