You started this business to lead. Somewhere along the way, the business started leading you instead. The Modern CEO Podcast with Amber McCue is where that stops, and growth gets a plan. Real strategy, sustainable systems, and the kind of leadership conversations that help you step fully into your role as the CEO your business needs. Your season of growth is already underway. You're right on time.
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You had a great launch. Clients signed. Revenue is booked. Then, two weeks later, cash feels tight. Nothing went wrong, but it sure didn't feel fine. Here's what we need to know as business owners: profitable businesses can still have cash flow problems. They're not the same thing. In this episode, we're breaking down the difference between a timing problem and a profitability problem, why growth…
You're making more than ever, yet somehow it still feels tight. You're not alone, and there are a few tweaks you can make to get a handle on this. In this episode, we're tracing exactly where money disappears as a business grows: the subscriptions you forgot about, the contractor costs that crept up, the expenses that started feeling "normal" but really aren't. Plus, how to spot your own money…
You hit six or seven figures and expected to feel the shift. More revenue, more breathing room, right? Wrong. Instead, the money felt like it just... disappeared somewhere between the invoice and your bank account. Sound familiar? In this episode, we're talking about the invisible revenue leaks draining profit from businesses that should feel more financially solid than they do. From unpaid…
This isn't an episode about pushing harder, powering through, or finally finding your motivation. If you've been told you just need more discipline to get your big project done, this is the opposite of that. I'm walking you through the exact approach I use when something feels massive, and I have no idea where to begin — the easy-to-hard method. I'll show you how it actually looks in real life,…
This isn't an episode about which apps to download. It's about what it actually looks like to build a communication system that works - across time zones, across roles, across a business that's always moving. Amber, Joanna, and Lilly have run their company without internal email for years. In this episode, they break down how they've set up Slack to function as a central hub for everything: team…
This episode isn't about communication theory. It's not a framework you have to go home and figure out how to apply. This is us, mid-work, showing you the exact words we use when something goes sideways — when creative feedback is vague, when a deadline is at risk, when someone's overwhelmed and needs the team to jump in. It started with a message from someone in our community after the last…
Jacqueline Snyder — fashion designer, founder of The Product Boss, and advisor to over 100,000 product-based business owners — joins Amber for a conversation that starts with five words: Everything is breaking, nothing is working. That was 2025. The fires were literally burning around Jacqueline's LA home. The tariffs were wrecking her community. And she was up through the night building webinars…
Working with family sounds like either a dream or a disaster. This episode is proof it can be the former — but only when the foundation is right. Amber sits down with her oldest daughter, Lilly McCue (Director of Operations and Marketing Operations at Amber McCue), and longtime business partner Joanna Tiger for a candid conversation about what it actually looks like to build a business alongside…
70 to 85 percent of AI projects fail to meet expectations. And after spending the last year pressure testing AI inside my own business, I think I know why: people automate before they know what good looks like. In this episode of the Right on Time podcast, I'm pulling back the curtain on the AI Clone Team I've been building in real time. These are named AI specialists, each with a specific role in…
Your team already knows your meetings aren't working. They've known for weeks, maybe months. In this episode, I'm sharing how to redesign your meetings into decision-making machines so every person leaves with clarity, action steps, and deadlines. We cover how to right-size your meeting cadence, the rolling agenda method, why moving fast means you need more structure (not less), and how building…
