Ep130: How I Only Need To Work 5 Hours a Week (My Exact Team)

Most owners think the way to work less is to hire someone to do more of what they're already doing. It's backwards. In this episode I break down exactly what my team looks like, who does what, how many hours they work, and how it lets me run my coaching business on around 5 hours a week.Here's the shift that changed everything for me. Dan Martell says hire to buy back your time, not to grow the business. I built my old PT business to 55k a month with 12 trainers working for me while I worked zero hours in it, only on it. Get the order right and who you hire right, and the growth takes care of itself.Here's what I cover:-Hire to buy back your time, not to grow the business. The one piece of advice I'd give any owner above everything else, and why chasing growth first is why most people stay stuck in the day to day.-What my team actually looks like. An admin VA doing 20 hours a week, a graphic designer on the carousels, a videographer who shoots and edits, an AI specialist, and a client success coach running the one-on-one calls. I keep the group coaching, the teaching, the events, and the sales and marketing, because that's the stuff I love and the stuff only I can do.-Donkeys, horses and stallions. The three types of people you can hire. Donkeys do the task you give them. Horses are reliable and proactive. Stallions are the A players you hand an outcome to and get out of the way. You need all three, but stallions are rare, hard to find, and usually not even looking for work.-Hiring in the right order. Start with admin. There's more basic stuff on your plate than you realise and you can claw back 5 to 10 hours a week fast. What you never offload early is sales and marketing, because nobody knows your ideal client the way you do yet.-Get your team using AI too. It's not just about you using it. A team using AI gets so much more done, and it's the fastest way to make every hire more efficient.Timestamps:00:00 Intro: the team that lets me work 5 hours a week00:40 The numbers: 20-30k a month on 5 hours01:13 Hire to buy back your time, not to grow01:35 My actual team and what each of them does02:16 What I still do myself03:43 Donkeys, horses and stallions05:19 Hiring in the right order (admin first)06:21 Why you never offload sales and marketing first06:30 Getting your team to use AI07:13 Modelling the same team for The Leveraged CEO07:57 Only doing the work that lights you upIf you're a business owner doing $250k to $2m a year and you're tired of being the bottleneck, book a free Leverage Audit with me. We'll go through your systems and processes, work out what to automate, delegate, or delete, and figure out who to hire first so you can get your time back and put those hours into doubling the business. Link's in the description.Find out how to get 20 hours/week back -https://leveragedceo.com.au/getyourtimeback