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Scale-Ready CEO
You built a multi-million dollar business—now it's time to build the infrastructure that lets it scale without you.
Welcome to Scale-Ready CEO, the podcast for female founders of $1M-$10M businesses who are done being trapped in hiring decisions, team conflicts, and daily operational fires when they should be focused on strategic growth.
Hosted by Luzbei Palomino, executive strategist and Scale Architect™ at Small Biz HR Consulting, each episode delivers the frameworks, insights, and decision-maker tools you need to break through The Scale Threshold Barrier™—that critical inflection point where your hands-on leadership style stops being an asset and starts capping your growth, freedom, and business value.
This podcast is for you if you're searching for:
- How to scale beyond $3M, $5M, or $10M without burning out
- Systems that eliminate founder dependency so your team stops escalating everything to you
- Strategic people infrastructure that drives revenue growth and premium valuations
- Practical frameworks for hiring, leadership architecture, accountability, and operational design
What you'll walk away with:
- The ability to reclaim 10-15 hours per week currently lost to decisions that shouldn't need you
- A leadership team that resolves 80% of issues without your involvement
- Confidence to pursue high-value opportunities knowing your systems can scale to deliver
- A business positioned for 5-6x valuation multiples instead of 2-3x
If you're ready to stop being the bottleneck and start building a business that operates—and grows—without you in the middle of every decision, hit subscribe.
Your next step: Head to the show notes and fill out an application. You'll complete the Scale-Ready Assessment and get a personalized video showing exactly where your biggest scaling gaps are—and which pillar needs your attention first.
Scale-Ready CEO
The Scale Threshold Barrier: Why You Are Your Biggest Limitation
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You did all the right things. You worked your butt off, hit that million-dollar mark, maybe even three or five million. But now things feel harder instead of easier. Which makes no sense, right? You have more resources, a bigger team, but somehow you're more stuck than ever. Here's what's actually happening: the hands-on, "I'll just do it myself" approach that got you here is now the thing keeping you trapped. I call it the scale threshold barrier, and once you understand what it is, you're going to see it everywhere. Let's talk about why you're the bottleneck—and what to do about it.
Key Topics I Cover:
- Why your business feels harder to run now than when you were smaller
- The trap within the trap that keeps founders stuck (and how you're accidentally making it worse)
- What Scale Ready Sally learned about her $300K problem
- The three pillars that actually solve this—and what doesn't work
Quote Of The Episode:
"The problem isn't that you're doing something wrong. The problem is that you're still doing what used to be right. The way you led your business to get here—that hands-on, I'll just do it myself, nothing gets past me approach—it worked. It really worked. Until it didn't."
Click here to complete the Scale Ready Assessment and get personalized feedback