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Success Story with Scott D. Clary

Lessons - Balancing High Performance And Personal Life | Dr. John Delony - Bestselling Author, Podcaster & Mental Health Expert

Success Story with Scott D. Clary

Success Story Media

How To, Business, Education, Self-improvement

4.6326 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

➡️ Like The Podcast? Leave A Rating: https://ratethispodcast.com/successstory   In this "Lessons" episode, Dr. John Delony, Bestselling Author, Podcaster & Mental Health Expert, shares his insights on balancing high performance with personal life. He reveals how relentless entrepreneurial hustle can incur hidden costs—fueling stress and straining relationships—while emphasizing that redefining success to prioritize peace and setting clear boundaries can transform both business and personal well-being. ➡️ Show Linkshttps://successstorypodcast.com  YouTube: https://youtu.be/k3fydZH7ejEApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dr-john-delony-best-selling-author-podcaster-mental/id1484783544Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Ya78CnHZQAmf1yHsnGnzQ ➡️ Watch the Podcast On Youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/c/scottdclary

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0:00.0

In this lesson's episode, discover the hidden costs of relentless entrepreneurial hustle and the quest for enough.

0:05.7

Learn why the constant drive for more fuels unhealthy stress and strains personal relationships,

0:11.0

understand how redefining success to prioritize peace, transforms both business and life,

0:15.4

and explore strategies for cultivating balance amid chaos.

0:18.6

Oh, I'm sorry. for cultivating balance amid chaos.

0:32.7

So when you're looking at, so I didn't even realize that you were on call.

0:36.7

So there was a different version of stress and anxiety in the first season of your career than it and uh and equally as

0:39.4

potentially unhealthy although it feels great to work more and earn more but equally as unhealthy

0:45.0

because there's a whole other problem with that entrepreneurial version of anxiety and stress

0:48.7

so for those two people those are two very real avatars of people that are listening to the show,

0:55.0

there's the entrepreneur and there's a really hardworking W2, maybe not all the time on call, maybe.

1:00.0

What is the work that you did to figure out how to exist in life and what is some work that you wish your W-2 version of yourself would have done,

1:12.6

figure how to exist and operate in a healthy space in a healthy way that maybe now you're doing?

1:19.6

Matt, I think that question is probably the most important question of this century right now.

1:24.6

And here's the showdown that happened and And I'll answer the question, because I've

1:31.1

had to go back and ask myself and be pretty reflective. I had just was coming off the heels of a

1:39.0

number one book, and I'd never written a book before, so the fact that it shot up and did what it did

1:43.1

was amazing.

1:49.7

Then I'm finishing the draft of the second one because the publishing team immediately wants to crank out another one, right?

1:52.4

And now I'm speaking all over the country.

2:01.0

And that, yeah, and speaking for me is at the time, because the show hadn't exploded yet, but it was where I made a vast majority of my money.

2:03.0

And then the show's starting to take off.

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