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Why Emotional Energy Is the Real X-Factor in Scaling a Business (Not Strategy)

September 23, 2026·1h 4m·5-min readconversationalbusiness
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Lee Benson, a serial entrepreneur and leadership coach, shares his philosophy of holistic value creation—material, emotional, and spiritual—built through decades of scaling companies from zero to $100 million without outside investors. He argues that emotional energy is the true X factor

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Lee Benson

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