Cubicle to CEO

Updated: 24 Nov 2025 • 413 episodes
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We ask founders the business questions you can't Google. Cubicle to CEO® brings you weekly "behind the business" case-study interviews with leading entrepreneurs and CEOs who share a specific growth strategy they've successfully tested, how they implemented it, and what the results (and revenue) were. Host Ellen Yin also shares transparent insights about her own journey bootstrapping a media company from a $300 freelance project into millions in revenue.

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What if a partnership workshop strategy could quietly generate 7,200 leads—and nearly $600,000 in coaching revenue? That’s the organic engine Cassie and Shay built. For the last two years, the founders of Bucketlist Bombshells have used a simple workshop strategy to bring in an average of 450 new subscribers per worksh

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Burnout is pervasive among high-performing professionals. After more than 20 years as a physician, Dr. Erin Hurley hit her own breaking point and rebuilt her life using a method that now helps women reclaim 5 to 20 hours a week. As a productivity and well-being coach, she turns evidence-based research into simple habit

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When a traumatic brain injury forced Jenny Groberg to step away from her company for two years, it could have ended her business. Instead, it became the catalyst for exponential growth. Jenny, founder and CEO of BookSmarts Accounting and Bookkeeping, handed day-to-day leadership to her manager, Emily, granting her 10%

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When Ipek Gray launched her business The Born Method™ — a system rooted in decades of her mother’s research but newly introduced to the US — she generated $50,000 in 1:1 coaching revenue in her first year. Booking 200 private clients in just six months as a new founder, her growth came entirely from community partnersh

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What if the fastest way to scale your income wasn’t by creating something new — but by translating what already works? That’s exactly what Léa Jeanmougin did when she licensed an existing American program and brought it to a new spoken-language market. Within just three months of launching the beta offer, her monthly s

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When Dr. Taryn Fletcher walked away from her six-figure leadership career in education, it wasn’t because she failed—it was because she outgrew it. Within just 90 days of starting her business, she turned her professional network and reputation into $100,000 in corporate contracts. Three years later, her business had g

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