The Grown UP Business Podcast
The Grown Up Business Podcast is a scale-up podcast for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs who want proven strategies for scaling a business sustainably and building companies that work without them.
Hosted by Paul Avins, Business Transformation Expert, this podcast draws on over 21 years of coaching experience, supporting 20,000+ entrepreneurs and helping facilitate £150m+ in business exits. Each episode Paul shares practical insights, disciplined leadership thinking, and real-world scale-up frameworks to help founder and CEOs find new levels of personal and professional performance.
On the podcast, you’ll hear:
Expert Interviews
Candid conversations with successful founders, CEOs, investors, and subject-matter experts covering leadership, scaling, funding, operations, exits, wellbeing and personal development.
Actionable Scale-Up Strategies
Clear, practical frameworks built around Paul’s four pillars:
Level UP (founder mindset and CEO identity)
Team UP (building high-performing leadership teams)
Scale UP (sales, systems, and operational discipline)
Fire UP (harness the power and energy of mind, body, spirit connect)
Real Business Stories
Proven strategies and hard-won lessons from leaders who have scaled businesses, failed and rebuilt, in the real world — with clarity, structure, and purpose.
This CEO podcast is for you if you want to:
- Scale a founder-led business beyond day-to-day dependency
- Build a high-performing leadership team
- Create a scalable and sellable business
- Move from operator to confident scale-up CEO
- Invest in your self and your personal development
You’ll learn how to scale a business without chaos, implement systems that support sustainable growth, and build a company that delivers results, with or without you at the centre.
A sellable business is also a great business to run.
The Grown Up Business Podcast shows you how to build both.
Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your favourite platform and join thousands of ambitious founders already scaling with Paul and Team Purple.
Level UP. Team UP. Scale UP. Fire UP
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