Your business is growing. You have a VA, maybe even a small team. And yet nothing moves without you checking it first.

In this episode, Kristen walks through what she calls founder fatigue—when you've built a team but you're still the final stop for everything. She shares her own story of waking up to fires, rewriting emails, and juggling Slack messages despite having help, and why adding more people didn't solve the problem. The issue wasn't the team. It was that she was delegating tasks without defined processes, creating the same bottleneck she was trying to escape.

Kristen breaks down why hiring doesn't fix broken execution and what needs to happen first: diagnosing where your workflows are actually leaking time and revenue, then rebuilding systems with AI that supports your team instead of replacing them. You'll hear what happened when client Lisa came in with a team of three but was still managing daily check-ins and editing everything herself. After rebuilding her content and delivery systems with AI at key support points, her team ran the content engine without her in 30 days.

If you're still the only one who knows what to do, this episode shows you what to build so your business can finally run without everything going through you.