Work Life Balance Is BS

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How I got here…

21: Graduated Vanderbilt in 3 years Magna Cum Laude, and took a fancy consulting job.
23 yrs old: Left my fancy consulting job to start a business (a gym).
24 yrs old: Opened 5 gym locations.
26 yrs old: Closed down 6th gym. Lost everything.
26 yrs old: Got back to launching gyms (launched 33). Then, lost everything for a 2nd time.
26 yrs old: In desperation, started licensing model as a hail mary. It worked.
27 yrs old: "Gym Launch" does $3M profit the next 6 months. Then $17M profit next 12 months.
28 yrs old: Started Prestige Labs. $20M the first year.
29 yrs old: Launched ALAN, a software company for agencies to work leads for customers. Scaled to $1.7mmo within 6 months.
31 yrs old: Sold 75% of UseAlan to a strategic buyer in an all stock deal.
31 yrs old: Sold 66% of Gym Launch & Prestige Labs at $46.2M valuation in all-cash deal to American Pacific Group. (you can google it)
32 yrs old: Started making free content showing how we grow companies to make real business education accessible to everyone (and) to attract business owners to invest or scale their businesses.

Today: Our portfolio now does $200M/yr between 10 companies. The largest doing $100M/yr the smallest doing $5M per year. Our ownership varies between 20% and 100% ownership of the companies. Many of them we invested in early and helped grow (which is how we make our money - not youtube videos).

To all the gladiators in the arena, we’re all in the middle of writing our own stories. The worse the monsters, the more epic the story.

You either get an epic outcome or an epic story. Both mean you win.

Keep crushing. May your desires be greater than your obstacles.

Never quit,

Alex

*FULL DISCLOSURE*
I make content to make money - just - on a longer time horizon than most. I want to build trust with business owners so we can find the best ones and help them scale. And if they’re awesome, write them a check and go all the way as partners.
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I mean Eminem works 9 to 5. Different strokes for different folks.

aliaj
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My take is that one should learn to manage where they spend their time. People should do this so they can find ease between their job and personal life.

MrFossilabgfyth
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I completely agree! The term work life balance infers that one is desirable and the other is not. I think that's a misguided way of looking at it. More importantly, if you're a Tech founder, balance isn't going to get the job done and it's naive to think it will.

DigSamurai
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That's why I quit my job. It was serious business and tried making it play for years. I finally stopped being in denial. I couldn't enjoy it. Now all my life is play & chill. So in that you could say that that I'm terribly unbalanced.

mann
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Depends on if you have kids.

If you're single and want to devote yourself to work because that's what you find fulfilling cool.

If you have children you're going be neglecting them in serious ways and miss major important growth stages you be never get back.

Kids don't decide to be born and when you choose to have them you are responsible.

andrewwood
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My job is playing a flavors game and changing people's lives 🔥

Powerhouseworldwide
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Basically, Work-life balance depends on how you define "work" and "life".
We need to define them in order to have fruitful discussions.

leochootech
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However Main Stable but not enjoyable Work- Experimental Side but Enjoying Work balance is indeed not BS

wzrd
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basically, "working" isnt work for alex, cuz he enjoys it

SaveOurSonsOfficial
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You could also try taking a Sabbath day and resting your mind and body and giving thanks to God.

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