{"podcast":{"title":"The Winning Coach with Pat Rigsby","slug":"the-fitness-business-school-with-pat-rigsby-6575010","podcast_index_feed_id":6575010,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/84801/rss","website_url":"http://patrigsby.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/4/0/7/f/407fbc7acd8b4aed16c3140a3186d450/Untitled_design_57.png","author":"Pat Rigsby","episode_count":772,"summary":"The Winning Coach with Pat Rigsby — for sports-minded entrepreneurs, coaches, and high performers who want to build better teams, better businesses, and better lives. Find out more at www.PatRigsby.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-06T16:20:28.343921+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fitness-business-school-with-pat-rigsby-6575010"},"episode":{"title":"The Winning Coach - 04 - Building Your Career Around Your Life","slug":"the-winning-coach-04-building-your-career-around-your-life","published_at":"2026-06-22T07:06:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fitness-business-school-with-pat-rigsby-6575010/the-winning-coach-04-building-your-career-around-your-life","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fitness-business-school-with-pat-rigsby-6575010","url":"https://idealbusiness.libsyn.com/the-winning-coach-04-building-your-career-around-your-life","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/idealbusiness/The_Winning_Coach_-_04_-_Building_Your_Career_Aroud_Your_Life.mp3?dest-id=405133","summary":"Build Wealth Without Losing Your Life: Guardrails for Gym Owners Pat Rigsby explains how entrepreneurs and high-performing coaches often build careers that keep expanding until life gets squeezed out, and argues for reversing that by designing a career around the life you want. He shares how, as a young college baseball coach, he could be tunnel-visioned while rebuilding an underfunded program into a nationally ranked team, but later repeated the same pattern in business - growing multiple companies, traveling constantly, and rationalizing the grind as \"for the family.\" A moment of realizing he couldn't be fully present with his young son prompted him to unwind his businesses and rethink success. His solution is to set early, mostly non-negotiable personal guardrails (family time, dinners, weekends, vacations) and schedule them like professional commitments, adjusting seasonally. He notes people remember relationships - not revenue months - and constraints can increase productivity and still support career success. 00:00 Build Life First 00:12 The Growth Trap 01:04 Coaching Grind Years 03:55 Business Hustle Reality 05:17 The Front Yard Wakeup 06:23 Unwinding And Rethinking 06:49 Set Guardrails Early 07:31 Schedule Personal Time 08:04 Four Day Workweek Example 09:24 Avoid Regrets Later 10:52 Harmony And Seasons 12:23 Constraints Boost Productivity 13:06 Career And Life Win","meta_description":"Build Wealth Without Losing Your Life: Guardrails for Gym Owners Pat Rigsby explains how entrepreneurs and high-performing coaches often build careers tha…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":803,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-fitness-business-school-with-pat-rigsby-6575010/episodes/the-winning-coach-04-building-your-career-around-your-life/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fitness-business-school-with-pat-rigsby-6575010/the-winning-coach-04-building-your-career-around-your-life.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}