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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, part 5: You Can’t Scale What You Can’t See
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Most founders don’t have a strategy problem.
They have a perception problem that leads to expensive decisions.
In this episode, I break down the concept of “Sensing” from Otto Scharmer’s Theory U and explain how perception quality determines leadership quality — and ultimately, revenue stability.
You’ll learn:
• What “downloading” is — and how it destabilizes your business
• Why reactive decision-making creates unnecessary pivots
• How to separate data from interpretation
• Why disciplined perception is a competitive advantage
Before you act, pivot, or rebuild — this episode will teach you how to see clearly and make decisions that turn into innovations and your next big move in business.