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Entrepreneurs on Fire

How to shrink your work week by two days without sacrificing income with Ken Carfagno

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

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4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Ken is a high-energy former engineer, now running a cleaning company. SMART goal-setting was Ken's catalyst for shrinking his work week by 2 days without sacrificing income. Now, he re-invests his time into coaching, helping Dads connect with their kids, and spending more time with his own family of six.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Fire Nation into house, JLD here and welcomed episode 1559 of EO Fire, where I am chatting

0:10.1

with today's most successful entrepreneur 7 days a week.

0:14.6

And now we're chatting with today's featured guest Ken Carfagno.

0:18.7

Ken are you prepared to ignite?

0:21.0

Oh yeah, buddy.

0:22.6

Yes.

0:23.6

We're ready.

0:24.6

Ken is a high energy former engineer, now running a cleaning company.

0:29.8

Smart goal setting was Ken's catalyst for shrinking his work week by two days with

0:34.3

ill-sacrificing income.

0:35.8

And now he reinvest his time into coaching, helping dads connect with their kids and spending

0:40.6

more time with his own family of six.

0:43.4

Ken, take a minute, fill in some gaps from that intro and give us just a little glimpse

0:47.8

of your personal life.

0:49.1

I've always considered myself a very creative guy, but I was kind of forced into a box in

0:54.3

high school that says, well, hey, there's no money in being creative.

0:57.5

I don't want you being engineered because you're really good at math, too.

1:00.8

And honestly, I was like, okay, fine, I'll do it.

1:05.0

And I pursued that path six years down the road.

1:08.1

Actually, it was almost 10 years after school and five years of working for a major company,

1:13.0

GE.

1:14.0

And you know, I just didn't have my passion there anymore.

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