Busting Road Blocks

Breaking down the biggest roadblocks in business to help you clear the path to success! With 20 years of business experience, Janet takes you through real life examples from the people who actually did the work. A combination of interviews, deep dives and examples from Janet's corporate career, each episode outlines a relatable business situation, identifies the roadblocks and gives clear actionable 'busting' strategies that you can apply. As with real life, its not always picture perfect, the roadblocks are often multi-dimensional as are the solutions, but they actually happened to the people who are sharing them! Subscribe to stay up to date with the latest episode.

Busting Road Blocks is a business podcast hosted by Janet Charteris, with 24 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Janet Charteris hosts Busting Road Blocks, a business show with 24 episodes published.

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  Episode #5

  Implementing Strategy - When 'Grow Profitable Categories' became a long lasting strategy

  May 31, 202610 minS2

  <p>"Grow the profitable categories."</p><p>Sounds like a strategy.</p><p>But is it?</p><p>In this episode, I share a story from my time working on the Edgell brand in Australia, where the business objective was simple: sell more of the products already making money.</p><p>The challenge wasn't understanding the objective.</p><p>The challenge was understanding why consumers would want to buy more.</p><p>What followed was a journey through consumer behaviour, business insights, stakeholder alignment, agency management, retailer engagement and execution across every touchpoint.</p><p>Because strategy isn't a PowerPoint.<...

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  Episode #4

  From Survival to Design: Reinventing Life After the Hardest Seasons - Leo Aspite

  May 17, 202629 minS2

  <p>What if the biggest roadblock in your business isn’t strategy - but your life?</p><p>In this episode, Janet Charteris sits down with Leo Asprey to explore how personal hardship, career success, and life imbalance collide - and what it takes to redesign your path.</p><p>Leo Asprey’s career started like many high achievers - trade-qualified, technically skilled, and steadily climbing into senior leadership roles across global engineering businesses.</p><p>But behind the success were roadblocks most people don’t plan for.</p><p>In this episode, Leo shares:</p> How he overcame extreme fear of...

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  Episode #3

  Connecting the Dots: Why Back-Office Roles Are the Real Implementation Engine

  Apr 4, 202618 minS2

  <p>When businesses talk about strategy, innovation, and growth - the spotlight usually falls on leadership, sales, or product.</p><p>But what about the people who actually make it work?</p><p>In this episode of Busting Roadblocks, Janet Charteris speaks with Liz Wilson, whose career across administration, bookkeeping, and operational support roles has given her a unique perspective on how businesses really function.</p><p>Often “voluntold” into new roles and projects, Liz developed a powerful generalist skillset - seeing how decisions made at the top ripple through operations, compliance, and frontline teams.</p><p>Together, they explore:</p> W...

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  Episode #2

  Clarity Under Pressure: Leading Teams Through Overload

  Mar 23, 202621 minS2

  <p>Running a business comes with no shortage of systems, processes, and strategies - but when pressure hits, it’s people and leadership that determine the outcome.</p><p>In this episode of Busting Roadblocks, Janet Charteris is joined by Taranaki-based business advisor Paul Duynhoven to explore a leadership challenge many businesses face: taking on more work than a team can realistically deliver.</p><p>Paul shares a real-world experience from his career where, under direction, his team found themselves stretched beyond capacity. With no option to walk away, the challenge became how to lead through the pressure - keeping th...

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  Episode #1

  Knowing When to Stop: A Lesson in Commercial Decision Making

  Mar 6, 20267 minS2

  <p>Sometimes the biggest roadblocks in business aren’t technical challenges or lack of ideas - they’re the decisions we make after the data is already clear.</p><p>In this solo episode of Busting Roadblocks, Janet Charteris shares a story from early in her career working in product innovation for a multinational cooperative.</p><p>After developing a premium smoothie product that performed well in testing, Janet reached stage three of a four-stage development process and made a difficult recommendation: cancel the launch. The market had become too competitive and the numbers showed the product wouldn’t be profit...

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