BIG DREAMS
GREAT TEAMS PODCAST
with your host
Paula Maidens
PODCASTS
In this essential episode of Big Dreams Great Teams, I’m interviewing Lisa Turner, founder of Accounted For You, a specialised Zero-only bookkeeping practice helping female-led businesses understand their numbers with clarity and confidence.
With 20 years of experience in finance and accounting and 8 years running her own business, Lisa is passionate about making numbers feel simple.
In this super practical and easy to digest episode, Lisa reveals why many business owners feel overwhelmed by their finances and how this leads to avoidance behaviours that can seriously impact your growth potential. She shares practical tips for moving from financial anxiety to confident decision-making, particularly when growing your team.
In this episode of Big Dreams Great Teams, Paula shares a powerful framework to transform your team meetings from energy-draining obligations into the strategic engine of your business. Discover the three specific questions that create accountability, reveal obstacles, and develop proactive thinking in your team - ultimately allowing meetings to run effectively even without you present.
Are you exhausted from being the only person in your business who can solve problems? Tired of explaining the same things over and over to your team? In this powerful episode of Big Dreams Great Teams, Paula Maidens reveals why "telling" might actually be your biggest leadership blindspot.
Here's the truth - working harder isn't the answer to scaling your business. After 14 years of helping business owners build high-performing teams, I've discovered exactly what it takes to break free from operational overwhelm and step into true strategic leadership. In this episode, I'm sharing the framework that will transform how you lead your business.
Are your business values secretly working against your team's performance? In this episode of Big Dreams Great Teams, I'm sharing a practical framework for using values-based communication to transform your team culture. Whether you have formal company values or not, this episode will show you how to tap into the values already driving your business and use them to create the culture you actually want in 2025.
In this episode of Big Dreams Great Teams, I’m pulling back the curtain on how AI tools are helping and hindering hiring, recruitment, leadership, and productivity for small business owners. From streamlining operations to optimising team performance, I’m sharing practical ways I use AI daily—and where it can fall short.
As a small business owner, your leadership style directly impacts your team—and ultimately, your business success.
In this episode, we dive into three common leadership habits that could be holding you back in 2025.
Discover practical strategies to shift from frustration to freedom and create a high-performing team that thrives without your constant oversight.
We're pulling back the curtain on what 2024 really looked like - beyond the glossy social media highlights and into the reality of running a business!
In this special end-of-year episode, I'm sharing MY full picture of running a successful business - from the moments that had me pouring a glass of bubbly to the days that had me questioning everything. Because real business growth isn't just about the victories we post online - it's about how we handle the difficult days, what we learn from our mistakes, and how we keep showing up even when things don't go to plan.
Join me for an honest conversation about the wins, the challenges, and those messy middle moments that actually shape us as business owners and leaders.
