What if the thing making your business successful is also the thing quietly destroying you?

In Episode 4 of The Aligned Edit, Veronica Dietz breaks down one of the most expensive founder patterns she sees, businesses that are structurally built around the founder’s coping mechanisms.

The overworking. The overdelivering. The inability to let go. The constant availability. The need to be indispensable.

This episode explores what happens when the market rewards behaviors that are unsustainable, and why founders often mistake profitable dysfunction for personality, discipline, or “just how they work.”

Inside this episode: • Why some businesses are secretly built around survival patterns • The connection between overfunctioning and revenue • How founders become trapped inside the behaviors that made  ...