Hi there and welcome back to another edition of ScaleUp Radio, the podcast brought to you by Smart90, inspired by the Entrepreneurial ScaleUp System and designed to make navigating our ScaleUp journeys that little bit easier by learning from others' experiences.

I'm Kevin Brent and in today's episode I'm joined by Anita Čavrag, a leadership expert who specialises in helping founders overcome burnout and build high-performing, engaged teams.

In this episode, Anita shares practical frameworks to help you make the critical shift from operator to leader — and why failing to do so is one of the biggest hidden barriers to scaling a business. We also explore how burnout at the top impacts the entire organisation, and what you can do to create psychological safety so your team can truly perform.

One standout insight from the conversation is this: leadership isn't about doing more — it's about becoming someone your business no longer depends on.

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Kevin's Book Is Here!

Drawing on BizSmart's own research and experiences of working with hundreds of owner-managers, Kevin Brent explores the key reasons why most organisations do not scale and how the challenges change as they reach different milestones on the ScaleUp Journey. He then details a practical step by step guide to successfully navigate between the milestones in the form of ESUS - a proven system for entrepreneurs to scale up.

More on the Book HERE - https://www.esusgroup.co.uk/

Anita can be found here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anita-cavrag-career-coach/

https://www.fireflycareer.com/

Downloadable Resource - https://www.fireflycareer.com/5-deadly-habits

Resources:

The Inventing Organisations by Frederic Lalouix - https://www.reinventingorganizations.com/-