You Can’t Think Like a CEO When You’re Thinking Like an Assistant

About this episode

Emma discusses the mental load that founders carry and challenges the notion that time is the biggest problem for business owners.

Send us Fan Mail Most business owners think their biggest problem is time. But what if the real problem isn’t time at all? In this solo episode of Focus on the Fun Stuff, Emma talks about the headspace problem, the invisible mental load every founder carries. The endless list of tasks, decisions, and responsibilities that sit in your brain long after the working day is over. From the “invisible to-do list” that wakes you up in the morning to the myth that delegation is only abo...

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Host: Emma Mills

Topics covered

• mental load
• founder challenges
• delegation
• time management
• business mindset

Keywords

• headspace problem
• invisible to-do list
• business owners
• delegation myth
• mental load

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