May 26, 2026 · 32 min · 12 segments
Ever feel like you're carrying the weight of the world on your own shoulders—handling every email, project, and task yourself? I've been there, telling myself it was the smart and responsible way to…
This is episode four hundred and forty-eight of the Brilliant Balance podcast, "What Happens When You Stop Doing Everything Yourself?" So I'm gonna start this episode by telling on myself, I guess, because when I started my company fifteen years ago now, actually sixteen years ago [chuckles] now, everything...
I mean, I mean everything, right? I wrote content, um, that was going out in my little blog.
I scheduled my own calls without, like, an online scheduler, right? I followed up on invoices.
And I told myself a very convincing story about why that was a great idea, right? It wasn't just necessary.
Like, look how smart I was, right? [chuckles] And I think my narrative was, like, "I'm saving all of that revenue.
I'm, I'm increasing profitability by doing everything myself," right? If I keep all this work in-house, then I keep it all.
And also, by the way, I'm the only one who really knows how to do this the way it needs to be done.
This is episode four hundred and forty-eight of the Brilliant Balance podcast, "What Happens When You Stop Doing Everything Yourself?" So I'm gonna start this episode by telling on myself, I guess, because when I started my company fifteen years ago now, actually sixteen years ago [chuckles] now, everything...
I mean, I mean everything, right? I wrote content, um, that was going out in my little blog.
I scheduled my own calls without, like, an online scheduler, right? I followed up on invoices.
And I told myself a very convincing story about why that was a great idea, right? It wasn't just necessary.
Like, look how smart I was, right? [chuckles] And I think my narrative was, like, "I'm saving all of that revenue.
I'm, I'm increasing profitability by doing everything myself," right? If I keep all this work in-house, then I keep it all.
And also, by the way, I'm the only one who really knows how to do this the way it needs to be done.
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