You didn't start a business to become its hardest-working employee.

But that's exactly where a lot of successful business owners end up. The business grows. The team grows. Revenue grows. The problems grow. And instead of more freedom, you're working harder, carrying more responsibility and becoming more essential to the business that was supposed to give you choices.

That's The Hamster Wheel Trap®. This podcast is about escaping it.

I'm Peter Boolkah, business coach and author of Your Business Sucks: Build a Business That Works Without Destroying Your Life. For more than 20 years, I've worked with business owners and leadership teams around the world, and the goal is always the same: a business that works without needing you at the centre of everything.

Each episode tackles the problems most owners eventually hit: founder dependency, leadership, people, culture, sales, profit, cash, scaling and exit readiness. Plus what it really takes to build a business someone else would want to own.

Sometimes that means challenging the way you think.
Sometimes it means admitting the thing holding the business back is you.
And sometimes it means accepting that bigger doesn't always mean better.

I also sit down with entrepreneurs, authors and leaders such as Chris Voss, Mark Divine, Verne Harnish and Brad Sugars to unpack the decisions, mistakes and lessons that shaped how they think about business and life.

You won't hear hustle talk, vanity revenue or anyone pretending entrepreneurship is easy.

Because sooner or later, every business owner has to answer one question:

Do you own the business, or does the business own you?

Find out where you stand. Take the free Hamster Wheel quiz: https://hamster-wheel-trap.scoreapp.com

Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H465YQMP