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Hosted by Neda Farzad · 🇺🇸 US · EN-AU · 35 episodes
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Welcome to The CEO Soapbox Podcast, hosted by Neda Farzad — a 25-year business veteran, C-suite advisor, and growth execution specialist. This podcast is for CEOs, founders, MDs, and business leaders who want honest, practical conversations about leadership, operational excellence, sales and marketing alignment, hiring, firing, team building, business growth, execution, and accountability. No fluff. No corporate waffle. Just real talk on building better businesses and becoming a better leader. Hit subscribe and let’s get started.
Neda Farzad hosts The CEO Soapbox Podcast, a business show with 35 episodes published.
This special edition of The CEO Soapbox Podcast is for micro-business owners, family-run businesses and local operators who feel overwhelmed by endless marketing advice. Drawing on my experience building an air-condition
When sales slow down, teams get stretched or margins tighten, the first response is often to act fast. More leads. Another hire. A new system. Another meeting. The problem is that the visible issue is not always the real
Reliable lead gen isn’t a campaign. It’s a system. In Part 2, Neda Farzad walks through where B2B lead generation usually breaks — buyer clarity, offer, message, follow-up, sales alignment, and measurement. If your leads
Lead generation doesn’t become reliable because you found one magic channel. It becomes reliable when the whole system is working: the right buyer, the right message, the right offer, the right platform, and the right fo
Diversification is smart — but starting another business is not always the smartest first move. In this episode of The CEO Soapbox , Neda unpacks the mistake many business owners make when they confuse income diversifica
Your website is not just a digital brochure. It is part of your sales process. In this episode of The CEO Soapbox Podcast , Neda Farzad talks about why your website needs to do more than look good. It should help the rig
Giving feedback is one of the most uncomfortable responsibilities of leadership — but avoiding it is where the real damage starts. In this episode of The CEO Soapbox Podcast, Neda talks about why CEOs, founders, and busi
The founder-to-CEO shift is not just about hiring better people, delegating more, or building systems. In this episode of The CEO Soapbox Podcast, Neda breaks down the personal and professional development required for f
Too many businesses waste time, margin, and energy trying to sell to everyone. Every enquiry gets chased.Every “send me more info” gets treated like interest.Every mildly curious person ends up in the pipeline. In this e
What happens when your team tests a boundary… and you quietly let it slide? In this episode of The CEO Soapbox Podcast, Neda digs into the small leadership moments that quietly shape how a business really operates — the
Think your sales cycle is slow? Maybe. But a lot of the time, that’s not the real problem. In this episode of The CEO Soapbox Podcast, Neda Farzad breaks down why buyers hesitate when your message is unclear, your value
Your Marketing Is Not Broken. Your Strategy Is Weak. A lot of businesses think they have a marketing problem. Most of the time, they have a strategy and planning problem first. In this episode of The CEO Soapbox Podcast,
Weak boundaries do not just create stress. They cost profit. In this episode of The CEO Soapbox Podcast, Neda unpacks why poor CEO boundaries, soft expectations, and constant over-involvement make a business slower, mess
A lot of business owners say they want growth, better leadership, stronger teams, and less dependence on them. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: Your business will eventually hit the limits of your leadership. In this
A busy business is not automatically a well-run one. In this episode of The CEO Soapbox Podcast, I’m unpacking one of the most common traps I see inside growing SMEs: teams working hard, calendars packed, activity everyw
A lot of businesses think they have a capacity problem. They don’t. They have a chaos problem. In this episode of The CEO Soapbox Podcast, Neda Farzad breaks down what chaos, rework, and poor handoffs are really costing
Winning more work sounds like a good problem to have. But in a lot of businesses, more work does not create better performance. It creates more pressure, more rework, more operational drag, and more strain on the Busines
Most leadership meetings don’t have a time problem. They have an outcome problem. In this episode of The CEO Soapbox Podcast, I’m calling out one of the biggest drains on business momentum: meetings that are full of upda
Are your leads really the problem — or is your ICP too vague? In this episode of The CEO Soapbox Podcast, Neda Farzad breaks down why busy marketing, poor lead quality, and an empty or messy pipeline often come back to o
If your funnel isn’t converting, your funnel might be fine. Your offer is the problem. In this episode of The CEO Soapbox Podcast, I break down why “just optimise the funnel” is often the wrong move — and how weak offers
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