Episode 35 · July 9, 2026 · 10 min

Run a Ten-Person Business Without Hiring a Single Person

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If you've maxed out your hours and you can't stomach payroll, you haven't hit your limit. You've hit the limit of headcount math, and there's a third structure now. I'm Makeda Boehm. My business runs on a digital workforce: a content department, a media department that publishes this show in five languages, a growth department that drafted 107 speaking pitches in minutes, and one human on the org chart. Me, for about twenty minutes a week of review.

In this episode:
- The two-option growth menu you were handed, and why the ceiling was never your discipline
- The honest math on hiring, freelancers, and "staying small on purpose"
- A walk up my actual org chart: which A.I. employee runs which department
- Why managing a digital workforce is still management (outcomes, onboarding, reviews)
- The line that never moves: what stays human, forever

Who this is for: the service-based business owner doing every job in the company and calling it ownership.

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