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The Blue Sofa: Beyond Strategy — Leadership & Growth for Female Founders
The Blue Sofa is a podcast for female 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 female 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 Female Founders
Transformational Leadership: Why You Can See Everyone Else’s Blind Spots — But Not Your Own
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Why is it so easy to see exactly what others need to do —
and so hard to move yourself forward?
In this episode, we dive into Adult Development Theory and explore why this isn’t about clarity, confidence or strategy.
Based on the work of developmental psychologist Robert Kegan, we explore:
• The difference between intelligence and developmental capacity
• What it means when something “has control over you” vs. when you “have control over it”
• Why your fears are easier to see in others than in yourself
• The three stages of adult development relevant for founders
• How your current leadership structure may be limiting your next level
Your business grows in complexity, visibility and responsibility.
If your internal leadership doesn’t evolve with it, growth stalls.
Not because you’re incapable.
But because you’re still inside the stage that needs to develop.
If you haven’t listened to Episode 1 yet, start there to understand the full foundation of this series.
In the next episode we are diving into: Why we unconsciously block our own growth — and how identity protects itself.