The Right Fit Leader Podcast helps visionary entrepreneurs and executives answer one of the toughest growth questions: How do I find and keep the right leaders for my team?
Hosted by Alec Broadfoot, founder of VisionSpark, and the Hire with Confidence Team, the show explores the intersection of leadership, culture, and hiring. Each episode unpacks what makes a leader truly “right fit” — from core values alignment and complementary strengths to overcoming fear, bias, and the status quo in decision-making.
Through candid insights, expert conversations, and real-world stories, Alec challenges conventional thinking about leadership and equips business owners with the tools to design teams that scale. If you’re ready to level up your hiring and build a team that drives extraordinary growth, this podcast is for you.
Can you afford the leader your company needs next?
For many business owners, that question starts and ends with salary. But Jim Emerich, Founder and CEO of Backbone CFO, says that is the wrong place to start.
In this episode of the Right Fit Leader Podcast, Jen Young sits down with Jim to talk about the financial side of scaling a business and building the leadership team to support it.
Jim shares how Backbone CFO helps entrepreneurial companies bring order to financial chaos through its Financial Control Framework, which focuses on cash, profit, people, systems, and financial position.
They also dig into why a leadership hire shouldn't be viewed as another line item on the P&L. Before deciding whether you can afford a new leader, you need to understand the results that role should produce and how those results connect to the financial future of the business.
Plus, Jim shares the story of helping a $12 million company prepare for a successful multi-eight-figure exit and why business owners should start planning for an eventual exit long before they're ready to sell.
In this episode:• When it may be time to bring in a fractional CFO• The financial challenges that come with rapid growth• Why exit planning should start years in advance• How to think about the ROI of a leadership hire• Why the right people are one of the biggest levers for growth• How financial projections can inform hiring decisions• What Jim values about the Data Workshop
CONNECT WITH JIM EMERICH & BACKBONE CFO
Website:https://backbonecfo.com
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesemerich/
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/backbonecfo/
CONNECT WITH VISIONSPARK
Looking for your next Right Fit Leader?https://visionsparksearch.com/contact-us/
20 Sept 2026
Are You the Bottleneck? The Leadership Skill That Creates Freedom
Emily Morgan has helped thousands of entrepreneurs and executives get better at one of leadership’s most important, and often most difficult, skills: delegation.
In this episode of the Right Fit Leader Podcast, Jen Young sits down with Emily, founder and CEO of Delegate Solutions and Verve and author of Let It Go, to unpack why delegation is a skill anyone can learn, what prevents leaders from truly letting go, and how to determine where your time creates the greatest impact.
Emily shares her framework of the discipline, art, and science of delegation, the five delegation bottleneck types, and why being great at something does not necessarily mean you should still be doing it.
They also discuss how leaders can distinguish between a delegation problem and a right-person/right-seat problem, why creating more free time is not enough, and what it actually takes to build a team you trust to lead without everything flowing through you.
If you are a founder, executive, or leader trying to create more capacity while developing the people around you, this conversation will challenge you to think differently about what you should keep, what you should delegate, and what you finally need to let go of.
What You’ll Learn
Why delegation is a skill, not a personality trait
The discipline, art, and science of effective delegation
How to identify your most impactful contribution
Why being good at something can actually be a reason to stop doing it
How to determine whether you have a delegation problem or a people problem
The five delegation bottleneck types
Why leaders sometimes fill newly created capacity with even more work
How better delegation helps companies operate without everything running through the founder
Connect with Emily Morgan & Delegate Solutions:
Delegate Solutions: https://www.delegatesolutions.com/
Emily on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/delegatesolutions/
Connect with VisionSpark:
Website: https://visionsparksearch.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vision_spark/
Email: discover@vision-spark.com
Ready to find the Right Fit Leader your company needs? Visit https://visionsparksearch.com/ to learn more about VisionSpark’s executive search and leadership solutions.
13 Sept 2026
Build the Team. Then Get Out of the Way.
Kyle Mealy has built companies where he is no longer needed in every meeting, every decision, or every day of the business.
That didn’t happen by accident.
In this episode of the Right Fit Leader Podcast, Alec Broadfoot sits down with Kyle, entrepreneur, author, founder of Next Level Revenue, and Visionary of ENRG, to talk about what it really takes to build the team and then get out of the way.
Kyle shares his journey from leaving a successful executive career with “hope as a strategy” to discovering the power of EOS, eLeap, community, and the Visionary/Integrator relationship.
They dig into why entrepreneurs get trapped trying to have all the answers, how to find people who are naturally great at the things you aren’t, why the right Integrator is so critical, and what it looks like when your leadership team can truly operate without you.
They also discuss one of the hardest parts of leadership: trusting the people you’ve hired enough to actually let them lead.
In this episode:
Why entrepreneurs need to stop figuring everything out alone
Asking “who?” instead of “how?”
Why the right Integrator matters
What a business that runs without its founder actually looks like
How to know if your leaders can take you to the next level
Why Visionaries hold onto people too long
Building trust with your leadership team
The growth of ENRG and the entrepreneurial community around EOS
What’s ahead for the EOS Conference
Kyle’s rapid-fire leadership lessons
Ready to build a leadership team that can take your company beyond you?Visit VisionSparkSearch.com or email discover@vision-spark.com with questions about finding and hiring the right leaders.
Connect with Kyle Mealy:ENRG: https://enrg.lifeNext Level Revenue: https://readyforthenextlevel.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-mealy/
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