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The Nitty Gritty of Growth

The Nitty Gritty of Growth

By: Nadine McCabe
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Scaling your business shouldn’t feel this hard. You didn’t start your company to be buried in endless emails, late-night firefighting, and back-to-back decisions no one else can seem to make. Yet here you are, running a business that looks successful on the outside but feels exhausting behind the scenes.

I’m Nadine McCabe, founder of Strategy2Grow, and I help ambitious founders break free from delivery chaos, simplify their operations, and scale sustainably without burning out.

Each week on The Nitty Gritty of Growth, we tackle the real challenges founders face when growing past that first ceiling. I share practical strategies, proven frameworks, and stories from working directly with business owners who’ve been where you are now.

We’ll dive into:

  • Building simple systems that free up your time

  • Creating consistency so your team performs without constant oversight

  • Increasing valuation and preparing your operations for exit

  • Growing without losing control of your business or your sanity

If you’re ready to stop running your business on adrenaline and start scaling it with clarity, confidence, and calm, this podcast is for you.

New episodes drop weekly. Follow us to never miss an episode, and start building the business you imagined when you started without sacrificing yourself to do it.

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Episodes
  • My Business is at £1M But Still Feels Like a Startup — 3 Steps to Escape Chaos
    Oct 1 2025

    You’ve crossed £1M in revenue… but instead of freedom, you feel trapped. You’re still the bottleneck, your team can’t move without you, and chaos follows you everywhere.

    In this episode, I’ll give you 3 actionable steps to stop running a startup with helpers and start scaling like a CEO:

    • How to diagnose the real bottlenecks.

    • Why systems = freedom (not bureaucracy).

    • How to build leaders, not followers, inside your business.

    This is for every founder who’s done the work, hit the milestone… but still feels stuck in survival mode.

    🚀 Free Tools Mentioned in This Episode:

    • 7-Day Delegate & Elevate Challenge → Learn what to delegate, how to delegate it, and finally free your time: https://www.strategy2grow.co.uk/delegate

    • Growth Readiness Scorecard → In under 10 minutes, discover how ready your business really is to scale (and where the cracks are): https://nadine-oanvzvfb.scoreapp.com/

    🎧 Follow The Nitty Gritty of Growth for weekly strategies that help founders scale without chaos.

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    11 mins
  • Train Your Team Without Training Everyone
    Sep 18 2025

    Are you tired of repeating yourself over and over again when training your team? You’re not alone. Most founders of £1–5M businesses spend countless hours explaining the same processes live, only to have their team forget them days later.

    In this episode of The Nitty Gritty of Growth, I’ll show you how to build training that lasts, scales, and doesn’t depend on you being in the room. You’ll learn:

    ✅ Why repeating yourself isn’t training — and what to do instead ✅ How to turn one-time explanations into reusable training assets ✅ The simple way to make your team train each other ✅ How to free your calendar without losing quality

    I’ll break down practical steps, share proven strategies, and give you a system to stop being the trainer and start being the leader your business needs.

    📌 Register for my free live webinar on creating usable SOPs here → https://www.strategy2grow.co.uk/webinars 📌 Get your free One Page SOP Template here → https://www.strategy2grow.co.uk/soptemplate

    If you’re ready to stop repeating yourself, scale your training, and build a business that runs without you, hit Follow and start designing the business you imagined when you started.

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    14 mins
  • The SOP Myth: What to Document, What to Drop
    Sep 12 2025

    Are you spending hours creating SOPs only for your team to ignore them?

    You're not alone.

    Most founders of £1–5M businesses waste weeks documenting everything when the secret to scaling sustainably is knowing what to document first and what to drop completely. In this episode of The Nitty Gritty of Growth, I’ll show you how to prioritise the highest-impact SOPs that actually save time, protect profit, and get your business running without you being stuck in delivery chaos.

    You’ll learn:

    • What to document first for maximum leverage
    • Which SOPs you can safely skip
    • Why video SOPs often beat written ones
    • How to make your team actually use the systems you create

    I’ll share real founder stories, practical frameworks, and my SOP Priority Matrix so you know exactly where to start.

    📌 Register for my free live webinar on creating usable SOPs here → https://www.strategy2grow.co.uk/webinars

    📌 Get your free One Page SOP Template here → https://www.strategy2grow.co.uk/soptemplate

    If you’re ready to simplify your operations, reclaim your time, and scale your business without burning out, hit Follow and like this episode and start building the business you imagined when you started.

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    12 mins
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