{"podcast":{"title":"Business Growth Lab","slug":"business-growth-lab-11354","podcast_index_feed_id":11354,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/business-growth-lab/","website_url":"https://samanthariley.global/podcast/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/4d7a0bfc-50d2-444e-bef1-8b8d30bf319c/1_uMlHGMljh2WnWpPOucYqlw.jpg","author":"Samantha Riley","episode_count":737,"summary":"You built your business for freedom. So why does it feel like another job you can't quit? Business Growth Lab is for established service founders ready to scale their revenue and get their life back. Each week, Samantha Riley and her husband Leon pull back the curtain on what it actually takes to move from Constraint Stage to Scale Stage - the systems, the team, the mindset shift, and the sequence that makes it stick. Expect straight-talking strategy, expert guests sharing what's working right now, and unfiltered behind-the-scenes conversations from two people who've built multiple businesses themselves. This is where established founders come to install the structure their business has always needed. Find us on IG: @thesamriley and @leonflitton","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T10:19:12.239972+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-growth-lab-11354"},"episode":{"title":"The Five Stages Of Business Growth.  Which Stage Are You In?","slug":"the-five-stages-of-business-growth-which-stage-are-you-in","published_at":"2026-05-18T20:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-growth-lab-11354/the-five-stages-of-business-growth-which-stage-are-you-in","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-growth-lab-11354","url":"https://samanthariley.global/podcast/","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/27296d95-2251-486d-89fc-6c9c70bd2923.mp3","summary":"There’s something nobody tells you when you're deep in the trenches of building your business. The advice that's frustrating you, the tactics that aren't working, the strategies that seem to work for everyone but you? They're probably not wrong. They're just designed for a completely different stage than the one you're actually in right now. In this episode, Samantha and Leon break down the five stages every service business goes through, and more importantly, how to know exactly which one you're in. The stage you're in determines everything. Knowing what you need to build next, what you need to stop doing immediately, what identity you need to step into, and what advice is actually relevant to where you are right now. Do you know which stage you are actually in? Not where you want to be, not where you think you should be, but where you actually are right now. Because the most expensive thing you can do is apply the wrong stage solutions to your current reality. WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER IN THIS EPISODE: Why what's working brilliantly for someone else is quietly wrecking your momentum (and what to do instead) The stage one trap that feels exactly like progress right up until it burns you to the ground Why stage two looks like success from the outside but feels suspiciously like a job you can't quit The messy, brutal, nobody-warned-me-about-this reality of stage three The exact order to fix things in your business because scrambling this sequence means your hardest work doesn’t produce results The identity shift that turns stage three chaos into stage four scale The fork in the road every stage five owner eventually faces Got questions or want more business growth content? Follow us over at @thesamriley and @leonflitton Ready to build a business that funds your life and does…","meta_description":"There’s something nobody tells you when you're deep in the trenches of building your business. The advice that's frustrating you, the tactics that aren't…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3293,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/business-growth-lab-11354/episodes/the-five-stages-of-business-growth-which-stage-are-you-in/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-growth-lab-11354/the-five-stages-of-business-growth-which-stage-are-you-in.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}