Hey entrepreneur,
For a long time, I assumed a full calendar was just part of the deal.
Growing companies meant more people.
More people meant more meetings.
More meetings meant… that was just leadership.
Then, a few years ago, I ran an experiment.
Not because I wanted more free time.
But because I wanted to understand something.
What would actually happen if I stopped being in the room?
So instead of adding better meetings, I started removing myself from them.
One by one.
Weekly updates.
Alignment calls.
Status meetings that had slowly become default.
The goal wasn't to eliminate meetings entirely.
It was to see how far the business could move without me present.
What surprised me wasn't that things broke.
It was that nothing did.
In fact, things moved faster.
Decisions happened closer to the work.
Ownership got clearer.
The business stopped waiting on me to show up.
That's when my calendar collapsed.
Not because I became more disciplined.
Not because I worked harder at saying no.
But because the structure changed.
That experiment eventually became a system… a way to intentionally design a founder's week so decisions move forward without requiring the founder in every room.
I call it the MeetingLESS Week.
It's not a hack.
And it's not about having fewer meetings for the sake of it.
It's about building a business that doesn't need meetings to compensate for unclear ownership.
If you want to see how this works in practice, I'm walking through it live in a free workshop next week.
You can save your seat here → Save your spot
Talk soon,
Ryan
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