Business Owners & Entrepreneurs Podcast with Peter Boolkah | Business Coach | The Transition Guy®
You didn’t start a business to become its hardest-working employee.
But that’s exactly where a lot of successful business owners end up.
The business grows. The team grows. Revenue grows. The problems grow.
And somehow, instead of creating more freedom, you find yourself working harder, carrying more responsibility and becoming increasingly essential to the very business that was supposed to give you choices.
That is The Hamster Wheel Trap®.
I’m Peter Boolkah, business coach, author of Your Business Sucks: Build a Business That Works Without Destroying Your Life, and for more than 20 years I’ve worked with business owners and leadership teams around the world.
This podcast is about one thing:
Building a business that works without needing you at the centre of everything.
We talk honestly about the issues most business owners eventually run into, founder dependency, leadership, people, culture, sales, profit, cash, scaling, management, exit readiness and what it really takes to build a business that someone else would actually want to own.
Sometimes that means challenging the way you think.
Sometimes it means admitting that the thing holding the business back is you.
And sometimes it means recognising that a bigger business is not necessarily a better business.
Along the way, I sit down with entrepreneurs, authors, thinkers and leaders from around the world, including people such as Chris Voss, Mark Divine, Verne Harnish, Brad Sugars to name a few, to unpack the lessons, decisions, mistakes and experiences that shaped the way they think about business, leadership and life.
This is not a podcast about hustle.
It is not about vanity revenue.
And it is definitely not about pretending entrepreneurship is easy.
It is about building a stronger business, becoming a better owner and creating something that gives you more options not fewer.
Because eventually every business owner has to answer the same question:
Do you own the business, or does the business own you?
Business Owners & Entrepreneurs Podcast with Peter Boolkah | Business Coach | The Transition Guy®
Latest Episodes
Entrepreneurial Resilience: How to Keep Going When Business Gets Hard | Peter Boolkah
Entrepreneurship will test your confidence, judgement and willingness to continue.Financial pressure, competition, lost customers and failed ideas are unavoidable parts of building a business. The difference is not whether setbacks happe...
The Power of One: How Small Improvements Strengthen Cash Flow | Peter Boolkah
What difference could a 1% improvement make to your business?Individually, small changes to pricing, costs, productivity and working capital can appear insignificant. Combined and sustained, however, they can produce a substantial improv...
How to Build a High-Performing Team: 5 Lessons for Better Teamwork | Peter Boolkah
A collection of talented individuals does not automatically become a high-performing team.Without trust, shared goals, effective communication and the right working environment, people can remain disconnected—even when everyone is indivi...
Personal Branding for Founders: Build Trust, Authority and Opportunity | Peter Boolkah
Expertise alone is not enough if the right people do not know who you are, understand what you stand for or trust you.A strong personal brand can help founders make their expertise visible, build valuable relationships and become recogni...
Compassion and Accountability: A Hard Leadership Lesson | Peter Boolkah
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