{"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, Ep39] The Leadership Shift in the Messy Middle","slug":"s5-ep39-the-leadership-shift-in-the-messy-middle","published_at":"2026-03-12T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/female-founder-unplugged-3679031/s5-ep39-the-leadership-shift-in-the-messy-middle","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/female-founder-unplugged-3679031","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2326429/episodes/18832155-s5-ep39-the-leadership-shift-in-the-messy-middle.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2326429/episodes/18832155-s5-ep39-the-leadership-shift-in-the-messy-middle.mp3","summary":"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 that actually has to happen first. ✨ Episode Highlights: 🧠 ...","meta_description":"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…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1466,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/female-founder-unplugged-3679031/episodes/s5-ep39-the-leadership-shift-in-the-messy-middle/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-ep39-the-leadership-shift-in-the-messy-middle.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}