Prepare Like a Pro: How to Reflect, Reorient, and Re-engage for 2026
Release Date: 11/20/2025
The CEO Evolution: Re-Engineering Your Role to Unlock 10x Value
Bold Business Podcast
If your job as CEO hasn’t changed in three years, your company might be outgrowing you. To elevate your business 10x, it’s essential to reassess your role as CEO, make tough calls, and prioritize with unwavering focus. These are the key areas where you can unlock significant value for yourself, your team, and your customers. from , of , and from have an open discussion about how you might be the bottleneck hindering your business growth. Here are key notes you don’t want to miss: ** Assess and sharpen your focus - The greatest obstacle to growth often lies...
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Investor Insights: Business Scaling, Conflict, and Operational Excellence
Bold Business Podcast
A fuzzy strategy comes with real costs, and that lack of clarity can diminish true value. Think you're scaling well? Think again. It's crucial to support a bold vision with clear direction and regular reality checks. Identifying your unique growth factor while staying focused on the core problem can be quite a challenge, particularly as your company faces new constraints and friction points. You, your team, and your investor partners will achieve the most significant milestones by collaborating through difficulties. In this program, you'll learn how to address the...
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UNCHARTED: Energize Your Team: The Power of Curiosity and Brave Belonging
Bold Business Podcast
Being curious and stepping into new dynamics are tangible signs of bold leadership. It requires committing to courageous practices that ultimately make the greatest impact both in business and beyond. And it starts with you, as an authentic individual. Bringing more of yourself to every moment of your day will give you MORE energy. You can have “space” in your meetings, conversations, or company culture to unlock your team’s best ideas. It is the intangible connections that transform how your business scales, grows, and belongs together. Embrace experimentation...
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ENCORE: Embrace Endings and Create Powerful Beginnings
Bold Business Podcast
Endings often go unnoticed. It's easy to push back project deadlines and adjust our expectations for results, but calling for a definitive stop to review our progress can be much harder. We might feel the urge to dive right into tactics to achieve results, yet what we're truly after is a clear, overarching goal—whether that's increasing something or changing the status quo. When launching a product, crafting your business’s narrative, or entering a new market, a lack of clarity makes it challenging to recognize when we’ve hit our desired outcome. It's crucial to step back,...
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ENCORE: Modern Leadership Development (Goal Chat)
Bold Business Podcast
This episode originally aired on , hosted by , a goal strategist and the creator of The DEB Method. The panel features , Managing Partner at , who specializes in operations and strategy; , a results-driven leadership coach; and , a consultant focused on leadership and productivity. Together, they explore modern leadership development and share their views on past and current leadership trends. Each expert brings their unique flair to the discussion: Jess passionately advocates for the significance of purpose in leadership, Jeannette shares her insights on the art of...
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ENCORE: Leverage Your Expertise to Grow Profitable Businesses
Bold Business Podcast
The depth of your knowledge opens up new opportunities. The more you learn, the more you realize there’s so much left to explore, which is why curiosity is key. Asking questions like, “What’s going on behind this process?” or “What discoveries can help our industry improve?” is crucial. Also, consider what we might be doing that could inadvertently create new problems for our customers. Sometimes, the way our industry works can be frustrating, which might motivate us to develop solutions to address its shortcomings. To make this happen, it’s super important to have a team...
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Leading Through Uncharted Territory: Lessons for CEOs in Fast-Changing Markets
Bold Business Podcast
Yesterday’s playbook is useless for tomorrow’s problems. Smart companies evolve their people, keep clarity around priorities, navigate uncertainty and grow. The Gauntlet of Growth for sustainable growth has six parts: sharpening focus, calibrating culture, strengthening leadership, elevating talent, aligning structures, and amplifying communication. These insights are derived from hands-on work with high-growth companies that help founders and leaders scale their organizations. In this episode, you will learn what it truly means to navigate change, how your role as a CEO...
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UNCHARTED: The Role of Gut Feelings: Transforming Shame into Strength and Assertive Action
Bold Business Podcast
Are you responsible FOR your team or TO them? It takes courage to confront and transform the internalized shame and disgust that can affect our ability to harness anger as a force for good. The next time you experience feelings of anger or shame, take a moment to pause and ask yourself, “Is this truly mine, or did I absorb it from someone else?” You may be surprised by what you find. This reflects the underlying myths society holds about anger. Any unresolved feelings of anger or shame could negatively impact your well-being, hinder your focus, and affect your business’s bottom...
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Become a Conscious Creator: Elevate Your Life and Business With Positive Belief
Bold Business Podcast
Business teams thrive or struggle based on the attitude of their leadership. As a leader, you have the power to influence and uplift your team's environment, creating a significant impact through clear internal communication and a strong external presence. Are you building an opportunity or obstacle into your company culture? Both conscious and unconscious beliefs shape self-image, behavior, and relationships. By managing your self-talk, you can control your outcomes. It’s possible to take action that shifts your mindset so you—and your organization — can bounce back stronger each...
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Seeds of Wisdom: Power is the pause
Bold Business Podcast
In the pursuit of success, many people become fixated on future goals, often missing a vital ingredient for achievement: the power of taking a pause. How we manage our time dramatically influences what we can really accomplish. Welcome to an exciting ENCORE episode of the BOLD Business Podcast! This conversation originally aired on Seeds of Wisdom by author . , a strategic growth consultant, dives deep into the transformative concept of pausing in the world of business, unravelling what pausing truly means, the incredible power it brings, and how it serves as a strategic tool for...
info_outlineUnlock your competitive edge by planning earlier than everyone else. Strategic planning is more than an annual box to check; it is a time to reflect, reorient, and reengage your company with its long-term objectives, and to align today’s priorities with them.
The true cost of distraction goes beyond just affecting mental focus; it impacts your bottom line. It's not only about lost productivity; on average, it takes about 23 minutes and 15 seconds to switch between business activities. Even though we are working effectively, the time lost hinders our company from maximizing its available resources.
In this episode, you will hear how not to overthink reflection, the importance of taking time to understand your current position before moving forward, and tips for conducting productive deep work sessions.
The panelists in this "It's Your Business" conversation are all business advisors: Christy Maxfield, President and CEO of Purpose First Advisors; Dean Barta, Founder and CEO of Barta Business Group; and Jess Dewell, Growth Strategist at Red Direction. They discuss a three-part framework designed to unlock your business's growth potential and explore pathways for strategic re-engagement.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the “Growth Framework Reset” approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
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You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.