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Rick Jordan interviews George Rivera about the challenges founders face in balancing business success with family commitments.

Rick sits down with George Rivera to talk about the part of success most founders do not want to admit. You can build the business. Make the money. Still lose the room at home. In this conversation George Rivera, an entrepreneur who helped build a supplement company past $200 million in sales, talks about the deathbed sentence from his father that changed everything. “Don’t miss Leo’s games. I missed too many of yours.” That hit became the line he refused to cross. This episode gets into founder dependency, hero identity, delegation, buying back your time, and the silent drift that happens when your family stops expecting you to show up. Founder burnout and founder work life balance are still major conversations in 2026, especially around building companies that do not require constant founder collapse to survive. In this interview you’ll learn: Why “I’ll make it up later” is one of the most dangerous lies founders tell themselves How your business can train your family to stop counting on you Why being needed can turn into a prison if you never let anyone else own the work How George cut his hours down and still grew the company Why presence at home has to be built into the…

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