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The Chef’s Journal – Why I Wrote it For You

The Chef’s Journal – Why I Wrote it For You

If you follow me on social media, you’ve probably seen my feed blowing up over the last few days about The Chef’s Journal: A Book of Inspiration for Chefs and Culinarians. I’ve been writing for and about chefs (and the culinary industry) for a half a...
EP13: Daryl Shular, CMC – The Mentality of a Certified Master Chef

EP13: Daryl Shular, CMC – The Mentality of a Certified Master Chef

Dary Shular is more than just a talented chef – he has truly made culinary history by becoming the first African-American Certified Master Chef in the United States. Additionally, he competed on the U.S. Culinary Olympic team. He’s done some great things...
EP12: Chris & Shawn – 15 Questions Answered About Business & Leadership

EP12: Chris & Shawn – 15 Questions Answered About Business & Leadership

This week we tried something different by taking some of your questions that relate to business, starting your own business (i.e. entrepreneurship). Chris had an email snafu, so if you responded to the email he sent out seeking questions for this episode, your...
The #1 Thing Your Boss Wishes That You Did Better

The #1 Thing Your Boss Wishes That You Did Better

Last night I posted a question on Facebook asking a simple, yet powerful question: “what do you wish your employees did better?”. What were the responses? There were a lot. Some of the typical responses that I expected: “clean their stations”,...
EP11: Bernadette Jiwa – How to Make People Fall in Love With Your Company & Ideas

EP11: Bernadette Jiwa – How to Make People Fall in Love With Your Company & Ideas

Shawn has been a big time fan of Bernadette Jiwa’s for years, having read all of her books, so it was naturally an absolute pleasure to have her on the podcast this week! Bernadette helps brands “bake” meaning into the stories of who they, helping...
EP10: Mike Robbins – What it Means to Bring Your Whole Self to Work

EP10: Mike Robbins – What it Means to Bring Your Whole Self to Work

Mike Robbins is a really cool guy and it was an honor to have him on the podcast this week. Mike is a former professional baseball player turned speaker and author of three books, Focus on the Good Stuff, Be Yourself Everyone Else is Already Taken, and his latest,...
EP9: Jay Baer – The Road to Customer Service Excellence

EP9: Jay Baer – The Road to Customer Service Excellence

Jay Baer is a customer service superstar, he’s a content marketing king, and we were fortunate enough to have him join us this week for the podcast! If you don’t know Jay, he is actually the world’s most retweeted person among digital marketers. He...
EP8: Jairek Robbins – Achieve Success in Your Work and Life by Living on Purpose

EP8: Jairek Robbins – Achieve Success in Your Work and Life by Living on Purpose

Jairek Robbins is a high performance coach, author, and speaker – this week Chris and Shawn got the chance to connect with him and pick his brain about some of the things that he sees holding many of his clients back in their careers and lives. Sometimes people...
EP7: Steve Sisler – Master and Leverage the Depths of Your Personality

EP7: Steve Sisler – Master and Leverage the Depths of Your Personality

This week’s episode was a bit different than some of the previous episodes. We interviewed Steve Sisler who is a behavioral analyst. His super power (yes, literally superpower) is that he can read personalities like the back of his hand. He uses a couple...
One of the Secrets to Doing Your Best Everyday

One of the Secrets to Doing Your Best Everyday

Yesterday I had a conversation with a guy who had spent his entire adult life cooking. He was a chef — that is, until recently. He was running a kitchen, had become a chef and then one night, out of nowhere, he had a brain hemorrhage, then a coma and lost function in...

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