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Productivity for Parents
That meant I was suddenly raising two kids (2 and 4 yo) mostly on my own - while also building three businesses:
- Favorite People, our e-commerce brand
- Madgrowth, my digital product business
- Advisory work, helping leaders and founders 1:1 grow and scale
It hasn’t been easy. It takes a level of focus, prioritization, and resilience I never
Work-Life Balance
📝 Chris Pedregal prioritizes being a good dad, partner, and CEO.
😩 He believes he can only excel at two out of the three roles at any given time.
🔄 His strategy is to rotate his focus among these roles to prevent any one area from suffering.
💔 Chris acknowledges that startups demand significant time and effort, impacting other areas
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Finding time as a parent to exercise, journal, and plan
Most of us encounter steep learning curves as well as wobbly balancing acts as parents, but in recent decades, parents have been left to face those challenges with heavier career responsibilities and fewer support systems. Families with dual incomes and single-working parents are on the rise, mothers are the fastest growing segment of the... See more
Greylock • Our Investment In Cleo
I greatly appreciated the chance to stress test my productivity system this last six months or so. I learned a few important lessons about myself:
- I’m imaginative in the less intensive part of the year and I imagine myself doing more than I’m capable of in the intense part of the year.
- When push came to shove, having a very basic, skeleton plan for