Naked at the Top

About Naked at the Top

You’ve built the business. You’ve got the title. And yet there are things you’ve never said out loud about the cost, the loneliness, the version of yourself you had to leave behind to get here. Naked at the Top is the podcast where successful business owners and leaders get real and have a lot of fun doing it. Each episode, host Aleyx Ward gets guests to strip back the polished version and share what leadership actually looks like behind closed doors. Expect honest stories, unfiltered reactions from the people who know them best, and a finale where — layer by layer — we find out just how naked they’re willing to get. Come for the stories. Stay for what comes off next.

Publisher

Aleyx Ward

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Jun 2025

Latest episode

11 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

29 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   11 Oct 2026

   How to take criticism without changing who you are

   You already know what you think. The hard part is saying it out loud, and staying yourself once you have. You'll learn: How to take harsh feedback without swallowing the cruelty that came with itTwo questions to ask before you say yes to a stage, a client or a roomHow to think straight for someone whose brain has gone offlineWhy AI sounds so human, and why that should make you trust it lessWhat the 10 December Privacy Act change means if your business uses AI to make decisions about customers...

2. 

   27 Sept 2026

   Your business shouldn't need you: how to let go

   You built the business so you'd have more time. So where did it go? In this episode of Naked at the Top, the founder of an outsourced bookkeeping and CFO firm, 19 years in with a team of 30, explains why he never wanted to be the person who runs it. Damian Scodella of SquarePenny has lived by one rule in every job since his early twenties: make yourself redundant. He has handed the running of the business over twice, most recently to a leader promoted from within. He also wears a jacket cover...

3. 

   13 Sept 2026

   Business Owner Honesty: I Posted That I was Broke

   Being the person everyone leans on is lovely until the day you need to lean back. In this episode of Naked at the Top, a marketing consultant who has built a community of 18,000 marketers across Australia and New Zealand talks about the LinkedIn post she almost did not send: the one where she told everyone she was broke. Chanel, founder of The Marketing Club and of a new co-working space in Brisbane, walks through what it costs to be the person who builds the room, and what happened when she ...

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

16,331

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Podcast Authority Score: 42 / 100

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Quality

55

Social presence

0

YouTube

72

Engagement

0

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