{"podcast":{"title":"Optimized Entrepreneur","slug":"optimized-entrepreneur-7658241","podcast_index_feed_id":7658241,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/EMTZM4067693296","website_url":"https://art19.com/shows/optimized-entrepreneur","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/c3a59fb2-637a-11f1-86e0-0b230728c90a/image/faa883e298c9fae1f59ed1c473709a86.jpeg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Myia and Jeremy Hanson","episode_count":24,"summary":"Optimized Entrepreneur is a podcast for entrepreneurs who want to build profitable, scalable businesses without burning themselves out in the process. Hosted by Jeremy Hanson, this show focuses on the real operating system behind business success: the entrepreneur themselves. Most business podcasts focus on tactics—marketing hacks, growth tricks, and surface-level strategies. Optimized Entrepreneur goes deeper. Each episode explores how personal capacity, emotional regulation, decision-making clarity, discipline, and systems thinking directly determine whether a business grows sustainably or collapses under pressure. This podcast is built for small business owners, service business operators, blue-collar entrepreneurs, and multi-business owners who want long-term success without chaos, exhaustion, or constant firefighting. Jeremy draws from over two decades of real-world experience building and operating multiple service-based businesses. Episodes combine practical business insights with personal development principles that apply in the real world—not theory, not influencer advice, and not Silicon Valley hype. Listeners will learn why personal capacity sets the ceiling for busines…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-30T22:17:28.186934+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimized-entrepreneur-7658241"},"episode":{"title":"Protecting Your Kids While You Build the Business — Part 2: Keeping the Promise","slug":"protecting-your-kids-while-you-build-the-business-part-2-keeping-the-promise","published_at":"2026-05-19T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimized-entrepreneur-7658241/protecting-your-kids-while-you-build-the-business-part-2-keeping-the-promise","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimized-entrepreneur-7658241","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/EMTZM8200572132.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/EMTZM8200572132.mp3","summary":"Protecting Your Kids While You Build the Business — Part 2: Keeping the Promise EPISODE DESCRIPTION Two scenes open this episode. A single mother at her kitchen table at 9:47 at night, laptop still open, kids asleep upstairs, missing bedtime for the third time this week and telling herself she had no choice — and missing the part of the truth that matters. A married father walking through the front door at 7:30 with the phone in his hand, kids glancing up at him briefly before going back to homework, and nobody in the house expecting him to stop. The family has already adapted to a version of him that does not stop. That is the part that should bother him most. Two different scenes. Same problem. Different shapes. Part 2 of the Optimized Entrepreneur series on protecting your kids while you build the business is the execution episode — the systems, the transitions, the practical moves you can install starting tonight. Jeremy Hanson opens with what he calls the deliberate close — the three-minute ritual that gets entrepreneurs out of work mode and into family mode without dragging the business into the room with you. He explains why the brain does not flip into family mode just because the physical location changed, and how externalizing the open loops onto paper gives the brain the reliability it needs to actually let go. From there he goes deep on single parent execution. Two anchor windows that are non-negotiable. The visible calendar that creates accountability through public commitment. The handoff ally network you build before you need it — not for everyday backup, for the rare emergency that would otherwise become a missed window with no covering adult. 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