Meet Brent Bauer

I know what it's like to be buried by your own success. To build something remarkable, only to find yourself trapped inside it. The business that was supposed to give you freedom became the cage. The success that was supposed to feel like victory started feeling like a sentence.

For years, I ran on fumes, convinced that more hours meant more impact. I missed family dinners, weekend soccer games, quiet evenings with my wife. I told myself it was temporary-that once I hit the next milestone, I'd finally have time. But the milestone kept moving.

Then I discovered that time isn't about management-it's about stewardship. The problem wasn't my schedule; it was my relationship with time itself. I was treating time like a resource to be extracted, not a gift to be invested. That realization changed everything.

Today, I help leaders make the same shift I made. Not through productivity hacks or calendar tricks, but through a fundamental transformation in how they think about, protect, and invest their time. The leaders I work with don't just get more done-they become the leaders they always wanted to be.

The Time Gambit is my way of reaching leaders I'll never meet in person. It's 22 days of the same framework I've used with hundreds of executives, distilled into a journey you can take on your own. Because every leader deserves to lead with purpose-not just survive with exhaustion.