Your business shouldn’t collapse without you. 

If stepping away feels risky, it’s not bad luck. 

It’s feedback. 

In this episode, I break down why most consultancies struggle to run without the founder — and why it has nothing to do with effort, talent, or commitment. 

It comes down to five predictable constraints: 

- Decisions funnelled through one person. 

- No operating rhythm the team can follow independently. 

- Critical knowledge trapped in someone’s head. 

- Unclear ownership when things go wrong. 

- And boundaries that train dependency instead of capability. 

When those exist, holidays aren’t a luxury — they’re a liability. 

For this episode, I walk through how we systematically removed these bottlenecks as our consultancy grew from $3M to $30M. 

Not by hiring endlessly. 

Not by being “less involved.” 

But by designing the business to operate without heroic intervention. 

I also explain why a proper holiday is one of the most effective stress-tests your business can run. 

It reveals where structure is missing. 

Where trust is fragile. 

And where growth is artificially capped. 

If your goal is a consultancy that scales cleanly past $5M, $10M and beyond — 

Being optional is not a lifestyle goal. 

It’s an operational requirement. 

This episode lays out exactly how to think about that shift. 

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