The Business Growth Factor
Building Better Businesses
A community, a podcast, and a forthcoming book for SMB owners, operators, and team leads who'd rather build together than figure it out alone. Hosted by Lyndon Smith and Joshua Leyenhorst.
Where Business Leaders Grow Together.
The Business Growth Factor is a private online community for business leaders at small and mid-sized businesses, owners, operators, executives, and team leads alike. Inside, members share proven systems, practical strategies, and real collaboration to cut through chaos, organize their operations, optimize their finances, and scale with confidence. You don't need to be an expert to belong; you just need to be on the journey.
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The Business Growth Factor podcast explores key insights on building better businesses. Many entrepreneurs start their companies driven by expertise in their field, but without the formal business training needed to manage growth, they often face significant challenges as their businesses expand.
Each episode delivers actionable insights in approximately 30 minutes, making it easy to gain valuable knowledge during a commute, lunch break, or workout.
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About the Show
Presented by Josh and Lyndon, the Business Growth Factor podcast empowers business owners and leaders with practical tools and strategies to grow and succeed. Co-founded by Lyndon Smith and Joshua Leyenhorst, the podcast shares lessons from their experiences in leadership, finance, operations, sales, and marketing.
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Meet Joshua Leyenhorst
Hi, I'm Josh. I'm the founder of BasePoint CPA, and am an experienced accounting and finance professional. I work with businesses to keep a regular pulse on their finances, providing regular guidance to help them optimize their profit, cash flow, and sustainable growth. As a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) and Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA), I enjoy helping business owners see the full picture of their business, from start-up to wind-up, and how to navigate that exciting and fulfilling journey!
I always say "The numbers tell the story", and it's my goal to help businesses understand the story that their numbers are telling, so they can more effectively write the next chapters of where they want their business to go and how to get there!
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Meet Lyndon Smith
Hi, I'm Lyndon, founder of Expansive EDGE. With two decades experience in projects and design, primarily in robotics and automation, I have led teams and initiatives across six continents. My mission is to help small and medium-sized businesses centralize their knowledge and drive continuous improvement.
At Expansive EDGE, my team and I focus on operational leadership and building systems that empower you to scale, innovate, and create meaningful opportunities. Let's reshape your business together, one process at a time.
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Expansive
Lead with Impact.
Scale Your Business.
Elevate Your Potential.
LYNDON SMITH
JOSHUA LEYENHORST
Be Expansive
Lead with Impact. Scale Your Business. Elevate Your Potential.
From the co-hosts of The Business Growth Factor, a pragmatic blueprint for SMB owners and seasoned leaders ready to move their business from chaos to control. No hypotheticals; only the strategic, financial, and operational systems that compound over time.
Lyndon and Josh combine two decades of operational leadership with deep financial expertise to walk you through the patterns of sustainable scale, and the personal expansion every growing business demands of its owner.
- Strategic planning & goal-setting (OKRs, OODA)
- Financial mastery, the numbers tell the story
- Systems, operations & the digital backbone
- Leadership, culture & team building
- The 6 revenue drivers that move the needle
- The Ownership Ladder & Expansive Mindset
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We'll email you the moment Be Expansive is ready, and you'll get our launch-week offer first.
How we think about business
Operating Principles
The lines we keep coming back to in the community, and that we'd put on the wall of every SMB we work with.
Become the least important person in your business.
The most valuable thing you can build is a business that doesn't need you in every meeting.
Document. Then delegate.
You can't hand off what only lives in your head. Codify first; freedom follows.
Good gets you on the team. Great keeps you there.
Hire to the bar you want, not the bar you have. Every new hire should raise it.
People pay for implementation, not information.
The internet has more frameworks than anyone needs. Execution is the moat.
Hire slow. Fire fast.
Most owners do the opposite. The cost of a wrong hire compounds longer than the cost of an empty seat.
Inspect what you expect.
Standards aren't standards if nobody checks. Build the cadence; the results follow.
Inside the community
More than a podcast
The podcast and recaps are the public version. The actual work happens inside the community: peer learning, live workshops, and direct access to the people building alongside you.
Live bi-weekly sessions
Community Connect workshops on the real problems SMB owners and operators are working through right now.
Recordings + downloads
Every session recorded. Slide decks, frameworks, and templates members can take and use.
Peer Q&A
Get answers from other SMB owners between sessions. Real situations, not theory.
Direct host access
Lyndon and Josh participate daily. Ask questions, share wins, get reactions in real time.
Cadence
Bi-weekly live sessions + ongoing chat between
Browse past Community Connect topics to see what we've covered, or read the recaps for the public summaries.
Recent recaps
Practical writing for SMB owners
Recaps, frameworks, and deep-dives from the conversations happening inside the community.
Workplace Safety, COR and SECOR
The shift in safety responsibility, from employers to contractors to the clients hiring them, and what owners should be doing this quarter.
Lyndon, Josh & Elizabeth
Build With The End In Mind
Exit planning isn't only for owners about to sell. Frameworks from guest expert Rob Julien on transferable value and the Dirty D's.
Lyndon, Josh & Rob
Navigating Canadian Taxes for Business
A practical walkthrough of income tax, GST/HST, payroll remittances, and information slips, with concrete steps to stay compliant.
Josh
