Important Update: The 5-Minute Strategist Is Evolving

After 100 quick strategic questions designed to help you think differently, I'm launching something new.

Introducing The reModel — conversations with experienced founders and operators who've actually executed the strategic and operational shifts you've been thinking about.

Why the change?

The 5-Minute Strategist helped you ask better questions. The reModel shows you how to actually execute when your business is still running and everything's on fire.

What You Get:

The reModel (Public Feed):

10-minute curated episodes every Thursday with strategic highlights and key insights from practitioners who've done the work.

The Founder's Feed (Free Private Podcast):

Full 60+ minute unfiltered conversations with:

• Actual costs and mistakes
• Tactical execution details
• Controversial takes that don't make the polished version
• The tangents that reveal how someone actually thinks
• Everything nobody posts on LinkedIn

Next Steps:

1. Keep this feed if you want to revisit The 5-Minute Strategist episodes
2. Subscribe to The reModel

First episode launches January 8th.

If The 5-Minute Strategist helped you think strategically, The reModel shows you how to execute.

About The reModel:

Host Diane Mayor (fractional COO, former investment banker) sits down with founders and operators who've rebuilt businesses while they were still running. Advanced strategies. Real execution. For founders ready for what's next.

Hey there, it's Diane. If you're still subscribed to the Five Minute Strategist, this is your official redirect.

I've been giving you quick strategic questions designed to help you think differently in those small moments between client delivery, team management, and actually running your business.

Five minute episodes on data driven decisions, critical thinking, leadership, all the stuff that helps you get unstuck when you're drowning in tactics and need strategic clarity fast. And those episodes are staying right where they are, right here. If you want to revisit them. They still work. But here's what kept happening.

The strategic questions I was asking. You'd figure out the answer and then get stuck on execution.

Knowing what to do isn't the same as knowing how to actually pull it off while the business is still running, while other things are on fire.

So I was having these off my conversations with my peers, with founders, with operators, people who'd done the hard stuff, who'd rebuilt their operations, pivoted their business models, navigated major transformations. And those conversations felt way more valuable to me than asking you these questions in a vacuum.

So I'm launching the Remodel, a show with a completely different format but solving the same problems you've been dealing with. Every Thursday, I sit down with an experienced founder or operator who's executed significant strategic and operational shifts.

Not theory, not aspirational. They've actually done it. Here's how it works.

The Public Feed gives you 10 minute curated episodes, the strategic highlights, and the key insights from each conversation. Think of it as the evolution of what you've been getting from the five Minute Strategist. Strategic thinking.

But now for multiple practitioners instead of just me. And here's where it gets really good. The Founders Feed is a private podcast where you get the full 60 plus minutes of unfiltered conversation.

This is where we go deep on actual costs, mistakes, tactical execution, details, controversial takes that don't make it into those polished public versions, the tangents that reveal how someone actually thinks, and the stuff nobody posts about on LinkedIn. And it's totally free. Think of the public episodes like the strategic questions I used to ask you and the Founders Feed.

Like sitting in the room with someone, walking you through how they solved the problem that you're facing, including what they'd never do again. So here's what to do next. 1. Keep this feed. If you want to revisit the solo episodes, they are going nowhere.

Number two, subscribe to the remodel on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. And number three go to Diane Mayer.com forward/ff or your founders feed and make sure you sign up to get all of the juicy behind the scenes.

If the five Minute Strategist has helped you think more strategically, the remodel is going to help you execute those strategies while you're building your business. First episode drops December 4th this is the remodel for founders ready for what's next.