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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
You Need To Connect Every People Decision to Revenue
We've covered leadership architecture and human performance optimization. Now we're getting to the thing that ties it all together: strategic growth alignment. Or what I like to call, “you need to connect every People decision to revenue.” Because here's the thing—you can have great leaders and efficient systems, but if your People infrastructure isn't designed to support where you're going, you're going to hit a wall. A big opportunity will come across your desk and your first reaction isn’t excitement—it’s be anxiety. ‘Can we actually deliver this? Do we have the people?’ That's a strategic growth problem, and it's costing you way more than you realize.
Key Components:
- Why growth opportunities trigger anxiety instead of excitement (and what that's really telling you)
- The valuation gap that's costing you millions—same revenue, completely different exit numbers
- How Sally walked away from a million-dollar contract because her infrastructure couldn't support it
- What designing People infrastructure proactively actually looks like before you need it
Quote Of The Episode:
"Your People infrastructure isn't separate from your growth strategy. It IS your growth strategy. Or at least it should be. Every People decision you make either supports your growth goals or limits them. Every hire, every promotion, every system you build or don't build—it all connects to revenue, to valuation, to the opportunities you can or can't capture."
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