Female Founders Breaking Boundaries

Get Out Of The Weeds: Essential Activities For High-Impact Visionaries

22 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re the visionary leader of your business but have found yourself bogged down with operational tasks for too long, you might find yourself neg...

Top 10 Indicators of a Healthy Business

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I typically find my clients in one of two camps. Either they avoid looking at metrics OR they look at every possible piece of data available. Here at ...

What’s In and What's Out for 2024

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We are constantly striving for improvement here at C-Suite Boutique and one of the ways we practice this is by looking back to see what has been worki...

Are You Operating in Constant Crisis Mode?

04 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Does everything in your business feel like an emergency? More often than not, there is no real emergency yet we find ourselves operating in this const...

Company Culture & The Newsletter Myth

21 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Company culture is not built overnight. It is ingrained into every aspect of your business making sure that everyone on your team is working towards t...

Hire Slow, Fire Fast

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bringing someone new onto your team is a significant investment in both time and money. Not only in the financial compensation you give them but in th...

Why I Don't Do Time Tracking

19 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Time tracking is a great tool for understanding efficiency. It can be helpful in finding places where you can reduce the time it takes to do certain t...

How To Be A Successful Serial Entrepreneur with Morgan Hancock

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s not often that when you think about bourbon, visual art comes to mind. That’s what has made our guests nonprofit so successful. She’s marri...

How to Keep Your Staff Out of Your Inbox

24 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Perhaps you’ve done your quarterly planning, your staff understands their accountability, they understand the functions of their role, they have own...

Are You Ready for an Integrator? When to Hire an Integrator, DOO, or Executive Assistant

10 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There seems to be a lot of confusion for founders when deciding which position to hire next to support them in the business. This week, we will discus...

How to Boost Employee Retention and Productivity

27 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We have a retention issue. Our good, hardworking people are leaving. The first thought tends to be that we must have a company culture issue, but it a...

Tips for Maintaining Your Business During a Recession

13 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There’s a lot of fear and overwhelming for business owners because of the current climate of the economy and impending recession. The recession does...

What Could Happen When You Enforce Accountability

29 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A lot of my clients find themselves with team members who are really good at doing the tasks within their role but they are not good at owning the big...

Leading vs. Delegating vs. Doing

25 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One thing I see happening across the women-led companies I work with is that they have reached a place where they realize they can’t manage all of t...

Why I Don't Drink the Kool-Aid (about EOS) [Rerelease]

20 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There was a point in time where it clicked for me that the entrepreneurial operating system (EOS) was not geared toward the women entrepreneurs who ar...

How to Build a Team Who "Gets It"

23 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I cannot stress enough how important it is to bring the right people into your business that understand the expectations of the role they are being hi...

Staying Flexible Through Failure with Virginia Frischkorn

09 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Change is inevitable and sometimes it comes without us asking for it so instead of fearing change, we must embrace it and ask ourselves what we can st...

Why Is Stuff Not Getting Done?

23 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I’ve recently had an influx of clients feeling frustrated that their business tasks are not getting done and their business is failing to move forwa...

Persisting Through a Taboo Launch with Nancy Jarecki

09 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Starting a business comes with its own set of obstacles but starting a taboo business is often met with pushback and disapproval. Today’s guest prov...

Using Rewards and Incentives to Attract, Retain, and Motivate Employees

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When we bring on team members, they are bringing value into the business and in order for us to attract and retain them, we must provide value in retu...

Do you Need an Integrator, COO, DOO, or OBM? [Rerelease]

29 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Not every business owner can do all the tasks their business requires without burnout. This brings up the opportunity to find out what type of person ...

Banishing Toxic Workplace Culture with Lindsay Recknell

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Gone are the days when it was discouraged to talk about our personal lives, feelings, and overall well-being in the workplace and although it has been...

Using Job Descriptions to Attract the Right Talent

15 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Your job description is the front line marketing tool that is going to attract candidates into the role you are hiring for but if you’re following t...

Managing Your Business Operations with Kaci Ackerman

08 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As female entrepreneurs, we are often balancing so much more than our male counterparts, and therefore, require much more free time and flexibility in...

Breaking Venture Capital Glass Ceilings with Lindsay McLean

01 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We talk often about how difficult it is for women entrepreneurs to obtain funding so when we come across someone who was successful and can act as a c...

Thriving Through Divorce as an Entrepreneur with Amber Hawley

24 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Whether you’re going through a divorce or any other significant life change, there are so many factors that take a toll on your overall well-being. ...

Boundaries Holding Women Entrepreneurs Back [Rerelease]

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As women, there are countless systemic boundaries, both of which to some extent we can and cannot control, standing in between us from achieving succe...

A New Age of Marketing with Sarah Santacroce

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We have evolved so much consciously over the last 5 years alone that we cannot use the same strategies we have been using and expect them to work anym...

Selling a Business with Julie Ball

03 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

At the end of the day, you’re either going to pass your business down as a legacy brand, you’re going to close it down or you’re going to sell i...

Creating a Results-Oriented Company Culture

27 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Toxic productivity stems from the corporate environment fueled by greed and power, no matter the cost. Unfortunately, this has been going on for so lo...

Use Your Business To Be The Change with Stephanie Malon-Rufi

20 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The majority of women I work with have some element of social impact engrained in their business whether they know it or not. It is so valuable to not...

Yes, Even Integrators Are Held Accountable

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As integrators, not only are we creating scorecards to keep your team accountable but we have our own scorecard to keep us on track to what we committ...

Are You a Visionary or CEO? Part 2

29 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

You may want the CEO title because of the status it holds, however, when you start to break down the roles and responsibilities of a CEO, you may unco...

Protecting Your Business Through Divorce with Hannah Smolinski

22 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When your business is something you built on your own from the ground up, it can be scary going through a divorce and having part of that potentially ...

What Your Employee Needs and Can't Tell You with Melina Palmer

15 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Whether you're leading a team of employees, freelancers, or even working with vendor partners understanding how the brain reacts to change will h...

How to Know When to Let a Team Member Go

01 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As a leader myself, I take personal responsibility when a team member of mine is not performing and ask myself where I may have dropped the ball or wh...

Mistakes Not to Avoid with Kristen Carbone

25 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to running your business, the mistakes you make and the lessons you learn are going to be the stepping stones for you to grow within you...

Staying in Alignment With Your Vision

18 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As a visionary, you may have a difficult time articulating the vision you have for your company. Because of this, it is so important to keep open comm...

Building Team Culture in a Remote Workplace

11 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

More than likely, the majority of you have had experience working remotely over the past couple of years. While there are many benefits to a remote wo...

Hiring an Agency with Torre Capistran

04 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The problem most companies have when they outsource work for website design and development is they get back a finished product they love but don’t ...

Creative Outsourcing to Scale Faster

28 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re feeling like your team doesn’t know what they’re doing, are doing the wrong things, or need constant supervision, the problem may not ...

Troubleshooting Your Delegation Systems

21 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After working with so many female business owners on their team success, I’ve found that there are a few things that are repeatedly happening that a...

Ways to Combat the Child Care Crisis in Entrepreneurship

07 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The childcare crisis has been an ongoing issue and continues to be the number one boundary that is holding women entrepreneurs back. This week’s epi...

Our Rights Are Under Attack

30 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Whether the overturn of Roe v. Wade directly impacts you or not, it is so important to consider the people around you that it does impact. The Supreme...

Creating White Space By Setting Boundaries

23 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We have been working on time management with so many of our clients lately so they can build and manage their business around their ideal schedule. Th...

How To Include Financial Strategy In Your Quarterly Plan with Carla Titus

16 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Often times financials are an afterthought when it comes to strategic planning but in reality, they are an integral factor in every decision you make ...

Creating a Profitable Team with Ashley Cox

09 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Onboarding is an overlooked yet vital part of the hiring process and if done wrong, can actually stand in your way from growing your business. This we...

What Money Management Looks Like as a CEO with Danielle Hayden

02 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As a CEO, you need to be looking at your business's finances from a birds eye view in order to think analytically, make educated business decisio...

Stories of Scaling with Alesia Galati

26 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Podcasting allows you to show up in front of your audience with such a deep knowledge and expertise and connect with this audience on a deeper level t...

Are You Waiting for the Right Time?

19 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When you wait around for the “right time” to seek out strategic planning support for whatever reason you may have, you are actually losing out on ...

Navigating Your Influencer Role as a Female Founder

12 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

You likely don’t consider yourself an influencer nor do you want to consider yourself an influencer but the truth is, as a visionary entrepreneur, i...

Embrace Your Leadership Role with Shelli Warren

05 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to scaling a business, there are both mindset and procedural changes that need to be made to take entrepreneurs out of the day-to-day wo...

Why Delegating Doesn't Work

28 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re thinking to yourself that you’re busier now than when you were doing all of the tasks by yourself or questioning if you’ve hired the r...

Could You Outsource Your Sales? with Nikki Rausch

21 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

You can spend thousands of dollars a month on marketing, but if you don’t have someone who knows the process of closing the sales, you may as well b...

Defining Your Own Success with JoAnna Hartzmark

14 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Women are so often defined by either their appearance, clothing size, or comparative success as a woman in a male-dominated industry, but today’s gu...

Yes, You CAN Get the Strategic Support You Need

07 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

At C-Suite Boutique, we are here to give you the tools and support you need to have a business that runs without you by having the right people helpin...

Creating a Flexible Workplace to Attract and Retain Talent

31 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Your team members are the key to growing a sustainable and successful business that can bring you back to this place where work-life balance exists ag...

Is the Investment Worth It?

24 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As we’re getting closer to reviewing our quarterly plans, the topic of upcoming investment opportunities is coming up more and more so we want to be...

Simplifying Legal for Small Business with Danielle Liss

17 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When businesses start to grow, we know the CEO and COO are important as well as bringing in a CFO and CMO most of the time, however, the hugely import...

Why I Don't Drink the Kool-Aid (about EOS)

10 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There was a point in time where it clicked for me that the entrepreneurial operating system (EOS) was not geared toward the women entrepreneurs who ar...

Tracking and Keeping Score of Your Metrics

03 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tracking metrics is a great tool to set your team members up for success through accountability and taking the guesswork of questioning if your team i...

Are You Sabotaging Your Team?

24 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As the visionary of your company, there are a few things you might be unintentionally doing that are not only taking your team off track but taking yo...

Taking Control Over Your Finances with Nicholle Overkamp

17 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Although we are making progress, money and financial literacy is still a huge boundary that is holding women entrepreneurs back. That’s why episode ...

No More Team Meetings That Could Have Been Emails

10 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you are simply holding team meetings just because you have a team, you are helping no one unless you come prepared for these meetings with the righ...

2022 Trends To Prepare For

03 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There’s no doubting that there have been some economic factors that have shifted the way businesses are operating and by getting ahead of these tren...

Should You Hire to Hit Your Goals?

27 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When looking over your 2022 goals, you’ll need to look at your existing team in a new way to find the gaps that might be keeping you from hitting th...

Accountability Is Key

20 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Accountability is the one thing in your business that is going to let you know if your people are in the right roles, doing what they are supposed to ...

Foolproof Your Business Plans

06 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As a business owner, it is so important to take the time to evaluate where you’ve been and where you want to go in order to build out the roadmap to...

How to Unbusy Your CEO Life with Neill Williams

30 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As women, we are too often shouldering so much extra stuff that we don’t have the extra time for us to have hobbies, businesses, and, generally, suc...

Run Your Business by a New Set of Rules with Eleanor Beaton

23 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Women often start businesses to get out of the patriarchal systems we hate only to unintentionally reinvent them in smaller ways and call them feminis...

Where Are All The Workers? with Erin Longmoon

16 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It is no secret that the labor market is going through some big changes. That being said, it is more important now than ever for small businesses to s...

Shift From a “Doing” Mindset to a “Thinking” Mindset

09 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In the early stages of your business, you may be hiring “do-ers” to get your business off the ground running, but as you look to scale and expand ...

A Simple Strategy to Pay Yourself First

02 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As an entrepreneur, you are working your business in place of a 9-5 job so the business you are running needs to sustain you financially like a tradit...

What is your Plan B? with Mary Beth Simón

25 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Typically when one person excels in finance and operations, all others take a back seat in cruise control, but what happens if the person who is in ch...

Should You Have Recurring Revenue with Jessica Principe

18 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A huge goal of ours is to encourage and educate women how to avoid leadership burnout by reducing their mental load and working less all while reachin...

The 5 Pillars of An Entrepreneurial Business

11 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The pillars of entrepreneurship are what strengthen and protect your business from both internal and external factors. That’s why episode 30 of Fema...

Is All This Talk About Balance BS?

04 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Balance is a hot topic for women because when we consider everything that is being asked or expected of us, we soon realize there are not enough hours...

An Easy Button for Easily Distracted Entrepreneurs with Amber Hawley

28 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Whether you have been diagnosed as neurodivergent or not, modern-day entrepreneurship is built with distractions that may steer you off the path of yo...

Are You Operating In Your Zone of Genius?

19 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The reason you may love what you do but still experience burn out could be that you’re operating in your Zone of Excellence, and not your Zone of Ge...

The Perfect Pitch Strategy For Visionary Leaders with Angie Trueblood

12 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Whether it be the intimidation of what they think it takes or the fear of not knowing where to start, many women avoid pitching themselves and therefo...

Passion is not a Vision

05 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

You can run a successful business without a vision just as long as you reframe your passion into specific goals your team can align themselves with in...

My Top Five Recommended Business Reads

28 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

There are hundreds of business books on the market that can have a huge impact on the way we run our business. That’s why episode 24 of Female Found...

Creating Non-Profits to Advance Your Vision with Dr. Sharon Jones

21 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Your business is likely backed by a vision that spans beyond making a profit and there are ways you can use this profit to get you closer to that visi...

Using HR for long-term Success with Niki Ramirez

14 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A common misconception tells us we need to be a large corporation to implement HR systems, however, whether you have 2 or 200 employees, HR can help f...

What In The &%$# is a "Leadership Team?"

07 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Knowing your own strengths and leadership style allows you to build a team under you so that you can run your business in a way that feels calm, comfo...

Breaking Barriers Within Your Business

31 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Business silos can be one of the most limiting barriers within your business as they create an individualistic working environment that blocks out the...

When Should You Consider Working With A CFO With Hannah Smolinski

24 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When you first start your business, you may only have basic financial needs, but as your business grows and gains new levels of complexity, you have t...

The Mystery of the Marketing Funnel Solved

17 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Your typical marketing funnel focuses on turning leads into sales in order to generate money. My perspective on a marketing funnel focuses on the rela...

Boundaries Holding Women Entrepreneurs Back

10 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As women, there are countless systemic boundaries keeping women from achieving success as an entrepreneur. That’s why episode 17 of Female Founders ...

Using Time Blocking To Save Your Sanity

03 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As a working mom, I have limited time to work on projects and client tasks, and I knew early on that I needed a system that would work with my schedul...

Thought Leadership as a Revenue Stream with Carol Cox

27 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Thought leaders are the people in the industry using their voices to speak on unique topics that no one else is talking about. That’s why episode 15...

How To Prepare To Hire Your Integrator

20 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Integrators will step into your business and take over many of the transitional logistics so you don’t have to; however, if you are not mentally pre...

What Role Does an Integrator Play in your Business?

13 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As a business owner, you may identify with a visionary type personality and require someone to step in, free up your time, and balance you out. That’...

It's the Market, Not the Marketing

06 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When sales aren’t good, the first area we tend to place the blame is marketing. That’s why episode 12 of Female Founders Breaking Boundaries is ab...

Are You Chasing Your Competition? Do This Instead.

29 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When you chase your competition, you start to mimic their products and services, show up in the same places as them and overall lose what makes your b...

Do you really understand your ideal buyer?

22 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Your target audience is more than just the demographics of the people that buy from you. That’s why episode 10 of Female Founders Breaking Boundarie...

The Story Behind Brand Story

15 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Your brand story neatly wraps up your company purpose, focus, and values into something that your customers can relate to and resonate with. That’s ...

Is My Business Salable?

08 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Whether it's because you retire or because you pack up to travel the world, you’re not going to run your business forever. That’s why episode...

Re-think How You Communicate Company Values

01 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Much like your business blueprint, your company values will shape everything from the foundation you build all the way to the way you interact with yo...

Toss Your Traditional Mission & Vision Statement Out The Window

25 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Creating an impactful, meaningful and relevant purpose and focus for your business will influence all future decisions and bring them into alignment w...