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Simple shifts and smart moves for overwhelmed, mission-driven founders.You started your business to make a difference. Two years in, you're making impact, but you're also making every decision, answering every question, and working way harder than you want to.You're not alone.
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Why won't my team follow the new system? (opens the original)
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Free Scoping Session with Linda "The System Looked Great on Paper" Your new process looked logical, clear, and complete, but your team quietly stopped using it. In this episode, Linda explains why good systems still break and the three questions that help you repair the conditions around them. What You'll Learn: The Hook: Why a well-documented process can fail within weeks of rollout. Reality Check: How one growing company's new system collapsed because the team understood what to do, but not wh
How can I stop using perfectionism as a place to hide? (opens the original)
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"Why do founders get stuck researching instead of launching?" Sometimes the work that looks productive is actually protecting you from finding out whether something will work. In this episode, Linda looks at the founder who is not overwhelmed by too many decisions, but stuck because they keep waiting until they feel completely sure. What You'll Learn: The Hook: Why some founders stay busy refining, researching, and aligning instead of making the decision that would move things forward. Reality C
Is your team’s communication problem actually an accountability problem? (opens the original)
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Free Scoping Session with Linda “We Thought We Had a Communication Problem” When the same team problems keep coming back, it is easy to blame communication. But often the real issue is missing structure: unclear ownership, fuzzy decision-making, low trust, and constantly shifting priorities. What You'll Learn: The Hook: Why adding more meetings, messages, or tools rarely fixes the real problem underneath. Reality Check: Linda shares the story of a team stuck in low-level conflict, repeated decis
Why am I the bottleneck in my own business? (opens the original)
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“I Was the Problem and I Didn't Know It” Sometimes the thing slowing the business down is not the market, the team, or the timing. It is the founder who has become so central to everything that the business cannot grow without cracking. What You'll Learn: The Hook: Why founders often look everywhere else for the problem before realizing they may be the bottleneck. Reality Check: Linda shares the story of a founder who thought she was holding the business together, but was actually holding it bac
This Is Harder than I Want It to Be Season 2 Trailer (opens the original)
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This Is Harder than I Want It To Be: Season 2—What Happens After Things Break Linda van Egmond introduces Season 2 of "This is Harder Than I Want It To Be," focused on what happens after failures and breakdowns in leadership, teams, systems, or growth. She argues that failure is part of good leadership and highlights founders who acknowledge mistakes and fix them. Unlike Season 1, which covered shifts made before things break, this season begins each episode with a real failure from her or found
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