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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
Here’s What a Successful Exit Actually Requires
Maybe you're thinking, “I'm not planning to sell anytime soon—that's years away. Why are we even talking about this?” Stay with me. Because even if exit isn't on your radar right now, what I share in this episode matters a lot. A founder-dependent business typically sells for 2X - 3X annual revenue. A founder-independent business sells for 5X - 6X revenue, sometimes more. If your business is doing $5M in revenue, that's the difference between $10M - $15M and $25M - $30M. Same business, same revenue, same clients. The only difference is the infrastructure.
Key Components:
- Why buyers pay premium multiples for some businesses and heavily discount others
- What sophisticated buyers are actually looking for beyond your revenue numbers
- The timeline problem most founders don't realize until it's too late
- Why everything in this series applies whether you want to exit or not
Quote Of the Episode:
"When someone buys a business, they're buying a business. They're not buying a job. They don't want to acquire something that requires them to keep you around to make it work. That's not an asset. That's a liability."
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