Winning Standards

Winning Standards is the podcast for founders, leaders, and high performers who are done settling. Every episode is built to change how you think, lead, and perform.Michael Mojo has spent over 20 years coaching founders, leaders, and high performers across Australia and beyond. $3.26 billion in influenced client revenue. 1,000+ businesses transformed. Olympic athletes. AFR Fast 100 companies. Business owners who built empires from nothing to everyday people who just want more out of life.This is not the same podcast it used to be. Winning Standards has evolved.You will hear Michael’s unfiltered solo sessions on identity, psychology, standards, and what it actually takes to lead at the highest level. You will hear from world-class performers and industry leaders who have done the work and have the results to prove it. And you will hear raw, real conversations with everyday founders and community members who are in the middle of it right now. Growing. Failing. Rebuilding. Leading. The

Winning Standards is a business podcast hosted by Michael Mojo, with 250 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Michael Mojo hosts Winning Standards, a business show with 250 episodes published.

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  Episode #614

  Ep. 614 - One Smart Move to Hire A Players

  Aug 23, 202630 min

  Most small business owners hire the wrong way and never realise it. Michael Mojo breaks down one shift that makes hiring A players, and managing them, far simpler than it's ever felt. The usual approach is to hire for a role and hope for a unicorn who can do a bit of everything. In this episode Michael explains why that instinct quietly sabotages you, and the one change that flips it. It sounds small, but it makes evaluating candidates, managing performance, and knowing whether someone's actually working out dramatically clearer, and most owners have never thought to do it. He walks through a simple way to work out what you should actually be hiring for, and makes a case about who's really holding the business back that most owners don't want to hear. He's honest about what happens if you don't grow alongside the company as it scales, and why it so often ends with the best people walking and the wrong ones staying. There's also a practical warning for anyone hiring in Australia, the workplace realities that make replacing staff far harder than owners expect, and how getting one thing right at the start saves you a world of pain later. If hiring has ever felt like a gamble, or you keep ending up with the wrong people, this one will change how you approach it completely. In this episode: The one shift that makes hiring A players far simpler Why the way most owners hire sets them up to fail The trap of chasing a "unicorn" who can do everything A simpler way to work out what you actually need Who's really holding your business back What happens to your best people if you don't grow with the company The Australian hiring realities that catch owners out Official channel and episode of the Winning Standards Podcast hosted by Michael Mojo. All Rights Reserved. When you're ready to fast track your results, here's 2 ways I can help: This month's intake for The Odyssey is now open. If you've hit a ceiling in your business and know the constraint is you, not your business, this is the breakthrough. Limited intake [Learn more] Stuck, need clarity, or just want to upgrade how you think, lead and perform? Thrive Time is my premier self leadership event. [Secure your seat] Follow Me on Social Media: Facebook: https://facebook.com/themichaelmojo Insta: https://www.instagram.com/themichaelmojo TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@themichaelmojo YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themichaelmojo Website: www.MichaelMojo.com

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  Episode #613

  Ep. 613 - How to Deal With Business Growth Challenges

  Aug 20, 202624 min

  Official channel and episode of the Winning Standards Podcast hosted by Michael Mojo. All Rights Reserved. When you're ready to fast track your results, here's 2 ways I can help: This month's intake for The Odyssey is now open. If you've hit a ceiling in your business and know the constraint is you, not your business, this is the breakthrough. Limited intake [Learn more] Stuck, need clarity, or just want to upgrade how you think, lead and perform? Thrive Time is my premier self leadership event. [Secure your seat] Follow Me on Social Media: Facebook: https://facebook.com/themichaelmojo Insta: https://www.instagram.com/themichaelmojo TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@themichaelmojo YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themichaelmojo Website: www.MichaelMojo.com

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  Episode #612

  Ep. 612 - Why Chasing Money Is Killing Your Business (And What to Do Instead) | Rushad Pavri & Shannon Bow

  Aug 19, 202648 min

  Chasing money almost destroyed their business. Rushad Pavri and Shannon Bow nearly lost the whole thing before they worked out that the goal they were chasing was the exact problem, and the same trap is quietly capping owners everywhere. Rushad and Shannon are the founders of Integral Built, a South Australian cladding company, and in this episode they're honest with Michael about the early crisis that nearly ended it. The high turnover, the dissatisfaction, the sense of being stuck in a cycle they couldn't break. What they did to pull out of it flipped their whole approach, and it's the part most business owners get backwards. They get into the restructure that saved the company, how getting clear on their values and vision changed everything, and the counterintuitive call they made about who they'd work with that most owners are too scared to make. Two friends running a business 50/50 usually ends in disaster. Rushad and Shannon explain why theirs is one of the rare ones that works. They also open up about the personal side, the self-awareness that changed how they lead, the habits they had to drop to think clearly, and why they treat themselves as a mirror for the standards of their whole team. They finish on the challenge keeping them up at night right now, one almost every business in a trade or service industry is feeling, and how they're changing their approach to solve it. If you've ever felt like the harder you chase growth the worse things get, this conversation will show you a different way through. In this episode: Why chasing money quietly sabotages your growth The reset that turns a struggling business around The counterintuitive client decision most owners are too scared to make Why the usual approach to growth works against you How a 50/50 partnership actually survives The self-awareness shift that changes how you lead The habits worth dropping to make clearer decisions The hiring challenge almost every trade business is facing right now Official channel and episode of the Winning Standards Podcast hosted by Michael Mojo. All Rights Reserved. When you're ready to fast track your results, here's 2 ways I can help: This month's intake for The Odyssey is now open. If you've hit a ceiling in your business and know the constraint is you, not your business, this is the breakthrough. Limited intake [Learn more] Stuck, need clarity, or just want to upgrade how you think, lead and perform? Thrive Time is my premier self leadership event. [Secure your seat] Follow Me on Social Media: Facebook: https://facebook.com/themichaelmojo Insta: https://www.instagram.com/themichaelmojo TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@themichaelmojo YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themichaelmojo Website: www.MichaelMojo.com

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  Episode #611

  Ep. 611 - Why You Need to Fire Ineffective Team Members

  Aug 18, 202630 min

  One wrong person on your team can quietly cost you your best ones. Most owners hold on far too long, and Michael Mojo breaks down what that decision is really costing them. Keeping an ineffective team member feels like the kinder choice. In this episode Michael makes the case that it's one of the most expensive mistakes an owner can make, because the damage almost never shows up where you're looking for it. Once you see where it actually lands, you can't unsee it. He uses a team-building analogy most owners will recognise straight away, one that reframes how you should be structuring the people around you and why your strongest players might be quietly wasted right now. Then he turns it back on the owner, and makes an argument most founders don't want to hear about who the real bottleneck usually is. He's honest about the fear that shows up when you stop doing the work and start leading it, and why you have to change faster than your business does. He closes on what he calls the most underrated skill in business, the one thing that decides whether you can scale at all. Most owners overlook it completely. If you've got someone you know you should have let go months ago, this one will make the decision a lot clearer. In this episode: The real cost of keeping an ineffective team member How one wrong hire quietly drives your best people out The team analogy that reframes how you build a business Why your strongest people might be wasted right now Who the real bottleneck in your business usually is The fear that hits when you stop hustling and start leading The most underrated skill in scaling a business How to protect your culture before it's too late Official channel and episode of the Winning Standards Podcast hosted by Michael Mojo. All Rights Reserved. When you're ready to fast track your results, here's 2 ways I can help: This month's intake for The Odyssey is now open. If you've hit a ceiling in your business and know the constraint is you, not your business, this is the breakthrough. Limited intake [Learn more] Stuck, need clarity, or just want to upgrade how you think, lead and perform? Thrive Time is my premier self leadership event. [Secure your seat] Follow Me on Social Media: Facebook: https://facebook.com/themichaelmojo Insta: https://www.instagram.com/themichaelmojo TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@themichaelmojo YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themichaelmojo Website: www.MichaelMojo.com

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  Episode #610

  Ep. 610 -The Numbers Game That Scales a Business Fast - $1M per annum to upto $1M per week | Riley Barker

  Aug 13, 202653 min

  Riley Barker, from Best Solar and Batteries went from a million dollars a year to as much as a million a week. In four years. And when he explains how, it has almost nothing to do with luck or timing. Most business owners are guessing. They chase growth on gut feel, hope the leads show up, and can't really tell you why one month beats the next. Riley runs his company on something completely different, and it's the thing that took Best Solar and Batteries to one of the largest residential battery installers in South Australia. In this episode he sits down with Michael to unpack how he thinks about scaling, and why he treats the whole business less like a hustle and more like a problem with a solvable answer. He's honest about what came before the growth too. The early years that nearly buried him, the money habits most owners get wrong, and the uncomfortable realisation about his own role that was quietly capping everything. What he did next is the part worth hearing. They also get into how Riley hires, and why he deliberately tells people the worst parts of the job before they take it. Why he's willing to walk past talent to protect something he values more. And the personal discipline underneath the whole rise, the kind most people say they'd do but never actually stick to. If your growth keeps stalling and you can't put your finger on why, this conversation will give you a very different way to look at the entire thing. In this episode: How Riley went from $1M a year to as much as $1M a week in four years Why most owners stay stuck guessing their way to growth The mindset shift that turns scaling into a solvable equation The early mistake with money most business owners repeat The realisation about himself that was capping the whole business Why he tells new hires the worst parts of the job on purpose What he hires for instead of skill, and why The personal discipline that funded a four-year rise Official channel and episode of the Winning Standards Podcast hosted by Michael Mojo. All Rights Reserved. When you're ready to fast track your results, here's 2 ways I can help: This month's intake for The Odyssey is now open. If you've hit a ceiling in your business and know the constraint is you, not your business, this is the breakthrough. Limited intake [Learn more] Stuck, need clarity, or just want to upgrade how you think, lead and perform? Thrive Time is my premier self leadership event. [Secure your seat] Follow Me on Social Media: Facebook: https://facebook.com/themichaelmojo Insta: https://www.instagram.com/themichaelmojo TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@themichaelmojo YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@themichaelmojo Website: www.MichaelMojo.com

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