Revenue strategist and third-generation entrepreneur Amirah Raveneau-Bey has spent 25 years inside Citibank, Zillow, Trulia, NerdWallet, and Opendoor. The truth she keeps coming back to: you cannot scale a business you are not personally growing into.
In this episode of Ronderings, Ron sits down with Amirah, founder of Grow Scale Develop, to talk about why what looks like a revenue problem is almost always a leadership problem.
Amirah traces the entrepreneurial line that runs through her family. Her grandparents built a business on Long Island. Her father became a Broadway drummer who turned arts education into a calling when New York public schools started cutting music. She thought she wanted a nine to five and went to Citibank, where her boss told her to stay in the box. Tech said the opposite, so she built what wasn't there. It made her discover something she could never go back from. Leadership is 10% strategy and 90% emotional regulation.
Ron and Amirah dig into why every sales problem is really a trust problem, why bosses who cannot regulate themselves are the bosses people quit, and how Amirah talks to her clients about rest. Rest is not a reward. It is a requirement for the level of leadership we are asking people to step into. And she lands on a Rondering that stops Ron mid-conversation. Every strong leader needs a space where they do not have to be strong. Coaching and mentorship are not luxuries. They are protection.
Tune in to hear what 25 years across finance and tech taught Amirah about scaling a business while scaling the leader inside it.
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00:36 Meet Amirah Raveneau-Bey: third-generation entrepreneur and revenue strategist
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01:50 Publish your book at
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03:44 Nineties R&B, Jodeci, and the music that shapes who we become
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07:17 Long Island grandparents, a Broadway drummer father, and the entrepreneurial line she could not outrun
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10:19 Saying no to entrepreneurship and getting in trouble at Citibank for thinking too creatively
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13:28 What tech taught her that a big bank could not: build the thing that is not there yet
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18:46 Find support for writing your impact-driven book at
www.booksthatmatter.org🤝
19:20 Why every revenue problem is really a leadership problem in disguise
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23:33 People do not quit jobs, they quit bosses who cannot regulate
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26:48 Autonomy is the leadership move most leaders skip
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35:22 Who you were as a leader five years ago is not who you need to be today
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37:29 If you are a leader or a changemaker looking for support, check out
www.geniusdiscovery.org😴
43:19 Rest is not a reward: it is a requirement for the leadership we are asking people to step into
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49:38 Every strong leader needs a space where they do not have to be strong
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56:35 Want a podcast just like this one? Check out
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Connect with Amirah on LinkedIn or visit Grow Scale Develop to follow her work helping founders and executives turn revenue problems into leadership breakthroughs.
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