{"podcast":{"title":"The People Side of Business | Team Management Strategies, How to Manage Employees, Leadership for Business Owners","slug":"female-founder-unplugged-3679031","podcast_index_feed_id":3679031,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2326429.rss","website_url":"https://www.highvoltageleadership.ca","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/xw5b47u5enutwry0oxntq2xlnkmu?.jpg","author":"Lindsay White | Fractional HR Expert, Team Leadership Strategist, Leadership Coach for Female Founders","episode_count":247,"summary":"Are you leading a team but quietly wondering if you’re actually doing it right? Are you dealing with employee issues, performance problems, or difficult conversations that feel heavier than they should? And are you starting to realize that growing your business through people is a completely different skill set than building it on your own? If that sounds like you, you’re not alone—and you’re in the right place. Because the truth is, leadership is something most founders are never properly taught. You build a business, you hire a team, and suddenly you’re expected to know how to manage people, make the right calls, and lead with confidence—without ever being shown how to do it well. That’s exactly what this podcast is here to change. Hi, I’m Lindsay White, a fractional HR expert and leadership coach who works with founders and business owners navigating the real challenges of leading a team. I’ve spent years inside growing businesses, helping founders work through everything from hiring and performance issues to team dynamics and difficult decisions—often at the exact moment things start to feel messy, unclear, or harder than they should. Like a lot of the people I work with, you…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T20:21:15.715030+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/female-founder-unplugged-3679031"},"episode":{"title":"[S5, Ep34] Redesigning Your CEO Role for Real Growth","slug":"s5-ep34-redesigning-your-ceo-role-for-real-growth","published_at":"2026-02-05T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/female-founder-unplugged-3679031/s5-ep34-redesigning-your-ceo-role-for-real-growth","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/female-founder-unplugged-3679031","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2326429/episodes/18625272-s5-ep34-redesigning-your-ceo-role-for-real-growth.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2326429/episodes/18625272-s5-ep34-redesigning-your-ceo-role-for-real-growth.mp3","summary":"Send us Fan Mail So… your business is growing, your team’s stronger than ever, and for the first time, things are running without you in every detail. That should feel like freedom, right? But instead, you’re feeling lost. Maybe a little guilty. Maybe even… useless. In this episode, I’m getting real about the identity shift that happens when you finally move out of operator mode and into your CEO seat. The weird in-between, the grief, the guilt, the “who even am I now?” moments. I’ll walk you...","meta_description":"Send us Fan Mail So… your business is growing, your team’s stronger than ever, and for the first time, things are running without you in every detail. Tha…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1045,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/female-founder-unplugged-3679031/episodes/s5-ep34-redesigning-your-ceo-role-for-real-growth/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/female-founder-unplugged-3679031/s5-ep34-redesigning-your-ceo-role-for-real-growth.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}