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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 Systems vs. Skills Trap: Why Better Management Skills Won't Fix Your Scaling Problems
You know something needs to change, so you do what high-achieving people do: you invest in yourself. Management courses, executive coaching, all the books, all the podcasts. And you learn stuff—you genuinely do. You get better at giving feedback, you have insights about your patterns, and it feels like progress. But then… nothing really changes. You're still the bottleneck, your team still escalates everything, and you think, okay, I just need more. Another course, a different book. But here's the thing: the problem isn't that you haven't developed enough skills. The problem is that personal skills can't solve an infrastructure problem.
Key Components:
- Why getting better at leadership can actually make you a more efficient bottleneck
- The false hope factor that keeps founders stuck on the skills treadmill
- How to shift from "How can I do this better?" to "What system would make my involvement unnecessary?"
- What Scale Ready Sally realized after two years of executive coaching
Quote Of the Episode:
"Skills help you do things well. Systems help your team do things well without you. That's it. That's the difference. When you focus on skills, you're improving your personal performance. When you focus on systems, you're improving organizational performance. And organizational performance is what scales. Personal performance doesn't."
Click here to complete the Scale Ready Assessment and get personalized feedback