Busting Road Blocks
Breaking down the biggest roadblocks in business to help you clear the path to success!
With 20 years of business experience, Janet takes you through real life examples from the people who actually did the work. A combination of interviews, deep dives and examples from Janet's corporate career, each episode outlines a relatable business situation, identifies the roadblocks and gives clear actionable 'busting' strategies that you can apply.
As with real life, its not always picture perfect, the roadblocks are often multi-dimensional as are the solutions, but they actually happened to the people who are sharing them!
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- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 15 minutes
- Episodes
- 15
- Years Active
- 2025
When the Numbers Don’t Add Up: How to Handle Costly Mistakes Without Blame
What would you do if one of your core product lines was actually losing money - and the problem had been signed off by senior leaders, missed by finance, and hidden in plain sight?
That’s the situatio…
From Chaos to Control: Andrea’s Story of Project Rescue and Personal Resilience
What does it take to walk into a failed project - and walk out with a win? Andrea shares how she rebuilt trust, reengineered a path forward, and later applied the same mindset to hiking the entire le…
From Firefighting to focus = 200% growth, and #1 brand NZ & Australia: The Baby Food Growth Story
What happens when you stop reacting and finally make time to fix the real roadblock? This is the story of how one small baby food brand went from scrappy underdog to category leader - by creating jus…
Crisis, Command & Ego: When the Boss Shouldn't Lead
When crisis hits, your business doesn’t need hierarchy - it needs clarity.
In this episode of Busting Roadblocks, I sit down with Dave, a former rescue helicopter paramedic with 25 years of high-stake…
Leading Out Loud: Kerry Milne on Neurodiversity, Self-Discovery, and Leadership That Listens
In this episode of Busting Roadblocks, Kerry opens up about the layers of self-discovery, the hard-won insights into how she thinks and leads, and how understanding neurodiversity has changed everyth…
Operational Transformation: Leading Change in a High-Risk, Regulated Environment with Leanne Simpson
What does it take to overhaul a 15-year-old system in a high-stakes healthcare environment - without losing the people in it?
In this episode of Busting Roadblocks, we sit down with Leanne Simpson, a …
Rebuilding Communication after COVID 19 with Taka
When the COVID-19 lockdowns hit, many businesses focused on survival. But for the service business Taka worked in, the real challenge came after the crisis.
Gone were the casual chats, shared coffees,…
Solving an accountability issue by managing yourself out of a job!
When performance dipped across his team, Adam Harris could've responded with pressure and micromanagement. Instead, he did something far more powerful - he took ownership.
In this episode of Busting R…
Halving a £1m procurement issue by challenging the obvious solutions
In this episode Janet takes us through an example of how asking 'stupid' questions to challenge the solutions presented led to a £500,000 saving.
You'll hear how getting a good understanding or the pr…
Taking The Chaos Out Of Innovation
What do you do when your innovation isn't hitting the mark?
In this episode of Busting Roadblocks Janet takes you through an example of where she worked with a family owned business, added just enoug…
Finding Your Lane - Amy Smith
In this episode of Busting Road Block our guest, Amy Smith, takes us through a situation where she found herself a young, under experienced, slightly naive female in a high performance environment ho…
Interdepartmental Competition with Justin Brown - Getting Sharks to Dance!
In this episode I'm joined by Justin Brown of Icehouse Capital. We're discussing how he got 'Sharks to dance'!
We explore interdepartmental competition for resource in the highly competitive financia…
How I saved £200,000 during the global financial crisis!
in 2008 businesses were looking everywhere to save money. We're in the UK now and a young marketer is tasked with growing the bottom line without spending more money! Janet will take you through how …
Supply Chain Crisis - fixed in just over a week!
A real world example where a supply chain crisis caused a roadblock that could have impacted the customer, consumer and your ability to achieve budget. Janet explains how she broke down the roadblock…
Busting Roadblocks Introduction
Hi Everyone, a quick introduction into what Busting Roadblocks podcast will be about and of course who I am!
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