In the chaos of scale, stopping can feel like failure.

Switching off feels indulgent. Rest feels like something you haven’t earned yet.

In this episode, we're challenging the hustle narrative head-on and making the case for something both simple and deeply uncomfortable: decompressing relentlessly.

Drawing from personal burnout, lived experience, and the reality of high-pressure scale-ups, Andy explores why exhaustion isn’t a badge of honour, why you can’t sprint a marathon, and why rest isn’t laziness — it’s maintenance.

This is an episode about permission. Permission to pause. Permission to protect your energy. Permission to play the long game on productivity.

Decompression isn’t what slows you down — it’s what keeps you going.

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Notifications. Banners. Pings. Recurring meetings.

All of it adding noise to an already clanging environment.

This episode of The Chaos of Scale, makes the case for canceling noise intentionally — not to work less, but to work better. To create space for focus, deep work, and just a little bit of breathing room in busy scale-ups where everything feels urgent and everyone needs something from you.

Andy shares why she declines recurring meetings, runs with zero notifications, and owns her own consumption — and why nothing has burned down as a result. We dig into fractured focus, the real cost of constant interruption, calendar clutter, and how low-quality work keeps looping back when we never give ourselves the space to go deep.

This is a practical, slightly renegade take on protecting focus, delivering higher-quality work faster, and reclaiming your sanity without dropping the ball.

You’ll leave with two simple experiments you can try immediately — one for your notifications and one for your calendar — and a challenge to pause for quality instead of reacting to noise.

Business growth is messy.

Your focus doesn’t have to be.

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Life inside a scale-up can feel like living inside a never-ending fire drill.

Every ping feels existential. Every email feels critical. Every request feels like it needed to be done yesterday.

But here’s the truth: when everything is urgent, nothing actually is.

This episode breaks down the chaos-inducing cycle of reactive urgency — and why building your urgency immunity is essential for staying sane, staying effective, and staying human at scale.

You’ll learn how to spot real urgency versus urgency caused by poor planning, panic, or projection… and how to step out of the adrenaline spin so you can respond with clarity instead of chaos.

One thing to think differently about: Urgency is contagious — but so is calm. Choose the one that helps you think.

Action to take: Pause before you react. Sit in that magical space between stimulus and response, assess what’s truly needed, and protect your energy from other people’s last-minute chaos.

Hosted by Andy Golding

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