Chris Waldron
@chris_waldron
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Founder / CEO Coach | Lessons from building 10 companies | CEO @ CBMedia | CMO @ Coopers LLP | CMO @ Baby Bathwater Institute
Virginia | Washington, DC
Joined March 2009
Hilton Head Island here we come. 170+ founders creating fast growth companies with good intentions.... ...all ready to have a good time and make new life long connections. There is no bigger shortcut in a growth stage startup than rapidly expanding your network with people
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The most successful founders I work with aren't on their phones constantly. That's not by accident. They figured out that their attention is their most valuable asset. So they protect it like their life depends on it. Because their business kind of does. Work gets their
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The most successful founders I work with aren't on their phones constantly. That's not by accident. They figured out that their attention is their most valuable asset. So they protect it like their life depends on it. Because their business kind of does. Work gets their
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Having too many options kills more businesses than having too few. You see 5 priorities and try to tackle all of them at once. Result? A little progress here, a little there But nothing actually moves. The people crushing it aren’t spreading themselves thin. They do one thing
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You can't scale by just working harder in the same role you've always played. At some point, you have to become a different leader. That shift is uncomfortable but it's the only way forward
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Stop checking your phone every 5 minutes. Pick the one thing that actually moves your business forward and ignore everything else for two hours. Do this for 30 days and you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
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Stop checking your phone every 5 minutes. Pick the one thing that actually moves your business forward and ignore everything else for two hours. Do this for 30 days and you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
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Your business grows when you grow. And you grow when you slow down long enough to think clearly.
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Growth happens in 3 stages: 1. Clarity→ Seeing what actually matters 2. Subtraction→ Removing what doesn't 3. Depth→ Going all-in on what remains Most founders skip stages 1 and 2. That's why they stay stuck.
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Everyone's talking about hustle, execution, speed. But before you execute, get clear on 3 things: What's the actual goal? What's the smallest path to get there? What needs to stop to make room? Getting clear on these will save you months of wasted effort.
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That feeling when you have met so many smart, open-minded founders all in one week 😎 Baby BathwaterInstitute's final flagship of 2025 was out of this world good. So good I am wondering if the ceiling is the moon, mars, maybe beyond? I don't know yet, but all I know if being a
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You can build macros inside ChatGPT?? Am I crazy or is this a new feature that just got released.... This means that you can build longer project like instruction sets but pull them inside another chat at any time to fix something up... In this case, rewrite content. Have I
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Love how simple it is. Need new customers? -> where is the starving crowd...
there's a legendary copywriter that would walk into a room full of MBA types and he'd ask them a simple question something like "you're opening a hamburger stand - what's your one advantage?" everyone would yell out things like "local grass fed beef" "super secret recipe"
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Trying to scale 5 different business ideas at once is the fastest way to making slow progress on everything and real progress on nothing.
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Most people don't realize this but... Every unfinished task Every half-done project Every conversation you need to have but keep avoiding They drain your mental energy (even when you're not thinking about them) Your brain treats open loops like active threats. It can't relax
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Accountability makes great people better. The only people who hate accountability are the ones hiding behind excuses. High performers want to be measured. Mediocre ones want to be left alone.
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If you want to know if your way is working, look at the results. Most people defend their methods while ignoring their results. Winners let the outcomes tell them what to and what not to change.
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The best way to kill bad habits is to replace them. There's only so much room in your day, focus and energy. Fill that with what moves you forward. The garbage gets pushed out naturally when there's no space left for it.
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Too much thinking and too little doing breeds fear. The more you delay taking action, the easier it is to make up stories about all the bad things that might happen. But the second you take action, that fear goes away.
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Trying to scale 5 different business ideas at once is the fastest way to making slow progress on everything and real progress on nothing.
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The entrepreneurs building the most successful businesses are the ones who don’t make failure a part of their identity. They detach from the outcome, extract the lessons, adjust and move on.
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