Why Your Team Comes to You for Everything (And How to Stop It) w/ Lia Garvin

You hired people so your business could grow. So why does every decision still land on your desk?

Lia Garvin, known as The Team Whisperer, helps entrepreneurs get out of the weeds and start building teams like Google, Apple, and Microsoft — no matter the size of the business. In this episode, she shares her three-part framework that gets people to actually hear your feedback, how to tell if you've hired the wrong person or just put them in the wrong role, and the one question that can free up hours of your time.

Topics discussed:

(00:00) Introduction

(01:26) From corporate team leader to The Team Whisperer

(06:12) Why every team needs systems

(09:34) What large companies get right about teams

(11:58) The cost of doing everything yourself

(14:56) The real reason entrepreneurs don't delegate

(17:03) Owning it as a leader and the three-step sit-down

(20:28) How to tell a wrong hire from a wrong seat

(23:23) Skills that matter more in the age of AI