Brad Stulberg

So I'd be curious because you've built your company really fast and you're quote unquote successful.

How do you balance this tension between pushing, pushing for work and optimizing today versus carving out time and space to cultivate relationships?

Yeah, love it.

You're alluding to a really important point here, which is that...

If you're in a period or a season of your life where you're going all in on something and building a business is a great example.

Parenting an infant is another good example.

Training for a big athletic accomplishment is another good example.

Your community can be a part of that endeavor.

just don't go at it alone.

So it's okay for a season of your life to perhaps leave behind other sources of community outside of your goal.

But when you go towards that goal, have community within that goal.

So don't train alone for your Olympic medal, train with a group.

Don't just do a solo podcast.

Team up with someone else.

Create a mastermind group.

Don't just view your staff as people that you work with.

View them as friends, particularly if you also want them to be all in.

And then you're not going to like this advice, but like my advice to you would be do everything that you can to carve out, even if it's just like two hours a week for non-work related community.

And the reason I say that is because, God forbid, something happens and you have a huge failure in work.

It all goes to shit.