Ryan DeissCo-Founder & CEO, The Scalable Company

If your business is taking more than it gives, it might be time to rebuild it the right way.

8 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Short spoken reflection by Ryan Deiss responding to popular tweets about work-life balance and parenting. The speaker recounts receiving a Father’s Day card where his children wrote “Daddy works so hard,” and uses that to argue children value parental time and presence over money or possessions; he urges entrepreneurs to reevaluate their businesses and make hard choices so they can give more time to family and faith.

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I'm reacting to some of my most popular tweets. Your kids don't want your money. They want your calendar. For years, I worked 24 7, and I told myself that I was doing right by my family. And I remember this really hit home for me. One Father's Day, my kids all put together this card for me, and they answered a bunch of questions. And I remember one of the questions on the card was, what do you love so much about Daddy? And what they basically all said is, daddy works so hard. And I remember thinking, is that really what I want my kids to remember me for? Or do I want my kids to know that I love them, that I cared about them, that I shared the gospel with them? And there's so many things to me that are so much more important, and yet that was what they were seeing. So the kids don't want your stuff. They want you. And probably the reason that you started this business was to provide more time to spend with the people that you love. And so if that's not happening, it's probably time to reevaluate why it's not happening and make some hard choices.