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.

Are rising costs and price-sensitive customers putting pressure on your business?

In this episode of The Green Room Podcast, Chris Green breaks down why Australian businesses are losing the price war and what to do instead. Learn how to protect your margins, communicate price increases effectively, and shift from competing on price to competing on value.

If you’re feeling squeezed from both sides, this episode shares practical strategies to help you take control and build a more resilient, profitable business.

The cost of doing business is increasing dramatically. It feels like everything is going up, starting with fuel and then rapidly flowing downstream into supplies and overheads.

I’m fielding a lot of calls from anxious clients looking for advice on what to do in the current climate.

In this episode, I unpack what’s actually driving this pressure, how to start looking at your numbers properly, and why protecting your margin needs to be front of mind.

I also share a couple of practical tools to help you get clearer on what’s really going on.

If you’ve been asking, “what do I do about this?”, this is a good place to start.

What actually makes great entrepreneurs great?

After 25 years working alongside business owners, Chris has seen a clear pattern.

It’s not intelligence.

It’s not luck.

And it’s not where you started.

In this episode, he unpacks what really shows up when it matters most, especially when the pressure is on.

If you’ve ever felt stuck in the day-to-day or questioned your next move, this will give you a different way to think about it.

In this episode of The Green Room with Chris Green, Chris shares a conversation with a business owner who admitted:

"I worked 60 hours last week… but I couldn’t really tell you what I achieved."

It’s a situation many leaders recognise. Weeks fill with meetings, emails, and operational issues, yet the work that truly moves the business forward often gets pushed aside.

In this episode, Chris reflects on why so many business owners become trapped in activity without progress, and the mindset shift that helps leaders focus their time and attention on what really matters.

If you’ve ever finished a busy week wondering what you actually achieved, this episode will resonate.

Managing people is often where business leaders experience the most complexity and emotion. In this episode of The Green Room, Chris explores a practical framework for leading people more effectively by meeting them where they’re at.

Using two simple lenses – capability and trust – Chris explains how leaders can reduce emotional decision-making and instead apply the right level of exposure, coaching, mentoring or empowerment.

From limiting exposure when capability and trust are low, to empowering high-trust and highly capable team members with delegated authority, this framework helps leaders create structure around their teams while building confidence and capability over time.

If you’re struggling with delegation, trust, or developing emerging leaders, this episode provides a practical diagnostic tool you can apply immediately within your team.