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Repossess Your Time by Fixing These 3 Hidden Design Flaws in Your Construction Business

The Construction Leading Edge Podcast

Release Date: 11/24/2025

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🚀Download the How to Buyout a Construction Project Playbook HERE

☎️Schedule a Business Evaluation Call with The Construction Leading Edge Team HERE

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EPISODE 419: You’re regularly putting in 70-hour weeks, but the needle still isn’t moving.

Calls. Texts. Problems. Decisions. It all falls on you.

It may not be a time management problem but a design problem.

In this episode, I’ll explain why your business keeps pulling you back into chaos, and how to finally break free from the day-to-day firefighting.

Here’s what we’ll cover:

  • Why working harder won’t fix your time problem

  • The “Just Enough to Start” trap that hijacks your calendar

  • How your business may be unintentionally designed to fail without you

  • The hidden cost of running on tribal knowledge

  • The key systems that protect your time and attention

…and more.

If you’re constantly overwhelmed, feel like your business can’t run without you, and want your life back, tune in now!

 

Key Takeaways:

Introduction (00:00)

Overwhelm from texts, calls, and low-value tasks (00:24)

CEO time should be spent on $1,000/hour tasks (05:56)

Visualization of business without constant interruptions (10:28)

Root Cause #1: The “Just Enough to Start” trap (17:36)

Root Cause #2: Poor business design that relies on the owner (22:01)

Root Cause #3: Business runs on tribal knowledge (26:43)

How to identify which root cause affects you most (30:34)

Call to action for qualified business owners (31:47)

 

Additional Resources:

⚡Download the How to Buyout a Construction Project Playbook HERE

⚡Schedule a Business Evaluation Call with The Construction Leading Edge Team HERE

⚡ Is Your Business Ready to Scale?  Take the free assessment - https://todd-rofimfx4.scoreapp.com

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The Construction Leading Edge Podcast helps construction business owners maximize their revenue, eliminate chaos, systematize their work, and win back their time.

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