Woman Owned: The Growth Podcast for Women Entrepreneurs

Why Growth Breaks Your Business (And How to Build for What's Next) with Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva

There's a moment most growing businesses hit where everything that once worked starts to feel like it's working against you. The systems that helped you scale. The team structures that once felt efficient. Even the way you organize your week. What many leaders interpret as a people problem or sometimes a personal leadership failure is often something else entirely: a structural mismatch between your business and the environment it now operates in. In this episode, Eleanor sits down with corporate reinvention expert Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva, founder of the Reinvention Academy and author of multiple books on organizational reinvention. Listen in this week as Eleanor and Nadya explore how leaders can recognize when systems have outlived their usefulness, why reinvention needs to become a regular cadence rather than a crisis response, and what it actually takes to build a business that can evolve without breaking. If you're leading a growing company and things suddenly feel harder than they should, this conversation will give you a powerful new lens for understanding what's really happening. Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO91 Connect with Eleanor on LinkedIn or Instagram: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eleanorbeaton/ https://www.instagram.com/eleanorbeaton/?hl=en

The CEO Reading List That Built a 7-Figure Business

If you want to grow a powerful company, you need powerful thinking, and books are one of the fastest ways to access it. In this episode, Eleanor shares the seven business books that have most shaped her leadership, decision-making, and ability to scale into the top 1% of women entrepreneurs globally. These are not trendy titles or surface-level reads. They are foundational works that influenced how she thinks about power, profit architecture, capacity, abundance, product design, onboarding, and sales. Listen in today as Eleanor breaks down why each book matters, what it unlocked in her own company, and how these ideas can help ambitious women CEOs scale sustainably. If you are serious about building a high-growth company with strength, profitability, and strategic depth, this reading list will expand how you think and operate. Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO90 Connect with Eleanor on LinkedIn or Instagram: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eleanorbeaton/ https://www.instagram.com/eleanorbeaton/?hl=en

Quarterly Business Planning for CEOs: How to Decide What to Work On Next

If the CEO job description was boiled down to one question, it would be this: what do we work on next? Most women entrepreneurs don't struggle because they aren't working hard enough. They struggle because they're working on the wrong thing. Here's the truth: businesses don't rise to the level of their potential. They shrink to the level of their constraints. Growth isn't about adding more marketing, more offers, or more complexity. It's about identifying the single bottleneck restricting flow and releasing it. Listen in this week as Eleanor walks you through the exact quarterly planning process she uses inside her own business and with her private clients to drive serious growth. If you want a simple, focused way to decide what to work on next and unlock revenue without working harder, this episode will show you exactly how. Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO89 Connect with Eleanor on LinkedIn or Instagram: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eleanorbeaton/ https://www.instagram.com/eleanorbeaton/?hl=en

How to Diagnose Your Business Health Using 4 Key Numbers

Are you growing your revenue but still feel broke at the end of the month? Many women entrepreneurs face this problem without realizing that the issue lies not in the revenue, but in the lack of a solid financial structure. In this episode, Eleanor breaks down the Margin Stack: a framework she uses to analyze the health of her business. If you've ever found yourself asking, "Why does leadership feel so exhausting if everything is working?", then this episode will help you make sense of the financial dynamics at play in your business. You'll learn the four cost allocations that impact your profit margins, how to diagnose and address inefficiencies, and learn the numbers that truly matter for your business health. Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO88 Connect with Eleanor on LinkedIn or Instagram: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eleanorbeaton/ https://www.instagram.com/eleanorbeaton/?hl=en

Why Leadership Gets Harder As Your Company Grows feat. LIA GARVIN

If your company is objectively successful but leadership feels heavier, more personal, and more draining than you expected, you're not imagining it. For many women founders running businesses in the one to ten million dollar range, leadership strain shows up right as things start working. This week, Eleanor is joined by Lia Garvin, a workplace expert who has led and advised teams inside some of the most operationally demanding organizations in the world, including Apple and Google. Drawing from her experience and her book The Unstoppable Team, Lia breaks down what actually happens when responsibility accumulates faster than structure. Listen in to learn how unclear expectations, fuzzy accountability, and incomplete systems quietly force founders to absorb pressure that should live in the business. Together, Eleanor and Lia unpack why founders become the default escalation point, how responsiveness and availability quietly trap leaders in reactivity, and the critical difference between having people doing the work versus owning outcomes. Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/WO87 Connect with Eleanor on LinkedIn or Instagram: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eleanorbeaton/ https://www.instagram.com/eleanorbeaton/?hl=en