Stop Grinding: Build a Business You Don't Hate | Codie Sanchez

Codie Sanchez, a former Goldman Sachs employee who now runs over 1,600 businesses, joins Lewis to share why most entrepreneurs earn less than California's $78,000 minimum wage and how to escape the trap of a business that owns you instead of the other way around. She walks through the moment she discovered a million-dollar account was nearly empty—and the call to her dad that reshaped how she builds every company. The conversation focuses on simple but overlooked levers: raising prices, adding recurring revenue, and building systems that make you replaceable. Her book Own or Be Owned challenges every founder to answer one question: is your business an asset, or just a job?