Ben Meer - Forbes Creator & Founder of System Sunday (300K+ Subscribers) | He Quit Ernst & Young and Built a 7-Figure Newsletter From Scratch

➡️ Join 321,000 people who read my free weekly newsletter: https://newsletter.scottdclary.com ➡️ Like The Podcast? Leave A Rating: https://ratethispodcast.com/successstory Ben Meer is the founder of System Sunday, a newsletter that has grown to more than 250,000 subscribers and anchors a combined social media following of over 2 million people. Forbes has dubbed him "The Systems Guy," and he recently signed a major book deal with Pan Macmillan for How to Be Good at Life. He holds an MBA from Cornell and now works as an executive coach to founders, CEOs, and authors, after starting System Sunday on the side while still working full-time as a management consultant at Ernst & Young. He left that career behind to build System Sunday into what it is today, turning the same systems-thinking frameworks he used in corporate consulting into tools for everyday productivity, health, and money. ➡️ Show Links https://www.instagram.com/benmeer/ https://x.com/SystemSunday https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmeer ➡️ Podcast Sponsors Hubspot - https://hubspot.com/ Huel - https://huel.com/scott (Code: scott) NetSuite - https://netsuite.com/scottclary/ Framer - https://framer.com/design (Code: SuccessStory) LinkedIn Ads - https://linkedin.com/scottclary Cohesity - https://www.cohesity.com/datacloud Whatnot - https://www.whatnot.com/ Monarch - https://www.monarch.com/ (Code: success) Cash App - https://cash.app/ (Code: cashapp10) MyFitnessPal - https://podcasts.myfitnesspal.com (Code: SCOTT) Life at the Speed of Play - https://getmarksbook.com/success Noom - https://noom.com ➡️ Talking Points 00:00 – Intro 04:30 – Why We’re Bad at Life 08:04 – The Morning Routine Trap 11:38 – Why Optimization Fails 13:16 – Escape Productivity Hell 24:05 – Stop Relying on Memory 27:42 – How Systems Changed His Life 30:18 – Sponsor Break 33:43 – The Whiteboard Escape 39:20 – Why You Never Take Action 41:51 – When to Bet on Yourself 44:57 – The Slow Path to Growth 46:23 – Habits vs. Systems 49:06 – The Systems That Change Lives 52:21 – Treat the Root Cause 59:18 – Sponsor Break 1:03:02 – What Are You Willing to Sacrifice? 1:11:36 – The DRIVE Method 1:16:46 – When Your System Falls Apart 1:18:50 – Ambition Without Burnout 1:23:32 – Stop Blaming Yourself 1:25:21 – Where to Find Ben 1:26:05 – The Best Productivity Tools 1:27:18 – Advice to His 20-Year-Old Self