Episode 28: Neil Livingstone | Founder Freedom: Financial Leadership, Cash Flow and Scaling Your Business

Growing revenue does not always mean building a stronger business.

Many founders reach a point where the business becomes more complex, cash feels tighter, and the decisions that once came naturally become increasingly difficult. The skills that helped build the business are not always the same skills needed to scale it.

In this episode, Mark Bilton is joined by Neil Livingstone, an experienced CFO, commercial advisor, and Co-Founder of Founder Freedom. CPA qualified through PwC, Neil has spent decades helping founders strengthen cash flow, improve working capital, build financial operating systems, and transition from founder to CEO.

Together, they explore why financial leadership is about far more than understanding the numbers. It is about creating clarity, building disciplined operating rhythms, making better decisions, embracing AI with purpose, and developing businesses that generate sustainable, long-term wealth.

If you are a founder, CEO, business owner, or executive leader looking to build a stronger, more resilient organisation, this conversation offers practical insights you can begin applying immediately.

About Neil Livingstone

Neil Livingstone is a CFO Advisor, commercial advisor, and Co-Founder of Founder Freedom. He specialises in cash velocity, forecasting discipline, working capital, and financial operating systems that help ambitious businesses scale with confidence. His experience spans capital raising, strategic growth, and guiding founders through successful business exits.

About Lead Well Live Well

Lead Well Live Well equips founders, CEOs, executives, and leadership teams to lead with greater clarity, strategy, and purpose through practical leadership conversations, strategic advisory, and executive development.