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Business By Design

by Stuart Wemyss & Mena Abraham

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  • Ep 202: Systems and processes for growth: Map before you fix

    October 20, 2026 · 26 min

    Send us Fan Mail Most businesses lose time, margin and customers at the handovers nobody owns. Mena and I map the full customer journey, the backbone of systems and processes for business growth, then show how to assign owners and hunt…

  • Ep 201: Business systems and processes: Why talent won't scale

    October 13, 2026 · 24 min

    Send us Fan Mail If your business still runs through you, that is an engine problem, not a people problem. Mena and I break down what systems and processes for business growth actually look like, and the four numbers that show whether…

  • Ep 200: Referral engine framework: Buy attention, earn advocacy

    October 6, 2026 · 23 min

    Send us Fan Mail Your happiest clients are often your best source of new business, yet most owners leave referrals to chance. Mena and I walk through a referral engine framework: earn advocacy first, ask at the right moment, and make the…

  • Ep 199: Why are your best customers quietly leaving?

    September 27, 2026 · 23 min

    Send us Fan Mail Here's the uncomfortable truth: by the time a customer tells you they're leaving, you're usually too late to do anything about it. The decision was made months earlier, when they quietly began questioning the value; nobody…

  • Ep 198: Trust is the real thing your customer Is buying

    September 20, 2026 · 25 min

    Send us Fan Mail Every time someone buys from you, they're taking a risk: will you do what you promised? Trust is what gives them the confidence to proceed, and without it, a great product, sensible pricing, and sharp marketing still won't…

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  • Ep 197: Pricing is a system, not a sticker

    September 15, 2026 · 25 min

    Send us Fan Mail Two businesses can charge the same price today and be on opposite margin trajectories five years from now, purely because of the architecture sitting underneath that number. One gets more profitable as it grows; the other…

  • Ep 196: Pricing strategy: are you a price maker or a price taker?

    September 8, 2026 · 21 min

    Send us Fan Mail Price is the most powerful profit lever most business owners never think about. In this episode, Mena and I break down the pricing strategy question that matters most: are you a price maker or a price taker? A modest price…

  • Ep 195: People don't buy features, they buy a better life

    September 1, 2026 · 27 min

    Send us Fan Mail Most owners sell backwards. You built the thing, so you know every feature and inclusion, and that's exactly what comes out of your mouth when you sell it, while the customer's eyes glaze over.  They were never buying a…

  • Ep 194: How to reverse-engineer your customer’s ‘Yes’

    August 25, 2026 · 28 min

    Send us Fan Mail Before you can test whether people will pay, you need to know whose "yes" you're actually chasing, and most owners get this wrong in a very specific way.  In this Value deep dive, Stuart and Mena introduce…

  • Ep 193: Stop scaling until someone actually pays you what you want/need

    August 18, 2026 · 23 min

    Send us Fan Mail Founders love to scale, but scaling before anyone has paid a real price for a real outcome simply converts a slow failure into a fast, expensive one. In this episode, the first in a deep dive on Value, Stuart names the…

  • Ep 192: Can you describe your business model in four sentences?

    August 11, 2026 · 22 min

    Send us Fan Mail Here's the challenge Stuart opens with: describe your business in four honest sentences, one each for why customers pay, how you deliver profitably, how the right people find you, and how quality holds as you grow. Most…

  • Ep 191: Why your business has four problems, not forty

    August 4, 2026 · 26 min

    Send us Fan Mail The three "killers" thin margins, poor reach, and weak demand- tell you what's failing, but not what to build. In this episode, Stuart and Mena introduce VERT: Value, Engine, Reach, and Team the operating system underneath…

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About the show

Business by Design is the podcast for owners who want to start, scale or exit a business. Each week, Stuart Wemyss and Mena Abraham unpack the four things every business must get right: value, engine, reach and team. Using the VERT flywheel, they show how these fit together to build a business that runs without you, and how the choices you make inside the business flow through to your personal wealth, lifestyle and exit options. Every episode is short and to the point, with no fluff and no sales pitches. Go to https://www.businessbydesignpodcast.com