The Most Successful Person I Ever Watched Fall Apart

The Most Successful Person I Ever Watched Fall Apart

Let me tell you about the most successful person I ever watched fall apart.

She had a coaching program that was full. A waitlist that was growing. A team of three, all VAs, all maxed out, all doing their best without a system to follow. Revenue was climbing. Her audience loved her.

And she was crying in a parking lot at 11 PM because she couldn’t figure out why her Zap had stopped firing and thirty-two new students hadn’t received their login emails.

She wasn’t failing. That’s the part nobody says out loud.

She was succeeding, and the success was crushing her.

Everything I Know About Operations, I Learned Before 7 AM

Everything I Know About Operations, I Learned Before 7 AM

My alarm doesn’t wake me up. My kids do.

And by the time most people are opening their laptops, I’ve already negotiated a breakfast standoff, triaged a missing shoe crisis, managed two competing emotional meltdowns with different root causes, and made a decision about whether today’s schedule needs to be scrapped and rebuilt from scratch.

Before 7 AM. Every day.

If you think that’s not operational leadership, you’ve never done it.