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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
Performance You Can Actually Measure: Turning People Management Into a Business Asset
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You can have great leaders, but if your hiring takes forever, people keep leaving, and nobody really knows what they're supposed to be doing—you've still got a problem. This is pillar number two: human performance optimization. Or as I like to think about it, performance you can actually measure. And honestly, this is where most founders are bleeding money without even realizing it. Replacing someone costs $50,000 - $150,000 when you add it all up. If you're losing three or four people a year, that's hundreds of thousands just gone. But here's the thing—most turnover is preventable. You just don't have the systems to prevent it.
Key Components:
- Why you're hemorrhaging money on turnover (and how to actually calculate the real cost)
- The difference between treating people management as overhead versus a competitive advantage
- What Scale Ready Sally discovered when she finally did the math on her 87-day hiring process
- Four systems that increase profit margins by 15-20% without working people harder
Quote Of The Episode:
"The money you're losing on “People stuff” is real, it's quantifiable, and most of it is preventable. You just need the systems. Turnover doesn't have to be this thing you just accept. Extended hiring cycles aren't just 'how it is.' These are symptoms of missing infrastructure, and infrastructure can be built."
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