You've cleaned up the messaging, rewritten the website, and made the hires, and the business is still stuck right where it was.

In this episode of Get Unstuck & On Target, host Mike O'Neill sits down with Suzanne Taylor-King, a founder development specialist who ran five retail stores at 24 and has built multiple ventures with successful exits in the 35 years since. Suzanne also hosts Unlock Your Way with STK.

Suzanne explains why experienced founders keep fixing the wrong thing, and she traces it back to how the founder is treating themselves. She shares how she burned out chasing a million-dollar year as an online health coach and what happened with a founder whose revenue had sat flat for four years.

Mike adds his own view as a founder who came out of 25 years in corporate HR, and the two talk through why Suzanne stopped selling a long list of services and how she brings AI into her work.

Three key topics to look out for:

- How to tell whether the bottleneck you keep fixing is the real problem, starting with who you are being as a founder day to day

- Why AI gives better results when you build foundational documents first (offers, stories, testimonials) and add automation second

- Why 90% of Suzanne's business comes from relationships, and what 10 or 20 great relationships can do for your growth

Find all the show notes and links here: https://www.unstuck.show/249

Good people keep walking out the door, and most leaders can't say why.

In this episode of Get Unstuck & On Target, host Mike O'Neill sits down with Cathy Holt, a women's influence strategist and author of Unstoppable Women who has spent 40 years in political campaigns, boardrooms, and the United Nations.

Cathy explains why capable women stall out and leave, tracing it to a recognition gap in how organizations see them. She puts the cost of replacing a leader at about two times that leader's salary. Mike digs into the system issues behind it, and Cathy shares what happened to a senior manager who turned a negative department into one producing four times its previous output, then was told to hit $7 million before anyone would consider her for VP.

From there, Cathy walks through her Zone of Greatest Influence framework and what good sponsorship looks like in practice. Mike adds what he has seen in his own work: leaders who champion others see their influence grow because people want to join their teams.

Three key topics to look out for:

- Why capable women stall out when organizations measure them on the wrong things, and what it costs to lose them

- How to move from flashlight to laser beam with the Zone of Greatest Influence so the right people know your strengths

- What good sponsorship looks like in practice: talking about your people when you're in other rooms, and why leaders who champion others see their own influence grow

Find all the show notes and links here: https://www.unstuck.show/248

Every leader wants someone else to own AI: a vendor, a new hire, or the IT department. But the leaders who actually get ahead treat this as the one thing they can't hand off.

In this episode of Get Unstuck & On Target, host Mike O'Neill sits down with Kim Resch, author of AI Due Diligence and So You Want to Learn AI, who has spent 25 years helping Fortune 500 and high-growth companies adopt and govern new technology.

Kim walks through why AI is different from past shifts like the cloud or mobile, why leaders need to sit down with their own teams before calling in a vendor, and how her three-word framework, clarity, control, and confidence, gives leaders a starting point even when they don't have all the answers yet.

Three key topics to look out for:

- Why AI is a company-wide decision that leaders can't push down to IT

- How to build an AI positioning statement and set boundaries before bringing in outside vendors

- Why mid-market, regulated companies (5 million to 500 million) are often best positioned to get this right, and why experienced employees are essential to keeping a human element in the process

Find all the show notes and links here: https://www.unstuck.show/247