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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
How To Transition a From Hands-On Operator to Strategic Leader
If you've been listening to this whole series, you might be feeling a little overwhelmed right now. You know you need to stop being the bottleneck, build systems, and let go of control. But how? Where do you even start? Maybe there's a part of you thinking this sounds like you need to completely change how you operate overnight, and that feels impossible. So this episode is about making this practical, making it doable. Because here's what I want you to know right out of the gate: this isn't all or nothing, and it doesn't need to happen overnight.
Key Components:
- The realistic timeline for this transition
- How to identify your quick wins—the decisions eating your time but not requiring your brain
- The five-step process that actually works
- What stays with you versus what leaves you when you make this shift
Quote Of the Episode:
"Mistakes are going to happen. Your team is going to make calls you wouldn't have made. Some of those calls are going to be wrong. And every part of you is going to want to take control back. Resist the urge. Because if you jump back in every time something goes wrong, you teach your team that they don't really own it, that you're going to step in anyways."
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