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Shift That Most Leaders Avoided

April 29, 2026 • Kristina Schmitt • Season 1 • Episode 100

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Leadership growth often requires a shift that most leaders avoid.
In this episode of the Business Building Blocks Podcast, leadership coach Kristina Schmitt explains the leadership growth shift that helps business owners and managers scale their teams without staying the bottleneck.

You don’t have a knowledge problem.
You have a growth problem.

If you’re still the go-to person, the problem solver, and the one everyone depends on, your leadership hasn’t evolved—and your business feels it.

This episode is for business owners, manufacturing leaders, and people managers who want to grow their leadership capacity and stop carrying everything themselves.

In this episode, Kristina breaks down:
The 3 critical leadership shifts required to scale
Why your team still depends on you and how to change it
How to move from reacting to structuring your leadership
What to do this week to break the cycle

This is not about doing more.
It’s about operating differently.

Start building a leadership approach that allows your team to grow without you being in the middle of everything.

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