How Successful CEOs and Business Owners Avoid Burnout and Prioritize Their Personal Lives, While Building More Valuable Businesses
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I get you. Iâve been in your shoes. And Iâm here to tell you, there is a better way.
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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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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 âseriously considering quitting for a job that better supports their well-beingâ
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 Iâd 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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