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Jonathan Swanson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
606 total appearances

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Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

So you can come look at our website.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

And I think the best way is just to get started and to do it yourself.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

I've watched a bunch of YouTubes and read a bunch of books.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

And the reality is there's not a lot out there.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

When we started Athena, our goal was to recruit and train the best executive assistants and just match them with clients.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

And what we found after we matched the first 10 clients is every single client said the same thing.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

How do I delegate my inbox?

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

How do I delegate date nights?

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

And so it became clear to us that we'd have to invest as much in teaching and coaching our clients as the assistants.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

This is kind of like it's a marriage.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

We're both in it.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

And so we've invested a lot in building those playbooks, creating the coaching to help people.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

And at some point, we'd love to kind of open source that and share that more with the world.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

But right now, it's all internal.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

You can delegate almost everything.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

Yeah, but you have to delegate components of it.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

So for example, if I'm recruiting an executive at Athena, I would not have my assistant interview the CFO.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

But what I would say is, hey, I'm going to go through my CRM now, open a voice note,

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

Here are 30 friends I know who have cool companies.

Modern Wisdom
#1047 - Jonathan Swanson - The Obvious Strategy to Take Back Your Time

They know CFOs.