We know that the foundation of any great business is their team, but most of us are never taught how to lead them. So I wanted to sit down with the best leaders and founders in the world and find out how they did it. Who did they hire? What mistakes did they make? And what do they wish someone had told them years ago? These are the stories they haven't told before and the things that made the biggest difference in their business. If you want to stop being the bottleneck in your business, delegate properly and build a culture that people can’t wait to be part of Subscribe now wherever you're listening because you won't wanna miss these episodes.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWe know that the foundation of any great business is their team, but most of us are never taught how to lead them. So I wanted to sit down with the best leaders and founders in the world and find out how they did it. Who did they hire? What mistakes did they make?
Recent episodes include "Stop Doing Your Own Laundry: How Household Delegation Scales Business Success" (12 October 2026, 52 minutes), "Bootstrapping an 8-Figure AI Fintech, Viral Content, & Disruption in Finance with Julian Fayad" (6 October 2026, 61 minutes), and "This is How you Build an AI-Driven Team with Josh Stevenson" (28 September 2026, 64 minutes).
Built To Lead publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 56 minutes across 38 episodes.
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Built To Lead is a business show with 38 episodes published.
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Episode #31
What happens when a founder stops following the rules… and designs a business around how their brain actually works? Taki Moore, the founder behind Million Dollar Coach (and coach to Dan Martel, Erika Cramer and so much...
Episode #30
From running two successful marketing businesses to shutting one down and selling the other, Mikhailla Fitzgerald has lived through the parts of leadership most founders don’t talk about.Today I’m sitting down with...
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Is your business bogged down by bloated teams and outdated marketing playbooks? In this episode, I sit down with Finder co-founder Jeremy Cabral to unpack the exact strategies he used to help scale Finder to over $100M...
Episode #27
Most founders treat recovery like a luxury or a reward for hard work, but high performance isn't sustainable when you're running on empty. In this episode, I sit down with Jess Spendlove, Executive...
Episode #25
The year they went full time … they tripled. In this episode, I sit down with Nakie co-founder Dean Leibbrandt to unpack the team and hiring decisions behind their growth. They went three and a half years without...
Episode #24
Most founders think the answer to "I need to grow" is to work harder. But Matt Srama learned the opposite. Matt Srama went from wrestling 100 kilo men on an NRL field to running Srama Property, the 2026 Buyers Agency of...
Episode #23
Three multimillion-dollar businesses. One very expensive lesson in letting go. Lisa Jones is a best-selling author, keynote speaker and founder of SHE-com, a powerhouse community of 40,000 women backing female founders...
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Episode #18
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Episode #16
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<p>Are you saving AI posts and prompts on IG?</p> <p>Are you using Chat GPT here and there but have no idea what it could look like to actually incorporate it into your business?</p> <p>Or even wondering if you should...
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