Good Work with Barrett Brooks
Good Work with Barrett Brooks
Barrett Brooks
From Burnout to Balance: How Tina Tower Built a $2M Business—Without Breaking Herself
1 hour 38 minutes Posted Mar 11, 2025 at 7:00 am.
) Intro
) How a toy bear became a symbol of Tina's entrepreneurial journey
) Tina's chaotic childhood and leaving home at 14
) Discovering Tony Robbins and rewriting her story
) Tina's mindset shift from survival to entrepreneurship
) “If you can dream it, you can achieve it”—or can you?
) Hustling to stay afloat
) Hitting rock bottom and facing failure
) Scaling too fast—when growth becomes a trap
) When success feels like a burden
) Selling the business—a deal that was too good to be true
) Running away to find herself again
) Accidentally starting a seven-figure business
) What it’s like running a $2M/year business without burning out
) Letting go of overworking
) Choosing success without sacrifice
) When ambition clashes with contentment
) Realizing success doesn't mean burnout
) Barrett's approach to coaching
) What makes Tina world-class?
) Tina's most beautiful future
) Who Tina is becoming
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This week, I talk with Tina Tower, founder of Her Empire Builder, a membership community helping women start and scale online course businesses. Tina’s journey to success has been anything but straightforward. She launched a tutoring center at 20, built a franchise that nearly broke her, and sold it in a deal that taught her some tough lessons about business and burnout. 
We dive into what she learned from scaling too fast, how to avoid the potential pitfalls of selling a company, and how she transitioned from a high-stress business to running a wildly profitable $2 million-a-year company—with less stress and more joy than ever before. If you’ve ever wrestled with balancing wealth, meaning, and a lifestyle you truly love, this conversation is for you. Let’s get to it!
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