Built Beyond You™

Paul Battrick

Built Beyond You™ is for founders who have built a successful business but remain stuck at the centre of sales, decisions, delivery and problems. Hosted by Paul Battrick, each short Founder Briefing™ offers practical thinking on leadership, systems, positioning, decision-making, growth and value—so the business can grow beyond you. Founder still too involved in decisions, sales or delivery? Find Your Wall in 2 minutes. https://www.paulbattrick.site/book?utm_source=built-beyond-you&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=experiment-003&utm_content=show-profile#diagnostic

  1. 1d ago

    The Grief of Growth: What Nobody Tells You About Building Something Bigger

    There are parts of building a bigger business that nobody really prepares you for... Not the targets, the systems or the new roles. The quieter cost of leaving behind a way of working, a sense of being needed and sometimes relationships that helped you get started. In this episode of Built Beyond You, Paul Battrick explores why growth can feel like loss even when it's exactly what you wanted, how to distinguish loyalty from obligation, and a simple way to honour what the business was while making room for what it needs to become. For founders building beyond the version of the business that depends on them. Explore Beyond the Wall™ and find your next move: https://www.paulbattrick.site/book

  2. Oct 26

    Can Your Business Solve a Problem Without You?

    Your team can handle the work when everything goes to plan. But what happens when a client complains, a deadline slips or a decision feels risky? If every problem still comes back to you, the business may have delegated activity without building real independence. In this episode of Built Beyond You, The Founder Briefing, Paul Battrick explores why founders become the default emergency service, how to tell the difference between missing authority, clarity, confidence and capability, and three questions that help teams develop their own judgement. This week's action: choose one recurring problem that lands on your desk and change one thing so the next version is less likely to need you. Built Beyond You is about building a business that can grow without depending on the founder for every decision.

  3. Oct 5

    You Delegated the Work. Did You Delegate the Ownership?

    You can delegate the activity and still carry all the risk. In this episode of Built Beyond You, Paul Battrick explores what genuine ownership requires: clarity on outcomes, authority to act, judgement when reality shifts, and responsibility for learning when something goes wrong. Use the three-question test to spot what you’re still carrying and identify one piece of ownership that can move into the business. Built Beyond You is available on all major podcast platforms.

  4. Sep 28

    Founder Energy Is Strategic Capital

    Your business consumes something that is not on the balance sheet: your energy. In Episode 6, Founder Energy Is Strategic Capital, Paul Battrick explores how founders can spend, invest or waste their attention, judgement and creativity. Small decisions may feel efficient in the moment, but repeatedly solving them can leave the business dependent on the founder and drain the sharp thinking needed to build what comes next. This is not about disappearing from your business. It is about choosing where your involvement creates disproportionate value, while helping other people build the judgement and capability to carry more. For one week, use this three-question energy filter whenever work pulls you in: Did this genuinely need me? What did it require from me? What happens next time?

  5. Sep 21

    What Should Only You Still Be Doing?

    Look back at the last seven days and ask: of everything you did, what genuinely required you? Being busy can feel valuable, but founder value is not how much work passes through you. It is the leverage you create by removing yourself from work that no longer needs you. In this episode, we separate genuinely founder-only work from work retained through habit or history, examine the opportunity cost of being the default carrier, and define the higher-value founder role. Practical exercise: audit the last seven days and identify one thing to remove from the founder.

  6. Sep 14

    Every Decision That Comes Back to You Is Telling You Something

    Every decision that comes back to you is telling you something. It shows where your business still depends on your judgement, approval or confidence. In this Founder Briefing, Paul Battrick looks at the decisions that keep returning to the founder and how to use them as evidence. The aim is not to stop caring or hand decisions away blindly. It is to see where decision ownership, clarity and capability need to move so the business can keep progressing without everything finding its way back to you.

  7. Sep 7

    The Room Test: What Happens When You Leave?

    Your business can look well run while you’re in the room. But what happens when you leave? In this Founder Briefing, Paul Battrick introduces the Room Test, a simple way to expose where decisions, meetings and problems still depend on the founder. If your team grows but everything still finds its way back to you, this episode will help you see what needs to change.

  8. Aug 31

    Why Successful Founders Become The Bottleneck

    Why Successful Founders Become the Bottleneck The behaviours that helped you build your business can eventually become the reason it struggles to grow beyond you. In this Founder Briefing, Paul Battrick looks at how founder dependency develops, why hiring and delegation do not automatically solve it, and how capable teams can still become trained to bring difficult decisions back to the founder. You’ll also get one simple question to use the next time something lands on your desk that probably should not have needed you: Why did this need to reach me? If your business has grown but still seems to depend too heavily on your judgement, time or energy, this episode will help you see where that dependency may actually be coming from. Find where your business still depends too heavily on you. Take the free 2-minute Find Your Wall diagnostic: 10 questions. No email required. https://www.paulbattrick.site/book#diagnostic Follow Built Beyond You™ for the next Founder Briefing: The Room Test: What Happens When You Leave?

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Built Beyond You™ is for founders who have built a successful business but remain stuck at the centre of sales, decisions, delivery and problems. Hosted by Paul Battrick, each short Founder Briefing™ offers practical thinking on leadership, systems, positioning, decision-making, growth and value—so the business can grow beyond you. Founder still too involved in decisions, sales or delivery? Find Your Wall in 2 minutes. https://www.paulbattrick.site/book?utm_source=built-beyond-you&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=experiment-003&utm_content=show-profile#diagnostic

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  • Creator
    Paul Battrick
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    29
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Paul Battrick
  • Show Website
    Built Beyond You™