You Are Your Business

About You Are Your Business

Are you thinking about your business exit strategy, wondering when to start exit planning, or trying to build a Canadian business that could actually run and one day sell without you? Maybe selling your business is still years away. Maybe an exit is starting to feel much closer. Or maybe you simply know that too much of your company’s value, knowledge, decision-making, client relationships, and day-to-day operations still depend on you. If you stepped away tomorrow, you’re not entirely sure what would happen. If that sounds familiar, you’re in the right place. The Exit Ready Business is for Canadian founders who want to build a stronger, more valuable business today while creating more options for what comes next. Whether your future includes stepping back, succession, or selling a business, you’ll learn how to reduce founder dependency, strengthen your business operations, build better business systems, and intentionally increase business value long before you’re ready to leave. I’m Amy Sussex, a Business Exit Strategist who helps founder-led businesses prepare for a future beyond their founder. This work is personal for me. I grew up watching my parents build our family business, and years later, I watched them make the decision to sell it. Seeing that transition up close gave me an understanding of just how much is wrapped up in leaving a business you’ve spent years building not only financially, but personally too. It’s a big part of why I care so much about helping founders think about their exit earlier, so when the time comes, they can step into whatever is next feeling prepared, confident, and good about the decisions they’ve made. Because exit readiness doesn’t begin when you call a broker or decide it’s time to sell. It begins years earlier. It’s in the systems you build, the knowledge you document, the team you develop, the numbers you understand, the responsibilities you let go of, and the decisions you make about where the value of your business lives. Each week, we’ll talk about the operational side of building a business worth buying. From business succession planning and business valuation to SOPs, leadership, systems, transferability, team structure, and preparing a business for sale, we’ll look at what makes a business easier to operate today and more valuable and transferable tomorrow. You’ll also hear conversations with Canadian founders and experts across the exit ecosystem about what it really takes to prepare a business for its next chapter and what founders can start doing long before they’re ready to make that move. The goal isn’t simply to build a successful business. It’s to build one that gives you choices. If you want more freedom from your business now and more options for what happens to it later, hit play and subscribe to The Exit Ready Business. Start here: Take the Is Your Business Worth Buying? Quiz to discover how ready your business is to operate, transfer, or eventually sell without you: https://www.thebusinessmanagementco.com/isyourbusinessworthbuying (https://www.thebusinessmanagementco.com/is-your-business-worth-buying) Learn more about working with me: thebusinessmanagementco.com (http://thebusinessmanagementco.com/) Connect with me: https://www.instagram.com/amy.sussex/ (https://www.instagram.com/amy.sussex/)

Publisher

Amy Sussex | Business Exit Strategist for Canadian Founders

Category

business · business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Jan 2024

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

21 of 111 episodes have a transcript.

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   13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Succession Planning | A Business Exit Strategy That Builds Leaders

   Host [Host Name] interviews [Guest Name, Credential] about building a transferable business through proactive succession planning that develops future leaders.

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   6 Oct 2026

   The 7 Systems Every Business Needs Before It's Ready to Sell

   Host John Warrillow interviews business owner Jane Doe about the seven essential systems that build a sellable business and increase founder freedom.

3. 

   29 Sept 2026

   How to Create SOPs for Your Business: What to Document First Before You Sell

   Host [Host Name] guides listeners on creating practical Standard Operating Procedures to transfer critical knowledge and build a sellable business.

Inside a recent episode

Succession Planning | A Business Exit Strategy That Builds Leaders

Published 13 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So succession isn't simply just transferring ownership. It's about transferring the ability to operate the business successfully still. So I want you to ask yourself, what stops working when you stop showing up? What decisions stop getting made? The relationships that again are vulnerable? Information that's difficult to find or non-existent because it's in your head? What processes suddenly now just don't exist? What approvals are gone? What what sales conversations, the finances, who's leading the team, all those things are really important. I really want you to start to pay attention to those. […]

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5.0 / 5

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5.0 / 5

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64

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