About this episode
You're doing everything yourself. You're answering every email, attending every meeting, and somehow still ending every week exhausted with nothing meaningful to show for it. Here's the truth: buying back your time isn't a luxury you earn after you get rich. It's actually how you get rich in the first place. This episode breaks down the exact dollar per hour math that decides what to delegate first, the three person hiring ladder tied to your revenue, and the Four D’s framework that stops your calendar from filling up with everyone else's priorities. Because time is the only asset you can't make more of. And if you don't value yours, nobody else will either. In this episode, you'll learn: Why billionaires refuse to do $20 an hour tasks and how the dollar per hour rule forces you to stop lighting money on fire every week The Four D's: delete, defer, delegate, do, and why most people start at delegate and end up paying someone to do work that should never have been done at all The FREE system: favors, remote, executive, envoy, and how to build your support ladder from zero to chief of staff without wasting money on the wrong hire Why your open door policy is killing your productivity and how to replace come talk to me with send me a brief so half your meetings solve themselves Block it, batch it, assign it: the three calendar rules that stop your team from hijacking your time and force them to carry the weight of their own work Why swooping in to save the day robs your team of the lesson that would make them great and how letting them drop the ball teaches more than your rescue ever could Stop being your busiest employee. Start protecting the one asset you'll never get back. Your time isn't something you spend. It's something you invest. If you're looking for people who think like owners instead of employees, check out Athena. Stop going at it alone. → http: // Athena.com/codie-sanchez (http://athena.com/codie-sanchez) ___________ (00:00:00) Introduction: Buying Back Your Time Is How You Get Rich, Not a Reward (00:01:03) The Billionaire Lesson: Why Getting Your Own Gas Is a Poor Person's Mindset (00:02:17) The Delegation Myth: Why If I Don't Do It, It Won't Get Done Right Is Costing You Millions (00:04:47) The Dollar Per Hour Rule: Stop Setting Money on Fire (00:06:06) The Four D's Framework: Delete, Defer, Delegate, Do (00:07:21) Build Your Ladder: The FREE System for Hiring Support (00:09:08) Remote Assistants: The Highest Leverage Hire You're Not Making (00:12:59) Kill Your Open Door Policy: Walk the Factory Floor, Don't Let It Walk to You (00:14:15) Send Me a Brief: The Jeff Bezos Six-Page Rule and Forcing People to Think Before They Speak (00:15:47) Frontline Data: Brad Jacobs' Two Blunt Questions and Finding Truth in Compounding Lies (00:17:27) Block It, Batch It, Assign It: Negotiating Your Calendar Like a CEO (00:18:58) Let Them Carry the Weight: Why Swooping In Robs Your Team of the Lesson That Makes Them Great (00:20:28) Getting Tougher on Your Time: The Clean No to Almost Everything Else ___________ MORE FROM BIGDEAL 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@podcastbigdeal 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigdeal.podcast 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@big.deal.pod MORE FROM CODIE SANCHEZ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@codiesanchezct 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codiesanchez 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realcodiesanchez OTHER THINGS WE DO 🌐 Our community: https://contrarianthinking.typeform.com/to/WBztXXID 📰 Free newsletter: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3XWLlZp 📚 Biz buying course: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3NhjGgN 🏠 Resibrands: https://resibrands.com/ 💰 CT Capital: https://contrarianthinking.biz/4eRyGOk 🏦 Main St Hold Co: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3YfGa8u Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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