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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 MAJOR Hidden Costs Of You Staying in Every Decision
This episode might be a little uncomfortable because we're talking about something a lot of founders don't want to admit—the need for control. You built this thing from nothing, so the idea of stepping back, of not being in every decision, that feels risky. There's this voice in your head that says if I'm not involved, things will go wrong. And that voice feels like wisdom. But here's what I need you to hear: that voice is lying to you. You think staying involved gives you control, but what's actually happening is you're making your business incredibly fragile. I call this the control paradox.
Key Components:
- Why what you think is control is actually dependency (and dependency is the opposite of control)
- The real price tag: $72-108K per year minimum, plus everything you can't put a number on
- What happens to your business if you got sick for a month right now
- How Scale Ready Sally got burned early and decided "never again"—then got trapped
Quote Of the Episode:
"When a system fails, you fix the system. When someone makes a bad call, you learn from it and improve the framework. It's iterative. It gets better over time. But dependency? You can't fix dependency without fundamentally changing how you operate. And most founders don't make that change until they're in crisis."
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