Work-Life Balance is Bullshit | ReWire 1523
The Hardcore Closer Podcast
Ryan Stewman
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Ryan Stewman tackles the common question: How do you balance work and family life? He shares his philosophy that “balance is bullshit”—as his mentor Tim Grover once told him, a balanced scale is at zero, and no one wants to be a zero. Instead of trying to balance everything perfectly, Ryan invests intentional, quality time into his family. He has a structured system that has worked for over 10 years:
• Weekly date night with his wife, where they disconnect from business and focus on each other.
• Family dinners with a “family huddle,” where each family member shares their highs and asks for prayers.
• Weekend adventures at the ranch with his kids, giving his wife some much-needed downtime.
Ryan makes it clear that success comes from investing quality time into your family, not chasing an impossible balance. If you want to maintain both a thriving business and meaningful relationships, structure your time and make family a priority.
Don’t aim for balance—create a system that works.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the rewire podcast. I'm your host Ryan Stouman and I'm here to rewire your mind for success. |
| 0:07.4 | You were put on this planet for success. You were created to succeed, but the force of average is after you every single day my |
| 0:14.9 | brothers and sisters and this podcast is the one thing that's designed to help you |
| 0:19.5 | fight the force of average and excel in every area of your life. We're glad that you're here. |
| 0:25.8 | I'm asked all the time. Every podcast I do, every event that I have. Ryan, how do you do work life balance? |
| 0:36.3 | You seem to have such a good wife and kids and you seem to have good relationships with your friend, |
| 0:40.7 | but you seem like you work all the time too. How do you balance that out? |
| 0:44.8 | And a great man that I've known for many years, Tim Grover once told me that balance is |
| 0:49.6 | bullshit. A scale is balanced at zero and nobody wants to be a zero. |
| 0:55.0 | And I've always taken that seriously. I've always thought that was a great analogy. |
| 0:59.0 | Because if we've got to work 8 or 10 or 12 hour days days we're not going to be able to balance out every day with our family and go spend 12 hours with our family. |
| 1:08.0 | If I work 12 hours like I did yesterday and I come home and I see my family for two hours. I'm obviously not going to get 12 hours with them too. |
| 1:16.3 | So what I do is I have a very clear system of how I can not balance but how I can invest important time into the people that I love. |
| 1:25.0 | Number one is I do date night every Wednesday with my wife |
| 1:31.0 | for 10 years. |
| 1:32.0 | It's not always been on Wednesday but it is right now. |
| 1:35.0 | Wednesday at 5.30 p.m. we go to dinner we call it the AARP special |
| 1:40.0 | because there ain't nothing but old people eating supper at 530. |
| 1:44.2 | But for me and my wife, Wednesday at 530's perfect timing |
| 1:48.6 | because several factors, it gives us a break |
| 1:51.2 | in the middle of the week to get together and just be with each other. |
| 1:55.0 | There's not a lot of people at restaurants at 5.30 on a Wednesday. |
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