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EPISODE · Nov 2, 2025 · 45 MIN

222 Nick Sinclair on ego, burnout, letting go and transforming as a founder

from this is business · host Kayla Malss

Nick Sinclair built TOA Global into the world’s largest offshoring partner for accountants, but the real story is what happened when the growth, ego and grind caught up with him. In this raw conversation, Nick opens up about burnout, losing himself in the “infinite game” of business, stepping back from his own company, and transforming his health, leadership and life. 👉🏾 Nick’s backstory and weight loss journey👉🏻 the shock moment his CEO resigned and facing the scrutiny of an advisory board👉🏿 realising his ego and micro-managing was causing a bottleneck👉 stepping back, empowering leaders and the business outperforming without him👉🏽 how offshoring started and why global talent changed everything👉🏼 AI, data and the future of people, process and capacity in accounting👉🏾 Nick's “globally local” philosophy and passion for helping accountants & small businesses👉🏿 Nick's hiring philosophy around talent density, roles vs tasks, and people strategy👉🏽 Nick’s final message to founders: do the work, ignore the noiseWe hate email spam so we don’t create it! Sign up to our newsletter to get only the valuable money, careers and property info you need.To get help, and to check out our online courses, books, resources and downloads (+ our disclaimers and warnings), click here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nick Sinclair built TOA Global into the world’s largest offshoring partner for accountants, but the real story is what happened when the growth, ego and grind caught up with him. In this raw conversation, Nick opens up about burnout, losing himself in the “infinite game” of business, stepping back from his own company, and transforming his health, leadership and life. 👉🏾 Nick’s backstory and weight loss journey👉🏻 the shock moment his CEO resigned and facing the scrutiny of an advisory board👉🏿 realising his ego and micro-managing was causing a bottleneck👉 stepping back, empowering leaders and the business outperforming without him👉🏽 how offshoring started and why global talent changed everything👉🏼 AI, data and the future of people, process and capacity in accounting👉🏾 Nick's “globally local” philosophy and passion for helping accountants & small businesses👉🏿 Nick's hiring philosophy around talent density, roles vs tasks, and people strategy👉🏽 Nick’s final message to founders: do the work, ignore the noiseWe hate email spam so we don’t create it! Sign up to our newsletter to get only the valuable money, careers and property info you need.To get help, and to check out our online courses, books, resources and downloads (+ our disclaimers and warnings), click here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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