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EntreLeadership

The Real Reason You’ll Never Grow Your Business

EntreLeadership

Ramsey Network

Management, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.74.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

If your business only works when you’re working, something has to change. In this episode, you’ll learn how to regain margin, hand off responsibility the right way, and build a business that keeps moving forward even when you step away. Next Steps: 🎥 Watch our video 3 Questions That Could Save Your Business From Going Broke  📞 Have a question for the show? Call 844-944-1070 or send us a message: https://ter.li/ask-us 📚 Learn about the EntreLeadership System™: https://ter.li/system-p 💻 Get EntreLeadership Elite™ for your business: https://ter.li/elite-p ✉️ Sign up to receive tactical tools, advice and resources in your inbox every week: https://ter.li/enl 🏢 Attend EntreLeadership Summit: https://ter.li/summit 🎤 Attend EntreLeadership Master Series: https://ter.li/masterseries 📖 Order Dave’s new book, Build a Business You Love: https://ter.li/b4kru2   Listen to More From Ramsey Network: 🪑 Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman 🎙️ The Ramsey Show 💸 The Ramsey Show Highlights 🧠 The Dr. John Delony Show 🍸 Smart Money Happy Hour 💡 The Rachel Cruze Show 💰 George Kamel   Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Here's the bottom line, folks. You don't have to stay stuck as a treadmill operator.

0:11.0

And you can't. It's not sustainable. When we were at that stage, no matter how fast I ran or how hard I work, we weren't making any progress.

0:18.0

And 100% of the revenue depended on me showing up, putting

0:21.4

up screens, or running my mouth on a microphone.

0:24.3

That's the first stage all businesses go through and it's exhausting, but you can get out.

0:30.6

And today, John Falcons from Ontario Leadership is going to show you how.

0:33.8

You'll learn the key problems for businesses in the treadmill operator stage and more importantly, exactly how to address them.

0:42.9

When you're in the treadmill operator stage, every decision goes through you.

0:46.9

Every problem lands on your desk and every customer complaint winds up in your inbox.

0:52.0

In other words, you're the chief everything officer.

0:55.0

And it feels like you're carrying the whole business on your back.

0:58.0

That's a recipe for Burnide.

1:00.0

That's because being a treadmill operator leads to three major problems.

1:05.0

For starters, you're working in the business,

1:07.0

way more than you're working on the business.

1:09.0

To put it another way, you don't have

1:11.4

enough time to actually grow your business because you're just too busy fighting fires all day long.

1:16.8

You might be stuck in your inbox, you might be stuck on the phone answering customer problems

1:21.9

and complaints. You might be fixing something that nobody else can fix except for you,

1:26.6

but you're just not moving the business forward.

1:29.8

The next big thing is you can't take time off

1:32.2

because no work would get done if you weren't there.

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