341. The “Pods” Team Structure That Pulled Her Out of The Day-to-Day & Doubled Revenue (Without Increasing Hours or Headcount)

Cubicle to CEO

Ellen Yin

Business, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

5.0 • 580 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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0:00.0	Attention all passengers. The Uber ride for Mark and Jamal's romantic weekend will depart in four minutes from Platform 6. Your ride comes with a rolling countryside sunset view and a table seat ideal for playing footsie beneath. Thank you for booking your tickets on Uber.
0:21.6	Trains on Uber. The following is a free preview of a paid episode on Cubicle to CEO's premium podcast feed.
0:30.9	Welcome to Cubicle to CEO, the podcast where we ask successful founders and CEOs the business questions you can't Google.
0:39.3	I'm your host, Ellen Yin. Every Monday, go behind the business in a case study style interview
0:44.3	with a leading entrepreneur who shares one specific growth strategy they've tested in their own
0:49.5	business, exactly how they implemented it, and what the results and revenue were.
0:55.3	You'll also hear financially transparent insights from my own journey,
0:59.1	bootstrapping our media company from a $300 freelance project into millions in revenue.
1:14.7	Hey everyone, welcome back to the show.
1:21.2	I am excited to be joined today by Ann Lopez to continue our series on time efficiency and expanding the time that you have in your business.
1:25.6	So Anne is joining us today to talk about how she actually
1:29.6	restructured her company and her team, more importantly, into pods to double revenue in two
1:36.7	years without hiring more people while also shaving 10 to 15 hours off her own work week
1:42.9	by reducing her time spent in day-to-day execution.
1:45.7	So anyways, Ann, welcome to Kivocal, the CEO.
1:49.2	Thank you so much. I'm so fired up to get into this conversation and hopefully help a few
1:54.3	listeners. Absolutely. I think you have so much wisdom to share in this arena. And just a quick
2:00.4	intro for those who don't know you.
2:02.9	And is a Miami-based interior designer, speaker, business coach, and founder of Studio 790,
2:08.8	one of the fastest growing women-owned design firms in the country and recently named one of
2:13.6	Architectural Digest Pros, Miami Interior Design Firms to Watch. I'm a huge fan of Architectural Digest,
2:19.7	so what an honor. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you so much. Today, Anne leads a multi-seven
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