THE LAST TEN SUMMERS Optimized Entrepreneur

THE LAST TEN SUMMERS Optimized Entrepreneur

August 27, 2026 · 48 min

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Jeremy Hanson discusses the impact of entrepreneurship on work-life balance and the importance of valuing time with family.

THE LAST TEN SUMMERS Optimized Entrepreneur with Jeremy HansonMost conversations about work-life balance stay comfortable because they stay vague. This one doesn't. In The Last Ten Summers, Jeremy Hanson takes the oldest question in entrepreneurship — how much of your life is the business allowed to have — and reduces it to a number you can count on your fingers. Take the age of your youngest child. Count forward ten years. Somewhere inside that window is the last summer your kid wakes up wanting to know what you're doing today, and you will not know which summer it was until you're looking at a photograph years later.Jeremy walks through why entrepreneurs are unusually exposed to this particular loss. The story we tell ourselves — I'm doing it for my family — is often true, which is exactly what makes it so hard to interrupt. There is always another deal, another client, another problem, another reason the afternoon can't be spared. Get good enough at that pattern and you become genuinely excellent at one thing: postponing your own life.From there the episode turns on the word the show is named for. If optimized means maximum revenue, maximum hours and maximum growth, then it is…

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