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The Sheila Botelho Show: Business Strategy and the Inner Work of Leadership

The Sheila Botelho Show: Business Strategy and the Inner Work of Leadership

Hosted by Sheila Botelho | Business Strategist

Episodes

620

Latest episode

Aug 2026

Language

EN-CA

About the show

The Sheila Botelho Show is a business and leadership podcast for founders, CEOs, and women leading at the highest level of their work, who are ready to build the next decade of their business with more clarity, more profit, and more of themselves in the room. You’ve already done the hard part. You’ve built something that works. You’ve hit the goals that looked impressive from the outside. And somewhere along the way, you started wondering what it would feel like to grow without trading pieces of yourself for the next milestone. That’s the conversation happening on this show. Every week, Sheila pulls up a chair for the kind of conversations you’d have with a trusted friend who’s spent decades growing businesses through wave after wave of change, reading rooms, and helping people come home to themselves no matter how fast the landscape moves. You’ll hear about business strategy, leadership, profit, scaling, identity, creativity, and the shifting landscape of entrepreneurship in a season where everything is changing at once. Solo chats, minisodes, and conversations with founders and leaders building businesses with depth and integrity. Real talk for the woman who’s done the surface-level work and is ready for something with more substance. So come on in. Get comfortable. This is the place to think bigger, lead steadier, and trust yourself more fully every time you press play. New episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays. Subscribe to Sheila’s Notes at sheilabotelho.com/notes for the deeper thinking behind each episode.

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60 recent
August 18, 20263 min

Why Thinking Harder Isn't the Answer | EP 620

Thinking harder doesn't always get you closer to the answer. In this minisode, I share the one shift that's broken that loop for me time and again. Full show notes, transcript, and chapters at sheilabotelho.com/620 . ✍️ Sheila's Notes - The reflections I write only here. For your Expansion Season. 🧭 Your Vision Map - Name what you are building before you build it. 💎 Work With Me - Choose the most aligned pathway for your business. 🎧 Subscribe & Rate this podcast

August 13, 202614 min

Why Do I Suddenly Feel Like I Can't Do the Thing I've Already Proven I Can Do | EP 619

Years ago I ran two corporate events, fifty people each cycle, without a shred of doubt. A handful of years later, trying to do something similar in my own business, the exact same task felt daunting. This episode is about what actually changed, and why the fear you feel around something you've already proven you can do usually isn't telling you what you think it's telling you. Full show notes, transcript, and chapters at sheilabotelho.com/619 ✍️ Sheila's Notes - The reflections I write only here. For your Expansion Season. 🧭 Your Vision Map - Name what you are building before you build it. 💎 Work With Me - Choose the most aligned pathway for your business. 🎧 Subscribe & Rate this podcast

August 11, 20263 min

Who You Need to Be to Hold What You're Building | EP 618

I first asked myself this question a number of years ago, and it still finds me at the start of nearly every new season of growth. Who do I need to be to hold what I'm building right now. This one's short and it's honest. The identity that built your current success isn't automatically built for your next one, and that's not a problem to solve. Full show notes, transcript, and chapters at sheilabotelho.com/618 ✍️ Sheila's Notes - The reflections I write only here. For your Expansion Season. 🧭 Your Vision Map - Name what you are building before you build it. 💎 Work With Me - Choose the most aligned pathway for your business. 🎧 Subscribe & Rate this podcast

August 6, 202617 min

What I’m Actually Doing When I Work With You | EP 617

I'm telling you what I'm actually doing when I work with someone, because I don't think the sales page version captures it. It's not me teaching from a soapbox, it's me guiding you back to yourself. You'll hear why receiving has moved my highest value work more than pushing ever did, and what that actually means for how Expansion Season and Seasons Circle both work. Full show notes, transcript, and chapters at sheilabotelho.com/617 ✍️ Sheila's Notes - The reflections I write only here. For your Expansion Season. 🧭 Your Vision Map - Name what you are building before you build it. 💎 Work With Me - Choose the most aligned pathway for your business. 🎧 Subscribe & Rate this podcast

August 4, 20266 min

What I Learned From Doing Nothing on a Long Weekend | EP 616

A long weekend with nothing planned turned into an honest look at how hard it can be to sit in open space without rushing to fill it. I'm sharing a personal moment from my own weekend and what it's taught me about reading the season I'm actually in. This one will help you notice your own instinct to fill every hour, and what might open up if you didn't. Full show notes, transcript, and chapters at sheilabotelho.com/616 ✍️ Sheila's Notes - The reflections I write only here. For your Expansion Season. 🧭 Your Vision Map - Name what you are building before you build it. 💎 Work With Me - Choose the most aligned pathway for your business. 🎧 Subscribe & Rate this podcast

July 30, 20267 min

Thirty Years of Marriage and Building a Business That Can Actually Hold a Life | EP 615

This week marks thirty years of marriage for me, and I'm using this episode to pull back the curtain on where I actually am right now: the anniversary, my youngest heading off to college, finishing my book draft, and everything the last nine months have taught me about staying anchored to a vision while life keeps moving. The takeaway: you can be in the middle of massive change and still be building toward something, and both things can be true at once. Full show notes, transcript, and chapters at sheilabotelho.com/615 . ✍️ Sheila's Notes - The reflections I write only here. For your Expansion Season. 🧭 Your Vision Map - Name what you are building before you build it. 💎 Work With Me - Choose the most aligned pathway for your business. 🎧 Subscribe & Rate this podcast

July 28, 20267 min

Growth Feels Like Avoidance Until You Name It | EP 614

You've got the plan. The list is done. You know exactly what to do next, and somehow you're organizing your kitchen drawers instead. This one is about the avoidance that shows up right before your next season of expansion, and what it's actually trying to protect. I'll walk through a two minute nervous system practice I use when I catch myself in it, plus the one question worth asking about where else in your life this pattern lives. Full show notes, transcript, and chapters at sheilabotelho.com/614 ✍️ Sheila's Notes - The reflections I write only here. For your Expansion Season. 🧭 Your Vision Map - Name what you are building before you build it. 💎 Work With Me - Choose the most aligned pathway for your business. 🎧 Subscribe & Rate this podcast

July 23, 202612 min

How to Know When It's Time to Step Back From a Role You've Outgrown | EP 613

I used to think stepping back from something I loved meant letting people down. This episode is the story of the season I redirected my energy, the succession plan I didn't tell anyone about, and what I learned watching capable people wait for permission they never needed. It's a story about spotting your own season changes before you're forced to. Full show notes, transcript, and chapters at sheilabotelho.com/613 . ✍️ Sheila's Notes - The reflections I write only here. For your Expansion Season. 🧭 Your Vision Map - Name what you are building before you build it. 💎 Work With Me - Choose the most aligned pathway for your business. 🎧 Subscribe & Rate this podcast

July 21, 20264 min

The Practice of Trusting What You Can't Yet See | EP 612

Patience gets treated like a waiting room, something you sit in until the important work starts again. I'm reframing it as a practice you build daily, with one action you can use this week to build it on purpose. Full show notes, transcript, and chapters at sheilabotelho.com/611 ✍️ Sheila's Notes - The reflections I write only here. For your Expansion Season. 🧭 Your Vision Map - Name what you are building before you build it. 💎 Work With Me - Choose the most aligned pathway for your business. 🎧 Subscribe & Rate this podcast

July 16, 202617 min

The Sales Job That Became My Actual Work | EP 611

Years before this business had its current shape, I took a sales job and was handed a script. The first time I used it, I felt the wall it put between me and the person I was talking to. I realized pretty quickly that running someone else's version of the work was costing me the thing I was actually best at. What I built instead changed the direction of my entire career. This episode is about the decision I made against expectation, and what it ended up returning that I never planned for. Full show notes, transcript, and chapters at sheilabotelho.com/611 ✍️ Sheila's Notes - The reflections I write only here. For your Expansion Season. 🧭 Your Vision Map - Name what you are building before you build it. 💎 Work With Me - Choose the most aligned pathway for your business. 🎧 Subscribe & Rate this podcast

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