Buy Back Your Time
by Al Lacoon
Mentioned 6 times across 4 shows · first heard Aug 2025 on Digital Social Hour.
The general take
Garrett Gunderson sees Buy Back Your Time as a valuable business book for owners looking to deepen their business acumen and strategic thinking. He groups it alongside other influential reads like 10X, suggesting it belongs in the category of books that genuinely help you understand important business concepts.
About
Wall Street Journal Bestseller Learn to conquer the one real hurdle to scaling your company and growing rich: Time How you use your free time will make or break your success. The secret? It’s not about working harder or finding more time to do work. It’s about designing the freedom to engage in the high-value work that brings you energy and fulfillment. This is at the heart of the message that has made Dan Martell the world’s most popular SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) coach. Now, in his first book, Buy Back Your Time, he teaches entrepreneurs at every level how to scale their business, fast, while avoiding burnout. Trading money for time—that is, literally buying back free space in your calendar—will give you more financial success than you ever dreamed was possible.
Who said what
Garrett Gunderson👍 Recommends
…business acumen books helping entrepreneurs reclaim time and scale
“For like a, for a business owner, it's really like what book's going to help you increase your business acumen, you know, what's going to help you really understand whether it's, you know, anything from like 10 X is better than two X or buy back your time.”
Proven Podcast — The Daily Habits Behind Endless Income - Garrett Gundersonat 55:22
Austin Armstrong👍 Recommends
…time auditing method to optimize business processes and delegate effectively
“A time inventory is what I've been doing. When I learned the power and what a time inventory is, that has completely changed my life. And I really just learned about it from Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell. Yeah, great book. Fantastic, fantastic book.”
Finding Peak w/ Ryan Hanley — How to Build Your Own AI Software (Without Knowing How to Code)at 21:10- JS
Jordan Sarmiento👍 Recommends
…discussing dan martel's book on buying back time and business operations
“But then the book that's like honestly changed my life in the last, I would say six months is Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martel. Oh, that's a good one too. Oh my God. Have you read it? Yeah. Dan's been on the show. Shout out to Dan. Yeah. He's a solid entrepreneur. Yeah. Yeah. I'm actually meeting him next month going up to Canada to meet him.”
Digital Social Hour — I Posted a Prayer Photo… Then Got Death Threats | Joshua Sarmiento | DSH #1841at 01:34 - DL
Dan Lawrence👍 Recommends
…assigning monthly books to clients for education and mindset development
“We do each month, we'll give them a book to read or an audio book to listen to. In the last training camp, we actually listened to the Raise Your Game by Alan Stein Jr. And he'd give me a breakdown. We do this every month, whether it's Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time, whether it's Who Not How by Benjamin Hardy and Dan Sullivan.”
Proven Podcast — From Burnout to Elite Performance the Founders Formula - Dan Lawrenceat 36:46 
Tommy Mello👍 Recommends
…discussing dan martell's buy back your time course and how it changed tommy's approach to delegation
“Well, I'll tell you that the latest one was Buy Back Your Time. And Dan Martell, he goes, let's just do this. He goes, when do you think you're going to sell? So we wrote it down. He goes, how much do you think you'll make? And I wrote the number down. Then he goes, how many hours do you work a week?”
My First Million — How I Built a $1.7B Business Repairing Garage Doorsat 48:44- HH
Harrison Hightower👍 Recommends
…harrison asking sean about dan martell book on time management
“What about, um, Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time? Have you read that book? Yeah. I've read it. I've summarized it on ChatGBT because you also need to refresh your memory too with books. Yes. Um, he's also been on the show. Right. And, uh, dude's a beast.”
Digital Social Hour — Harrison Hightower: From Pharmacy to CEO: My Bold Career Pivot | DSH #1510at 38:58
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