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 How Successful CEOs and Business Owners Avoid Burnout and Prioritize Their Personal Lives, While Building More Valuable Businesses 

 

         

 

How Successful Business Owners Conquer Burnout, Create Flow, and Build Their Dream Business

 

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Hi, I’m Don McLaughlin

 

Even though we haven’t met, I bet I know a few things about you if you’re reading this…

 

  • You have achieved a certain level of success in your business, but often feel like a slave to it
  • Your friends and peers look at you with envy because you make running a business look easy, but deep down you are starting to burn out, feel alone and wish you had a second you to take over
  • You love your family, yet you constantly feel torn because they often come second to the business and you regret missing or not being fully present at key moments with them
  • You feel trapped in a business you once loved and still crave the freedom that you thought the business would bring 
  • You’re frustrated because you thought becoming successful in the business would make life better, but instead you’re buried by never ending pressures and challenges in the business, your health and/or most important relationships
  • You are considering selling your business in the next few years, but fear that you don’t how best to prepare the business to get what you think it’s worth
  • At times you feel good about the business and try to convince yourself it’s all okay, yet deep down you’re running on fumes and you know this isn’t a strategic way to grow and successfully exit your business

If any (or all) of these describe you, I have news for you:

YOU’RE NOT ALONE.

I get you. I’ve been in your shoes. And I’m here to tell you, there is a better way.

IMAGINE...

 

  • You rediscover passion and drive for your business, and this drive propels you to improve the business like never before
  • You know precisely which areas of your business to improve to increase the value of the business the most
  • You disconnect your mind from the business at the end of each day, even with the inevitable challenges and setbacks
  • You feel energized and engaged on a daily basis, and deliver your best in ways that inspire a high performance culture
  • Your team takes more and more ownership for improving the business and their contributions to it
  • You develop laser-like focus on a detailed plan to expand the highest growth potential areas of the business
  •  You prioritize and schedule time to be fully present for key moments with your friends and loved ones, and regularly do those things that recharge you the most
  •  You handle the inherent stress of your business with ease, and feel like you’re in a state of flow dealing masterfully with one demanding situation after the next 
  • You work steadily toward fulfilling your compelling vision for the future of the business and your personal life long after you exit the business

You Could Have This Business and Life in 90 Days

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How to Avoid Burnout and Prioritize Your Personal Life To Build a More Valuable Business

 

Beyond typical business advice, this research-backed training teaches you:

  • How to recognize when you’ve fallen into the ‘Owner’s Trap’ and the key steps to pull yourself out and better leverage your time
  • How to leverage 4 key levers of leadership and lifestyle optimization to create flow and show up at your best daily in the business and your personal life 
  • How to identify and maximize the 8 key drivers that acquirers use to evaluate any business, so that you can attract the highest offers and create the best possible exit
  • How to cultivate the clarity, presence and resilience necessary to stay in flow and inspire your team to do the same
  • How to lead so that your team is self-motivated and takes more ownership and initiative in increasing the value of the business
  • AND how to do all this while you recharge more frequently doing what you love and deepen your most important relationships
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MY STORY:

 The 5 Million Dollar Lesson

 

I've spent my 25-year career driven to succeed at higher and higher levels. By the age of 35 I was on the fast track to law firm partnership and served as a senior corporate lawyer advising the C-suite at a Fortune 500. Soon thereafter I launched a legal consulting and tech firm to help Fortune 500 companies better analyze and manage sensitive electronic data. The business took off and just 18 months after launch, I turned down a $2.5M acquisition offer from a top tier consulting firm. Two years later I turned down a $5M offer from another firm, intent on growing the business much larger. I was running full tilt, all the time.

Until I flamed out and hit rock bottom, on the floor of a luxurious hotel room at the age of 42. Immediately everything in the business and my personal life was in jeopardy.

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My Mission

Here are some sobering statistics:

A Deloitte study finds that 82% of CEOs have experienced exhaustion indicative of burnout, and a survey by Morning Consult indicates that over 70% of small business owners experience burnout symptoms at least once a month. 

In 2024, burnout was the most common workforce challenge reported in Inc.'s annual CEO survey, with 49 percent of respondents saying they are seeing it in their workers.

The Deloitte study also found that almost 70% of surveyed C-suite executives responded that they are “seriously considering quitting for a job that better supports their well-being”

Which raises this question: what can you start doing now to overcome these odds both within yourself and your business? 

After several years scaling and negotiating the sale of my legal tech and managed services business, I struggled with the same question. 

And yet it took hitting rock bottom for me to fully realize that I’d fallen into some bad habits that were threatening my business and ruining my personal life.

Through the pain of that experience, I discovered several shifts that helped me turn everything around. Instead of grinding tirelessly like before, exhausted and disengaged, I started to feel in flow and firing on all cylinders every single day - and the business started booming. Less than 2 years later I successfully sold the business for 12X EBITDA, and achieved my dream exit.

My name is Don McLaughlin, and I help CEOs and business owners conquer burnout and prioritize their personal lives, so they can build a more valuable business with more enjoyment and fulfillment. 

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