

Breakfast Leadership Show
Michael D. Levitt
The Breakfast Leadership Show, hosted by leadership consultant and burnout expert Michael D. Levitt, is a globally ranked leadership podcast exploring how executives build stronger organizations, better leadership systems, and healthier workplace cultures.
Each episode features conversations with founders, executives, and industry experts on topics such as leadership operating systems, leadership decision making, executive leadership consulting, organizational leadership systems, and leadership burnout prevention.
Listeners gain practical insight into how leadership teams improve performance, reduce burnout, and design the structures that drive sustainable growth. The show covers leadership strategy, workplace culture, decision clarity for leadership teams, leadership infrastructure, and the systems that help organizations operate at a higher level.
With actionable lessons drawn from real executive experience, the Breakfast Leadership Show helps leaders move beyond management tactics and focus on building high-performance leadership systems that scale.
Interested in being a guest on the show?
Visit: https://BreakfastLeadership.com/Podcast
Note: Some episodes may include sponsored guest appearances. In those cases, guests may have provided financial compensation to participate in the podcast.
Each episode features conversations with founders, executives, and industry experts on topics such as leadership operating systems, leadership decision making, executive leadership consulting, organizational leadership systems, and leadership burnout prevention.
Listeners gain practical insight into how leadership teams improve performance, reduce burnout, and design the structures that drive sustainable growth. The show covers leadership strategy, workplace culture, decision clarity for leadership teams, leadership infrastructure, and the systems that help organizations operate at a higher level.
With actionable lessons drawn from real executive experience, the Breakfast Leadership Show helps leaders move beyond management tactics and focus on building high-performance leadership systems that scale.
Interested in being a guest on the show?
Visit: https://BreakfastLeadership.com/Podcast
Note: Some episodes may include sponsored guest appearances. In those cases, guests may have provided financial compensation to participate in the podcast.
Episodes
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Nov 29, 2021 • 33min
Interview with Van Carlson
Van Carlson is the Founder & CEO at SRA and has over twenty five years of experience within the risk management industry. Van began his career with Farmers Insurance Group as an agent; eventually growing his book to be among the largest in his home state of Idaho. Van focuses Strategic Risk Alternatives on risk management primarily and facilitates SRA to assess and solve for the risks our clients have. Van’s primary goal is to continue the upward growth of SRA and continue to develop new products to bring to market.
Social Media links:
https://strategicriskalternatives.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vancarlson/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/sra-831b/
https://www.facebook.com/strategicriskalt/

Nov 24, 2021 • 15min
Interview with Setti Coscarella
Setti Coscarella is the CEO. He joined TAAT™ after leading a successful dedicated Reduced-Risk Product unit at Phillip Morris International. Brings extensive experience across a wide variety of disciplines.
Social Media Links:
https://twitter.com/taatglobal
https://www.facebook.com/taatglobal/
https://www.instagram.com/taatglobal/

Nov 24, 2021 • 32min
Learn why Brands Don‘t Work with Stan Bernard, MD
Stan Bernard, MD, MBA, is an internationally recognized, award-winning global competition consultant, keynote speaker, and published author. He is the president of Bernard Associates, LLC, and the creator of the Transcender System™. A former senior fellow at the Wharton School of Business, Dr. Bernard has been a consultant to leading businesses around the world for nearly four decades, working with more than 150 companies across six continents.
www.BrandsDontWin.com
Social Media Links:
www.linkedin.com/in/stanbernardmdmba

Nov 22, 2021 • 26min
Interview with Anthony Milewski
Discussion of Basic materials specialist with expertise about the markets, commodities, politics, energy, and mining that power electric vehicles and battery storage.
Social Media Links:
Twitter.com/a_milewski

Nov 17, 2021 • 30min
Featured Interview with Jon Lieff
Dr. Lieff is a nationally recognized neuropsychiatrist and foremost expert on cellular communication science and how it's our cells communicating with each other that causes feelings, sickness, thoughts, and disease in our bodies.
He recently wrote the book 'The Secret Language of Cells: What Biological Conversations Tell Us About the Brain-Body Connection, the Future of Medicine, and Life Itself https://amzn.to/3hnosdh
Dr. Lieff is a graduate of Yale and holds a Doctorate in Medicine from Harvard Medical School; he is a known innovator in several medical fields and the leading neuropsychiatrist investigating cellular conversations. The cellular conversation is a pioneering study and a new way of understanding how our cells have constant intelligent chatter between them, showing no separation of brain-body, mind-body, or brain-immune.
As a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and former president of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, Dr. Lieff is an expert in the field of neuropsychiatry. He has delivered innumerable lectures on neuroscience, psychopharmacology, brain injury, dementia, and depression for audiences of physicians, other health care providers, and the general public.
Social Media Links:
https://twitter.com/jonlieffmd

Nov 15, 2021 • 28min
Interview with James Sykes
James Sykes is CEO and Director of Baselode Energy - a fully funded Uranium exploration company that has achieved resounding success within the region, like holding a portfolio of highly prospective uranium exploration properties in the eastern side of the Athabasca Basin. Baselode is also focused on discovering near-surface high-grade uranium orebodies outside of the Athabasca Basin as well.
James also brings over 10 years of experience in Athabasca Basin uranium exploration and discovery experience. Jame’s experience has also enabled him to lead the technical team for NexGen Energy to make the Arrow discovery during the first 3 drill campaigns - a 100% land-based, basement-hosted, and high-grade uranium discovery which is the largest development-stage uranium deposit in Canada.
Social Media Links:
https://baselode.com/
https://twitter.com/baselodee

Nov 10, 2021 • 21min
Featured Interview with Eisha Armstrong
Eisha Tierney Armstrong is the author of Productize: The Ultimate Guide to Turning Professional Services to Scalable Products, an Amazon best selling book in Business Consulting. She is also the CEO and co-founder of Vecteris, where she works with companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies on product innovation and product portfolio management. She has 25+ years of experience launching new data and information service products. Prior to co-founding Vecteris, Eisha held senior product leadership positions both with E.W. Scripps, the diversified media company, and with CEB (now Gartner), the world's largest membership-based corporate performance research and advisory company. Eisha earned her MBA at the Harvard Business School and her Bachelor of Arts in both Women's Studies and Economics at the University of Kansas.
Learn more about the book here:
https://www.vecteris.com/productize-book
Buy the book here:
https://www.amazon.com/Productize-Ultimate-Professional-Services-Scalable-ebook/dp/B094137XVG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Social Media Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eishatierneyarmstrong/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/vecteris/

Nov 8, 2021 • 30min
Interview with Jennifer Briggs
Jennifer Briggs is the Senior Strategy Consultant at The Beyster Institute – an institute that works to advance the understanding and practice of employee ownership as an effective and responsible business model.
Previously, she was VP of Human Resources with New Belgium Brewing for 13 years – and helped reshape the business and grow the team to over 900 employees.
Social Media Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennybriggs/

Nov 1, 2021 • 29min
Interview with Mike Duffy
I am the founder of The Happiness Hall Of Fame which has inducted Muhammad Ali, Steph Curry, Dolly Parton, Make-A-Wish, Tom Petty, and many others. I am the CEO of Happiness Wealth Management and Happiness Publishing.
Social Media Links:
My websites are:
www.mikeduffyspeaks.com
www.happinesshalloffame.com
www.happinesswealthmanagement.com

Oct 25, 2021 • 30min
Interview with Ravi Sood
Ravi Sood (born July 5, 1976) is a Canadian financier and venture capitalist. Sood was raised in Waterloo, Ontario and resides in Hong Kong. He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Waterloo. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Navina Asset Management and its predecessor company Lawrence Asset Management, which at its peak controlled over $800 million in assets globally.[1] On August 6, 2010, Sood sold Navina to Aston Hill Financial.[2] and moved on to focus on other endeavors.[3]
Sood has also founded several businesses operating in emerging markets, including Buchanan Renewables, Feronia Inc., Jade Power Trust, and Galane Gold.
Sood became well known in Canada as a regular TV personality and frequent guest host of the Business News Network's evening news programme "Squeeze Play". He is best known for commenting in the media on the income trust sector,[4] global markets,[5] natural resources and agriculture
Social Media Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravisood/?originalSubdomain=hk


