Be the Anchor – Strategies and Support for Small Business Owners

About Be the Anchor – Strategies and Support for Small Business Owners

For established business owners who are ready to move from being the person everything runs through to being the leader who built something that runs without them. Anchored Leadership goes deep on what it actually takes to lead well. Host Kari Lotzien brings her experience as a business coach and former clinic owner to real conversations about leadership development, team building, delegation, and building a sustainable business without burning out.

Publisher

Kari Lotzien

Category

business · business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Aug 2023

Latest episode

27 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

98 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Oct 2026

   96 - The Internal Shift That Attracts Exceptional People to Your Team

   I’m inviting you to look at what’s happening on your side of the fence when it comes to hiring, keeping and growing great people. Every client I work with eventually talks about hiring challenges. And in almost every case, the first step isn’t about the team member. It’s about us. I often say business is an amplifier. Your strengths get bigger, and so do the things you’d rather not look at. The trickiest part is when a strength quietly becomes a liability. The scrappy, figure-it-out-myself independence that got you through the startup years is often the same thing that keeps exceptional people from joining you, or staying.

2. 

   13 Oct 2026

   95 - Not Ungrateful, Just Not Done

   This is a tea episode. Softer, slower, and a lot more vulnerable than I usually get. It started in my hairdresser's chair. She's a young mom, runs her own business, and this year decided she's going to become an ultra-marathon runner. We ended up talking about something I've been feeling for months and hadn't said out loud: what happens when your life is genuinely good, you're grateful for all of it, and something inside you still says, "This isn't the end." There's more. You can feel it. But it doesn't feel solid or certain. It feels unsettled. And when you've built a life and a business on being the dependable one, unsettled is deeply uncomfortable. In this episode, I talk about what this stage actually feels like from the inside, and why the hard parts aren't a sign you're on the wrong path.

3. 

   29 Sept 2026

   94 - Successful Isn't the Same as Scalable with Behrad Bayanpour

   Kari sits down with Behrad Bayanpour, a leader whose career has taken him from Iran to Canada to Dubai, China, and the US, for a conversation about what makes Canadian small and medium businesses strong, and where that same strength quietly becomes a ceiling. Kari and Behrad dig into the three pillars of scalable infrastructure (people, culture, and process), the "admin vs. ad hoc vs. strategic" triangle every owner should be running their time through, and why AI is a productivity partner, not a cost-cutting shortcut. The conversation closes on curiosity, ownership, and what it really means to stay anchored as a leader, and as a parent.

Who has been a guest on Be the Anchor – Strategies and Support for Small Business Owners

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• Rochelle Hildebrand
• Robert Welke
• Shelby Eloria
• Kelly Kennedy
• Pam Dunwald

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 53 / 100

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Quality

64

Social presence

91

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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