CEO School with Suneera Madhani

The panel's one demand: know your numbers cold. Suneera's AI C-Suite gives you five agents, including a CFO that puts revenue, cash, and margins on your desk every morning. Start here: https://bit.ly/AI-C-Suite --- Welcome back to CEO School! In this energizing live episode, Suneera Madhani celebrates her birthday in true CEO School fashion—with an in-studio audience of dynamic female founders and a power panel of women experts who don't shy away from discussing the real stories behind the money, exits, and deals that shape entrepreneurial journeys. Joined by Michelle Taylor, financial advisor at GFG Solutions, legal powerhouse Gwen Griggs, and private equity and talent expert Vivian Gonzalez, the conversation tears down the taboos around wealth creation, exit strategies, and what really happens before, during, and after a business sale. From common misconceptions about exits and the emotional side of selling a business, to the must-know details about valuation and building generational wealth, this episode is a candid, unfiltered look at how women can, and should, think bigger about money and their long-term business goals. Whether you're bootstrapping your business, eyeing your first million, or simply curious about the exit landscape, this episode promises behind-the-scenes insights and honest advice that every founder should hear. Pull up a seat for conversations you won't hear anywhere else! Time Stamps: (00:00) A live birthday episode with powerhouse female founders (03:28) Meet the exit table: lawyer, wealth advisor, recruiter (09:15) What every founder misses before the exit moment (11:04) Why a full sale isn't your only exit (15:13) The myth that your business is too small to sell (20:59) Know your valuation like you know home comps (25:28) Asking AI for your industry's multiples, live on air (30:29) The deals where private equity takes advantage (32:50) Why 70 to 80% of founders regret selling (36:45) The "good enough" number is smaller than you think (42:15) Suneera reveals her $10 million first-exit take-home (48:43) Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity Connect With Michelle Taylor: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/women_in_wealth/ Website: https://womeninwealth.co/ Connect With Gwen Griggs: Website: https://www.advoslegal.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/griggsgwen/ Connect With Vivian Gonzalez: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivian-gonzalez-5671783/ Website: https://www.parkcapitalsearch.com/ Share this with your business bestie! ------------------------------------------- The women at this table are all in the room with us at the Millionaire Founders Club. That's the caliber. We close the year together in Miami this December. There is still a spot for you: https://bit.ly/MFCApplication --- Only 2% of female founders ever break $1 million in revenue. We’re on a mission to change that. Subscribe to the CEO School and join the movement. Watch and listen to us at: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1525261018 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/06KIvFFJP0yJv67N9ugigU YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CEOSchoolPodcast/?sub_confirmation=1 Learn more about CEO School because nothing bad ever happens when women make more money: Website: https://theceoschool.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ceoschool/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ceo-school TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theceoschool Learn more about how Suneera Madhani is paving the way for powerhouse female CEOs like you to take center stage, not just in your industries but in your whole life. Website: https://suneeramadhani.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suneeramadhani/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suneeramadhani/ This episode was produced by Hi Hello Labs: https://www.hihellolabs.com/. -------------------------------------- SOCIAL Hashtags: #CEOSchool #FemaleFounders #WomenInBusiness #WomenEntrepreneurs #BusinessPodcast #ExitStrategy #BusinessValuation

Suneera mentioned the AI C-suite she runs her companies on. The VIP Experience is where those five agents get installed in yours, live, with your real numbers. Get them here: https://bit.ly/CEOWeekVIP Welcome back to the CEO School Podcast! Today, Suneera sits down with Andrea Palacio, the AI and automation strategist behind Crewless, who spent four years running an e-commerce business from a 42-foot catamaran before buying a landscaping company that nearly broke her. Five days after closing, the seller took their money and disappeared. Within two months the team dropped from twelve people to two, her husband was cutting lawns in the Florida heat, and Andrea was locked in the bathroom crying while her babies waited outside the door. What she built next changed the math. One AI receptionist, one automated follow-up system, and a $750,000 offer she turned down because the business no longer needed her in it. She walks through what to automate first, the question that tells you whether a task needs you at all, why most founders end up with AI slop instead of results, and the agent that pitched her onto this show without her writing a single word. Let's get into it! Andrea paid for the best coaches in the world because learning through your own time and energy is the most expensive way to learn. Time Stamps: (00:00) Meet the AI strategist who ran a company crewless (03:16) Four years at sea with zero sailing experience (05:55) The boring business that went from twelve employees to two (07:04) Crying in the bathroom while both kids waited outside (12:33) The AI receptionist that stopped customers from canceling (13:34) Turning down $750,000 because the company ran itself (14:55) The one question that decides what gets automated (19:51) Why most AI content comes out as slop (24:33) The four Cs of where CEO time belongs (37:37) Deploying agents that work around the clock (40:45) The AI agent that booked her on this show (49:15) The free book written for CEO School listeners Connect With Andrea Palacio: https://www.instagram.com/andreapalacio/ https://theonepercentway.com Share this with a founder who swears she'll automate it all right after this one busy season. ---------------------------------------- MFC is where women scaling past seven figures get the shortcut from founders who already built it: https://bit.ly/MFCApplication --- Less than 2% of female founders ever break $1 million in revenue. We’re on a mission to change that. Subscribe to the CEO School and join the movement. Watch and listen to us at: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1525261018 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/06KIvFFJP0yJv67N9ugigU YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CEOSchoolPodcast/?sub_confirmation=1 Learn more about CEO School because nothing bad ever happens when women make more money: Website: https://theceoschool.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ceoschool/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ceo-school TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theceoschool Learn more about how Suneera Madhani is paving the way for powerhouse female CEOs like you to take center stage, not just in your industries but in your whole life. Website: https://suneeramadhani.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suneeramadhani/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suneeramadhani/ This episode was produced by Hi Hello Labs: https://www.hihellolabs.com/. ------------------------------------- SOCIAL Hashtags: #CEOSchool #WomenInBusiness #FemaleFounders #FounderToCEO #MillionDollarBusiness #WomenEntrepreneurs #AIForBusiness #AIAutomation #AIAgents #ClaudeCode #BusinessSystems #TimeAudit

Skip the months of trial and error it takes to create AI agents. Suneera built her AI C-Suite around her own companies and frameworks, and it's ready to upload into your business. CEO Week has wrapped, but you can still get the full C-Suite, all 5 live-call replays and a live AI implementation session with her. Get the CEO Week VIP Experience: https://bit.ly/CEOWeekVIP -- Welcome back to the CEO School Podcast. In this episode, Suneera shares how she runs two companies, Worth AI and CEO School, with five AI agents that gave her 12 hours back last week alone. She walks through each one: an inbox triage agent that briefs her every morning, a Voice Bible trained on six years of her content, a real-time finance dashboard she can question like a CFO, a calendar agent that enforces her boundaries, and a mom chief of staff that handles school emails, meal plans and travel. This is AI through a CEO lens. The goal is building agents that work like employees, and prompting alone won't get you there. If AI still feels like your team's job, this episode makes the case that it starts with you. Time Stamps: (00:00) Why AI is an employee, not a prompt (01:38) Why the CEO has to become the AI expert first (03:05) How five agents won back 12 hours in weeks (05:31) Agent 1: The inbox triage agent that guards attention (08:37) The morning briefing that replaced opening the inbox (09:41) Agent 2: Building a Voice Bible from six years of content (11:27) How a story bank trains AI to sound like you (15:28) Agent 3: The real-time finance dashboard and AI CFO (19:47) Agent 4: The calendar agent that enforces your boundaries (23:45) Agent 5: A mom chief of staff for school, meals, travel (27:44) Learning to build agents instead of just prompting (29:17) Which agent will you build first? Tell Suneera Share this with a founder who still opens her inbox before her coffee. -------------------------------------------- Five agents can give you 12 hours back. What you do with those hours depends on who's in the room with you. The Millionaire Founders Club is where 7- and 8-figure founders compare playbooks, AI ones included. Apply here: https://bit.ly/MFCApplication --- Only 2% of female founders ever break $1 million in revenue. We’re on a mission to change that. Subscribe to the CEO School and join the movement. Watch and listen to us at: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1525261018 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/06KIvFFJP0yJv67N9ugigU YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CEOSchoolPodcast/?sub_confirmation=1 Learn more about CEO School because nothing bad ever happens when women make more money: Website: https://theceoschool.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ceoschool/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ceo-school TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theceoschool Learn more about how Suneera Madhani is paving the way for powerhouse female CEOs like you to take center stage, not just in your industries but in your whole life. Website: https://suneeramadhani.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suneeramadhani/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suneeramadhani/ This episode was produced by Hi Hello Labs: https://www.hihellolabs.com/. ---------------------------------------- SOCIAL Hashtags: #CEOSchool #SuneeraMadhani #WomenInBusiness #FemaleFounder #FounderToCEO #AIForBusiness #AIAgents #ClaudeAI #ChiefOfStaff #CEOProductivity #ScaleYourBusiness #WomenWhoLead

The CEO Accelerator just got upgraded. You still get the full CEO OS, including the 6-Hour CEO day from this episode. Now, as you go through each module, you also build your own AI CEO Advisor, trained on my frameworks and your business. Join before Friday, Oct 2 at midnight ET and save $500. https://accelerator.theceoschool.com/join-now --- Welcome back to the CEO School Podcast! Why can the most capable women run a company but not sit on their own couch for 10 minutes? Monica Yates, trauma healer, New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Her, and founder of a multimillion-dollar business, grew up believing being a woman was the bad end of the stick. This week she joins Suneera to get honest about the girl boss era, hyper-independence, and why so many high-performing women wear burnout as a badge of honor. You'll hear why mindset work only gets you 20% of the way, why nervous system tools are still a Band-Aid, and why we'll justify the designer shoes before we'll hire help. Then it gets practical: the do-nothing test, the 5-minute parked-car reset, the 6-hour CEO day, and the one sentence that gets him to plan the date. If you've ever felt guilty for resting, this one is for you. Time Stamps: (00:00) Why wanting to be claimed felt like weakness to her (01:00) Meet Monica Yates, who women call after trying everything (03:20) Growing up believing being a woman was the bad deal (05:57) Why herbs failed and energetics brought her period back (08:47) Mindset is only 20%, here's where the other 80% lives (13:02) The girl boss era taught us to lead like men (20:07) Why high-performing women refuse to ask for help (24:44) Why YSL shoes are easier to justify than a housekeeper (27:25) The do-nothing test that exposes your stuck nervous system (37:15) Real rest for women who can't skip the office (40:10) Inside the 6-Hour CEO day: only 2 hours external (49:26) How to ask for a date without making him feel like he's failing ---------------------------------------------- Monica said it best: "We are not made to be alone." Women start more businesses than ever, and too many end up running them solo. Millionaire Founders Club is where you stop figuring it out alone and build next to women who are doing it too. Apply here: https://bit.ly/MFCApplication Connect with our Monica at: Website: https://monicayateshealth.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/monicayateshealth/ Soft & Ambitious program: https://monicayateshealth.com/pages/soft-and-ambitious Share this with a founder who can't brush her teeth without checking her email. --- Only 2% of female founders ever break $1 million in revenue. We're on a mission to change that. Subscribe to the CEO School and join the movement. Watch and listen to us at: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1525261018 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/06KIvFFJP0yJv67N9ugigU YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CEOSchoolPodcast/?sub_confirmation=1 Learn more about CEO School because nothing bad ever happens when women make more money: Website: https://theceoschool.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ceoschool/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ceo-school TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theceoschool Learn more about how Suneera Madhani is paving the way for powerhouse female CEOs like you to take center stage, not just in your industries but in your whole life. Website: https://suneeramadhani.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suneeramadhani/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suneeramadhani/ This episode was produced by Hi Hello Labs: https://www.hihellolabs.com/. ----------------------------------------- SOCIAL Hashtags: #CEOSchool #SuneeraMadhani #FemaleFounder #WomenInBusiness #WomenEntrepreneurs #CEOMindset #Burnout #NervousSystemHealing #FeminineEnergy #WorkingMoms #BecomingHer #MonicaYates #TraumaHealer

Megan built an agency that kept running while she was out for surgery; that is the job. The CEO Accelerator is officially open, now with an AI layer that turns our CEO playbooks and your real numbers into your custom operating system. Enroll before October 2 and get $500. → https://bit.ly/TheCEOAccelerator -- Your reputation is the one asset you cannot buy back, and most founders only start thinking about it after it is already on fire. This week on the CEO School Podcast, Suneera sits down with Megan Paquin, the crisis and reputation strategist that Fortune 100 brands and Supreme Court cases call on during the worst week of their lives. Megan breaks down how to build reputational equity before you ever need it: claim your owned media, run the PESO model in the right order, and stop pouring money into paid ads before the rest is working. She and Suneera get honest about the relationship habit costing women founders deals they never see coming, and what it actually takes to build a business that keeps moving when you step away. If visibility and trust are on your 2026 list, start here. ----------------------------------------------------------- Time Stamps: (00:00) Meet Megan Paquin, the crisis call top-tier CEOs make (04:40) From MGM and hotels to running crisis PR (07:15) What actually counts as a crisis for your business (09:05) The wildest reputation messes a crisis pro has managed (13:35) Building your PR Swiss Army knife of specialists (18:58) Why chasing Forbes can miss your real buyer (19:56) What a crisis expert does in the first hour (21:42) Claim every profile and build reputational equity early (24:53) How women burn bridges and pay for it later (34:04) The PESO model and why owned media comes first (39:05) The 3 reputation mistakes most founders make under pressure (41:24) Stepping into CEO mode so business runs without you Connect with Megan: Website: https://paquinpr.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paquinpr/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/megpaquinapr/ Share this with a founder who swears a crisis will never come knocking. Megan is one of our Millionaire Founders Club members, and she said it best: the room "makes you feel a lot less alone and a lot more capable." If you are a 7-figure CEO ready for that table, apply to the MFC here: https://bit.ly/MFCApplication --- Only 2% of female founders ever break $1 million in revenue. We’re on a mission to change that. Subscribe to the CEO School and join the movement. Watch and listen to us at: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1525261018 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/06KIvFFJP0yJv67N9ugigU YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CEOSchoolPodcast/?sub_confirmation=1 Learn more about CEO School because nothing bad ever happens when women make more money: Website: https://theceoschool.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ceoschool/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ceo-school TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theceoschool Learn more about how Suneera Madhani is paving the way for powerhouse female CEOs like you to take center stage, not just in your industries but in your whole life. Website: https://suneeramadhani.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suneeramadhani/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suneeramadhani/ This episode was produced by Hi Hello Labs: https://www.hihellolabs.com/. ----------------------------------------------------- #CEOSchool #FemaleFounders #WomenInBusiness #WomenEntrepreneurs #FounderToCEO #WomenWhoLead #BusinessPodcast #PublicRelations #CrisisManagement #ReputationManagement #PRStrategy #OwnedMedia