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The Start, Scale & Succeed PodcastThe Founder's Roadmap for Success in Every Stage Author: Scott Ritzheimer
Scale Architects, founder, CEO and Secrets of The High Demand Coach podcast host Scott Ritzheimer has helped start nearly 20,000 new businesses and nonprofits and launched and sold his own multimillion-dollar business after leading it through an exceptional and extended growth phase (over 10 years of double-digit growth) all before he turned 35. He realized the biggest secret to success is that there is not one secret to success. There are key strategies, tactics, skills, and mindsets needed at each stage of the journey AND they are different in each stage. He launched the Start, Scale & Succeed podcast to help you know what you need to do RIGHT NOW to create the success you want. If you're a founder, entrepreneur, owner, or CEO or even if you'd like to be. You'll find episodes guiding you to success in all seven stages of your journey from pre-launch to post-exit. Language: en Genres: Business, Entrepreneurship, Management Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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You Don’t Have a Business You Have a Job with Jesse Gilmore (stage 2) - Ep. 394
Episode 394
Tuesday, 12 May, 2026
In this strategic episode, Jesse Gilmore, Founder of Niche in Control, shares how to escape the founder-as-bottleneck trap by shifting your identity from doer to leader and building real systems so you stop owning a job and start owning a business. If you’re still the single point of failure and every client or fire runs through you, you won’t want to miss it.You will discover:- Why succeeding as the best doer in stage two can make you the bottleneck that prevents scaling into higher stages- What signs reveal you've built yourself a job instead of a business, such as inability to take a week off without everything stalling- How to complete a 7-day time log to identify tasks for eliminate, automate, delegate, and time-block so you can shift from doer to trainer to manager to visionaryThis episode is ideal for for Founders, Owners, and CEOs in stage 2 of The Founder's Evolution. Not sure which stage you're in? Find out for free in less than 10 minutes at https://www.scalearchitects.com/founders/quizJesse P. Gilmore is a transformational business coach and the founder of Niche in Control, where he helps agency owners scale their businesses while reclaiming their time and peace of mind. Creator of the Leverage for Growth® method, host of the Leverage for Growth Podcast, and author of The Agency Owner’s Guide to Freedom, Jesse has helped over 100 marketing agencies break through plateaus and systematize sustainable growth. His mission: to help business owners scale not just their profits—but their freedom.Want to learn more about Jesse Gilmore 's work at Niche in Control? Check out his website at https://www.nicheincontrol.com/Connect with Jesse through his LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessepgilmore/Get a FREE copy of his book The Agency Owner's Guide to Freedom at https://go.nicheincontrol.com/resources/get-the-bookMentioned in this episode:Take the Founder's Evolution Quiz TodayIf you’re a Founder, business owner, or CEO who feels overworked by the business you lead and underwhelmed by the results, you’re doing it wrong. Succeeding as a founder all comes down to doing the right one or two things right now. Take the quiz today at foundersquiz.com, and in just ten questions, you can figure out what stage you are in, so you can focus on what is going to work and say goodbye to everything else.Founder's Quiz
