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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
Leadership That Doesn't Need You
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So you promoted your best people into management roles. Made total sense, right? They were amazing at their jobs, they knew the business, they cared. But now instead of them taking stuff off your plate, you're somehow more involved than before. They come to you for everything. And you're thinking, wait, I promoted you so I wouldn't have to do this stuff anymore. What's happening? Here's the real problem: your managers don't have frameworks they need. They don't have systems for making decisions without you. So they default to the safest option—asking you. It's not a personality problem. It's an infrastructure problem.
Key Components:
- Why your promoted managers keep coming back to you (hint: it's not because they can't lead)
- The four systems that turn employees into actual leaders
- What happens when you give the answer instead of building their capability
- How to get 10-15 hours back per week without everything falling apart
Quote Of The Episode:
"If your managers keep escalating everything, it's not because they're not leadership material. It's because they don't have leadership architecture. They don't have the frameworks and systems and clarity that would allow them to lead independently. And that's buildable."
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