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The Blue Sofa: Beyond Strategy — Leadership & Growth for Founders
The Blue Sofa is a podcast for founders building, scaling, and leading businesses that grow beyond them.
Hosted by Mia Poulsen, these conversations explore business architecture, sales systems, founder leadership, growth psychology, and what it really takes to build a business that can make money, support your life, and grow beyond constant founder dependence.
This is not surface-level business advice. It’s a sharper conversation about what sits underneath growth, how a business is built, how sales actually work, where growth ceilings come from, and what the next stage of business really asks of the founder.
If you’re a founder looking for stronger thinking, more honest insight, and a business that is built to grow well, welcome to The Blue Sofa.
New episodes drop every week.
The Blue Sofa: Beyond Strategy — Leadership & Growth for Founders
Transformational Leadership: Why Growth Requires a New Version of You
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For the next couple of weeks, I’m doing something different on my podcast The Blue Sofa.
I’m launching a full series on transformational leadership.
And before you think this is about motivation, inspiration, or “stepping into your power” — let me be very clear.
It’s not.
Transformational leadership is a scientific field of study.
It’s researched. Documented. Tested.
And it explains something I’ve observed for over 14 years:
Businesses don’t stall because of lack of strategy.
They stall because the leader reaches a threshold.
And no matter how much strategy you add, you don’t expand.
Your business will only grow to the level of leadership you can hold.
Every level of revenue, complexity, and responsibility requires a different internal structure.
When that internal leadership doesn’t evolve, growth stalls.
Not because you’re incapable.
But because your current identity is protecting you.
And that is what this series is all about.
In this series, I’m breaking down:
• How leaders develop through stages of complexity
• Why we unconsciously block our own growth
• The difference between transactional and transformational leadership
• How to lead from your future instead of reacting to your past
Listen to Episode 36 on The Blue Sofa here: Transformational Leadership: Why Growth Requires a New Version of You
If you’ve hit a glass ceiling that no amount of strategy seems to break — this series is for you.