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 depends on you instead of supporting you.

Sustainable gr...

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 conclusions, ask yourself whether your team truly unde...

Most founders think Avoiding Difficult Conversations protects relationships. In reality, it quietly damages them. Every conversation left unsaid chips away at trust, lowers accountability, and weakens team performance. Over time, your employees feel the tension, your business slows, and your confidence as a leader takes the biggest hit. The conversation isn't the problem. Avoiding it is.

Many founder challenges don't begin with stra...

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. More clients, more opportu...

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 founders are building impactfu...

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.

✨ The Seven Lessons of Season Five

1. Scalin...

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 marketing thinker. Kaitlyn looks...

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 look at my own week differently! And this episode w...

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 empowerment work she's been doing ever since to make s...

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 entrepreneurs with the emotional an...

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 in the pharmaceutical space with a m...

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 more in this episode with Angela Johnson, CEO of...

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 story is as much about reclaiming...

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-founder of The Social Snippet, a s...

"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 conversation.

Episode Highlights

📍 What makes the messy middle feel so uniquely lonely, and...

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 business. And like most founders in this stage, you don't have a people strategy at all — yet! And th...

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 the hot conversation you need t...

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 this episode is really about: The internal work...

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 Highlights:

📍 What the messy middle actually is,...