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For years, Greg Provance was the guy who outworked everyone. First in, last out. If someone no-showed, he grabbed an apron. If dishes piled up, he rolled up his sleeves. His team called him dedicated, loyal, a machine. He wore the exhaustion like a badge of honor.
What he did not see was that he was equal parts people-pleaser and control freak. He wanted his team to like him, so he bent over backwards and filled every gap. He did not trust anyone to handle things the way he would, so even when he delegated, he hovered, checked, fixed, and re-did. That combination was slowly destroying everything he cared about.
One night, after another 14-hour shift, he walked through the door and saw his wife sitting there. Wide awake. Sad. She did not have to say a word.
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"What's the point of building a business if you miss the very life you're doing it for?"
Greg Provance, LOYAL AF
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Standing in his own kitchen that night, Greg finally admitted the truth. He was not saving his business by pouring everything into it. He was suffocating it. He was not doing his team any favors by stepping in as the fixer. He was holding them back. A mentor said it plainly: "You think you're helping, but you're stealing every chance your team has to grow. They can't step up because you won't step back."
He had built a business that could not run without him. Not because he had the wrong people. Because he never gave them the chance to become the right ones.
That realization stung. But it also set him free. Because if the problem was him, then the solution was him too.
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