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Freeing the Founder
by Randell Mauricio
Being a founder doesn’t have to mean being a bottleneck.”Freeing the Founder” is a podcast dedicated to helping entrepreneurial leaders escape the day-to-day grind and get back to being the visionary.Join Randell Mauricio, COO of Pemmerations, as he and his guests share the practical playbooks, operational frameworks, and hard-won lessons you need to scale your business and reclaim your freedom.
Episodes
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Escaping the Founder Trap Through Partner Led Execution
Founders often hit a plateau where their own grit limits the firm growth potential. Scaling beyond this stage requires a move from doing the work to leading a system that produces results. We analyze how to install a leadership layer that bridges the gap between vision and daily operations. True...
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Moving From Doing the Work to Owning the Asset
Many boutique firm owners are high paid technicians trapped in a cage they built themselves. They prioritize their own expertise over building a machine that can run without them. This episode explores the psychological shift required to move from being the smartest person in the room to being…
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The "Mini-Me" Trap: Sel Watts on Culture Architecture and Scaling Past the Founder Bottleneck
Founders often find themselves trapped by a team that shares their same strengths and their same blind spots. True scale requires a shift from hiring based on gut feel to building a deliberate culture architecture that utilizes behavioral data. This conversation explores how to lead diverse...
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Why Intuition Maxes Out at 5M: Ben Edwards on the Shift from Gut to Data
Boutique founders often reach a revenue ceiling where personal brilliance and manual oversight become the primary bottlenecks to further growth. The shift from a lifestyle business to a scalable asset requires moving past gut feelings and embedding operational measurement into the company…
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Escaping Excel Hell: How to Operationalize Your Finances Without the "Dumb Tax"
There is a dangerous misconception in growing firms: that you can scale a business on spreadsheets alone. But as my guest today points out, when you run your finances on Excel, you aren't scaling—you are just one broken formula away from a crisis. In this episode, we sit down with Gayle Nelson,...
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The Hardest Lesson in Growth: Bill Ryan on Confronting Leadership to Hit $350M
In this episode of Freeing the Founder, executive and consultant Bill Ryan reveals the uncomfortable truth behind massive business scaling. Drawing on his experience helping companies achieve hypergrowth (including a jump from $20M to $350M), Bill explains why organizational change must start at...
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The Founder's Financial Playbook for Scaling Without "Flying Blind"
Many founders are brilliant at their craft but struggle to translate that into a scalable, profitable business because they lack the financial "knobs and dials" to guide their decisions. Serial entrepreneur William Lieberman, founder of The CEO's Right Hand, knows this journey firsthand. He grew...
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Why Most Professional Services Firms Hit a Growth Ceiling – and How to Break Through
Is your firm starting to feel like it can only grow if you work harder? You’re not alone. Most professional services businesses hit an invisible ceiling. One built on mismatched incentives, founder bottlenecks, and outdated growth playbooks. In this episode of Freeing the Founder, Jeremy Rosmarin…
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How Service Design Enabled an Agency to Scale without Hiring
Miles Kailburn, co-founder of the 18-year-old agency OTM, shares the story of being a "prophet in his own land", realizing his team wasn't applying their powerful customer journey work to their own company. In this episode, learn how he created a brand new "Service Designer" role, gave a team...
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Breaking the Founder Bottleneck: How to Scale Your Business Beyond Yourself
In this episode, Jeff Klaumann of Collective 54 breaks down the Founder Bottleneck - the stage where a founder becomes the biggest constraint to their own company's growth and successful exit. Learn the two biggest warning signs (Time and Money) and his playbook for breaking free, starting with a...
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Why the Best Time to Fix Your Business is When It's Not Broken
Most founders only install an operating system when their business is on fire. Leo Falkenstein of Consume Media, did the opposite. In this episode, he explains why he chose to implement EOS when things were going well, all sparked by a gut feeling that his team could achieve more. Learn the...
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The ROI of 90%: A Founder's Guide to Letting Go
Matt Schaubroeck built and sold his company, but his biggest mistake was trying to do it all himself. In this episode, he gets candid about the humbling art of delegation. Learn why letting go is the only way to avoid burnout, empower your team, and truly scale your business.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Being a founder doesn’t have to mean being a bottleneck.”Freeing the Founder” is a podcast dedicated to helping entrepreneurial leaders escape the day-to-day grind and get back to being the visionary.Join Randell Mauricio, COO of Pemmerations, as he and his guests share the practical playbooks, operational frameworks, and hard-won lessons you need to scale your business and reclaim your freedom.
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Randell Mauricio
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Being a founder doesn’t have to mean being a bottleneck.”Freeing the Founder” is a podcast dedicated to helping entrepreneurial leaders escape the day-to-day grind and get back to being the visionary.Join Randell Mauricio, COO of Pemmerations, as he and his guests share the practical playbooks,...
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