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Big Dreams Great Teams® with Paula Maidens — 185 episodes
Why 5 Team Members Feels Harder Than 10 (And How to Fix It)
Scaling Teams, Culture & Leadership in a Growing Service-Based Business | Winnie Wu
Why Your Team’s Not the Problem — And What to Fix Instead
My Top 16 Business Lessons After 16 Years in Business
Psychosocial Hazard Laws Explained: What Business Owners Can (and Can’t) Do With Their Team | Tracey Mylecharane
Let Go of Perfect: The Strategic Shift Every Founder Must Make to Scale
How to Make Your AI Job Ad Stand Out From the Crowd
The Podcast Is Back — With the Advice Business Owners Actually Need
Using AI for Marketing Your Business & Why Small Business Marketing Hires Fail
2025 Update: 5 Hiring Tips For Small Businesses In The Current Market
Removing the Fear from Hiring
Everyone is NOT an Expert - Difference Between Advice and Opinion
How to Build Trust and Collaboration Within Your Team: Your Secret To Small Business Growth
Hot Flushes & High Performance: Building Your Business Through Perimenopause with Shelly Horton
Team Performance Check: Are Your Employees Meeting Your Business Needs
Scaling Team Growing Pains: Why Your Team Can Break on the way to $1M (And How to Fix It)
Financial Foundations for Smart Team Growth: Essential Money Moves for Scaling with Lisa Turner
Transform Your Team Meetings: 3 Questions That Build Accountability & Drive Results
Ask, Don't Tell: The Tiny Shift That Will Free Up Your Time & (Finally!) Empower Your Team
From Overwhelmed Owner to Strategic CEO: The Leadership Evolution Your Business Needs
Transform Your Culture USING Values-Based Communication in 2025
AI in Hiring & Leadership: What Works and What Doesn't
Break These Leadership Habits Before They Break Your Team in 2025
Behind The Scenes: Triumphs, Tests & Truth Bombs of 2024
The Franchise Success Formula: Values, Vision, and Making Hearts Sing; Lessons in Culture-First Leadership from ActivOT's Founder Helen Wait
4 Thinking Preferences: Which One Drives Your Brain?
Scaling to $7M in 4 Years: Essential Business, Team & Leadership Lessons with Allana Ford
Time vs. Energy Management: Is Time Management Obsolete?
Managing Anxiety, Mental Health & Burnout in the Workplace with Dr. Jodi Richardson
Q4 Retention Activities To Power Up Your Team for 2025
Creating a 'Bad Day' Business Model Through Automation - with Peta Serras
Remuneration Models - Which Pay Structures Are Right For Small Business (& What To Avoid)
5 Leadership Habits You Need To Break To Scale Your Business
Unlocking the Link Between Productivity and Profitability in Small Business
Navigating ADHD and Entrepreneurship with serial business owner - Jane McFadden
My #1 Philosophy for Life & Business
Transforming Performance through Team Events with Mykel Dixon
The Pros, Cons & Differences You Must Know When Hiring Subcontractors
How to Attract & Retain LOYAL Team Members
The Ultimate Guide to Reference Checks: Hire RIGHT for Your Small Business
Client Lesson #9: Delegate, Don't Do
Subcontractor vs. Employee - Which One Is Right for You?
Client Lesson #8: Is it REALLY that urgent?
Reducing the STRESS from Having Employees
Client Lesson #7: Do THIS to NOT be frustrated when hiring someone to do the same job as you
Stop having BORING Team Meetings! Here's how.
Client Lesson #6: Preparing for Holidays (so you can actually relax!)
Dealing with Stress, Overwork & Burnout with Dr Hayley Kelly
Client Lesson #5: Delegating leadership within your team
The Impact of Team Effectiveness on Your Clients & Your Brand
Client Lesson #4: There is ALWAYS light at the end of the tunnel
EOFY Reflections: Revenue is down but my WAGE IS UP
Client Lesson #3: Why You Must TEST In Your Hiring Process (& how to feel good about it!)
BTS of My Recent Filipino VA Hire & 4 Top Tips for You To Do It Too!
Client Lesson #2: Common Hiring Mistakes You Can Avoid
Struggling to FIND quality applicants & stand out to potential employees? Here’s what to do
Client Lessons #1: Delegating EMAIL in a way that's easy (for you!)
Why Hiring is Different In 2024 (& Why You Need to Know HOW To Get It Right For Small Business Success!)
The impact STRESS has on you & your business with Aubrey Nation
Unlocking the Secrets to A High Performance Culture
Why These 5 Words are Music To My Ears
4 Signs Your Team is EFFECTIVE
How to Overcome These 2 Common Business Challenges
How Much Should You Pay Your Staff?
Decision Making Authority & Why You Need To Give It Away
Powerful Content: How to ramp up your visibility without doing it all yourself with Mel Daniels
Boundaries: How to set ones that work (& keep them!)
Performance Enhancing Conversations with your Team
Secrets to Successfully Hiring & Managing a Community Manager with Shana Lynn
Mastering Delegation: 7 steps to avoid burnout
Hiring a Filipino VA with Offshoring Expert Tiffany English
When is it time to FIRE someone?
How to BE yourself at work with Cassandra Goodman
5 Interview Questions you Must ASK In 2024
Profit Profit Profit : How to get more of it in 2024 with Laura O'Hagan
Hire Smarter Bonus Mini Series Pt 3 - Profitable Onboarding
Hire Smarter Summer Series Pt 2 - How to Decide YOUR Top 5 Qualities To ALWAYS Hire Rockstars
Hire Smarter Summer Series Pt 1 - The Reason Why Most People Hire Wrong (and how to fix that for good!)
My Top 3 Client Lessons from 2023
5 Questions to Ask Each Of Your Team Before The End Of The Year
4 Day Work Week, Growth Lessons from Team of 3 to 12 and $2Mil + Revenue with Bonny Marsh, COO of Truii
7 TRUTHS I typically only share with my Private Clients
What are you EXPECTING vs INSPECTING?
Creating a Neuro-inclusive workplace with Dr Lutza Ireland
The essential elements to a LEAN TEAM. How many can you tick? Part 2
The essential elements to a LEAN TEAM. How many can you tick? Part 1
Avoid Hiring Headaches: Legal Advice for Growing Businesses with Tracey Mylecharane
Using AI to make Hiring & Performance EASIER
Mastering Retention: Nurturing Your Team for 3+ Years with Jazze Jervis
Difficult Conversations - My top 10 Tips to make them EASIER
Why only 7% of businesses grow past $2mil with Jenny Stilwell
Building Business Sustainability: Creating a Team That Doesn't Rely On One Individual
The secret to finding YOUR unicorn Virtual Assistant with Amy Dawe
Making flexible working... actually work (for you!)
Are you the bottleneck in your business? (And what to do about it!)
GREAT leaders with KICK ASS teams have these 5 traits. Which ones can you tick?
Are you planning for SPACE?
EOFY reflections - a personal BTS share from my biz
How hiring an Ops Manager created instant 20% revenue growth - a BTS of a Bookkeeping business with Sally Brindle
Having it all - Business, Health & Family with Jaiana Francis
The 3 Steps to Giving ROBUST Feedback (and not feel like a bitch!)
Surprising Leadership Lessons after 5yrs in Business - a BTS with Entrepreneur Amy Sanders-Robbins
Are you fixing the RIGHT problem?
How understanding your Human Design can help streamline your business with Amy Lea
Surprising Leadership Lessons from a Yoga Class
2 Ways to Elevate Your Thinking From Entrepreneur to Empowered 7 Figure CEO
5 RED FLAGS to look for when Hiring
Time Audit Results - My Surprising Results: What I Discovered & What I'm Changing
How to always be getting the MOST VALUE out of your People
Improving your systems and processes to help you scale with Shauna Vassell
Do you have HIGH EXPECTATIONS or are you being UNREASONABLE?
Have you done a TIME AUDIT before? Here's why this is a MUST for your business
5 Tips to Communicating Change To Your Team with Mel Loy
Is Micromanaging Your Team Always A Bad Thing?
Why your GUT health is affecting your performance at work with Dr Heather Finley
Team VALUES and why they are critical to a High Performing Team
BEHIND THE SCENES of re-hiring a key person into my business
What you need to know to LEAD in a POWERFUL + GRACEFUL way
Feeling BUSY? Ask yourself these 3 easy questions
5 Tips to Get Hiring RIGHT in 2023
The top digital distractions facing every entrepreneur and what to do about it with Dr Kristy Goodwin
13 Leadership Lessons from 13 Years in Business
What to do when your operations feel heavy (and what's the difference between VA, OBM and DOO)
The BIGGEST client lesson I want every entrepreneur to know for 2023
Hiring STRATEGICALLY in 2023 - How HIRING early will give you the discipline you need to GROW
Reflections & Plans: My Year In Review and what's ahead for 2023
Make sure you have THIS conversation with each of your team before the end of the year.
2 Ways To Supercharge Your Team & Get Your Time Back Before The End Of The Year!
Debunking Common Interviewing Myths
How to know when you are 'in your own way' (and how to get out!) with Dr Krystal Connor
Behind The Scenes - Hiring challenges and lessons learned from 7 Figure Entrepreneur, Tina Tower
Four ways you might be limiting your team's potential
Real Talk: Hiring for Entrepreneurs with 2 Ex-Corporate Recruiters with Mim Jenkinson
Do you have the 6 ingredients to an Effective Team?
Hiring Friends : The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
Why Most People Get Hiring Wrong (and how to avoid that)
How to Avoid Difficult Conversations with your Team
What is NOT Hiring Well Costing You?
Are you hiring STRATEGICALLY or EMOTIONALLY?
How your Belief & Intention may be sabotaging your success
Lessons from growing your remote team from 9-22 in < 12 months with 7-Figure entrepreneur Sarah Parkinson
The Four Management Styles - Which One Are You?
Balancing investing, profitability & paying yourself and why you should ditch the rules with Jazze Jervis
How to Write an Enticing Job Ad to Attract Quality Applicants
The question to ask if you've hired a team, but they're creating more work for you, not less
My Best & Worst Hires From My 12 Years In Business
When & What To Do To Plan For A Successful Hire
The 5 Most Common Team Mistakes (& How You Can Avoid Them!)
How to deal with the **emotions** of your Team
Supporting your team, business and self during challenging times - lessons from when my Dad was dying
Tales from my recruiting diary: My 8 most (ahem!) *INTERESTING* interviews
Why you should never hire a Unicorn
How YOU need to change as CEO of a 6 vs 7 Figure TEAM
The importance of attuning to peace, pleasure and ease for embodied business success
Dealing with DOUBT as a leader
Making Peace With The Emotional Waves Of Being An Entrepreneur with Kelsea Koenreich
Growing to 7 figures? Learn the 2 essential elements for a successful 7 figure team.
Making Difficult Conversations With Team Feel Easy
Building Clarity & Confidence as a Digital CEO with Kelly McHugh
Creating a Strong Team Culture with Becky Brunner
Juggling business and motherhood - a raw conversation with Amy Taylor-Kabbaz
Unpacking DISC behavioural tests with Charissa Lim
Learn the 5 Stages of TEAM growth and which one you are in (and how to get to a Team in Flow)
What normally goes wrong with remote teams (and what to do instead) with Jo Palmer
Flip the way you FEEL about hiring from dread to excited with entrepreneur Georgia Harding
The #1 Mistake CEOs make when it comes to their teams (and how to avoid making it)
Why a Dream Team is 100% available to you (regardless of your stage of business)
To grow to 7 figures (and beyond) you have to do THIS
What to do when your OPERATIONS feel heavy (and WTF is the difference between an OBM and a VA?)
The #1 thing you need to STOP because it's sabotaging your team
Let's talk about FEAR and how it shows up when you are hiring - with Sophia Pallas
A legal view on protecting yourself and your business when hiring a team - with lawyer Emma Heuston
The #1 skill you need to master to successfully lead and manage your team
Why not getting over your pricing fear is stopping you from hiring a rockstar team - with Courtney Rogers
My year in review 2021, how I reflect and what's ahead for 2022
Hiring reflections: My last 12 months with a key hire
Conversations you should be having before the end of the year
How to make sure your business keeps going even if someone on your team leaves
You've hired a team but you don't have time to talk to them
What to do when someone MAJOR leaves your business - with Lisa Corduff
When being a high performer makes you difficult to work for
How to Stop Wasting Your Time Fixing Your Teams Mistakes
How to ONLY work 10 hours per week and grow a 7 figure biz with Jazze Jervis
11 Leadership Lessons from 11 Years in Business
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