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
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 may have built something successful, but no one handed you a clear playbook for what comes next when you’re responsible for a team. And what I’ve seen time and time again is that when leadership isn’t intentional, the same issues keep showing up—just at a larger scale. In this show, you’ll learn how to:✨ Handle employee performance issues and know what to do when someone on your team isn’t meeting expectations✨ Navigate difficult conversations at work with clarity instead of avoiding them or second-guessing yourself afterward✨ Hire the right people and avoid the hiring mistakes that create bigger problems down the line✨ Build a workplace culture that supports your business as it grows, instead of something you’re constantly trying to fix✨ Lead your team with more confidence so you can scale your business without everything falling back on youIf you’re ready to feel more confident in how you manage your team and make decisions as a leader, this is a good place to start.Next Steps:💻 Grab My Guides & Frameworks: https://go.highvoltageleadership.ca/resource-library🚀 Learn more about the LPC Accelerator: https://highvoltageleadership.ca/lpc-accelerator/🌐 Visit: https://highvoltageleadership.ca📩 Connect: [email protected]
Avoiding Difficult Conversations Is Hurting Your Leadership Skills
Send us Fan Mail 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 problem here. Avoiding it is. This episode digs into one of the most common fo...
Jun 25
15 min
Leadership Skills for Business Owners: Welcome to The People Side of Business
Send us Fan Mail 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. More clients, more opportunities, and more responsibilities place increasing ...
Jun 18
15 min
Welcome to The People Side Of Business!
Send us Fan Mail 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 founders are building impactful companies while often balancing responsibilities ...
Jun 11
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[S5 Ep51] The Biggest Lessons We Learned This Season About Leadership, Growth & Building a Business That Doesn’t Burn You Out
Send us Fan Mail 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. ✨ The Seven Lessons of Season Five 1. Scaling is an identity shift first and a strate...
Jun 4
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[S5 Ep50] The Messy Middle of Scaling: When Vision & Execution Stop Matching with Kaitlyn David
Send us Fan Mail 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 marketing thinker. Kaitlyn looks at marketing from the inside out, and she has some fant...
May 28
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[S5 Ep49] The CEO Shift: Why Doing Everything Yourself Is Quietly Killing Your Business with Elizabeth Eiss
Send us Fan Mail 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 look at my own week differently! And this episode will help you do the same, as you hold up the...
May 21
41 min
[S5 Ep48] The Real Entrepreneur Journey: Chaos, Growth & Figuring It Out with CEO Taunya Woods Richardon
Send us Fan Mail 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 empowerment work she's been doing ever since to make sure no other founder has to go through what ...
May 14
40 min
[S5, Ep47] Why Ignoring Your Mental Health Is Hurting Your Business with Shulamit Ber Levtov
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May 7
37 min
[S5, Ep46] No Ego, No Power Struggles: Inside a High-Trust Leadership Model With The Team from Artemis Factor
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Apr 30
31 min
[S5, Ep45] The Hidden Factor Behind Female Founder Burnout (It’s Not What You Think) with CEO Angela Johnson
Send us Fan Mail 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 in this episode with Angela Johnson, CEO of sanoLiving, a women's digital health platform re...
Apr 23
45 min
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