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title: "046: Every Top Leader’s Secret Weapon - BELAY Solutions"
description: Our guest today, Jason Pond – the CEO at Grizzly Broadband – joins us to talk about the power of having an executive assistant and how it can elevate your capacity and effectiveness as a leader, both personally and professionally.
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# [046: Every Top Leader’s Secret Weapon - BELAY Solutions](https://belaysolutions.com/podcast/one-next-step-046-top-leaders-secret-weapon-jason-pond)

 Written by [BELAY Solutions](https://belaysolutions.com/podcast/author/belay-solutions) | May 18, 2021 1:00:00 PM

Can you afford an executive assistant? The real question is: Can you afford not to have one? As a leader, most of us are moving a hundred miles a minute, going through the day at a blistering pace, with phone calls, meetings and important decisions every hour.

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