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
1: How to Stop Being the Bottleneck in Your Business
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You're a successful founder who's working harder than ever and falling further behind. This episode is for the owner-operator who's tired of being the one everything runs through and wants to know if there's actually a way out.
This is the first episode of Founder, Get Your Life Back, and I'm starting here because this is where most of my clients start, too. I'm a CPA who owned my own firm for over 20 years, and I lived this exact trap before I figured out how to stop being the bottleneck in my own business.
00:00 - What the Wall Is and Why Successful Founders Hit It
03:16 - Why the Business Books Fall Short on Implementation
05:20 - The Problem With Hiring More People and Adding More Software
07:14 - Why Founders Blame the Team and What's Going On
08:15 - The Three Questions Keeping You Stuck in Your Current Role
16:45 - How to Build the Roles Your Business Actually Needs
