The People Side of Business | Team Management Strategies, How to Manage Employees, Leadership for Business Owners

What if the biggest thing holding your business back isn't marketing, sales, or hiring? The right Business Growth Strategy often isn't about adding more—it's about simplifying what already exists. As your business grows, it's easy to become the person every decision, problem, and question flows through. The result? Longer hours, constant firefighting, and a business that depend...

If you're wondering how to lead a team when performance keeps falling short, the answer may not be what you think. It's easy to assume missed deadlines, inconsistent communication, or declining results point to employee issues. But more often than many founders realize, the real challenge isn't a lack of accountability—it's a lack of leadership clarity. Before you jump to concl...

Most founders believe that avoiding a difficult conversation is how you protect a relationship, when in reality, it does the opposite.   The longer a conversation goes unspoken, the more trust erodes, performance slips, and your own confidence as a leader takes the hit, until eventually everyone on the team can feel the tension of the thing nobody is saying. The conversation was never the real pro...

Most business owners believe growth comes from better marketing, stronger sales, or more sophisticated systems. But what if the real growth constraint is leadership? Leadership skills for business owners are rarely discussed with the same urgency as strategy and revenue, yet they often determine whether a company can successfully grow beyond the founder. As businesses expand, new challenges emerge...

Have you ever felt like everyone is talking about marketing, sales, and scaling, yet no one is talking about the leadership challenges that come with building a business? That gap is exactly why leadership skills for female business owners deserve a much bigger conversation. Because while growth strategies matter, businesses ultimately succeed or struggle based on the people leading them. Women fo...

We're five seasons in, friend.  And wow, we've explored some vulnerable topics and big strategies. Guests had mic-drop and thought-provoking moments, and founders sent messages that reminded me exactly why this show exists.  This week's episode is the season five wrap-up! No guest. Just me, seven lessons, and the things I think we were all trying to avoid saying out loud this year....

You had the vision. You built the thing! And somewhere between starting and scaling, the message got muddier, the team got busier, and the gap between what you meant to build and what's actually being delivered started to widen. This week's guest knows exactly how to close the gap. I sat down with Kaitlyn David— brand strategist, fractional CMO, and an all-around grounded, human-centered...

This week, I sat down with Elizabeth Eiss, founder of Results Resourcing, and she said something in particular that I knew I needed to share with you. That 57% of the average founder's time is spent on non-core work. Work that isn't generating revenue, isn't in their zone of genius, and that someone else could do better, faster (and with significantly more joy). That number made me...

Entrepreneurship isn't a straight line. It's messy, unpredictable, and sometimes a complete sh*t show. This week, I sat down with Taunya Woods Richardson, founder of Nail the Numbers, with 30 years of entrepreneurial experience. We went everywhere. From the peaks and valleys of building something from scratch to losing $250,000 and rebuilding from the ground up, to the financial empowerm...

Your business is only as healthy as you are. Which is exactly why founder mental health isn't a nice to have, a soft skill or something to get to when things slow down. It's a core business strategy, with data to back it up. And this week's guest Shulamit Ber Levtov is the Entrepreneur's Therapist — a therapist who specializes in supporting women founders, business owners and e...

Three co-founders. Seven years in. But every expert told them it would never work... When Shannon, Katrina, and Tara started Artemis Factor, the advice was unanimous:  "Three founders is too many!"  They were told that someone needs to be at the top. That two is already hard so three is a disaster waiting to happen. And yet here they are, seven years later, leading a thriving consultancy...

I'll be honest, this episode is deeply personal for me.  In 2024 I went through a period where I genuinely couldn't figure out what was happening to my body. Memory fog. Digestion issues. No sleep. Some days it was hard to work because my eyeballs hurt. Literally. And I kept pushing through because that's what we do — until I couldn't anymore. And we get into all of that and mo...

Are you being too hard on yourself? The problem you've been trying to fix might need something other than the discipline. In this episode of Female Founder Unplugged, Lindsay sits down with Aja Beckett — app developer, GLP-1 user, and accidental CEO — who built her app Shotsy from a nights-and-weekends side project into the #1 GLP-1 tracking app in the Health & Fitness category. "Her...

You can have a successful business and still feel completely alone. A lot of founders I know are building in the dark and making decisions in isolation, without a real space to let out their thoughts ( that have turned into secrets at this point) and be supported.  This episode is about what changes when you get out of that loneliness.  It features the wonderful Kristina Bartold-Sorgota, co-founde...

"I don't really have anyone I can talk to who understands the business and isn't a stakeholder. It's really lonely." A founder said that to me recently, and I've been thinking of it ever since. Because it's true! And it's one of the most important things we're not talking about honestly enough in the entrepreneurship space. This episode is that conversa...

There's no shame in the game, but if you've thought at least one of these thoughts very recently... "I just need one more person." " If we just hire someone who's good, this will all come together." " I don't know if we can afford to hire, but I don't know what else to do." ...Then it sounds like you're in the messy middle of your busines...

This conversation is a direct challenge to the nice girl trap, and is fire from start to finish. 🔥 In this episode, Lindsay sits down with Sarah Khan — leadership strategist, empowerment coach, and the woman who has built a career out of turning quiet excellence into out loud power. If you've ever found yourself shrinking to keep the peace, leading from a place of people-pleasing, it's...

What do you do when your own wiring (your 'get $h*t done' attitude) starts to work against you? Until you directly look at the hyper achiever energy that got you to this point in your business, and do the internal work to separate your identity from your output , no amount of hiring, restructuring or strategic planning is going to move the needle the way you need it to.  That's what...

Let me paint you a picture. Your revenue is solid, your calendar is full, your inbox is buzzing, and even your accountant is happy. And yet you're lying awake at 3am thinking — how does this feel successful and like it's flying apart at the same time? My friend, welcome to the messy middle. And if that question feels uncomfortably familiar, this episode was made for you. ✨ Episode Highl...

You have a marketing plan. A financial plan. Maybe even a product roadmap. But a people strategy? That's the one most founders skip — until things start falling apart. In this episode, Lindsay is calling out one of the most damaging myths in business: that you can figure out your team later, once you've grown. Because your people are your growth strategy. And waiting until you have 15 or...

There are moments when someone’s story doesn’t just move you, it changes you.  This episode is about leadership, but not the kind you’ll find in a business course or book. It’s about the courage to lead with your whole story. Fallon Farinacci is a proud Red River Métis woman, mom of three, speaker, survivor, and advocate. Through unimaginable grief, she chose to speak and to call people in with he...

You’ve built the business. Your team is growing, and opportunities are expanding! Your success means more visibility, more responsibility, and more people depending on you. But all of this happening can actually make you feel quite lonely and unsupported... You can’t vent down, and you don't want to worry your team, your family. Because everyone assumes you’ve figured it out by now. In this e...

So… your business is growing, your team’s stronger than ever, and for the first time, things are running without you in every detail. That should feel like freedom, right? But instead, you’re feeling lost. Maybe a little guilty. Maybe even… useless. In this episode, I’m getting real about the identity shift that happens when you finally move out of operator mode and into your CEO seat. The weird i...

You’re not new to running a business—but lately, it feels like the weight of every decision, deadline, and deliverable is landing on your shoulders. Even with a solid team, you’re still stuck in the middle of it all. But that can change! In this episode, I’m walking you through what I call the invisible architecture —the behind-the-scenes systems that keep your business moving without burning you...

She downsized, reset, and rehired... And what she learned about people strategy will change how you build your team.  In this episode, I sit down with social media strategist  Rachel Pedersen to unpack the real and raw lessons behind scaling a team, downsizing with intention, and rebuilding. From “panic hires” to people-pleasing to over-collecting team members out of guilt, Rachel shares how her b...