167 - You Can’t Evolve Your Identity While Drowning In Your Calendar
Your next level of leadership starts with identity, not activity. Learn how to create space to think, reflect, and evolve beyond constant reactivity. Discover why stillness and clarity drive real founder growth.
You Can’t Evolve Your Identity While Drowning In Your Calendar
Here's the truth most founders miss:
Your next level of leadership won’t come from doing more; it comes from becoming.
But identity can’t evolve when your schedule is packed and your day is consumed by reactivity. Every back-to-back meeting, every urgent message, keeps you anchored to the same version of yourself.
To evolve, you need space to question, to reframe, to decide who you want to become next.
That doesn’t happen between calls. It happens in stillness, in reflection, when you deliberately step out of the weeds to redesign your role and your business.
If your calendar is full but your growth is flat, this episode will show you why and what to change.
You’ll learn how to use the CEO Time Audit not as a scheduling tool, but as a mirror a way to see where your time, energy, and identity are stuck in repetition.
Because leadership evolution isn’t about adding more.
It’s about creating space to become more of who you’re meant to be.
Highlights:
00:00 Introduction: The Need for Space as a Founder
00:07 Identifying the Problem: Full Calendar, Flat Growth
00:11 Solution: CEO Time Audit
00:17 Regaining Momentum and Growth
Links:
Website: https://www.marcogrueter.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcogrueter/
Transcript:
To evolve as a founder, you need space, and that doesn't happen between back to back calls. If your calendar is full, but your growth is flat, you know what you need. Take the CEO time audit to analyze where you spend time and where you actually shouldn't. That helps you to regain momentum and grow as a founder.