The Lazy CEO Podcast with Jane Lu

After 15 years of building Showpo, Jane’s learned a lot about hiring, scaling, and leadership but nothing really prepares you for people leaving. In this solo episode, she unpacks one of the hardest truths of building a business: no matter how experienced you get, resignations never really get easier.

In this episode, you’ll learn:
Why resignations feel exactly like breakups and the different exits every founder will recognise - from people leaving for “hotter” opportunities, to ego hits, to the ones that just quietly fizzle out
How to deal with the hard ones: blindsides and losing people you genuinely love working with
Why letting people leave is actually part of scaling and how to stop taking it so personally
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This week on The Lazy CEO Podcast, Jane sits down with Dr. Philip Mathen, founder of Veritas Executive Health, Australia’s leading clinic for high-performing founders, executives, and athletes.

With 38 years of hands-on medical experience, including years in Intensive Care, Dr. Mathen shifted his focus to preventative medicine over 16 years ago. Today, he helps high performers optimise their health, extend their longevity, and sustain peak performance without burning out.

In this episode, they dive into: • Whether CEOs and founders actually age faster and what chronic high performance does to the body. • The biggest misconceptions high performers have about health and what actually works instead. • The daily habits, key metrics, and simple adjustments that drive energy, resilience, and performance. • Science-backed strategies to extend healthspan and improve long-term vitality.

If you’re constantly juggling work, life, and everything in between, this episode will help you step back, rethink how you’re operating, and give you practical tools to feel sharper, more energised, and more resilient.

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This week on The Lazy CEO Podcast, Jane sits down with sibling co-founders Maddy and Dylan Jarvis, the duo behind Candy Claws, one of Australia’s fastest-growing beauty brands.

With zero background in beauty or e-commerce, they launched salon-quality press-on nails from Maddy’s living room in 2023. What started as packing orders themselves quickly turned into a breakout success, scaling to $20M in annual revenue and on track to surpass $50 million in total sales this year, all completely bootstrapped.

In this episode, they dive into:• How dropshipping gave them the funds to launch Candy Claws.• The growth playbook behind dominating Meta ads and breaking through a competitive market.• Their advice for other budding entrepreneurs on how to scale fast and what they wish they hadn’t wasted time on along the way.

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In this episode of Help My Small Business, Jane is joined by Jeremy Cabral, co-founder of Finder and a seasoned entrepreneur who has scaled a bootstrapped startup into a globally trusted brand. Jeremy brings his expertise in growth strategy and marketing to review Stacey Jane The Label, a luxury fragrance brand for homes and businesses.

By the end of the episode, you’ll learn:

How to choose between organic growth and paid ads to get the best results
Strategies to increase social media exposure and improve SEO
How to find the funds to scale marketing and launch new collections

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This week on The Lazy CEO Podcast, Jane sits down with Australian entrepreneur, content creator, and founder of Fayt The Label, Brittney Saunders.

Brittney has built one of the most engaged communities in Australian fashion, turning her personal platform into a multi-million-dollar retail brand with both online and physical stores across the country.

In this episode, they dive into:
How Brittney built Fayt The Label from the ground up.
Why community building and customer events beat traditional influencer marketing for her brand.
The pros and cons of brick-and-mortar versus e-commerce-only.
How she balances growing a personal brand while scaling the business.
The mindset every entrepreneur needs to make it big in 2026.

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