The Business Engine
The Business Engine Podcast helps business owners build businesses that run smoothly, perform at their best, and don't depend on them every single day. Join Paula Burgess for practical strategies, real business stories, and actionable insights on systems, leadership, and operations to help you spend less time putting out fires and more time building a business, and a life - you love.
Episodes
10 episodes
#10 Why Allied Health Clinics Burn Out (and What to Do About It) - video
You started your allied health clinic to help people, not to spend your evenings catching up on admin, managing staff issues and putting out fires. So why does running a successful clinic so often leave owners feeling overwhelmed, exhausted and...
# 9 Communicating Effectively with a Neurodivergent Team
Your team doesn't all think, process information or communicate in the same way. So why would you expect the same communication style to work for everyone?In this episode of The Business Engine Podcast, Paula explores how to communicate...
#8 Are you the CEO of your business... or still doing everything inside it?
In this episode of The Business Engine Podcast, Paula dives into the CEO Let-Go List: the tasks business owners need to stop doing if they want to scale without running themselves into the ground.From answering every email ...
#7 From Operator to Owner: Shifting Your Identity as a Business Leader
From Operator to Owner: Shifting Your Identity as a Business LeaderYou built the business, wore all the hats and became the person everyone relied on. But what happens when being needed for everything becomes the very thing holdin...
#6 Your Business Shouldn't Live in Your Head
Your Business Shouldn’t Live in Your HeadIf your business relies on you remembering everything, answering the same questions and constantly stepping in to keep things moving, you may not have a systems problem — you may have a dep...
#5 Building a Business when Your Brain Works differently
What if the problem isn't that you're bad at business, but that you're trying to run your business using systems that simply don't work for the way your brain works?In this episode of The Business Engine Podcast, I'm talking about...
#4 - You CAN Create a business that runs without you
Do you feel like you can't take a full day off without something in your business stopping, going wrong, or needing your input?In this episode of The Business Engine Podcast, we're tackling one of the biggest traps business owners...
#3 Building a Business That Doesn't Depend on You
Episode 3: Build a Business That Doesn’t Depend on You (People, Processes & Tech)Paula Burgess, founder of Beyond the Maze, welcomes listeners to Episode 3 of The Business Engine and explores how to build a business that doesn...
#2 - When Your Business Starts Running You
Have you ever wondered when the business you created to give yourself more freedom somehow became the thing controlling your life?In this episode of The Business Engine Podcast, I talk about something many business owners experien...
# 1 - The Business I Never Planned to Build
Welcome to the very first episode of The Business Engine Podcast.In this episode, I share the story behind my journey, from my early career and the unexpected path that led me to founding Beyond the Maze, to the lessons I've learn...