The Built to Scale Podcast

Maggie Olson
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Every entrepreneur wants more growth, but few talk about what it actually takes to sustain it. Built to Scale is the podcast for business owners who are ready to stop wearing every hat and start building a company that can grow without depending on them for everything. Hosted by entrepreneur and operations strategist Maggie Olson, each episode features honest conversations with founders, operators, marketers, and industry experts who have built real businesses...not just talked about building them. Together, we explore the systems, leadership, marketing, sales, automation, technology, and decision-making that turn growing businesses into scalable ones. Whether you're wondering why your business still depends on you, trying to simplify your operations, improving your client experience, or preparing for your next stage of growth, every episode is designed to give you practical strategies you can put into action immediately. This isn't a podcast about chasing the latest trend or working more hours. It's about building a business that's profitable, sustainable, and designed to support the life you actually want. If you're ready to stop operating in constant reaction mode and start building with intention, you're in the right place. New episodes feature solo strategy sessions, candid founder stories, and interviews with experts who share what really works behind the scenes of successful businesses. Because scaling isn't about doing more, it's about building better.

Episodes

  1. 2d ago

    What Happens When Success No Longer Fits?

    What happens when the business you built is working, but you know deep down it’s no longer where you’re meant to be? In this episode of the Built To Scale Podcast, I sit down with Octavia, a feminine energy embodiment coach who made the bold decision to walk away from a thriving astrology business after six years and completely reinvent her work. We talk about what it really takes to pivot when you’re not running away from failure, but moving toward something that feels more aligned. Octavia shares how she navigated the fear of leaving behind a profitable identity, balanced intuition with practical financial preparation, rebuilt her messaging and offers, and stayed consistent when her new direction initially felt like starting from scratch. We also dig into routines, self-trust, burnout, taking risks, and why sometimes scaling your business starts with being willing to let go of what’s already working. Episode Highlights[02:20] - Why walking away from a successful astrology business felt like letting go of an identity, and why Octavia knew she needed room to expand. [04:47] - The lessons six years in business taught Octavia about consistency, routine, marketing, and learning to trust yourself enough to improvise. [08:01] - Recognizing the moment when “when you know, you know” became impossible to ignore—and how a move to a new city helped mark the beginning of a new chapter. [10:37] - Balancing intuition with strategy, including nervous system regulation, managing fear, and making sure there was enough financial stability to take the leap. [13:22] - What actually goes into rebranding a business, from changing content and marketing to finding a voice that feels more authentic and aligned. [21:02] - The routines and weekly non-negotiables that help Octavia stay consistent, clear-headed, and visible even when the results don’t happen immediately. [25:36] - What Octavia intentionally stopped doing to grow: listening to fear, worrying about what other people think, and believing that working harder has to mean burning yourself out. Links & ResourcesOctavia shares her Instagram and Facebook, where she posts content, free resources, and ways to work with her: She also discusses The Embodied Feminine, her four-week program for women focused on feminine energy, the inner masculine, becoming more magnetic, and bringing those principles into business and sales. https://www.facebook.com/share/1DQAZsoEVH/ https://www.facebook.com/share/1DQAZsoEVH/ https://www.instagram.com/sirian_cosmic_goddess If you enjoyed this conversation, make sure to follow, rate, share, and leave a review for the Built To Scale Podcast. Every bit of support helps this podcast reach more entrepreneurs who need these conversations, and I’m so grateful you’re here. See you in the next episode!

  2. Aug 7

    Is Your Business Outgrowing You?

    What happens when your business starts to grow beyond what you can personally manage? In this solo episode of the Built To Scale Podcast, host Maggie Olson explores one of the hardest questions founders face: How do you know when your business has outgrown you? Maggie shares lessons from more than 20 years of entrepreneurship across photography, yoga, coaching, operations, and systems strategy. She reflects on the seasons where doing everything herself created unnecessary pressure, slowed growth, and turned a business into something that felt more like a job. This episode breaks down the signs that you may have become the bottleneck in your business, why documenting your processes matters, how standard operating procedures make delegation easier, and why building with an eventual exit in mind can create a stronger business today. If everything depends on you, growth will eventually hit a ceiling. The solution is not always more marketing, more leads, or more hours. Sometimes the next level comes from documenting, delegating, simplifying, and trusting other people to support the vision. In This Episode00:00 | Why does business feel so hard? Maggie introduces the episode and explains why scaling is not about doing more. It is about building better. 00:57 | How do you know when your business has outgrown you? Why this question can feel uncomfortable and why founders often struggle to admit that something needs to change. 01:25 | The “no one can do it like me” trap How trying to personally handle every responsibility can lead to burnout and eventually limit business growth. 02:23 | The hidden work behind a photography business Maggie shares why photography involves much more than taking pictures, including scheduling, editing, communication, and delivery. 03:20 | Lessons from teaching and owning a yoga studio How managing a studio revealed the importance of lead generation, conversations, and teaching others how to bring people into the business. 04:42 | Why conversations matter in sales Maggie reflects on how yoga teacher training helped her recognize that many entrepreneurs have never learned how to guide a potential client through a meaningful sales conversation. 05:12 | Outgrowing a business How Maggie realized she had outgrown the yoga studio and why she ultimately chose to close it. 05:41 | Why founders need an exit plan A look at what can happen when you are ready to retire, pivot, sell, or move on from a business without a clear plan. 06:35 | Creating a business that requires less of you How Maggie refined her photography business so it could continue with minimal time and management. 07:31 | Learning to share the workload What owning a yoga studio taught Maggie about trusting other people and allowing team members to take responsibility. 08:29 | Are you building a business or a job? The realization that constantly creating work for yourself does not necessarily create a scalable company. 09:28 | Fun, creativity, and sustainable entrepreneurship Why losing the joy in your work can be a sign that you are doing too much or spending too much energy on the wrong tasks. 10:27 | You do not need complicated systems Why a streamlined business with fewer tools can often be easier to operate and easier to scale. 10:57 | Signs you are the bottleneck Maggie shares several questions that can reveal whether everything in the business depends on you. 11:54 | Start with what only you can do A simple exercise for identifying which responsibilities truly require your involvement. 12:21 | Why SOPs matter How documenting your processes creates the foundation for delegation and sustainable growth. 13:19 | Document the exact steps Examples of the processes you can capture, including publishing content, managing your CRM, creating posts, running a podcast, and closing sales. 13:49 | Document, delegate, delete Why documentation allows you to transfer responsibilities out of your head and into repeatable systems. 14:17 | Use your SOPs to hire better How clear processes can help you create a much more specific job description instead of asking broadly for “a VA.” 15:13 | Trusting the person you hired Why good delegation requires both clear expectations and a willingness to let someone else own the responsibility. 15:43 | Systems make your business more transferable How documentation becomes especially valuable if you eventually want to sell, retire, or step away. 16:12 | Preparing a business for an exit What to review when considering an eventual transition, including your website, CRM, processes, assets, and operations. 17:11 | What Maggie wishes she had before closing her studio How better documentation and planning could have made the yoga studio more valuable and easier to transfer. 18:06 | What does an exit actually look like? Questions to consider if you are thinking about selling, retiring, pivoting, or handing the business to someone else. 19:06 | Build with the future in mind Why founders deserve to make informed decisions about what happens to the businesses they have spent years creating. 20:06 | Creating systems behind your podcast Maggie introduces Podcast in a Box and shares why a podcast needs workflows and processes just like any other part of a business. Resources and LinksTake the Satva Systems Tech CheckWant to identify where your technology, systems, and processes may be creating unnecessary complexity? Take the Satva Systems Tech Check: https://satvasystems.com/tech-check Use it to get a clearer look at what is working, what is creating friction, and where your business may be ready for stronger systems. About the Built To Scale PodcastThe Built To Scale Podcast explores the systems, leadership decisions, sales strategies, marketing foundations, and operational shifts that help entrepreneurs grow businesses without making everything depend on them. Hosted by entrepreneur, business mentor, and systems strategist Maggie Olson, each episode is designed to help you build a business that runs better, feels lighter, and is prepared for whatever comes next. Subscribe to the podcast, leave a review, and share this episode with another entrepreneur who is ready to build better.

  3. Jul 31

    Ep 004 - Build a Business That Fits Your Real Life

    Should your business fit your life, or should your life fit your business? In this episode of the Built To Scale Podcast, host Maggie Olson sits down with Tiffany Gilleland, business coach, website strategist, and host of the Business Bravery Podcast. Tiffany helps multi-passionate entrepreneurs, coaches, and service providers build businesses that support their real lives, including family responsibilities, caregiving, chronic health challenges, and changing personal priorities. Together, Maggie and Tiffany explore what it means to create a sustainable business without sacrificing your health, identity, or joy. Tiffany shares how her definition of success has evolved over more than 14 years in business, moving away from the pressure to build a massive team and follow someone else’s model. They also discuss working with your energy, setting realistic boundaries, building systems before hiring, choosing clients who feel aligned, and creating enough flexibility for the unexpected parts of life. This conversation is a reminder that success does not have to look loud, fast, or exhausting. A scalable business can be calm, intentional, profitable, and designed around the person running it. In This Episode00:01 | Should your business fit your life? Maggie opens the episode by challenging the belief that business success must require longer hours, constant hustle, and personal sacrifice. 01:21 | Meet Tiffany Gilleland Tiffany introduces herself and shares how she helps multi-passionate entrepreneurs build businesses that support their real lives. 02:29 | A quieter version of business bravery Tiffany explains how her work is evolving from bold, visible bravery toward the courage to be yourself and make aligned decisions. 03:33 | Filtering out outside advice Why the bravest decision may be stepping back from trends, challenges, and strategies that do not match your goals or capacity. 04:21 | Doing a challenge your own way Tiffany shares how she considered joining a daily content challenge but recognized that the required approach did not suit her energy or health. 06:23 | Working with your energy and cycle How excitement, energy, and physical capacity can shift throughout the month. 07:10 | How Tiffany defined success at the beginning Tiffany reflects on the fear she felt when first telling people she was building a business. 08:35 | Trying to build someone else’s business model Why Tiffany initially looked to prominent online entrepreneurs and tried to recreate large-scale business models on her own. 09:39 | Redefining success after burnout How success has shifted toward balance, sustainable income, health, and working fewer hours. 11:29 | Choosing work that does not drain you Tiffany shares why she stopped gravitating toward difficult, underpaid projects and began choosing clients and services that feel more energizing. 12:17 | Building around real-life responsibilities Maggie and Tiffany discuss aging parents, caregiving, children, health changes, and the responsibilities many women carry while running businesses. 14:13 | Building for who you are today Why Tiffany makes decisions based on her current income and capacity instead of overextending herself for a future version of the business. 15:24 | Balancing future goals with present reality How too much focus on future success can prevent entrepreneurs from taking useful action today. 17:17 | Avoiding the founder bottleneck Tiffany shares how her background in project management shaped her desire to build a business that can operate with support. 17:59 | Lessons from The 4-Hour Workweek How the idea of removing the founder as the bottleneck influenced Tiffany’s approach to delegation. 18:28 | Tiffany’s first hire Why she hired a virtual assistant to design and schedule content, even though she was capable of doing the work herself. 19:27 | Delegating the final step How having someone else schedule and publish content helped Tiffany overcome perfectionism and hesitation. 20:08 | Maggie’s experience with doing everything herself Maggie reflects on running photography and other businesses without support and why hiring now feels unfamiliar. 22:47 | How to hire the right person Tiffany explains why a clear role description, success criteria, and communication expectations can help attract the right candidates. 24:09 | Do not hire someone exactly like you Why highly visionary founders often need detail-oriented support instead of another big-picture thinker. 25:02 | Tiffany’s current business bottleneck Tiffany candidly admits that she is still the primary bottleneck in her business. 25:18 | Planning around unpredictable health changes How Tiffany batches her work and creates flexible systems while managing chronic health issues. 27:26 | Systems that create breathing room Why supportive systems still matter even when the founder remains essential to the business. 28:42 | Batching, planning, and reducing reactivity Tiffany shares how planning further ahead helps her make better decisions and feel more grounded. 30:50 | Creating space away from work Maggie discusses intentionally stepping away from the computer, reading for fun, and releasing the pressure to constantly improve. 32:45 | Consuming less business content Tiffany shares why she stopped filling every spare moment with business podcasts and self-development content. 34:23 | Remembering how to play Why hobbies, creativity, and fun are important for entrepreneurs who have spent years focused almost entirely on business. 37:44 | Two ways to make business feel lighter Tiffany recommends adding more fun and conducting an energy audit of your regular tasks. 39:29 | Starting difficult tasks with two minutes How a short timer can help reduce resistance and make an intimidating project feel more manageable. 40:02 | What “built to scale” means to Tiffany Why scalability begins with foundations, documented systems, a sustainable business model, and a realistic understanding of capacity. Resources and LinksConnect With Tiffany GillelandWebsite: https://www.tiffanygstudios.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TiffanyGStudiosInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tiffanygstudios/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@businessbraverypodcast-km5hpLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanygilleland/ About Tiffany GillelandTiffany Gilleland is a business coach, website strategist, and host of the Business Bravery Podcast. She helps multi-passionate entrepreneurs, coaches, and service providers create businesses that fit their real lives. Her work focuses on sustainable growth, intentional systems, website strategy, thoughtful delegation, and taking one brave step at a time. About the Built To Scale PodcastThe Built To Scale Podcast explores the turning points, mindsets, systems, and decisions that help entrepreneurs grow without losing what made their businesses special. Hosted by entrepreneur and systems strategist Maggie Olson, each episode shares practical insights for building stronger foundations, making more intentional decisions, and creating sustainable businesses that support real life. Subscribe to the podcast, share this episode with another entrepreneur, and leave a review to help more business owners discover the show.

  4. Jul 31

    Ep 003 - How to Scale a Community Without Losing Connection

    How do you grow a community without making people feel like just another number? In this episode of the Built To Scale Podcast, host Maggie Olson sits down with Robin Sims-Allen, founder of TotalHER, a leadership platform designed to help women advance their careers, businesses, confidence, and financial independence. Robin shares what it really looks like to build a mission-driven platform while navigating pivots, burnout, team growth, and the challenge of trusting other people with your vision. She explains why pivoting is not a sign of failure, but a natural part of building something meaningful. Maggie and Robin also discuss the evolution of TotalHER from a women-centered social and networking platform into a broader future-of-work platform. Robin’s goal is to give women the tools, strategy, community, and support they need to build their own opportunities without relying on multiple disconnected platforms or complicated systems. This conversation is a powerful reminder that scaling does not always mean moving in a straight line. Sometimes it means changing direction, letting go of perfection, building the right team, and continuing to move forward even when the original plan no longer fits. In This Episode00:01 | How do you grow without losing connection? Maggie opens the episode with a question every founder eventually faces: How can a business scale while keeping its community experience personal? 01:03 | Meet Robin Sims-Allen Robin introduces herself as a problem solver who is drawn to solving large, meaningful challenges. 01:27 | The beginning of TotalHER Robin shares when she officially launched TotalHER and why pivoting has been part of the platform’s journey from the beginning. 02:16 | Why pivoting is a natural part of business Robin explains that changes in the market, customer needs, personal interests, or the larger environment can all signal a need to shift direction. 03:41 | Giving yourself permission to change Why women can feel pressured to stay in one lane and why experimentation can reveal the strongest path forward. 04:43 | The burnout that changed everything Robin recalls the moment she realized she could no longer carry every responsibility alone. 05:37 | Learning to pay for support A candid conversation about the financial and emotional challenges of hiring help. 06:06 | Becoming a CEO in practice Robin shares the difference between having the CEO title and actually learning how to lead a team. 07:04 | Releasing the need to do everything yourself Why Robin has often pursued new certifications and skills as a way to avoid fully depending on others. 08:04 | Trusting yourself and your team Maggie and Robin discuss how self-trust creates the foundation for trusting experts, collaborators, and future decisions. 09:27 | Choosing a word for the year Robin explains why “trust” became her guiding theme and how she uses it to shape her decisions. 10:53 | Building the platform Robin wished she had How TotalHer was inspired by the confusion, expense, and complexity Robin experienced while building her first business. 11:22 | The problem with disconnected business tools Why women should not need multiple subscriptions, platforms, and complicated systems just to grow a business. 13:14 | Using AI to create personalized strategy Robin shares her vision for an AI experience that helps women understand their content, opportunities, strategy, and path toward their income goals. 13:44 | Freedom as the mission Why TotalHER is ultimately about creating freedom of time, effort, and mental space. 15:25 | The next pivot for TotalHER Robin explains the shift from a women-centered social platform to a future-of-work platform. 15:53 | Creating a parachute for women Why Robin believes women should be able to build financial security and long-term opportunity through businesses of their own. 17:59 | Listening as a business system Robin shares how conversations, surveys, comments, and feedback from women directly shape the platform. 19:34 | Letting go of perfection and completion Why a business is never truly finished and why continued growth requires continued rebuilding. 21:16 | Accepting that the work will keep evolving Robin reflects on the responsibility of building something that may support another woman’s income, health, or family. 22:09 | Write a press release from the future A powerful exercise Robin received from an investor that helped her define the long-term vision for TotalHER. 22:37 | Start with the end goal Why entrepreneurs should work backward from the future they want instead of moving forward without a clear destination. 23:32 | Make change a daily habit Robin shares a simple practice for building flexibility and making intentional change part of everyday life. 24:34 | Why an exit plan matters Maggie reflects on closing her yoga studio and how knowing the end goal could have made that transition feel lighter. 27:35 | What scaling means to Robin Why scaling means refusing to remain stagnant, even when growth includes setbacks, pivots, and risks. 29:08 | Where to connect with Robin and TotalHER Robin shares how listeners can follow her work and learn more about the platform. Resources and LinksLearn More About TotalHERWebsite: https://www.totalher.co/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/totalherappInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/totalherapp/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/totalher/ About TotalHERTotalHER is a leadership and future-of-work platform designed to help women advance their careers, grow their businesses, strengthen their confidence, and create greater independence. The platform is being built to reduce the complexity women often face when navigating business tools, professional development, networking, content, strategy, and opportunity. About the Built To Scale PodcastThe Built To Scale Podcast explores the turning points, mindsets, systems, and decisions that help entrepreneurs grow without losing what made their businesses special. Hosted by entrepreneur and systems strategist Maggie Olson, each episode offers honest conversations and practical insights for founders who want to build stronger foundations, lead with greater confidence, and create sustainable growth. Subscribe to the podcast, share this episode with another entrepreneur, and leave a review to help more business owners discover the show.

  5. Jul 31

    Ep 002 - Build a Business That Grows Without Sacrificing Yourself

    What if the key to scaling your business is not doing more, but learning how to trust yourself, regulate your nervous system, and build systems that support the way you naturally work? In this episode of the Built To Scale Podcast, host Maggie Olson sits down with Lauren Pearlingi, psychic medium, intuitive Human Design business guide, trauma-informed healer, creator of the 90 Second Method, founder of The Mermaid Light, and host of the Enlightened Misfits Podcast and TV Show. Lauren shares how burnout, near-death experiences, and years of following strategies that were not aligned with her energy changed the way she approaches business. Together, Maggie and Lauren explore self-trust, Human Design, nervous system regulation, client journeys, automation, and the importance of building a business that does not rely entirely on the founder. They also discuss why entrepreneurs must understand what happens after someone discovers their work. Creating more offers, posting more content, or launching another platform will not solve the problem if there is no clear path for someone to become a client. This conversation is a reminder that sustainable growth begins with a strong personal and operational foundation. In This Episode00:01 | Meet Lauren Pearlingi Maggie introduces Lauren and opens the conversation about growing a business without sacrificing yourself in the process. 01:33 | The voice behind self-sabotage Lauren explains how old conditioning, past authority figures, and previous versions of ourselves can create doubt that keeps entrepreneurs stuck. 03:02 | The 90 Second Method How Lauren helps people respond to self-doubt before it grows into a pattern of self-sabotage. 04:42 | Stop giving negative thoughts a seat at the table Why telling your inner critic to be quiet may still allow that energy to remain present. 06:17 | Letting other people have an opinion How separating your identity from someone else’s opinion can help you grow with greater confidence. 08:33 | Why not everyone will connect with you The importance of accepting that your work will not resonate with everyone, especially as your visibility increases. 09:13 | Choosing alignment instead of hustle Lauren shares how burnout and near-death experiences changed her approach to business, energy, and personal choice. 10:46 | Taking your power back Why mentors and healers can offer guidance, but lasting confidence must come from within. 12:00 | Human Design and individual alignment How different Human Design types and authorities may need to make decisions and structure their businesses differently. 13:59 | You cannot build from burnout Why sustainable growth requires awareness of your energy, emotions, and capacity. 14:19 | What yoga teaches us about alignment Maggie and Lauren discuss moving away from rigid definitions of alignment and learning to notice what feels right in your own body. 17:39 | Leadership, limits, and energy management Lauren reflects on what teaching yoga taught her about leadership and how she has learned to work with her energy as a Projector. 20:29 | Your thoughts shape your reality A conversation about the language entrepreneurs use with themselves and how repeated thoughts can influence their decisions and outcomes. 21:43 | Maggie’s turning point after leaving corporate Maggie shares how leaving an unhealthy work environment allowed her to reconnect with excitement, possibility, and self-trust. 23:53 | Building systems without losing the personal touch Lauren explains how she began creating systems that allow people to engage with her work even when she is not personally available. 25:57 | Moving beyond a founder-dependent business Why a business needs resources, offers, and pathways that continue working when the founder takes time away. 28:43 | Pick one thing and create a clear path Lauren shares why entrepreneurs do not always need another offer, platform, or content channel. 30:08 | Understanding the client journey Maggie explains how someone moves from discovering your content to becoming a paying client and loyal advocate. 32:40 | Mapping the journey from free to paid Lauren shares how she documented the steps a person can take after downloading a free resource. 34:29 | Why every lead matters A smaller list of warm prospects can be more valuable than a large audience of people who barely know your business. 35:52 | Getting information out of your head Maggie discusses decision fatigue and why tracking clients, leads, and processes is essential for sustainable growth. 38:37 | Prepare before hiring support Why hiring a virtual assistant will not fix a business that has no documented systems or clear processes. 40:19 | One way to make business feel lighter Lauren explains why your nervous system is part of your business strategy. 42:23 | What “built to scale” means to Lauren Why growth starts with repairing cracks in the foundation before trying to expand. Resources and LinksConnect With Lauren Pearlingi and The Mermaid LightAll Links: https://linktr.ee/themermaidlightFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1BV5CojrVo/?mibextid=wwXIfrInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/themermaidlightYouTube: https://youtube.com/@themermaidlightLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-pearlingi About The Built To Scale PodcastThe Built To Scale Podcast explores the turning points, mindsets, systems, and decisions that help entrepreneurs grow without losing what made their businesses special. Hosted by entrepreneur, systems strategist, and Director of Operations Maggie Olson, each episode offers practical insights for building a business with stronger foundations, clearer systems, and more sustainable growth. Subscribe, share the episode, and leave a review to help more entrepreneurs discover the show.

  6. Jul 29

    Ep 001 - Your Business Doesn’t Need More Leads. It Needs Better Systems.

    Welcome to the very first episode of the Built to Scale Podcast, the show for entrepreneurs who want to grow sustainably without creating a business that depends on them 24/7. In this introductory episode, host Maggie Olson, entrepreneur, systems strategist, and Director of Operations at Satva Systems, shares why the businesses that scale successfully are not always the ones with the largest audiences or flashiest marketing. They are the businesses built on strong foundations, intentional client journeys, and systems that support growth. Maggie also challenges one of the most common assumptions in business: that more leads will solve everything. More leads cannot fix missed calls, unanswered messages, confusing offers, inconsistent follow-up, or a chaotic onboarding process. In fact, increasing your marketing before fixing those gaps may expose the problems even faster. Through stories from nearly two decades of entrepreneurship, including photography, yoga studio ownership, coaching, consulting, and operations, Maggie explains how overlooked conversations and broken processes quietly create revenue leaks. You’ll leave this episode with a simple challenge that can help you reconnect with warm prospects, recover missed opportunities, and better understand what happens after someone expresses interest in your business. In This Episode00:01 | Welcome to the Built to Scale Podcast Meet Maggie and hear why she created a dedicated space for conversations about sustainable business growth. 02:19 | What truly scalable businesses have in common Why strong foundations matter more than flashy marketing or a massive audience. 03:20 | What you can expect from the podcast Upcoming conversations about systems, automation, leadership, sales, operations, AI, and the client experience. 04:39 | When your business starts to feel heavy Maggie shares how resentment and exhaustion can signal that it is time to change an offer, restructure, or pivot. 06:59 | Do you really need more leads? A powerful question: What happens after a new lead finds your business? 09:26 | Mapping the client journey Why every business owner should understand the steps that move someone from a new connection to a paying client. 10:15 | Lessons from Maggie’s photography business How chasing more sessions initially shaped her understanding of sales and business growth. 11:45 | Buying and operating a yoga studio Maggie explains how teaching yoga instructors to generate leads became part of her evolution into business coaching. 14:12 | Energy, delegation, and Human Design How understanding your working style can help you make better decisions about what and when to delegate. 16:39 | The hidden cost of poor follow-up Examples of businesses spending heavily on advertising and SEO while leaving interested prospects waiting. 19:04 | Where to look for warm leads right now Why unanswered comments, direct messages, and past conversations may hold your most immediate sales opportunities. 21:27 | Marketing amplifies what already exists Why marketing cannot compensate for broken processes and how simple systems can prevent growth from creating more chaos. 23:50 | Your 90-day lead audit challenge Review every lead, message, and unanswered comment from the past three months and organize those opportunities in one simple place. Ready to Find the Gaps in Your Business?Take the Satva Systems Tech Check to identify opportunities to simplify your technology, strengthen your systems, and create a business that is easier to operate and scale: https://satvasystems.com/tech-check About the Built to Scale PodcastThe Built to Scale Podcast explores what it really takes to create a business that can grow without relying on constant hustle or the founder being available around the clock. Through solo episodes and candid conversations with entrepreneurs and business leaders, Maggie Olson examines the systems, decisions, client experiences, leadership practices, and operational foundations behind sustainable growth. Subscribe to the podcast and join us as we build businesses that are designed not only to grow, but to work.

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Every entrepreneur wants more growth, but few talk about what it actually takes to sustain it. Built to Scale is the podcast for business owners who are ready to stop wearing every hat and start building a company that can grow without depending on them for everything. Hosted by entrepreneur and operations strategist Maggie Olson, each episode features honest conversations with founders, operators, marketers, and industry experts who have built real businesses...not just talked about building them. Together, we explore the systems, leadership, marketing, sales, automation, technology, and decision-making that turn growing businesses into scalable ones. Whether you're wondering why your business still depends on you, trying to simplify your operations, improving your client experience, or preparing for your next stage of growth, every episode is designed to give you practical strategies you can put into action immediately. This isn't a podcast about chasing the latest trend or working more hours. It's about building a business that's profitable, sustainable, and designed to support the life you actually want. If you're ready to stop operating in constant reaction mode and start building with intention, you're in the right place. New episodes feature solo strategy sessions, candid founder stories, and interviews with experts who share what really works behind the scenes of successful businesses. Because scaling isn't about doing more, it's about building better.

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  • Creator
    Maggie Olson
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    6
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Copyright 2026 Maggie Olson
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    The Built to Scale Podcast