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The People Side of Business | Team Management Strategies, How to Manage Employees, Leadership for Business Owners

The People Side of Business | Team Management Strategies, How to Manage Employees, Leadership for Business Owners

Lindsay White | Fractional HR Expert, Team Leadership Strategist, Leadership Coach for Female Founders 243 Episodes Jul 2, 2026

This podcast is for business owners and leaders who want to improve their team management and leadership skills. Host Lindsay White, a fractional HR expert and leadership coach, shares strategies for handling employee issues, performance problems, and difficult conversations. The show aims to help founders navigate the challenges of leading a team, from hiring to team dynamics, with practical advice and real-world experience.

Episodes

How to Lead a Team When Performance Keeps Falling Short Jul 2, 2026 1516 If you're wondering how to lead a team when performance keeps falling short, the answer may not be what you think. It's easy to assume missed deadlines, inconsistent communication, or declining results point to employee issues. But more often than many founders realize, the real challenge isn't a lack of accountability—it's a lack of leadership clarity. Before you jump to concl
Avoiding Difficult Conversations Is Hurting Your Leadership Skills Jun 25, 2026 924 Most founders believe that avoiding a difficult conversation is how you protect a relationship, when in reality, it does the opposite. The longer a conversation goes unspoken, the more trust erodes, performance slips, and your own confidence as a leader takes the hit, until eventually everyone on the team can feel the tension of the thing nobody is saying. The conversation was never the real probl
Leadership Skills for Business Owners: Welcome to The People Side of Business Jun 18, 2026 904 Most business owners believe growth comes from better marketing, stronger sales, or more sophisticated systems. But what if the real growth constraint is leadership? Leadership skills for business owners are rarely discussed with the same urgency as strategy and revenue, yet they often determine whether a company can successfully grow beyond the founder.As businesses expand, new challenges emerge.
Welcome to The People Side Of Business! Jun 11, 2026 282 Have you ever felt like everyone is talking about marketing, sales, and scaling, yet no one is talking about the leadership challenges that come with building a business? That gap is exactly why leadership skills for female business owners deserve a much bigger conversation. Because while growth strategies matter, businesses ultimately succeed or struggle based on the people leading them.Women fou
[S5 Ep51] The Biggest Lessons We Learned This Season About Leadership, Growth & Building a Business That Doesn’t Burn You Out Jun 4, 2026 1468 We're five seasons in, friend. And wow, we've explored some vulnerable topics and big strategies. Guests had mic-drop and thought-provoking moments, and founders sent messages that reminded me exactly why this show exists. This week's episode is the season five wrap-up! No guest. Just me, seven lessons, and the things I think we were all trying to avoid saying out loud this year.✨ T
[S5 Ep50] The Messy Middle of Scaling: When Vision & Execution Stop Matching with Kaitlyn David May 28, 2026 1941 You had the vision. You built the thing! And somewhere between starting and scaling, the message got muddier, the team got busier, and the gap between what you meant to build and what's actually being delivered started to widen.This week's guest knows exactly how to close the gap.I sat down with Kaitlyn David— brand strategist, fractional CMO, and an all-around grounded, human-centered m
[S5 Ep49] The CEO Shift: Why Doing Everything Yourself Is Quietly Killing Your Business with Elizabeth Eiss May 21, 2026 2508 This week, I sat down with Elizabeth Eiss, founder of Results Resourcing, and she said something in particular that I knew I needed to share with you. That 57% of the average founder's time is spent on non-core work. Work that isn't generating revenue, isn't in their zone of genius, and that someone else could do better, faster (and with significantly more joy).That number made me l
[S5 Ep48] The Real Entrepreneur Journey: Chaos, Growth & Figuring It Out with CEO Taunya Woods Richardon May 14, 2026 2434 Entrepreneurship isn't a straight line. It's messy, unpredictable, and sometimes a complete sh*t show.This week, I sat down with Taunya Woods Richardson, founder of Nail the Numbers, with 30 years of entrepreneurial experience. We went everywhere. From the peaks and valleys of building something from scratch to losing $250,000 and rebuilding from the ground up, to the financial empowerme
[S5, Ep47] Why Ignoring Your Mental Health Is Hurting Your Business with Shulamit Ber Levtov May 7, 2026 2257 Your business is only as healthy as you are. Which is exactly why founder mental health isn't a nice to have, a soft skill or something to get to when things slow down. It's a core business strategy, with data to back it up.And this week's guest Shulamit Ber Levtov is the Entrepreneur's Therapist — a therapist who specializes in supporting women founders, business owners and en
[S5, Ep46] No Ego, No Power Struggles: Inside a High-Trust Leadership Model With The Team from Artemis Factor Apr 30, 2026 1872 Three co-founders. Seven years in. But every expert told them it would never work...When Shannon, Katrina, and Tara started Artemis Factor, the advice was unanimous:  "Three founders is too many!" They were told that someone needs to be at the top. That two is already hard so three is a disaster waiting to happen. And yet here they are, seven years later, leading a thriving consultancy i
[S5, Ep45] The Hidden Factor Behind Female Founder Burnout (It’s Not What You Think) with CEO Angela Johnson Apr 23, 2026 2717 I'll be honest, this episode is deeply personal for me. In 2024 I went through a period where I genuinely couldn't figure out what was happening to my body. Memory fog. Digestion issues. No sleep. Some days it was hard to work because my eyeballs hurt. Literally. And I kept pushing through because that's what we do — until I couldn't anymore.And we get into all of that and more
[S5, Ep44] Scaling a Startup Fast: Lessons from a Female Founder in Health Tech, CEO Aja Beckett Apr 16, 2026 3113 Are you being too hard on yourself? The problem you've been trying to fix might need something other than the discipline.In this episode of Female Founder Unplugged, Lindsay sits down with Aja Beckett — app developer, GLP-1 user, and accidental CEO — who built her app Shotsy from a nights-and-weekends side project into the #1 GLP-1 tracking app in the Health & Fitness category. "Her

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