The Obvious Myth
This is the Obvious Myth - for anyone who's ever felt like their business should be performing better than it is, and suspected the answer wasn't more leads.
If leads are coming in and results still feel harder than they should be, you've already met the myth this show is built to bust: that growth problems are front-of-funnel problems. They almost never are. The Obvious Myth is a solo video podcast for founders and operators who've solved for demand and are still wondering why the business isn't performing the way it should. Each episode takes one specific, relatable story — a viral order spike, a CRM nobody trusts, a founder who wouldn't accept a plane until he understood why it failed its own tests — and uses it to expose the mid-funnel system problem hiding underneath. Season 1 follows Claire and Jamie's business from its first messy map to a fully rebuilt system, alongside a handful of founders and operators with problems that follow the same patterns. By the finale, ten myths resolve into one repeatable method — Clarify, Organize, Route, Expand — for building a business that can grow without its founder being the ceiling.
Episodes
9 episodes
The Follow-Up Myth: If My Team Knows It, the Business Knows It
The Follow-Up Myth: If My Team Knows It, the Business Knows ItA sales team knew exactly when every client's budget window opened — until the one person who held all of it in her head left the company. Sara digs into what happens when cr...
The Tools Myth: A Better CRM Won't Fix an Adoption Problem
The Tools Myth: A Better CRM Won't Fix an Adoption ProblemA team with long sales cycles and high-stakes renewals decides their CRM is the problem. They replace it. Six months later, nobody's using the new one either. Sara explains...
The Governance Myth: One System Will Give Us One Source of Truth
The Governance Myth: One System Will Give Us One Source of TruthEight years, one CRM, tens of thousands of records nobody could fully trust. Putting everyone in the same system was supposed to fix that — it didn't, because nobody ...
The Visibility Myth: I'd Know If Something Was Wrong
The Visibility Myth: I'd Know If Something Was WrongA founder refuses to accept delivery of a new corporate jet until he understands why it had been failing its own tests — a standard he'd never thought to apply to his own busine...
The Healthy Business Myth: Meet Sheri
The Healthy Business Myth: Meet SheriEverything about Sheri's membership business looked healthy from the outside — revenue coming in, members who genuinely loved her. But she was quietly losing renewals, upsells, and members who simply...
The Documentation Myth: As Long As It's Written Down Somewhere, We're Covered
The Documentation Myth: As Long As It's Written Down Somewhere, We're CoveredSales had detailed notes. Implementation had detailed notes. Customer success had detailed notes too. Three teams, three systems, zero shared truth. Sara unpac...
The Traffic Myth: More Leads Won't Fix a Leaking System
Two great teams, both hitting their goals — and leads were still falling through the cracks. The culprit: a handful of contact forms with no shared logic behind them. Sara walks through why pouring more traffic into a broken system doesn't impr...
The Momentum Myth: Why More Leads Makes Things Feel Harder
A custom t-shirt maker goes viral overnight — and nearly drowns in her own success. Sara breaks down why more leads don't automatically mean more momentum, and why growth that isn't matched by capacity creates drag instead of speed. If gr...
The Obvious Myth: The Growth Myth
Leads are coming in. Pipeline's moving. So why does it still feel like something's off? In this first episode, Sara introduces the myth at the center of the whole season — the belief that solving demand is the same as solving growth — and...