WHERE LEADERSHIP MEETS GROWTH
THE PEOPLE SIDE OF BUSINESS
The People Side of Business podcast is for founders and business owners who are good at what they do but were never shown how to develop and lead the people around them.
Every week, Lindsay White breaks down the real situations no one prepares you for: the employee who isn't performing, the conversation you've been putting off, the hire that felt right and wasn't.
Practical, direct, and grounded in what actually works.
Because growing a business is one skill.
Growing a team is another.
This show is where you learn the second one.
MEET YOUR HOST
Lindsay White
Fractional HR Expert | Team Leadership Strategist | Leadership Coach for Female Founders
Hi, I’m Lindsay White. I’m a lifelong HR professional who spent decades in the trenches of large business workplace strategy before realizing that the founders who needed me most had never had access to someone like me.
This podcast exists because most business owners don’t get a seat at the HR table until something has already gone wrong. So I built a place to change that.
Around here, we talk about what it actually looks like to lead a team with confidence — the hard conversations, the hiring decisions, the culture questions, and everything in between that no one warns you about when you bring on your first employee.
Because the goal isn’t just to build a business. It’s to build one that doesn’t fall apart the moment people are involved.
Hi, I’m Lindsay White. I’m a lifelong HR professional who spent decades in the trenches of large business workplace strategy before realizing that the founders who needed me most had never had access to someone like me.
This podcast exists because most business owners don’t get a seat at the HR table until something has already gone wrong. So I built a place to change that.
Around here, we talk about what it actually looks like to lead a team with confidence — the hard conversations, the hiring decisions, the culture questions, and everything in between that no one warns you about when you bring on your first employee.
Because the goal isn’t just to build a business. It’s to build one that doesn’t fall apart the moment people are involved.
Lastest Episodes
One of the most important hiring tips for small businesses is understanding that you can hire a fantastic person and still make the wrong hiring decision.
Maybe they came highly recommended. They have an impressive resume, years of experience, and everyone on your team likes them. But a few weeks into the role, things aren't going quite the way you expected.
That's exactly what happened to a founder I worked with named Angela.
In this episode, I'm sharing what happened, the hiring mistakes we uncovered, and why finding the right person isn't always the same as hiring for what your business actually needs.
Employee issues can be incredibly frustrating, especially when you feel like you're having the same conversations over and over again.
Someone misses a deadline. Another person isn't communicating. Someone else isn't taking ownership of their work. And you're left wondering why your team can't seem to get on the same page.
But what if those employee issues aren't actually separate problems?
In this episode, I'm sharing the story of Judy, a founder I worked with who was experiencing exactly this. She had a talented team and a growing business, but it seemed like every week brought another frustration.
If you’re trying to figure out how to scale a team, you might assume hiring more people will finally give you more capacity.
So why are you somehow busier than you were before?
In this episode, we’re looking at why learning how to scale a team takes more than simply adding people.
Avoiding difficult conversations with employees can feel like the kind thing to do, especially when you genuinely care about the people on your team.
But while you’re waiting, the cost of that conversation doesn’t disappear. It just moves somewhere else.
In this episode, I’m sharing the story of a founder who was dealing with employee performance issues involving someone she genuinely valued. She thought she’d been giving feedback, but nothing was changing. Meanwhile, she was carrying the frustration, other team members were picking up the slack, and resentment was starting to build.
Stepping into leadership can feel uncomfortable when you’ve built a capable team but somehow still find yourself in the middle of every question, decision, problem and approval.
That’s exactly where one founder found herself. Her business was growing, she trusted her team and she genuinely wanted them to succeed. But as the pace and complexity increased, so did her involvement.
She became the person everyone came to for answers.
In this episode, I’m sharing what changed when she realized that stepping into leadership didn’t mean becoming more available to her team. It meant changing the way she led them.
Leadership skills for business owners become especially important when you’ve built a smart, capable team—but somehow every decision still seems to come back to you.
You’ve hired good people. You trust them. You want them to take ownership. So why are you still answering the questions, clarifying the priorities, approving the work and solving the problems?
In this episode, we’re looking at five very normal leadership behaviours that can unintentionally create dependency—from stepping back into strategic ownership and creating confusion about decision making, to communicating urgency without enough context and giving feedback that makes people more cautious instead of more capable.
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