What if the right senior hire could transform your business and create the freedom you've been working towards? In this episode of The Green Room, Chris Green explores why experienced leaders are becoming more accessible, the mistakes many business owners make when recruiting, and the four critical steps to preparing your business for a successful General Manager or senior leadership hire. Learn how to build capability, create accountability, and reduce founder dependence so your business can thrive without relying on you for every decision.

In this episode of The Green Room, Chris Green explores one of the most important financial lessons every business owner needs to understand: it’s not what you make, it’s what you keep.

Most business owners can tell you what their business turned over last year.

Far fewer can tell you what they actually kept.

And that’s the number that really matters.

In this episode, I share four practical strategies to help you keep more of what your business earns.

We talk about:

• Why turnover is only part of the story

• How to stop treating tax money as your money

• Getting your team involved in managing costs

• Finding hidden savings in your overheads and subscriptions

At the end of the day, profit gives you choices. It gives you the ability to reinvest, build stronger systems, reward your team and create a business that supports the life you want to live.

If you’ve ever looked at your revenue and wondered where the money went, this episode is for you

Something I’m being asked every single morning at the moment is, “Is there going to be a recession?”

The honest answer… I don’t know. And neither does anyone else.

But after years of working with small business owners through droughts, rate hikes, supply chain issues and market slowdowns, one thing is clear:

The businesses that come out the other side aren’t the lucky ones. They’re the ready ones.

In this episode of The Green Room, Chris unpacks what actually happens inside businesses when markets tighten and why so many owners end up in reactive mode.

He shares the patterns he sees time and time again, from rushed decisions and pressure on teams, through to what separates businesses that scramble from those that come out leaner, sharper and more profitable.

Chris also lays out a practical challenge:

Instead of asking whether a recession is coming, start asking

“If things got 20% harder next quarter, would my business be ready?”

This episode is about getting match fit before you’re forced to.