Success Secrets of A Power Couple | Sara Blakely, Jesse Itzler EP 375

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0:51This is what I want to ask you about the question about energy. Yes, you have, you know, financial abundance, right? It's financial stability. But you still have four kids. You still have hundreds or thousands of employees and people counting on you, people asking questions all the time, people wanting from you. You'd have all the help in the world. You could have all the tutors and nannies and cooks or whatever it may be, but still it consumes so much energy of your time, your thoughts and your attention. How do you guys manage energy? You have to really think, prioritize, delegate what you can and let it go and not be too mentally hard on yourself.

1:29And as your bubble grows, you invest the time in hiring your weaknesses. So where are your weaknesses? And find the best talent, invest in the talent. And if you put the right people in place in certain areas, then it will free you up to be able to prioritize your time. And then you have to take the time to do that. Like, even though I have this leader in place, what is the most important thing for me to be focusing on for Spanx? Even though I may or may not have a nanny, what is the most important thing for me to be doing with my children? What's important to me? And I sat down with Jesse and we wrote out, like, what's important for us to be?

2:11What is the quality time that we want to have with our children? And just being intentional about those buckets will really help you figure out energy and how to use it and how to make it go farther. I would add, I think, three things. You know, I think the most important thing is to really be present and be where your feet are. So if we're with our kids, we're with our kids. When she's at work, she's at work. And it's fine. When she's with the kids, she's with the kids. You got to be where your feet are. So we communicate about that. Today I was on, I had to do something for two hours. I said, I let her know I need two hours alone.

2:45She was like, no problem. But you got to be mega present. Two, you go in and out of waves. So like we went on a trip to Poland with 10 friends, brothers, best friends at overnight, best friends. If I don't speak to the guys for six months, I'm not going to beat myself up. The relationship's still there. So you have to trust the seeds and know that when that you planted and know when it's time for me to jump back into that group of 10, I'm going to be present and everything's going to be. But you can't beat yourself up that your energy is pulling you somewhere else. That time will come back, you know, and three is you got to plan.

3:19We're not good enough to just wake up and wing it. We plan stuff, man. Like I plan that I'm going to see my parents a certain amount of times a year. Then I'm going to go on a certain amount of trips, one-on-one trips with my kids. We go away once a quarter. We plan a trip, alone time. We have date night every Wednesday. I might not see Sarah every single day, every minute of the day during work, but we know Wednesday nights we're having date night. We know we have our family dinners. We know the weekends is our time. So you have to, you know, you have to plan. Otherwise, you know, you start to spiral.

3:52And when you spiral, it's hard to get out of it.

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