

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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Sep 13, 2021 • 22min
Interview with Elizabeth Hall
As a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and Professional Life Coach, I support and empower people to rebuild a more peaceful relationship with food and body so they can devote more of their time and energy to creating joy in their lives. My work focuses on the connection of mind, body and spirit; and celebrates bodies of all sizes, colors, genders and abilities. This work will guide you to accept, love, and appreciate the gift of your body and trust in its wisdom.
I provide private 1-1 coaching and also facilitate small group programs where like minded people come together to support each other on their journey to peace with food and feeling good in their bodies.
If you aren't sure if coaching is right for you, feel free to sign up for a free 45 minute call on my website and we can see if it's a good fit.
elizabethhallcoaching.com
Social Media Links:
@elizabethhallcoaching on instagram
https://www.facebook.com/livefreeordiet

Sep 10, 2021 • 31min
Featured Interview with Jim Barnish
Jim Barnish has spent the last two decades as an entrepreneur, operator, investor and M&A consultant. Jim now runs Orchid Black, a boutique advisory of former CXOs, strategy execs and board members. They are accomplished operators with an investor mindset and deep M&A experience, allowing them to help growth-stage tech founders understand exactly how to make their business worth at least 50% more, and execute as true partners, aligning their compensation with their client-partner's successes.
Due to the great work that Orchid Black has provided to larger organizations and PE firms throughout the course of their careers, they also provide research and advisory services to companies like RSA, Intel, KKR, Dell and Intuit in a fee-for-service model that allows them to take on more risk (upside) with the earlier stage companies they work alongside, further aligning their incentives with performance."
If you ever identify anyone that is a great fit for us feel free to send over the following:
Overview of Orchid Black - for founder-led technology companies between $3M-$50M revenue that have the desire to grow and exit within the next 3 years https://docsend.com/view/gnj3q4mw2utedbd7
Sample Case Study - where we increased the value of a founder's business from $23M to $36M in 7 Months https://www.orchid.black/enhanced-case-study/from-vca-to-exit-a-fintech-firm-reinvisions-their-go-to-market-strategy
Social Media Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/orchidblack
https://www.facebook.com/ord.blk
https://twitter.com/ordblk
More mid-market businesses will be sold over the next 10 years than ever before. I have created a methodology to help business owners see where they can exponentially create value in their business and get the most for their company when they decide to sell. Value is not about chasing multiples. It’s about creating “transferable value” by building the business in a manner that attracts and compels the right and best buyers and is stress-tested against due diligence and buyer criteria. That puts you in a place where investors and acquirers are calling you. You’re not selling, you’re being bought.
The following are topics that I’m passionate about:
-Executive coaching
-Founder burnout
-Scaling via channel partners
-Creating predictable revenue growth via SDR/BDR programs and smooth seller handoff
-Student of divorce/unhappy home and motivations that come from this
-Operating systems (eg EOS, V2MOM, OKR, etc)
-Strategic planning
-Product led growth
-Customer acquisition and go to market
-Mergers and acquisitions (and integrations)
-Fintech - especially B2B Fintech
Marketplaces
-Cloud business decisions (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS)
-Human capital management, talent and systems
-Customer success strategies to reduce churn and grow net retention rate / recurring revenue
-Negotiation strategies and tactics
-Conversion funnels and how the funnel is not dead (AARRR, Awareness-Consideration-Conversion)
-Value creation 2.0, 3.0, etc
-Communicating for success and delegating authority - ties to exec coaching

Sep 8, 2021 • 24min
Interview with Shinobu Hindert
Shinobu Hindert is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional, money expert, and creator of Empowered Planning, LLC. She spent the first half of her career working for some of the largest financial institutions in the United States, including Smith Barney and Fidelity Investments. As a financial adviser, she created personalized financial plans for high-net-worth individuals all across the country, overseeing more than $350 million in client assets. Now Shinobu has taken all her knowledge and created a simple, proven method for teaching personal finance. She has delivered over five hundred live workshops covering a wide range of topics, from budgeting to estate planning. Her goal is to simplify the complex world of investing and empower women everywhere to reach financial freedom.
www.empoweredplanning.com
https://www.empoweredplanning.com/academy
Social Media Links:
https://www.instagram.com/empowered_planning/?hl=en
https://www.facebook.com/EmpoweredPlanning
https://www.facebook.com/groups/141204934569817
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shinobu-hindert-9004aa37/

Sep 6, 2021 • 25min
Interview with Stephen Mitchley
Stephen is Chief Strategy Officer of Vitality Group (public company), a global health tech company that uses the power of incentives, data, and behavioral economics to make people healthier at work.
Numbers-wise, the company operates in 24 countries and more than 20 million people engage in the Vitality programs. Stephen is also is a sought-after speaker in the healthcare space and on your podcast, could focus on these topics: Increasing productivity and business performance through prioritizing health within the workplace.
Designing programs that incentivize people to improve their health and become engaged through rewards.
How the ‘Shared Value’ business model links corporate success to general public wellbeing.
https://www.vitalitygroup.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-mitchley-985b046/
https://www.vitalitygroup.com/press-release/want-add-healthy-habits-holiday-list-new-peer-reviewed-study-suggests-physical-activity-come-bag-full-good-behaviors/ Study - https://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/5/1/e000500 COVID-19 Toolkit for Employers - https://www.vitalitygroup.com/covid-19/#EmployerToolkit
Videos that offer an overview of how Vitality works - https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=96ILvW2b9L0&ab_channel=Vitality https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=tcV4i6Zqvt8&ab_channel=Vitality
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-mitchley-985b046/
https://www.facebook.com/powerofvitality/
https://twitter.com/VitalityUSA
https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-vitality-group-inc-/
https://www.instagram.com/powerofvitality/

Sep 1, 2021 • 29min
Interview with Beate Chelette
Email Beate at bc@beatechelette.com
Get Beate's book: Happy Woman Happy World - Your Foolproof Fix To Get From Overwhelmed To Awesome https://HappyWomanHappyWorld.com
Want to find more and better clients? Free training at AirtightAvatar.com Need to design or scale your business system? Start here: UncoverySession.com
Social Media Links: youtube.com/c/GrowthArchitect, Https://instagram.com/beatechelette, https://www.facebook.com/GrowthArchitecture/

Aug 27, 2021 • 32min
Interview with Graham Boyd
Read my new book "Rebuild: the Economy, Leadership, and You -- a toolkit for builders of a better world" available now from an online retailer near you.
Experienced entrepreneur and consultant leading businesses to become deliberately developmental and self-governing with a FairShares Commons incorporation.
Recently completed transforming an international non-profit into 3 for-profits, and now growing a company making it easy for businesses and leaders to continuously adapt themselves, to rise to the adaptive challenges they are facing. Giving them the capacity to find new options to previously intractable challenges.
As CEO, managing director, start-up founder and investor, business unit manager, and physicist; working for VC/PE, for CEOs and for myself, I have led traditional and self-managed organisations; in multi-nationals and start-ups; through phases of growth, turn-around and new category or new business development. Most often recognised for disruptive innovation; strategy creation and execution; high performance organisation and people development. Using the latest approaches, such as Holacracy, Sociocracy, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Requisite Organisation design, Spiral Dynamics, Integral Theory and the Cognitive-Developmental Framework.
Worked in 7 countries: UK, China, Germany, Belgium, Japan, South Africa, and Italy.
Social Media Links:
TW & LI: @grahamboydphd
@RebuildEcoLeadU

Aug 25, 2021 • 29min
Interview with Roberta Matuson
For more than 25 years, Roberta Matuson, president of Matuson Consulting, has helped leaders in highly regarded companies, including General Motors, New Balance, and Microsoft, and small to medium-size businesses, achieve dramatic growth and market leadership through the maximization of talent.
She’s the author of six books including, Evergreen Talent: How to Seed, Cultivate, and Grow a Sustainable Workforce, and the international bestseller, Suddenly In Charge: Managing Up, Managing Down, Succeeding All Around, a Washington Post Top 5 Business Book For Leaders. Her newest book, Can We Talk? Seven Principles for Managing Difficult Conversations at Work will be released in September of 2021.
Roberta is one of a handful of people who have appeared as a guest of Bill O’Reilly’s on Fox’s O’Reilly Factor, and who left the show unscathed.
Social Media Links:
Twitter: @matuson
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roberta-matuson/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MatusonConsulting

Aug 23, 2021 • 24min
Interview with Eric Dahan
Eric Dahan is co-founder and chief executive officer of Open Influence, where he oversees the strategic vision and growth of the company. With a background in business and economics, Dahan brings a rich understanding of mathematics, game theory and social sciences to his role and was recognized on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list in 2017 as well as Inc.’s 30 Under 30 list in 2016. His company’s clients include Disney, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Intuit, SoFi, Unilever, P&G, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, L’Oreal, and Under Armour just to name a few.
Prior to co-founding Open Influence, Dahan founded Splurge, a mobile app that combines social curation and e-commerce by aggregating online flash-sales from a variety of retailers. He also served as chief executive officer and managing partner for the company.
Before Splurge, Dahan got his start in digital at HauteLook, a member-only online marketplace offering flash-sales and limited-time sales events that was acquired by Nordstrom in 2011. Dahan earned his bachelor’s degree in international business from Pepperdine University.
Social Media links
https://openinfluence.com/
https://twitter.com/OpenInfluence
https://www.linkedin.com/company/openinfluence
https://www.instagram.com/openinfluence
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-dahan-3b428b62/
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Aug 19, 2021 • 27min
Interview with Jeff Arnold
Best Selling Author of three books, with 2 books currently in the top 10 of Amazon business and insurance.
Most recently, wrote ‘How to Beat Your Insurance Company’, which is all about how to beat your insurance company—once and for all. Depending on the organization's size, this can often lead to saving hundreds of thousands of dollars each year.
President of the RIGHTSURE (https://www.rightsure.com/), an Award-Winning insurance technology firm with proprietary software that helps consumers pay the right amount for insurance, never miss discounts and never suffer insurance company rate increases. Bio Here: https://jeffarnold.com/bio/
Longer Bio here: https://www.rightsure.com/news/29863/7310/Rightsure_Bio_Sheet_Jeff_Arnold_122016.pdf
Social media links:
https://www.facebook.com/RightSure?sk=app_279919758690516
https://twitter.com/rightsure
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAYF96Z9gF6-Qp3GXqiLSdw
https://www.linkedin.com/company/rightsure-insurance-group
https://www.instagram.com/rightsuregroup/

Aug 18, 2021 • 26min
Interview with Ivan Bebek
Learn What it takes to be a successful company Metals markets - particularly, gold, silver and copper.
Retail Investing in the metals industry and the lessons he has learned the hard way.
Ivan is a veteran mining entrepreneur and formerly the President, CEO and co-founder of Cayden resources which sold for $205 million in 2014.
Today, he is the Chair and Director of Fury Gold Mines, President and CEO of Sombrero Resources and Chair and Director of Tier One Silver.
Social Media Links:
https://furygoldmines.com/
https://sombreroresources.com/
https://www.tieronesilver.com/


