Business Growth Lab
Coaches, service providers, and visionary entrepreneurs ready to turn big ideas into thriving empires, welcome to your new home. Join Authority Positioning Strategist Samantha Riley, who brings over 30 years of business-building experience. Each week, she pulls back the curtain on strategies designed to grow and scale highly successful businesses. You’ll hear from industry-leading experts revealing what’s working right now, as well as behind-the-scenes business chats with her husband Leon, where they share the unfiltered realities of scaling. This is where bold ideas meet strategic action, so get ready to experiment, scale, and transform your business from the inside out...
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The 20 Hour Week Doesn’t Come From Better Time Management
<p>If you’ve ever said “I want to work less” and then immediately felt that little surge of panic about money dropping… you’re not broken. You’re just trying to force a time goal onto a business model that can’t hold it.</p><p>In this episode, Sam and Leon break down why a 20 hour week isn’t something you hustle your way into with better planning. It’s something you build. And it starts by changing the structure underneath your business so it can keep moving without your brain having to carry everything.</p><p>You’ll hear the five shi...
You’re Not Bad At Marketing, You’re Early with Jeffrey Van Dyk
<p>There’s a particular kind of stuck that hits coaches and consultants when your next offer is emerging, but it doesn’t fit the usual boxes. You can feel it’s right, but the minute you try to market it, everything goes a bit wobbly.</p><p>You’re not “behind.” You’re early. And there’s a big difference.</p><p>In this episode, Samantha and Jeffrey Van Dyk breaks down what it really takes to build and sell “emergent work” without forcing it into a recycled funnel or borrowing someone else’s formula.</p><p>We talk about how to recognise...
How To Land Whale Clients with Alex Nghiem
<p>Most coaches are trying to “sell Ferraris to broke people” and then wonder why they have sales conversations that go nowhere.</p><p>In this episode, Samantha sits down with Alex Nghiem to unpack the “whale buyer” concept and why it can completely change how you sell, price, and grow. Not in a hypey way, but in a practical, sanity-saving way that makes your marketing feel lighter and your revenue feel more predictable.</p><p>You’ll learn what a whale buyer actually is, why they exist in every industry (yes even health, wellness, and relationships), and how the top end of...
You Won’t HIt $30K Months If You’re Doing This….
<p>January has this sneaky way of making smart coaches accidentally sabotage their own growth. You set bigger goals, then panic-add tactics, templates, lead magnets, funnels, and more content. Somehow, you end up busier, more overwhelmed, and you’re not making any more money.</p><p>In this episode, Samantha Riley and Leon Flitton break down a faster way to scale that most people resist at first: the Subtraction Strategy. You’ll learn how to spot the real constraint holding your revenue back, strip out the non-essential work that’s quietly draining your time and energy, and build a simple sequen...
Is Your Office Quietly Blocking Your Business Growth? with Annette Farha
<p>Your space is influencing your clarity, confidence, energy, and income whether you realise it or not.</p><p>In this episode, Intuitive Design Coach Annette Farha, breaks down how your office and recording space quietly shape how you show up, how grounded you feel, and how easily clients connect with you.</p><br><p>This isn’t about making things look pretty or following design trends. It’s about understanding the relationship between your nervous system, your environment, and your ability to lead, sell, and scale.</p><br><p>You’ll learn how to read what your space is tellin...
The 20-Minute Year-End Reset That Stops January Chaos Before It Begins
<p>If you’re trying to switch off but your mind won’t stop spinning, this episode is for you.</p><p>As the year winds down, many business owners slow their workload but never truly switch off. The problem isn’t effort. It’s unfinished mental loops that keep your nervous system on high alert, even when you’re meant to be resting.</p><p>In this episode, Leon and I break down why open loops drain your energy, steal your focus, and quietly sabotage your ability to reset for the year ahead. You’ll learn a simple, practical framework to...
Our Word For The Year and What We’re Doubling Down On In 2026
<p>A lot has shifted for many of us this year, and there were times when it asked more of us than we expected. This episode comes from that place.</p><p>Leon and I sit down to reflect honestly on the year that was, not the highlight reel, but the real decisions, the tolerated chaos, the systems that lagged behind our growth, and the moments where pushing harder clearly wasn’t the answer.</p><p>We talk about why choosing a word for the year only works when it becomes a true decision-making lens, a filter for what stays, wha...
Don’t Have Enough Time? Make These 3 Shifts to Scale
<p>“I don’t have time”.</p><p>We get it. Clients, kids, content, team, and that’s only just the beginning. There’s so much to fit into every day.</p><p>As a business owner, it can feel like you’re constantly racing the clock and still not seeing the growth you want.</p><p>In this episode, Leon and I open up the real conversation we have with clients at every level of business: how to use your time as a strategic asset instead of something you’re always chasing.</p><p>We talk about the seasons where I built a...
BONUS: The Universal 9 Year Got Us Good! Here’s What We Burned Down
<p>If 2025 has felt like one long season of “burn it all down and start again,” this episode is going to hit very close to home. </p><p>In this bonus conversation, Leon and I pull back the curtain and share our journey of knowing things needed to change, but also unsure what that actually looked like. </p><p>If you’re holding everything together right now and secretly wondering, “Is it just me? What am I doing?” Spoiler: you’re not broken. But you might be dragging a version of your business (and self) that can’t come with you into your nex...
Scaling: The Top 3 Things You Must Do Right Now To Hit $30k Months
<p>There comes a moment in business where you look around and think, “This cannot be it. There has to be a smarter way to grow.” You can feel the potential inside you, you can see the future you want, but you don’t know what to do differently. If you are standing in that place right now, this conversation will help you start to understand what your next move needs to be.</p><p>In this episode, Samantha and Leon are walking you through the exact shifts that will help you step out of busy work and into true busine...
