Founder, Get Your Life Back
Founder, Get Your Life Back, is a podcast for owner-operators of founder-led businesses who are trapped by the very business they thought would give them freedom.
Hosted by Jennifer Todd, CPA, MBA, a business advisor with 28 years of experience, this show provides founders with the integrated answer most advisors never deliver: financial clarity and a team framework that works together to get you out of the weeds and into an actual leadership role in your own business.
This podcast covers the full picture of what it takes to stop being Chief Everything Officer and start leading like a CEO: conversations about small business cash flow problems and what your numbers are really telling you, the reason business owner burnout isn't a personal failing, how to raise prices without losing customers, how to delegate as a leader without watching quality fall apart, and what it takes to build a business that can run without you.
We'll answer questions like:
How do I stop being the bottleneck in my business?
How do I delegate without losing control?
How do I build a business that doesn’t depend on me?
How do I get out of the day-to-day of my business?
Why can’t I take a vacation as a business owner?
How do I hire my first employee?
How do I create systems in a small business?
How to scale a small business without burning out?
This show gives founders in skilled trades, personal services, professional services, and care businesses the financial grounding and structural framework to stop being the bottleneck and start building something they could someday step back from, sell, or hand off with confidence.
If you're a founder who's tired of being the last line of defense in your own business, Jennifer built this show for you.
Connect with Jennifer on LinkedIn to continue the conversation between episodes https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferltoddcpa/
Founder, Get Your Life Back
Latest Episodes
10: Stop Fixing Weaknesses: Lead With Your Strengths
You're doing every job in the business and calling it leadership. Chief Everything Officer is what happens when a founder never draws the line between running the business and running every part of it.This episode is for the founder read...
9: Protect Your Time and Escape Founder Burnout
You're the last one paid, the last one to take a day off, and the first one still working when everyone else has logged off. Founder burnout is a business running out of room to grow.This episode is for the founder-led business owner rea...
8: Stop Paying for Your Business With Your Own Time and Money
You log into your bank account every morning, trying to decide whether you can afford to hire, and the numbers never quite add up. You're overworked, underpaid, and stuck answering a question your bank balance was never built to answer.T...
7: Fix Team Accountability and Escape Being the Final Decision Maker
Your team is capable, your KPIs are in place, and you're still the last stop for every decision that involves a trade-off between two departments. Your people escalate instead of deciding, and you can't figure out why accountability keeps faili...
6: Sell the Transformation and Escape the Expert Trap
You review every deliverable before it goes out. You take over the hard client calls. You're the last check on quality, the fixer when things go sideways, and you can't figure out why your team won't step up or why your clients keep bypassing t...
