Early to Rise Radio 432 – The 7 Founder Mistakes Keeping You Broke and Overworked
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Oct 13, 2025 Most founders struggle not from bad ideas, but from detrimental habits. Discover the seven hidden mistakes that sap productivity and profits. Learn how to streamline your calendar through automation, delegation, and elimination. Find your 'magic time' for peak performance while mastering high-income skills like copywriting and leadership. Embrace accountability to turn plans into action and stop wasting time on unfocused tasks and lengthy meetings. It's time to focus on building real wealth and reclaiming your freedom!
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Hidden Cost Of Meetings
- Meetings burn far more money than their scheduled length because of shutdown and restart time and post-meeting downtime.
- Craig Ballantyne shows an hour meeting with 10 people can cost about $1,000 once you double-per-hour estimates to account for real downtime.
Pet Food CEO's Costly Meetings
- Craig recounts a client, Perry, who ran expensive discussion meetings that burned productivity and money.
- The meeting example illustrated how meetings without decisions cost more than investing in growth tools or staff.
Use The ADE Audit
- Use the ADE formula: Automate, Delegate, Eliminate to clear low-value tasks from your calendar.
- Audit a single workday every 15–20 minutes and assign tasks to A, D, or E to free up thinking time.
