You are listening to the 10 minute entrepreneur podcast with host Sean Castrina.

Today I'm excited about today's podcast. I have Ryan Rinta Rinta Ria with me here today.

He is the author of Lead Without Burnout. Ryan, it's great to have you on the podcast.

Great to be here. Thanks for having me, Sean.

I'm excited to help your audience on their business journeys however I can.

Yeah, I know you do coaching for CEOs and managing partners and anybody through that upper food chain in business so tell me why this book lead without burnout

Sure well basically I take 20 years of history studying advising leaders from my Wall Street days, my NBA days, to help these senior leaders with optimizing their growth, but the issue is it's on a small scale you can only cater to so many clients obviously so in order to scale that impact I wanted to write this book lead without burnout because I do believe that entrepreneurs, leaders can have better work life balance and be able to deliver on their business goals and dreams.

So what is balanced to you? Because I can argue two sides of this coin so but but I'm open to hearing

different different things you know there be a lot of people say there's no such thing

is balance but what I would say is that balance is different for every person.

Like I can work 60 hours if I and I did for many years.

And that was over seven days and it was creative like I'd get up at six in the morning and work till 10 then don't do anything from like 10 to 4 on a weekend and then go in my office for about an hour and a half tie things up.

You know, I never missed an event. I never missed anything that my kids had in school, period.

The only thing ever missed was a piano recital on purpose.

But other than that, I was 100 for 100.

So, and I worked a lot, built a lot of big companies

and things that nature.

So, curious to hear your definition of balance.

Sure, and it's going to be different for everyone.

And one of the things we do in the book is we have various exercises, the values and visions

exercise, the Wheel of Life exercise to try to figure out what matters most to you and so I think what happens is is that we a lot of us are perfectionists we're trying to be 10 out of 10 in every single area of life.

And so going through exercises and figuring out,

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