#63 - Chris Townsend - From The Gap To The Gain
12 June 2026

#63 - Chris Townsend - From The Gap To The Gain

The One Percent

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In this episode, I sit down with Chris Townsend.

City lawyer, partner at his firm, three little girls at home - "beautiful chaos" as he calls it.

Nothing was on fire. No breakdown, no rock bottom. Work was actually going well.

But juggling the job, the family, his health and everything else, he felt like he wasn't winning at anything. Trying in every area, never quite there in any of them.

Sound familiar?

Chris had done coaching before - work-focused stuff. This was different. We worked on the whole package: how he runs his diary, his sleep, the client dinners with the endless free wine, and learning to live in the gain instead of the gap.

Over a year on, he's in a different spot.

In control of his diary instead of run by it. Going to client events without a drink and not giving it a second thought. In bed at a sensible hour and leading his team to do the same.

And his biggest win of the day? Getting home for bedtime and reading a book to his girls.

Same job. Same beautiful chaos. Different Chris.

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