You have three hours after your 9-to-5. Maybe a Saturday morning. How do you decide which venture gets that precious time when they all need attention?

In this episode, host Artis Desjardins addresses the most practical challenge multi-hyphenates face: strategic energy allocation when you're building multiple businesses with severely limited availability. This isn't about productivity hacks or waking up earlier. This is about making strategic decisions with the actual time and energy you have.

What this episode covers:

Artis shares his experience staring at his evening calendar, paralyzed by competing demands from three different ventures, all equally important, all needing immediate attention. That paralysis revealed a fundamental truth: when you only have three hours, choosing what NOT to do matters more than choosing what to do.

You'll discover why traditional time management advice fails multi-hyphenates with limited availability. Those frameworks assume you have control over your schedule and consistent energy levels. But when you're working full-time and building on the side, you're making strategic bets with unpredictable energy after eight hours of cognitive depletion.

Key takeaways:

1. Why limited availability requires strategic triage, not better time management
2. How to assess which venture deserves your three hours tonight
3. The framework for matching tasks to your actual available energy level
4. How to prevent decision fatigue from consuming your entire work window

Framework you'll learn:

The 3-Hour Triage System helps you rapidly assess task urgency versus strategic value, match cognitive demand to your current energy capacity, and make peace with what you're NOT doing tonight without guilt spiraling.

Who should listen:

Essential for anyone building multiple ventures while employed full-time, multi-hyphenates drowning in competing evening priorities, or entrepreneurs who lose their work window to decision paralysis.

Join the conversation:

How do you decide what to work on when you only have a few hours? Submit a voice note at multimindpodcast.com (60 seconds or less) sharing your biggest triage challenge or what's working for you.

Connect with Multi-Mind:

Visit multimindpodcast.com for episode resources and community support. For business inquiries or consulting services, email contact@artisdesjardins.com or visit artisdesjardins.com.

This week's exercise: Use the 3-Hour Triage System for seven days and track what you learn about your actual energy patterns and strategic priorities.

Next week: Episode 6 explores the loneliness of the multi-hyphenate path and why your support system doesn't understand what you're doing.

What do you do when all your ventures are struggling at the same time?

In this episode, host Artis Desjardins addresses the crisis moment every multi-hyphenate faces but nobody talks about: when everything is on fire simultaneously, and you don't have enough mental bandwidth to put out all the flames.

What this episode covers:

Artis shares his personal experience of watching multiple ventures hit critical failure points in the same week. A consulting client needed immediate attention. A product launch went sideways. His 9-to-5 demanded extra hours. And his content pipeline completely stalled. The instinct? Fix everything at once. The reality? That's impossible.

You'll discover why the multi-hyphenate advantage becomes a liability during crisis moments. When you're managing one business, a crisis gets your full attention. When you're managing multiple ventures, crises compete for limited mental resources, and the paralysis of "which fire do I put out first?" can freeze you completely.

Key takeaways:

1. Why trying to save everything simultaneously guarantees you'll save nothing well
2. How to conduct rapid triage when multiple ventures need immediate attention
3. The strategic framework for deciding what gets your energy during crisis moments
4. Permission to let some things burn (and how to choose what)

Framework you'll learn:

The Crisis Triage Protocol: assess actual urgency versus perceived urgency, identify which venture has the highest strategic value right now, determine what can survive temporary neglect, and make peace with imperfect solutions during crisis seasons.

Who should listen:

Essential for anyone currently drowning in simultaneous demands, multi-hyphenates who feel paralyzed choosing between competing priorities, or entrepreneurs who need permission to strategically let some things slide.

Join the conversation:

Have you experienced a week when all your ventures needed you at once? Submit a voice note or message at multimindpodcast.com (60 seconds or less) sharing how you handled it or what you wish you'd done differently.

Connect with Multi-Mind:

Visit multimindpodcast.com for episode resources and community support. For business inquiries or consulting services, email contact@artisdesjardins.com.

This week's exercise: Create your personal Crisis Triage Protocol before you need it. Identify your non-negotiables and what you're willing to let slide during emergency seasons.

Next week: Episode 5 explores the funding reality of building multiple businesses on a single income.

How do you actually have enough mental energy to wear all those hats?

In this episode, host Artis Desjardins tackles something more fundamental than time management: understanding and managing your mental bandwidth budget across multiple ventures. Because when you're a multi-hyphenate, you're not just managing multiple to-do lists. You're managing multiple energy budgets, all drawing from the same finite account.

What this episode covers:

Artis shares the week that broke him: juggling his 9-to-5, multiple consulting clients, product development, and content creation until he literally couldn't form a coherent sentence. That moment of complete mental depletion revealed a crucial truth: you can't just deposit more energy when you're running low.

You'll discover why different types of work require different types of energy, and why we rarely account for that when planning our days. Consulting doesn't just complete tasks; it holds space for others' challenges. Content creation demands different cognitive modes than strategic work. And switching between these modes costs energy that most multi-hyphenates never track.

Key takeaways:

1. Why energy allocation matters more than time management for multi-hyphenates
2. How to match task energy requirements to your actual available capacity
3. The hidden cost of cognitive switching between different business identities
4. Which ventures are your "energy vampires" and how to protect yourself

Framework you'll learn:

A three principle energy management system that helps you allocate mental bandwidth strategically, minimize unnecessary cognitive switching costs, and identify which ventures drain you most even when they don't take the most time.

Join the conversation:

Which venture or role is your biggest energy vampire right now? Submit a voice note or message at multimindpodcast.com (60 seconds or less). Your experience could be featured in an upcoming episode if given permission.

Connect with Multi-Mind:

Visit multimindpodcast.com for podcast resources and to join the community. For business inquiries or consulting services, email contact@artisdesjardins.com or visit artisdesjardins.com.

This week's integration: Complete a seven-day energy audit to identify your patterns and make one strategic energy allocation decision for next week.

Next week: Episode 4 addresses what to do when all your ventures are on fire at the same time (not in a good way).