The Founder Addiction No One Talks About (Until It’s Too Late)

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Strategy Ladders Podcast

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Welcome to Strategy Ladders, where our expert advisory team gives you no-nonsense, real-world advice on business strategy, business growth, and badass business ownership. If you're a B2B service provider looking to scale, streamline, or get out of day-to-day ops, this channel is for you. Our podcasts dive into core topics like B2B sales, leadership, and the mindset shifts required for long-term growth. With over 17 years of hard-earned experience, we break down actionable strategies to help you overcome business bottlenecks, build stronger teams, and ultimately, put your business to work for

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The Founder Addiction No One Talks About (Until It’s Too Late)

Strategy Ladders Podcast

36 minutes 17 seconds

9 months ago

The Founder Addiction No One Talks About (Until It’s Too Late)

You’re not addicted to work. You’re just committed, right?

Wrong.

Entrepreneurs love to glorify the grind. They convince themselves that 80-hour weeks, constant stress, and sacrificing everything is just the price of success. But many founders are addicts to the dopamine hit of working non-stop. And worse? They don’t even realize it.

In this episode of the Strategy Ladders podcast, Kas and Josh step into an unexpected founder’s therapy to discuss this trap of workaholism:

- The addiction founders don’t admit and why it’s killing businesses

- Self-awareness as a survival skill: How to tell if you’re running on fumes

- Founders burnout: Why even the smartest entrepreneurs crash and burn

- The myth of toxic productivity culture (and why it’s a lie we all buy into)

- Why escaping the grind doesn’t mean you’re failing (but staying in it might)

Get ready to question everything about the working habits you think brings success. If you’re pressured to overwork through culture, escapism, or personal beliefs, then your business is probably running you instead of the other way around.

Think you’re not addicted, watch until the end. You might be wrong.

This conversation is meant to help you stop your excessive hustle long enough to recognize the value of today rather than deferring happiness to an elusive tomorrow.

👉 Subscribe now for more unfiltered convos on the highs and lows of entrepreneurship.