The Biz Doctor®: Leadership, Hiring, & Scaling – The Operator to Owner Shift

Are you playing to win, or just playing not to lose? In this episode of The Biz Doctor Podcast, I sit down with the incredible Torey Wolford, an extraordinary leadership coach and facilitator with over 15 years of experience in emotional intelligence and leadership development. From her time in emergency medicine to empowering leaders to thrive, Torey has mastered the art of guiding people to unlo...

This episode of The Biz Doctor Podcast is for business owners who feel overwhelmed or on the verge of burnout with their business, helping you navigate what to do when you feel like throwing in the towel on your business. Join, the Biz Doctor, Lauren Goldstein, as she offers actionable insights on what to do when you feel like quitting or burning down your own business. We all face challenges— esp...

Join us as we dive into the often misunderstood role of the CEO with seasoned entrepreneur and executive leadership expert, Joel Trammell.  With over three decades of experience in founding and managing companies, Joel has successfully built and sold two businesses for over nine figures. He's now dedicated to training CEOs and their executive teams on how to create an operating system for their co...

Burnout is a common issue among entrepreneurs, often leading to overwhelming stress, decreased productivity, and even thoughts of shutting down your business. In this episode of The Biz Doctor Podcast, host Lauren Goldstein dives deep into the world of burnout, exploring its causes, symptoms, and effective (and simple) strategies to combat it. In this episode we cover: Understanding Burnout: Learn...

In this episode of The Biz Doctor Podcast, host Lauren Goldstein, an award-winning business consultant affectionately known as The Biz Doctor, explores the secrets behind optimal performance and longevity with Taylor Johnson. A renowned performance coach, Taylor has worked with elite NFL athletes and pioneers cognitive performance in e-sports. His unique approach integrates physical, mental, emoti...

In this episode of The Biz Doctor Podcast, host Lauren Goldstein, an award-winning business consultant affectionately known as The Biz Doctor, dives deep into the most crucial role of a leader.   Tune into this episode to learn more about your job as a leader and how when you do it right, it not only helps you have a higher performing team, but it can also shift your business from merely surviving...

In this insightful episode of The Biz Doctor Podcast, host Lauren Goldstein sits down with Dave Ziozios, a seasoned financial leader and advisor, to discuss the essential steps business owners can take to increase their business valuation and ensure a smooth succession. Lauren and Dave dive into the challenges small business owners face with scalability and profitability, and share actionable stra...

Are you struggling to onboard new team members efficiently? In this episode, Lauren unveils a powerful technique that not only streamlines the onboarding process but also ensures your new hires are truly ready to contribute. Plus, she shares a game-changing tool that will revolutionize the way you train and integrate new talent. Tune in to transform your onboarding process and set your new team me...

Have you ever invested so much time, money, and energy into a new employee only for them to quit after a short amount of time? Leaving you bewildered as to why. Or maybe you hired someone who you thought was a perfect fit only to discover things during onboarding that made it clear they were not a fit and you had to let them go within their first few days, weeks, or even their first month? It is b...

In this episode Lauren recalls talking to one of her favorite humans, Tim Francis the other day and as two operational experts they were discussing how often operational health gets overlooked. It is very sexy to have a million dollar business. But you know what is sexier? Having a highly profitable million dollar business with not only good cash flow, but a deep cushion of “free cash” in the bank...

Clawing your way back or white knuckling… two sides of the same coin … both having an underlying current of control. Lauren talks about the time where she saw this happen in one of her clients. It was like his body was possessed by another. He went from being really excited to get out of the trenches and focus on what we call his “Big 3” - you know the three things that, not only were they his uni...

Have ever looked around at other business owners who have similar businesses to you that “seem” to be so much more successful or easy than yours - and wondered what the heck you're are doing wrong? If you answered yes, you are not alone. Lauren recalls she was very much in this camp for a few years banging her head against the wall and wondering why it seemed like such an uphill battle - that is u...

Sometimes when we think “business owner” often only one ”type” comes to mind, the business owner who leads the company as president or CEO, but today we’ll talk about what Lauren has discovered over the course of the past 12 years in her business consulting - that there are actually THREE types of business owners! And knowing the difference between them - and more importantly what type of business...

Have you ever been caught in the cycle of getting ready, to get ready …. to get ready, and then mayyybbbeee launching whatever it is you have been perfecting? It's okay, it happens to more people than you realize. Welcome back to The Biz Doctor Podcast, with your host Lauren Goldstein, in this episode, Lauren, as one recovering perfectionist to another, knows exactly what you need to hear today to...

We’ve all been there, you did your best in hiring, said yes to someone, only for it to turn into a hindenburg situation. The truth is because we are dealing with humans and not robots (sorry Elon) there are variables with hiring that try as we might still make it a bit of a moving target, but fear not, today I am going to dive into the real cost of a bad hire and more importantly how you can reduc...

Have you ever had a symptom and found yourself down the rabbit hole of WebMD researching survival rates of meningiomas - instead of realizing you probably just have a migraine from staring at your computer all day?  Or suddenly you have gangrene instead of a bone bruise from stubbing your toe? Well that is exactly what I am going to talk about in this weeks episode, the danger of self-diagnosing y...

Today’s podcast episode comes with a big red explicit warning… that is explicitly awesome! And fair warning there very well could be some creative swearing and sass so don’t say we didn’t warn ya. If you have ever been burned the eff out in your business, yearning for a better way that doesn’t involve you burning the candle at both ends and essentially being neither early bird nor night owl, but a...

Have you ever wished that there was a simple, objective way to help you make decisions about what projects to pursue in your business? Well that is exactly what we are going to cover in today's episode. Welcome back to The Biz Doctor podcast, with your host Lauren Goldstein. Today we’ll give you a tool that will drastically transform how you operate within your business and help you better decide...

The number one reason why businesses fail is they run out of cash. One study showed that 82% of companies that fail do so because of cash flow problems. Here’s the really surprising figure…. Only 40% of businesses are profitable - while 30% are actually continually LOSING MONEY! Those figures are WILD - especially given how hard us business owners work, which is exactly why we’re so excited for to...

When it comes to an employer/employee relationship, I believe there is really only one thing that can’t be overcome, and that is resentment. Welcome back to The Biz Doctor podcast, with your host, Lauren Goldstein, we’ll talk about a feeling and emotion that has been on a lot of lips lately and that is resentment. Lauren says “I will go to my grave saying resentment is one that once it creeps in,...

Welcome to Season 3 of The Biz Doctor Podcast! ------------------------- Friends don't let friends WebMD their business. Get out from under your business. Scale up without burning out. Get the most out of your current team. Make your next hire your best hire. Understand what the heck business operations actually are. Become more productive in your business and in life. Welcome to The Biz Doctor Po...

Have you ever achieved a really big goal and then felt excited and proud for only a moment… and then… well.. nothing, suddenly a feeling of emptiness or an immediate need to know what’s next descends? Feeling like you can’t quite settle into being “content” but rather always running after that next goal… or in my case forever moving the goalpost? If you resonated with any of those statements, you...

Do you have someone in your team who is a rockstar and you keep going back and forth on if you should promote them to a leadership position or not? Weighing the pros and cons while also secretly worrying that you might be promoting a high-performing team member to their detriment? Well, you aren’t alone and this is the very subject. We’re going to dive into it today. Welcome back to The Biz Doctor...

Did you know that over 80% of business owners don’t have a plan for when they exit their business and 98% don’t even know the value of their business? Here’s the real kicker though, EVERYBODY, and that means even you listening, exits their business at some point; it just may not be on your terms…. Some exit on purpose and some exit because of the 5 Ds: death, disability, divorce, distress, or disa...

In today’s episode, we’ll talk about the F word that sends dread through most business owners, firing. No one likes it, it’s uncomfortable, it's nerve-wracking, though in most cases it is necessary, and here’s why. Join your host Lauren Goldstein in today's subject, where a lot of business owners avoid in their businesses' (and teams' detriment) and get a clear picture of the ins and outs of firin...