Hands-Off CEO

About Hands-Off CEO

Hands-Off Growth is for B2B service firm CEOs who are already winning, and ready to grow without the business depending on them. If your revenue is climbing but the weight of running it is climbing with it, this show is for you. Each episode covers the real decisions behind scaling past $3M: how to reprice your offer around outcomes, remove yourself from delivery, and build a team that drives growth without you in every room. Hosted by Mandi Ellefson - consultant, investor, and author of The Hands-Off CEO - with 17+ years and 400+ firms. Mandi has helped service firm CEOs add over $10M of growth, millions in profits. The Hands-Off Growth Operating System covered in this podcast is proven to add $5M in growth and $1M in net profit in 24 months, without the growth depending on the founder. Episodes include pricing, offer structure to move up market, and client selection. Conversations with B2B service firm CEOs detail exactly what it takes to cross a real threshold. If you are building something that compounds without you, you are in the right place. This is the Hands-OFF Growth Podcast with Mandi Ellefson.

Publisher

Mandi Ellefson

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Aug 2018

Latest episode

23 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

15 of 137 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   23 Jun 2026

   This firm 2.7X'd Revenue in 18 Months Without Losing a Single Client

   Alex Olivero, co-founder of Curio Digital, shares how his firm achieved 2.7X revenue growth in 18 months by implementing key operational changes, offering insights for founders seeking to scale.

2. 

   15 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Why Your Second-in-Command Is Your Most Valuable Hire with Cameron Herold

   Mandi Ellefson interviews Cameron Herold, founder of COO Alliance, on leveraging your second-in-command to scale your business and achieve founder independence.

3. 

   4 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Stop Chasing Clients: How to Turn Your Network into a Referral Machine with Dan Englander

   Mandi Ellefson interviews Dan Englander, founder of Sales Schema, on transforming your network into a predictable referral machine for sustainable business growth.

Inside a recent episode

Why Your Second-in-Command Is Your Most Valuable Hire with Cameron Herold

Published 15 Apr 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] The COO tends to be more of the Yin and Yang to the CEO. It's a real, you know, it's like someone's wife could be great as a match for that husband, but it might be a terrible match for me, right? Because that partnership has to match their goals and their age and their hobbies and their core values and, you know, where they grow up and what they want to do with their lives. That's very different as is the COO CEO relationship. Yeah. So that was in Harvard Business Review. And what was the title on that again? It's called the misunderstood role of the COO. Yeah. Yeah. Why don't we share? And then I even looked at a lot of different COOs and recognized that they're not lower level CEOs. […]

Who has been a guest on Hands-Off CEO

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• Alex Olivero
• Cameron Herold
• Dan Englander
• Amanda Freick
• Jeff Greenfield

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

47 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 56 / 100

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Quality

92

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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