The Grown UP Business Podcast

The Grown UP Business Podcast

The Grown Up Business Podcast is a scale-up podcast for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs who want proven strategies for scaling a business sustainably and building companies that work without them. Hosted by Paul Avins, Business Transformation Expert, this podcast draws on over 21 years of coaching experience, supporting 20,000+ entrepreneurs and helping facilitate £150m+ in business exits. Each episode Paul shares practical insights, disciplined leadership thinking, and real-world scale-up frameworks to help founder and CEOs find new levels of personal and professional performance. On the podcast, you’ll hear: Expert Interviews Candid conversations with successful founders, CEOs, investors, and subject-matter experts covering leadership, scaling, funding, operations, exits, wellbeing and personal development. Actionable Scale-Up Strategies Clear, practical frameworks built around Paul’s four pillars: Level UP (founder mindset and CEO identity) Team UP (building high-performing leadership teams) Scale UP (sales, systems, and operational discipline) Fire UP (harness the power and energy of mind, body, spirit connect) Real Business Stories Proven strategies and hard-won lessons from leaders who have scaled businesses, failed and rebuilt, in the real world — with clarity, structure, and purpose. This CEO podcast is for you if you want to: - Scale a founder-led business beyond day-to-day dependency - Build a high-performing leadership team - Create a scalable and sellable business - Move from operator to confident scale-up CEO - Invest in your self and your personal development You’ll learn how to scale a business without chaos, implement systems that support sustainable growth, and build a company that delivers results, with or without you at the centre. A sellable business is also a great business to run. The Grown Up Business Podcast shows you how to build both. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your favourite platform and join thousands of ambitious founders already scaling with Paul and Team Purple. Level UP. Team UP. Scale UP. Fire UP

Episodes

August 22, 2026 74 mins
What if the difference between a business that stalls and one that scales past $100M isn't talent or budget, but whether you build your team the way elite sports teams build theirs? In this episode, Paul Avins sits down with Kevin Mark-Watts, author of The 10 Ten-Minute Rules, a specialist in peak performance, and a leader with over 30 years across retail, HR, and commercial leadership, including seven years as Commercial Director...
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Why does the same approach that got you to $5m stop working past $10m? Because at that point the constraint isn't the business anymore. It's you. In this episode, Paul Avins sits down with Deborah Henley, author of Your Leadership Story (a finalist in the Business Book Awards), creator of the REAL leadership model, and an executive coach who has spent years working with leaders at Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, and the Ministry of Defe...
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What if the biggest barrier to building a multimillion pound business isn't talent or strategy, but your willingness to go all in, hire the right people, and build a culture that makes people want to stay? In this episode, Paul Avins sits down with Andrew Hulbert, a former council estate kid who started a facilities management business from his bedroom, scaled it to over £50 million in turnover with 550 staff, and exited for £80 mi...
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What if the biggest barrier to scaling your business isn't marketing or sales, but how you think about your numbers, your tax strategy, and your exit plan? In this episode of The Grown UP Business Podcast, Paul Avins sits down with Saul Cohen, founder of ExpertEye and one of the UK's most experienced acquisition advisors. Saul started his career at PwC and has been involved in over 150 acquisitions before turning 35. He sold his f...
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What if the secret to scaling your sales in the next 90 days isn't working harder or hiring more salespeople, but mastering one platform most business owners completely overlook? In this episode of The Grown UP Business Podcast, Paul Avins sits down with Tom Breeze, founder and CEO of Viewability, a specialist video advertising agency that has managed multi million pound ad budgets for brands like HelloFresh, Mindvalley, ClickFunne...
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What if the secret to scaling from £15M to £50M wasn't working harder, but thinking like a private equity firm? In this episode of The Grown UP Business Podcast, Paul Avins sits down with Nick Bradley, private equity strategist, former operating partner, and author of Exit For Millions. Nick has been involved in over 50 acquisitions and 27 business exits worth over £5 billion. He pulls back the curtain on how private equity firms 1...
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What if the biggest risk to your business isn't the market or the competition—it's not understanding the new employment laws coming into force? In this episode of The Grown UP Business Podcast, Paul Avins sits down with Laura Tutt, founder of The Affable Partnership and HR consultant with over 20 years of experience navigating the complex world of employment law and people management. Laura breaks down the most significant le...
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What if the biggest barrier to scaling your business isn't your strategy, marketing or hiring, but your inability to trust and delegate? In this powerful episode of The Grown Up Business Podcast, host Paul Avins sits down with Nicola Anderson, CEO of Capacity to Grow and Founder Dependency Expert, to break down why founders struggle to delegate, why teams lose trust, and what stops businesses from scaling beyond the founder. This c...
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What if the secret to scaling your business isn't working harder — but mastering the mental and physical strategies that elite performers use to stay at the top of their game? In this episode of The Grown Up Business Podcast, Paul Avins continues his conversation with Jim Steele — CEO and founder of the Holistic Performance Lab, author of Unashamedly Superhuman, and performance consultant who has spent over 25 years hel...
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What if the secret to scaling your business isn't working harder — but building a marketing system so predictable that leads flow in consistently, your sales team converts efficiently, and you finally stop being the bottleneck? In this episode of The Grown Up Business Podcast, Paul Avins is joined by Francis Rodino — founder and CEO of Lead Hero, author of the number one bestselling book Lead Machine: The Nine Step Syst...
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What if the secret to scaling your business isn't working harder — but mastering the mental and physical strategies that elite performers use to stay at the top of their game? In this episode of The Grown Up Business Podcast, Paul Avins continues his conversation with Jim Steele — CEO and founder of the Holistic Performance Lab, author of Unashamedly Superhuman, and performance consultant who has spent over 25 years hel...
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What if the secret to scaling your business isn't working harder — but mastering the mental and physical strategies that elite performers use to stay at the top of their game? In this episode of The Grown Up Business Podcast, Paul Avins is joined by Jim Steele — CEO and founder of the Holistic Performance Lab, author of Unashamedly Superhuman, and performance consultant who has spent over 25 years helping leaders, entre...
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What if the secret to scaling your business isn't working harder — but building a brand so distinctive that customers can't help but remember you? In this episode of The Grown Up Business Podcast, Paul Avins is joined by James Goolnik — award-winning biological dentist, entrepreneur, and founder of Optimal Dental Health. James shares his remarkable journey from building Bo Dental, a seven-figure practice with purple cha...
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What if the secret to scaling your business isn't working harder — but optimising the one asset that drives everything: you? In this episode of The Grown Up Business Podcast, Paul Avins is joined by Zed Mountford-Hill — UK registered pharmacist, founder of NutriZen Wellness Centre, and health optimisation expert who has spent 15 years in pharmacy before building a state-of-the-art wellness clinic from scratch. Zed share...
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What if the secret to scaling your business isn't working harder — but learning to collaborate with AI in ways most entrepreneurs haven't even considered? In this episode of The Grown Up Business Podcast, Paul Avins is joined by Julie Holmes — inventor, tech founder, and AI expert who has spent over 25 years in enterprise technology. Julie shares her journey from building cat traps as a kid to creating innovative produc...
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What if the secret to achieving your biggest business goals isn't working harder — but reprogramming how your brain processes success? In this episode of The Grown Up Business Podcast, Paul Avins is joined by Brian Mayne — creator of Goal Mapping, a proven 7-step system used by Microsoft, Disney, Coca-Cola, and over a million people worldwide. Brian shares his remarkable journey from losing everything at 29 — his ...
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What if scaling from 1 to 154 people in just 12 months wasn’t about working harder — but building smarter systems? In this episode of The Grown Up Business Podcast, Paul Avins is joined by Richard Woods — three-time bestselling author, serial entrepreneur, and creator of LinkedIn Breakfast. Richard shares how he scaled a business from a one-person operation to a 154-strong team in just over a year by systemising e...
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What if working less could actually help you scale faster? In this episode of the Grown Up Business Podcast, Paul chats with Ben Coomber, founder of Awesome Supplements and high-performance coach, about how he went from complete burnout and long Covid to running a multi-million pound business while working just 25 hours a week. Ben gets really honest about his journey from being a controlling, fear-driven CEO putting in 70-hour wee...
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What if the secret to scaling your business isn't working more hours — but sleeping better ones? In this episode of the Grown Up Business Podcast, business strategist Paul Avins sits down with Sammy Margo, chartered physiotherapist, bestselling author of "The Good Sleep Guide", and founder of SmartPhysio — a successful 27-person physiotherapy practice in London. Discover how Sammy went from working 15-hou...
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What if the secret to scaling your business isn't working harder — but hiring smarter? In this episode of the Grown Up Business Podcast, Paul Avins sits down with Graham Brown — former military medic turned recruitment expert with over 24 years of experience, author of the upcoming book Too Many Hats, and one of Team Purple's specialist coaches in team dynamics and executive search. Graham shares his remarkable journey ...
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