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Simple shifts and smart moves for overwhelmed, mission-driven founders. You started your business to make a difference. Two years in, you're making impact, but you're also making every decision, answering every question, and working way harder than you want to. You're not alone. And it doesn't have to be this hard. This Is Harder than I Want It to Be is your bi-weekly reality check for scaling without burnout or compromising on your values. In just 5-8 minutes, you'll get one perspective shift, one practical framework, and one action to take this week. What you'll learn: - Delegation that doesn't feel like micromanagement - How to build teams that solve problems without you - Systems and processes and tools that create space instead of constraint. - Balancing between working *in* your business and *on* it Hosted by Linda van Egmond, a fractional CMO and integrator who's spent 20 years building and supporting impact-driven startups and scale-ups, including The Ocean Cleanup. She's seen too many brilliant ideas fail, not because they weren't good enough, but because of lack of structure, overcomplication, or unrealistic expectations. This podcast distills hard and painful lessons into bite-sized, actionable insights. Perfect for: - Impact founders about 2-3 years into their journey - B-corp and social enterprise leaders - Mission-driven entrepreneurs ready to step out of operational chaos - Anyone building a business that matters without wanting to burn out The promise: You can have impact without burnout. You can build something that scales without losing your soul. You can own a business that you don't run. New episodes every other Thursday. Subscribe now and make it easier.
Unknown Host hosts This Is Harder than I Want It to Be, a business show with 9 episodes published.
When you’re overwhelmed, hiring sounds like the obvious fix. But if you don’t have clear outcomes and simple processes first, you’re not hiring help, you’re hiring more questions (and more chaos). In this episode, Linda
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Ever notice how the thing that “wasn’t urgent” somehow becomes the thing that blows up your week? In this episode, Linda explains why small problems escalate when they have nowhere to land, and how a simple weekly ritual
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Your team is flooding you with messages and “quick syncs,” but somehow you still don’t know what’s actually getting done. In this episode, Linda breaks down the one 30-minute weekly meeting that replaces the chaos with a
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You take a day off and everything grinds to a halt, because the “process” is actually just you. In this episode, Linda van Egmond shows you how to turn what’s in your head into a system your team can run without constant
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Thought more metrics would make things clearer, but you feel even more stuck? In this episode, Linda breaks down why tracking everything leads to overwhelm and inaction, and how to choose the handful of numbers that actu
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You have a clear vision in your head, but your team is building from an older version of it. That gap is where good work quietly goes off the rails. In this episode, you’ll learn why “I already told them” is rarely enoug
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It's the end of the quarter. You look at the goals you set 90 days ago and realize you did maybe one of them. The rest are still sitting on the list. In this episode, Linda breaks down why goals keep slipping and shares
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You spent a full day on strategy. You mapped the vision, set the goals, and left energized. Then Monday happened, and that beautiful plan went straight into a drawer. In this episode, Linda shows you why your strategy st
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Thought you were bad at delegating? You're probably just bad at setting people up to succeed. In this episode, Linda breaks down why your team keeps coming back with questions and exactly how to fix it. What You'll Learn
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You're building an impact-driven business that matters. But you're drowning in decisions, stuck in the weeds, and thinking: this is harder than it needs to be. You're right. It is hard. But it doesn't have to be this har
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