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Big Dreams Great Teams® with Paula Maidens — 185 episodes

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Why 5 Team Members Feels Harder Than 10 (And How to Fix It)

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Scaling Teams, Culture & Leadership in a Growing Service-Based Business | Winnie Wu

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Why Your Team’s Not the Problem — And What to Fix Instead

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My Top 16 Business Lessons After 16 Years in Business

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Psychosocial Hazard Laws Explained: What Business Owners Can (and Can’t) Do With Their Team | Tracey Mylecharane

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Let Go of Perfect: The Strategic Shift Every Founder Must Make to Scale

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How to Make Your AI Job Ad Stand Out From the Crowd

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The Podcast Is Back — With the Advice Business Owners Actually Need

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Using AI for Marketing Your Business & Why Small Business Marketing Hires Fail

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2025 Update: 5 Hiring Tips For Small Businesses In The Current Market

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Removing the Fear from Hiring

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Everyone is NOT an Expert - Difference Between Advice and Opinion

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How to Build Trust and Collaboration Within Your Team: Your Secret To Small Business Growth

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Hot Flushes & High Performance: Building Your Business Through Perimenopause with Shelly Horton

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Team Performance Check: Are Your Employees Meeting Your Business Needs

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Scaling Team Growing Pains: Why Your Team Can Break on the way to $1M (And How to Fix It)

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Financial Foundations for Smart Team Growth: Essential Money Moves for Scaling with Lisa Turner

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Transform Your Team Meetings: 3 Questions That Build Accountability & Drive Results

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Ask, Don't Tell: The Tiny Shift That Will Free Up Your Time & (Finally!) Empower Your Team

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From Overwhelmed Owner to Strategic CEO: The Leadership Evolution Your Business Needs

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Transform Your Culture USING Values-Based Communication in 2025

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AI in Hiring & Leadership: What Works and What Doesn't

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Break These Leadership Habits Before They Break Your Team in 2025

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Behind The Scenes: Triumphs, Tests & Truth Bombs of 2024

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The Franchise Success Formula: Values, Vision, and Making Hearts Sing; Lessons in Culture-First Leadership from ActivOT's Founder Helen Wait

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4 Thinking Preferences: Which One Drives Your Brain?

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Scaling to $7M in 4 Years: Essential Business, Team & Leadership Lessons with Allana Ford

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Time vs. Energy Management: Is Time Management Obsolete?

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Managing Anxiety, Mental Health & Burnout in the Workplace with Dr. Jodi Richardson

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Q4 Retention Activities To Power Up Your Team for 2025

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Creating a 'Bad Day' Business Model Through Automation - with Peta Serras

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Remuneration Models - Which Pay Structures Are Right For Small Business (& What To Avoid)

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5 Leadership Habits You Need To Break To Scale Your Business

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Unlocking the Link Between Productivity and Profitability in Small Business

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Navigating ADHD and Entrepreneurship with serial business owner - Jane McFadden

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My #1 Philosophy for Life & Business

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Transforming Performance through Team Events with Mykel Dixon

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The Pros, Cons & Differences You Must Know When Hiring Subcontractors

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How to Attract & Retain LOYAL Team Members

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The Ultimate Guide to Reference Checks: Hire RIGHT for Your Small Business

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Client Lesson #9: Delegate, Don't Do

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Subcontractor vs. Employee - Which One Is Right for You?

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Client Lesson #8: Is it REALLY that urgent?

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Reducing the STRESS from Having Employees

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Client Lesson #7: Do THIS to NOT be frustrated when hiring someone to do the same job as you

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Stop having BORING Team Meetings! Here's how.

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Client Lesson #6: Preparing for Holidays (so you can actually relax!)

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Dealing with Stress, Overwork & Burnout with Dr Hayley Kelly

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Client Lesson #5: Delegating leadership within your team

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The Impact of Team Effectiveness on Your Clients & Your Brand

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Client Lesson #4: There is ALWAYS light at the end of the tunnel

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EOFY Reflections: Revenue is down but my WAGE IS UP

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Client Lesson #3: Why You Must TEST In Your Hiring Process (& how to feel good about it!)

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BTS of My Recent Filipino VA Hire & 4 Top Tips for You To Do It Too!

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Client Lesson #2: Common Hiring Mistakes You Can Avoid

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Struggling to FIND quality applicants & stand out to potential employees? Here’s what to do

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Client Lessons #1: Delegating EMAIL in a way that's easy (for you!)

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Why Hiring is Different In 2024 (& Why You Need to Know HOW To Get It Right For Small Business Success!)

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The impact STRESS has on you & your business with Aubrey Nation

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Unlocking the Secrets to A High Performance Culture

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Why These 5 Words are Music To My Ears

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4 Signs Your Team is EFFECTIVE

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How to Overcome These 2 Common Business Challenges

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How Much Should You Pay Your Staff?

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Decision Making Authority & Why You Need To Give It Away

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Powerful Content: How to ramp up your visibility without doing it all yourself with Mel Daniels

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Boundaries: How to set ones that work (& keep them!)

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Performance Enhancing Conversations with your Team

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Secrets to Successfully Hiring & Managing a Community Manager with Shana Lynn

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Mastering Delegation: 7 steps to avoid burnout

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Hiring a Filipino VA with Offshoring Expert Tiffany English

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When is it time to FIRE someone?

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How to BE yourself at work with Cassandra Goodman

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5 Interview Questions you Must ASK In 2024

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Profit Profit Profit : How to get more of it in 2024 with Laura O'Hagan

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Hire Smarter Bonus Mini Series Pt 3 - Profitable Onboarding

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Hire Smarter Summer Series Pt 2 - How to Decide YOUR Top 5 Qualities To ALWAYS Hire Rockstars

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Hire Smarter Summer Series Pt 1 - The Reason Why Most People Hire Wrong (and how to fix that for good!)

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My Top 3 Client Lessons from 2023

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5 Questions to Ask Each Of Your Team Before The End Of The Year

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4 Day Work Week, Growth Lessons from Team of 3 to 12 and $2Mil + Revenue with Bonny Marsh, COO of Truii

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7 TRUTHS I typically only share with my Private Clients

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What are you EXPECTING vs INSPECTING?

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Creating a Neuro-inclusive workplace with Dr Lutza Ireland

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The essential elements to a LEAN TEAM. How many can you tick? Part 2

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The essential elements to a LEAN TEAM. How many can you tick? Part 1

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Avoid Hiring Headaches: Legal Advice for Growing Businesses with Tracey Mylecharane

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Using AI to make Hiring & Performance EASIER

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Mastering Retention: Nurturing Your Team for 3+ Years with Jazze Jervis

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Difficult Conversations - My top 10 Tips to make them EASIER

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Why only 7% of businesses grow past $2mil with Jenny Stilwell

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Building Business Sustainability: Creating a Team That Doesn't Rely On One Individual

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The secret to finding YOUR unicorn Virtual Assistant with Amy Dawe

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Making flexible working... actually work (for you!)

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Are you the bottleneck in your business? (And what to do about it!)

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GREAT leaders with KICK ASS teams have these 5 traits. Which ones can you tick?

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Are you planning for SPACE?

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EOFY reflections - a personal BTS share from my biz

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How hiring an Ops Manager created instant 20% revenue growth - a BTS of a Bookkeeping business with Sally Brindle

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Having it all - Business, Health & Family with Jaiana Francis

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The 3 Steps to Giving ROBUST Feedback (and not feel like a bitch!)

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Surprising Leadership Lessons after 5yrs in Business - a BTS with Entrepreneur Amy Sanders-Robbins

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Are you fixing the RIGHT problem?

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How understanding your Human Design can help streamline your business with Amy Lea

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Surprising Leadership Lessons from a Yoga Class

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2 Ways to Elevate Your Thinking From Entrepreneur to Empowered 7 Figure CEO

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5 RED FLAGS to look for when Hiring

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Time Audit Results - My Surprising Results: What I Discovered & What I'm Changing

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How to always be getting the MOST VALUE out of your People

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Improving your systems and processes to help you scale with Shauna Vassell

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Do you have HIGH EXPECTATIONS or are you being UNREASONABLE?

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Have you done a TIME AUDIT before? Here's why this is a MUST for your business

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5 Tips to Communicating Change To Your Team with Mel Loy

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Is Micromanaging Your Team Always A Bad Thing?

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Why your GUT health is affecting your performance at work with Dr Heather Finley

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Team VALUES and why they are critical to a High Performing Team

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BEHIND THE SCENES of re-hiring a key person into my business

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What you need to know to LEAD in a POWERFUL + GRACEFUL way

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Feeling BUSY? Ask yourself these 3 easy questions

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5 Tips to Get Hiring RIGHT in 2023

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The top digital distractions facing every entrepreneur and what to do about it with Dr Kristy Goodwin

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13 Leadership Lessons from 13 Years in Business

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What to do when your operations feel heavy (and what's the difference between VA, OBM and DOO)

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The BIGGEST client lesson I want every entrepreneur to know for 2023

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Hiring STRATEGICALLY in 2023 - How HIRING early will give you the discipline you need to GROW

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Reflections & Plans: My Year In Review and what's ahead for 2023

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Make sure you have THIS conversation with each of your team before the end of the year.

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2 Ways To Supercharge Your Team & Get Your Time Back Before The End Of The Year!

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Debunking Common Interviewing Myths

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How to know when you are 'in your own way' (and how to get out!) with Dr Krystal Connor

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Behind The Scenes - Hiring challenges and lessons learned from 7 Figure Entrepreneur, Tina Tower

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Four ways you might be limiting your team's potential

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Real Talk: Hiring for Entrepreneurs with 2 Ex-Corporate Recruiters with Mim Jenkinson

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Do you have the 6 ingredients to an Effective Team?

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Hiring Friends : The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

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Why Most People Get Hiring Wrong (and how to avoid that)

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How to Avoid Difficult Conversations with your Team

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What is NOT Hiring Well Costing You?

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Are you hiring STRATEGICALLY or EMOTIONALLY?

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How your Belief & Intention may be sabotaging your success

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Lessons from growing your remote team from 9-22 in < 12 months with 7-Figure entrepreneur Sarah Parkinson

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The Four Management Styles - Which One Are You?

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Balancing investing, profitability & paying yourself and why you should ditch the rules with Jazze Jervis

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How to Write an Enticing Job Ad to Attract Quality Applicants

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The question to ask if you've hired a team, but they're creating more work for you, not less

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My Best & Worst Hires From My 12 Years In Business

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When & What To Do To Plan For A Successful Hire

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The 5 Most Common Team Mistakes (& How You Can Avoid Them!)

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How to deal with the **emotions** of your Team

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Supporting your team, business and self during challenging times - lessons from when my Dad was dying

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Tales from my recruiting diary: My 8 most (ahem!) *INTERESTING* interviews

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Why you should never hire a Unicorn

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How YOU need to change as CEO of a 6 vs 7 Figure TEAM

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The importance of attuning to peace, pleasure and ease for embodied business success

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Dealing with DOUBT as a leader

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Making Peace With The Emotional Waves Of Being An Entrepreneur with Kelsea Koenreich

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Growing to 7 figures? Learn the 2 essential elements for a successful 7 figure team.

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Making Difficult Conversations With Team Feel Easy

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Building Clarity & Confidence as a Digital CEO with Kelly McHugh

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Creating a Strong Team Culture with Becky Brunner

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Juggling business and motherhood - a raw conversation with Amy Taylor-Kabbaz

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Unpacking DISC behavioural tests with Charissa Lim

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Learn the 5 Stages of TEAM growth and which one you are in (and how to get to a Team in Flow)

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What normally goes wrong with remote teams (and what to do instead) with Jo Palmer

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Flip the way you FEEL about hiring from dread to excited with entrepreneur Georgia Harding

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The #1 Mistake CEOs make when it comes to their teams (and how to avoid making it)

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Why a Dream Team is 100% available to you (regardless of your stage of business)

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To grow to 7 figures (and beyond) you have to do THIS

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What to do when your OPERATIONS feel heavy (and WTF is the difference between an OBM and a VA?)

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The #1 thing you need to STOP because it's sabotaging your team

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Let's talk about FEAR and how it shows up when you are hiring - with Sophia Pallas

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A legal view on protecting yourself and your business when hiring a team - with lawyer Emma Heuston

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The #1 skill you need to master to successfully lead and manage your team

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Why not getting over your pricing fear is stopping you from hiring a rockstar team - with Courtney Rogers

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My year in review 2021, how I reflect and what's ahead for 2022

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Hiring reflections: My last 12 months with a key hire

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Conversations you should be having before the end of the year

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How to make sure your business keeps going even if someone on your team leaves

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You've hired a team but you don't have time to talk to them

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What to do when someone MAJOR leaves your business - with Lisa Corduff

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When being a high performer makes you difficult to work for

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How to Stop Wasting Your Time Fixing Your Teams Mistakes

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How to ONLY work 10 hours per week and grow a 7 figure biz with Jazze Jervis

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11 Leadership Lessons from 11 Years in Business

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Welcome to the Big Dreams Great Teams Podcast