The People Side of Business | Team Management Strategies, How to Manage Employees, Leadership for Business Owners

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• How to Lead a Team When Performance Keeps Falling Short 02.07.2026 25min

  If you're wondering how to lead a team when performance keeps falling short, the answer may not be what you think. It's easy to assume missed deadlines, inconsistent communication, or declining results point to employee issues. But more often than many founders realize, the real challenge isn't a lack of accountability—it's a lack of leadership clarity. Before you jump to conclusions, ask yourself whether your team truly understands what's expected, what success looks like, and where ownershi...
• Avoiding Difficult Conversations Is Hurting Your Leadership Skills 25.06.2026 15min

  Most founders believe that avoiding a difficult conversation is how you protect a relationship, when in reality, it does the opposite. The longer a conversation goes unspoken, the more trust erodes, performance slips, and your own confidence as a leader takes the hit, until eventually everyone on the team can feel the tension of the thing nobody is saying. The conversation was never the real problem here. Avoiding it is. This episode digs into one of the most common founder challenges ...
• Leadership Skills for Business Owners: Welcome to The People Side of Business 18.06.2026 15min

  Most business owners believe growth comes from better marketing, stronger sales, or more sophisticated systems. But what if the real growth constraint is leadership? Leadership skills for business owners are rarely discussed with the same urgency as strategy and revenue, yet they often determine whether a company can successfully grow beyond the founder. As businesses expand, new challenges emerge. More clients, more opportunities, and more responsibilities place increasing demands on the pe...
• Welcome to The People Side Of Business! 11.06.2026 4min

  Have you ever felt like everyone is talking about marketing, sales, and scaling, yet no one is talking about the leadership challenges that come with building a business? That gap is exactly why leadership skills for female business owners deserve a much bigger conversation. Because while growth strategies matter, businesses ultimately succeed or struggle based on the people leading them. Women founders are building impactful companies while often balancing responsibilities far beyond the bu...
• [S5 Ep51] The Biggest Lessons We Learned This Season About Leadership, Growth & Building a Business That Doesn’t Burn You Out 04.06.2026 24min

  We're five seasons in, friend. And wow, we've explored some vulnerable topics and big strategies. Guests had mic-drop and thought-provoking moments, and founders sent messages that reminded me exactly why this show exists. This week's episode is the season five wrap-up! No guest. Just me, seven lessons, and the things I think we were all trying to avoid saying out loud this year. ✨ The Seven Lessons of Season Five 1. Scaling is an identity shift first and a strategy second. The ve...
• [S5 Ep50] The Messy Middle of Scaling: When Vision & Execution Stop Matching with Kaitlyn David 28.05.2026 32min

  You had the vision. You built the thing! And somewhere between starting and scaling, the message got muddier, the team got busier, and the gap between what you meant to build and what's actually being delivered started to widen. This week's guest knows exactly how to close the gap. I sat down with Kaitlyn David— brand strategist, fractional CMO, and an all-around grounded, human-centered marketing thinker. Kaitlyn looks at marketing from the inside out, and she has some fantastic insight on ...
• [S5 Ep49] The CEO Shift: Why Doing Everything Yourself Is Quietly Killing Your Business with Elizabeth Eiss 21.05.2026 41min

  This week, I sat down with Elizabeth Eiss, founder of Results Resourcing, and she said something in particular that I knew I needed to share with you. That 57% of the average founder's time is spent on non-core work. Work that isn't generating revenue, isn't in their zone of genius, and that someone else could do better, faster (and with significantly more joy). That number made me look at my own week differently! And this episode will help you do the same, as you hold up the mirror long enou...
• [S5 Ep48] The Real Entrepreneur Journey: Chaos, Growth & Figuring It Out with CEO Taunya Woods Richardon 14.05.2026 40min

  Entrepreneurship isn't a straight line. It's messy, unpredictable, and sometimes a complete sh*t show. This week, I sat down with Taunya Woods Richardson, founder of Nail the Numbers, with 30 years of entrepreneurial experience. We went everywhere. From the peaks and valleys of building something from scratch to losing $250,000 and rebuilding from the ground up, to the financial empowerment work she's been doing ever since to make sure no other founder has to go through what she went through ...
• [S5, Ep47] Why Ignoring Your Mental Health Is Hurting Your Business with Shulamit Ber Levtov 07.05.2026 37min

  Your business is only as healthy as you are. Which is exactly why founder mental health isn't a nice to have, a soft skill or something to get to when things slow down. It's a core business strategy, with data to back it up. And this week's guest Shulamit Ber Levtov is the Entrepreneur's Therapist — a therapist who specializes in supporting women founders, business owners and entrepreneurs with the emotional and mental health demands of running a business. ✨ Episode Highlights 🧠 The rese...
• [S5, Ep46] No Ego, No Power Struggles: Inside a High-Trust Leadership Model With The Team from Artemis Factor 30.04.2026 31min

  Three co-founders. Seven years in. But every expert told them it would never work... When Shannon, Katrina, and Tara started Artemis Factor, the advice was unanimous: "Three founders is too many!" They were told that someone needs to be at the top. That two is already hard so three is a disaster waiting to happen. And yet here they are, seven years later, leading a thriving consultancy in the pharmaceutical space with a model built on high trust, shared leadership, and a genuinely...
• [S5, Ep45] The Hidden Factor Behind Female Founder Burnout (It’s Not What You Think) with CEO Angela Johnson 23.04.2026 45min

  I'll be honest, this episode is deeply personal for me. In 2024 I went through a period where I genuinely couldn't figure out what was happening to my body. Memory fog. Digestion issues. No sleep. Some days it was hard to work because my eyeballs hurt. Literally. And I kept pushing through because that's what we do — until I couldn't anymore. And we get into all of that and more in this episode with Angela Johnson, CEO of sanoLiving, a women's digital health platform reimagining midlife...
• [S5, Ep44] Scaling a Startup Fast: Lessons from a Female Founder in Health Tech, CEO Aja Beckett 16.04.2026 51min

  Are you being too hard on yourself? The problem you've been trying to fix might need something other than the discipline. In this episode of Female Founder Unplugged, Lindsay sits down with Aja Beckett — app developer, GLP-1 user, and accidental CEO — who built her app Shotsy from a nights-and-weekends side project into the #1 GLP-1 tracking app in the Health & Fitness category. "Her story is as much about reclaiming her health as it is about building a business from scratch." ✨ Episode H...
• [S5, Ep43] Stop Building in the Dark: Community, Connection and Leading Without Loneliness (with Kristina Bartold-Sorgota) 09.04.2026 49min

  You can have a successful business and still feel completely alone. A lot of founders I know are building in the dark and making decisions in isolation, without a real space to let out their thoughts (that have turned into secrets at this point) and be supported. This episode is about what changes when you get out of that loneliness. It features the wonderful Kristina Bartold-Sorgota, co-founder of The Social Snippet, a social media and podcasting agency, and the co-creator of Hig...
• [S5, Ep42] The Messy Middle Isn’t Just Structural — It’s Lonely (Why LPC Works Together) 02.04.2026 17min

  "I don't really have anyone I can talk to who understands the business and isn't a stakeholder. It's really lonely." A founder said that to me recently, and I've been thinking of it ever since. Because it's true! And it's one of the most important things we're not talking about honestly enough in the entrepreneurship space. This episode is that conversation. Episode Highlights 📍 What makes the messy middle feel so uniquely lonely, and how founder isolation happens 🧠 Why high-achieving women a...
• [S5, Ep41] The People Strategy You’re Avoiding (And Why It’s Making Scaling Messy) 26.03.2026 24min

  There's no shame in the game, but if you've thought at least one of these thoughts very recently... "I just need one more person." "If we just hire someone who's good, this will all come together." "I don't know if we can afford to hire, but I don't know what else to do." ...Then it sounds like you're in the messy middle of your business. And like most founders in this stage, you don't have a people strategy at all — yet! And that's what this episode is all about. ✨ Episode Highlights:...
• [S5, Ep40] The ‘Nice Girl’ Trap: Why Female Founders Struggle With Leadership Boundaries (with Sarah Khan) 19.03.2026 32min

  This conversation is a direct challenge to the nice girl trap, and is fire from start to finish. 🔥 In this episode, Lindsay sits down with Sarah Khan — leadership strategist, empowerment coach, and the woman who has built a career out of turning quiet excellence into out loud power. If you've ever found yourself shrinking to keep the peace, leading from a place of people-pleasing, it's the hot conversation you need to hear today, my friend. ✨ Episode Highlights 🎙️ Why "if you argue with r...
• [S5, Ep39] The Leadership Shift in the Messy Middle 12.03.2026 24min

  What do you do when your own wiring (your 'get $h*t done' attitude) starts to work against you? Until you directly look at the hyper achiever energy that got you to this point in your business, and do the internal work to separate your identity from your output, no amount of hiring, restructuring or strategic planning is going to move the needle the way you need it to. That's what this episode is really about: The internal work that actually has to happen first. ✨ Episode Highlights: 🧠 ...
• [S5, Ep38] The Messy Middle: The Stage No One Warned You About 05.03.2026 18min

  Let me paint you a picture. Your revenue is solid, your calendar is full, your inbox is buzzing, and even your accountant is happy. And yet you're lying awake at 3am thinking — how does this feel successful and like it's flying apart at the same time? My friend, welcome to the messy middle. And if that question feels uncomfortably familiar, this episode was made for you. ✨ Episode Highlights: 📍 What the messy middle actually is, and the five questions that will tell you whether you're in it r...
• [S5, Ep37] The Most Underrated Growth Strategy? Your People Strategy 26.02.2026 14min

  You have a marketing plan. A financial plan. Maybe even a product roadmap. But a people strategy? That's the one most founders skip — until things start falling apart. In this episode, Lindsay is calling out one of the most damaging myths in business: that you can figure out your team later, once you've grown. Because your people are your growth strategy. And waiting until you have 15 or 50 people isn't strategic. It's just reactive. If you've ever felt your shoulders tighten at the words "I ...
• [S5, Ep36] The Courage to Lead With Your Whole Story - A Conversation with Fallon Farinacci 19.02.2026 34min

  There are moments when someone’s story doesn’t just move you, it changes you. This episode is about leadership, but not the kind you’ll find in a business course or book. It’s about the courage to lead with your whole story. Fallon Farinacci is a proud Red River Métis woman, mom of three, speaker, survivor, and advocate. Through unimaginable grief, she chose to speak and to call people in with her story. This conversation is about truth, the power of personal experiences, and impa...