Why Your Pursuit of Work-Life Balance is KILLING Your Success
Earn Your Leisure
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.0 | I think it's important to really talk about balance and what does it really mean. |
| 0:07.8 | So very rarely in life are you going to have balance? |
| 0:12.6 | I think that the whole goal of life is to be unbalanced so you can achieve balance. |
| 0:18.4 | But you have to be unbalanced at a certain point to achieve balance. |
| 0:21.9 | So this isn't theory. |
| 0:23.8 | In 2015, I was on the couch in my parents' house. |
| 0:30.2 | Things wasn't going good for me. |
| 0:32.0 | But that was an opportunity for me to stay up to 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock in the morning and really master |
| 0:41.7 | social media, told myself how to edit a variety of different things where I was just |
| 0:46.7 | playing around with apps. Mike would give me a suggestion about this app and then I would take |
| 0:50.3 | three hours to learn the app and then make content and then do this. I had a career as a financial advisor that I had to do from nine to five or longer. |
| 0:59.8 | And then from nine o'clock to two o'clock in the morning when everybody was sleep and it was |
| 1:05.4 | cemetery silence. |
| 1:06.5 | I could close the blinds and I would work. |
| 1:10.1 | That was extremely unbalanced and continued that even now, right? |
| 1:14.6 | But these are sacrifices that were made eight years ago to get me to the point where I am now. |
| 1:21.6 | So I think that the idea or the fairy tale of a balanced life is something that is unrealistic for anybody |
| 1:30.5 | that's trying to achieve greatness, especially if you're an entrepreneur or you're a business owner. |
| 1:35.6 | So it's your responsibility to be able to communicate this to your wife, significant other |
| 1:42.8 | children, and they have to understand how to deal with disappointment. |
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