ScaleUp Radio
Scaling up your business isn't easy, and can be a little daunting. Let ScaleUp Radio make it a little easier for you. With guests who have been where you are now, and can offer their thoughts and advice on several aspects of business. ScaleUp Radio is the business podcast you've been waiting for. If you would like to apply to be a guest, just click here: https://bizsmarts.co.uk/scaleupradio/apply Kevin's New Book Is Now Available! Drawing on BizSmart's own research and experiences of working with hundreds of owner-managers, Kevin Brent explores the key reasons why most organisations do not scale and how the challenges change as they reach different milestones on the ScaleUp Journey. He then details a practical step by step guide to successfully navigate between the milestones in the form of ESUS - a proven system for entrepreneurs to scale up. More on the Book HERE - https://www.esusgroup.co.uk/
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What do a wine entrepreneur, a decision-science expert, and an occupational psychologist have in common?
More than you might think.
In this episode of ScaleUp Radio Shorts, Kevin Brent and Louise Blunt revisit three fascinating conversations with Jamie Smith of EcoSip, Dr Magda Du Preez of GetSense.net, and Tameron Chappell of athinka. Together, they uncover...
What happens when a pandemic destroys your original business model?
For Jamie Smith and his co-founder Alex, it became the catalyst for creating an entirely new category within the wine industry.
Starting as a wine retailer and tasting club, they quickly discovered that shipping glass bottles was expensive, inefficient and environmentally problematic. Rather than accept the challenge, they ...
How often do business owners make decisions they later regret?
Whether it's hiring, investment, strategy, pricing or growth, most founders like to believe they make rational decisions. Yet the reality is that emotions influence almost every business decision we make.
In this episode of ScaleUp Radio, Kevin Brent is joined by psychologist, researcher and entrepreneur Magda Du Preez, founder ...
Most business owners spend years building their company, yet very few spend any time building an exit strategy.
In this month's ScaleUp Radio Shorts episode, Kevin Brent and Louise Blunt explore why exit planning isn't really about leaving your business. It's about creating a stronger, more valuable, and less owner-dependent company today.
The reality is sobering. For many founders, their b...
Why do so many businesses hit a ceiling at around 10 employees?
Many founders start their business because they're brilliant at what they do. In the early days, decisions are fast, communication is simple, and the founder sits at the centre of everything.
Then the business grows.
Suddenly, what made the business successful starts to become the thing holding it back.
In this special edition of ScaleUp Radio Shorts, Kevin Brent and Louise Blunt revisit three standout conversations from recent ScaleUp Radio episodes to uncover a common thread running through them all.
At first glance, these guests appear to operate in completely different worlds. Maritsa Inglessis specialises in people and HR. Peter Juhasz helps businesses generate growth through AI-powered revenue sys...
In this episode of ScaleUp Radio, Kevin Brent is joined by Maritsa, founder of The People Keeper, to explore one of the biggest challenges facing growing businesses: keeping great people.
Maritsa shares how her business evolved from offering a single employee retention service into a comprehensive framework that helps companies with between 2 and 50 employees build the people foundations needed for susta...
What happens when founders get fed up with fragmented agencies, disconnected marketing tactics, and expensive growth projects that fail to deliver?
In this episode of ScaleUp Radio, Kevin Brent sits down with Peter Juhasz, co-founder of Syrvi.ai, to explore how they are reinventing go-to-market support for SMEs through what they call "Service as Software".
Peter shares the scaling journey b...
What happens when the business you built to create freedom starts feeling more like a trap?
In this episode of ScaleUp Radio, Kevin Brent speaks with Simon Bird, founder of SEON, about one of the most common but least discussed challenges facing growing SME owners: the "Owner's Trap". Simon shares practical frameworks and diagnostic approaches designed to help founders step back, regain clarity, and reco...
In this special ScaleUp Radio episode, recorded live at our monthly ScaleUp Club Q&A session, Kevin Brent is joined once again by returning ScaleUp Radio guest Jennifer Appleton to explore one of the most powerful strategic concepts for growing businesses: the Hedgehog Concept from Jim Collins' Good to Great.
Alongside the main discussion, members also heard an AI Pulse update from Paul at Green Gori...
What happens when you put a brand strategist and a leadership development expert side by side?
In this episode of ScaleUp Radio Shorts, Kevin Brent and Louise Blunt reflect on two recent ScaleUp Radio conversations with Giles Etherington, founder of Brand Satellite, and Meredith Bell, co-founder of Grow Strong Leaders.
At first glance, branding and leadership may seem like very different di...
What happens when the founder becomes the bottleneck in their own business?
In this episode of ScaleUp Radio, Kevin Brent speaks with leadership expert and co-founder of Grow Strong Leaders, Meredith Bell, about why leadership is often the hidden constraint preventing businesses from scaling.
Meredith shares how founders unintentionally create dependency cultures by solving every problem th...
What actually makes customers choose your business over a cheaper competitor?
For many SMEs, the answer is unclear because their messaging sounds exactly the same as everyone else in the market. In this episode of ScaleUp Radio, Kevin Brent is joined by brand strategist Giles Etherington to unpack why so many businesses fall into the trap of competing on rational features and services instead of emotiona...
In this episode of ScaleUp Radio Shorts, Kevin Brent and Louise Blunt reflect on two fascinating conversations from the main ScaleUp Radio podcast. One with entrepreneur Lucy Robins, founder of Amp Wellbeing, and the other with leadership expert Mike Mair.
At first glance, their worlds seem completely different. Lucy built a premium fitness equipment brand from scratch using her own savings, navigating s...
In this episode of ScaleUp Radio, Kevin Brent sits down with Lucy Robins to explore how she has built a premium wellness and fitness brand from scratch with a £50,000 personal investment and a clear mission: making movement part of everyday life.
Lucy shares the realities of bootstrapping a product business in today's market, from managing long lead times and cash flow pressures to building a brand that ...
What if the real reason your business isn't scaling isn't strategy, systems, or sales… but the way you develop your people?
In this episode of ScaleUp Radio, Kevin Brent is joined by leadership and strategic L&D expert Mike Mair to unpack one of the most overlooked drivers of sustainable growth: building engaged, high-performing teams through intentional leadership and culture development.
In this episode of ScaleUp Radio Shorts, Kevin Brent and Louise Blunt unpack the powerful overlap between mindset and operational scale-up challenges through insights from two exceptional guests: Jacqueline Wales and Jules Herd.
While Jules Herd brings practical expertise from the world of strategic communications and scaling technology businesses, Jacqueline Wales explores the deeper psychological patte...
In this episode of ScaleUp Radio, Kevin Brent is joined by expert advisor Jacqueline Wales, a leading authority on Fear Intelligence. This conversation reframes one of the most misunderstood forces in business, fear, and turns it into a practical leadership tool.
Rather than trying to eliminate fear, Jacqueline explains how scaleup leaders can use it as valuable data to make better decisions, build stron...
In this episode of ScaleUp Radio, Kevin Brent sits down with Jules Herd, founder of Five in a Boat, to unpack the real reasons scale-ups stall and what founders must do differently to grow sustainably.
Jules shares hard-earned insights from working with Series A to C tech businesses, revealing why marketing often isn't the real problem and what actually needs fixing underneath.
Key Takeawa...
This week on ScaleUp Radio Shorts, Kevin Brent and Louise Blunt unpack two fascinating conversations with founders operating in completely different worlds — yet connected by one powerful idea:
Business success still comes down to people.
On one side is Bob Ferguson — city councilman, long-standing business owner, and leader of what he calls an "all-volunteer army" through his n...
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