

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
Mentioned books

Aug 7, 2020 • 26min
Interview with Tricia Manning
Support the Breakfast Leadership Network!
Hire Michael to speak at your event: https://BreakfastLeadership.com/speaking
Buy Michael's life altering book: 369 Days: How To Survive A Year of Worst-Case Scenario: https://www.amazon.com/369-Days-Survive-Worst-Case-Scenarios-ebook/dp/B074CCLKZP/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502047423&sr=8-1&keywords=369+days
Contribute on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bfastleadership
Or PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/bfastleadership
Breakfast Leadership Network Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/breakfast-leadership-network
Like, Rate and Review the Breakfast Leadership Show on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/breakfast-leadership/id1207338410
------
Tricia is committed to coaching smart business leaders who manage it all, personally and professionally, so that they can elevate their leadership skills and intentionally develop new possibilities in HOW they lead.
Her unique corporate background gives her a clear understanding of the personal and professional challenges that senior business leaders face today. She brings real-life expertise around talent, culture and leadership to every coaching engagement and is committed to helping individuals, teams and organizations accelerate performance.
Tricia believes this can be done with authenticity and by staying true to personal values, beliefs, and leadership styles.
- Trusted advisor to C-suite and executives
- Inspirational leadership through periods of disruptive change
- Passion for leadership development and long track record of building high performing teams
- Connecting people with business outcomes through leadership development, culture changes and organizational design

Aug 5, 2020 • 27min
Interview with Ron Coury
Support the Breakfast Leadership Network!
Hire Michael to speak at your event: https://BreakfastLeadership.com/speaking
Buy Michael's life altering book: 369 Days: How To Survive A Year of Worst-Case Scenario: https://www.amazon.com/369-Days-Survive-Worst-Case-Scenarios-ebook/dp/B074CCLKZP/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502047423&sr=8-1&keywords=369+days
Contribute on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bfastleadership
Or PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/bfastleadership
Breakfast Leadership Network Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/breakfast-leadership-network
Like the Breakfast Leadership Show on Apple Podcasts (iTunes): https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/breakfast-leadership/id1207338410
------
Ron Coury is a name that is well-known to longtime residents and members of the business community in Southern Nevada. A U.S. Marine, Coury has seen and done a lot in his 45 years in Las Vegas. Coury is an observational entrepreneur, a “niche finder,” in his words. With nearly every venture he has undertaken, alongside various business partners including Dan Hughes, Don Tamburro and Tom Boeckle, he identified operational nuances that led to enhanced levels of success with all their ventures. This mindset was fascinating to execute in a young, growing town like Las Vegas since his arrival in 1973.
Coury has worked as a casino dealer, real estate agent, founder of a limousine service and a partner in bars, restaurants, major graphics and glass companies, along with several automobile dealerships in Nevada and California.
As a niche finder Coury says, “When you can demonstrate a need in any area of industry, your job is to find a cure, believe you can implement it, raise the money to do so, form the team and make it happen: a new business is born.”
In the 1970s and ’80s, visionaries willing to go for it found Las Vegas to be a prime setting for fulfilling their entrepreneurial aspirations. Coury, year after year, pulled together concepts with his partners, identified funding and implementation, and enjoyed riding the wildest fun-filled roller coaster of business and life.
From growing up on the streets of Brooklyn in the ’60s and early ’70s to surviving the good-ole-boy and Wild-West business and political climate of old school Las Vegas, this book is a testament to how Coury’s courage and perseverance enabled him to prevail against unethical, illegal and seemingly insurmountable obstacles along the path toward achieving his goals and dreams. Coury also chronicles his biggest challenge of all, beating esophageal cancer against the longest of odds.
Ron is a major business figure in Las Vegas and former U.S. Marine. Coury is an observational entrepreneur, a “niche finder,” in his words. With nearly every venture he has undertaken, alongside various business partners including Dan Hughes, Don Tamburro and Tom Boeckle, he identified operational nuances that led to enhanced levels of success with all their ventures. Most recently, he wrote Tenacity, a memoir focuses on the determination necessary to overcome any and all unjust obstacles that may stand in the way of one’s dreams.
Links:
https://roncouryauthor.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Tenacity-Businessman-Survives-Brooklyn-Corruption-ebook/dp/B07KDLDB66
https://www.linkedin.com/in/roncouryauthor/
https://twitter.com/ron_coury

Aug 3, 2020 • 28min
Interview with Ryan Berman
Support the Breakfast Leadership Network!
Contribute on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bfastleadership
Or PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/bfastleadership
Breakfast Leadership Network Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/breakfast-leadership-network
------
Courage. Considering the times. We could all use a dose of courage, right? Ryan Berman has interviewed dozens of courageous leaders, athletes, and change-makers. He shares his learnings in his book "Return on Courage" and has developed a framework which any being, brand, or business can apply to benefit from ROC - Return on Courage.
Book: https://amzn.to/3hgOOMk
Ryan Berman has more than 20 years in the courageous ideas space and an intimate understanding of the intricacies of emotional story telling for the purposes of driving courageous change. Ryan, a practitioner and authority on the subject, has had his methods featured in Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Inc and Forbes.
In addition to giving talks at Google, Snapchat and charity: water, Ryan speaks all over the country to C Suite, marketing and professional services audiences on the topic. He covers the learning’s found in his book Return On Courage: A Business Playbook For Change
Living in San Diego, California, Ryan has had the good fortune of creating stories for household brands such as Caesars Entertainment, Johnson & Johnson, Major League Baseball, PUMA, Qualcomm, Subway and UNICEF.
He has been featured on a panoply of Podcasts including Adam Markel’s New Pivot Podcast, Bryan Kramer’s H2H podcast, Awesome At Your Job podcast and Rhett Power.
Ryan also has his own Courage Brand called “Sock Problems” – an altruistic sock company that strives to “sock” world problems with socks.
Finally, Ryan recently launched Courage Bootcamp as an 8 week online course helping companies galvanize their staff and pinpoint their best talent.

Jul 31, 2020 • 29min
Interview with Ron Alvesteffer
Support the Breakfast Leadership Network!
Contribute on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bfastleadership
Or PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/bfastleadership
Breakfast Leadership Network Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/breakfast-leadership-network
------
Ron Alvesteffer is the President & CEO of Service Express, a company that specializes in on-site data center hardware maintenance services.
Ron is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and has served the organization as both the Chapter Chair and the Education Chair. Ron also serves on the Board of the Spectrum Health Foundation.
Ron speaks to companies and organizations on leadership development and on building winning workplace cultures.
You can find out more about Ron and Service Express at www.ronalvesteffer.com or www.serviceexpress.com
Service Express earned $3 million in annual revenue when Ron started and in 2019 Service Express achieved $132 million. Its “destination” is to achieve $500 million in annual revenue growth by 2025. b. Passionately committed and protective of our culture. It’s in our DNA. Has to come from the top. c. Once we shifted our culture to people first, we grew 20% every year - noticeable impact on the bottom line. d. Need to make sure through our systems and processes that we are putting our people first. e. Focus on your people - drives business performance - not separate.
Website: https://serviceexpress.com/

Jul 27, 2020 • 53min
Interview with Melanie Benson
Melanie Benson (formerly Melanie Strick), a Revenue Strategist and Business Performance Optimizer, is a guide for conscious entrepreneurs ready to accelerate their impact and income by making their business perform 10 times better. With over 12 years experience in corporate America, Melanie specializes in aligning visionary, game-changing entrepreneurs who are emerging as leaders with the most powerful mindset, actions and strategies that propel them to a level of success they never knew they could achieve.
Melanie combines her extensive traditional education (she holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management and a Master’s Degree in Organizational Management) with multiple advanced certifications in Project Management, Results Coaching, Neuro-Linguistic Programming and even a license as a Spiritual Counselor to get her clients past their obstacles and into impacting the world in a fulfilling, and profitable, way.
Integrating creativity and intuition with a honed “facts and data” approach has resulted in some of the most comprehensive business growth resources available to conscious entrepreneurs.
Melanie is host of Amplify Your Success Podcast, serves on the Women Speaker's Association Executive Team, is programming chair for the Association of Transformational Leaders and is co-author of Entrepreneur.com’s “Start Up Guide to an Information Marketing Business.”
Melanie speaks for many entrepreneurial audiences across the globe both live and virtually via webinars and telephone-based seminars; has been a regularly featured expert on radio shows and in media publications such as American Express OPEN Forum, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Women’s Day, Parenting Magazine, University of Phoenix Alumni Magazine and Female Entrepreneur Magazine.
Website: https://melaniebenson.com/about/
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/amplify-your-success/id1191494919

Jul 22, 2020 • 4min
8 out of 10 People Suffering from Pandemic Stress
8 out of 10 people are stressed out because of COVID-19. But many aren't doing anything about it.
There is no shame in asking for help. Don't go through this alone.
https://calendly.com/breakfastleadership/30-minute-vip-call to discuss your stress and burnout, or visit https://BreakfastLeadership.com, and at the bottom send me a message.
----
Support the Breakfast Leadership Network!
Hire Michael to speak at your event: https://BreakfastLeadership.com/speaking
Buy Michael's life altering book: 369 Days: How To Survive A Year of Worst-Case Scenario: https://www.amazon.com/369-Days-Survive-Worst-Case-Scenarios-ebook/dp/B074CCLKZP/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502047423&sr=8-1&keywords=369+days
Contribute on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bfastleadership
Or PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/bfastleadership
Breakfast Leadership Network Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/breakfast-leadership-network
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/breakfast-leadership/id1207338410

Jul 22, 2020 • 23min
Interview with Garland Vance
Support the Breakfast Leadership Network!
Contribute on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bfastleadership
Or PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/bfastleadership
Breakfast Leadership Network Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/breakfast-leadership-network
------
In 2013, Garland Vance not only was burning out but also experiencing significant physical problems. When I went to my doctor to find out what was happening, he told me that I was "stressed out" because I was so busy. I was working on my doctorate in leadership and started researching how busyness was affecting high capacity leaders and what could be done about it (for their sake and my own). That research resulted in a very practical book, Gettin’ (un)Busy: 5 Steps to Kill Busyness and Live with Purpose, Productivity, and Peace. In the book, I discuss how busyness and burnout are connected. I'd love to share with your audience the danger of one of the most common causes of burnout -- an over-commitment to too many good commitments -- and the simple steps they can take to beat busyness.
Book: https://amzn.to/2MoZ2vI
http://AdVanceLeadership.live
http://gettinunbusybook.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/garlandvancepage
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/garland-vance
Twitter: www.twitter.com/garlandvance
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCccPJdIqTSwzV_nDWy03AxA

Jul 20, 2020 • 27min
Interview with Derek Doepler
https://derekdoepker.com/
Before becoming an entrepreneur, I had one mission in life…
Become a rockstar.
While shredding the guitar was fun, it didn’t pay the bills. So I decided to start a part-time business selling fitness info-products. My first couple of years in business, I could barely convince my own friends and family to buy my offers. That’s when I knew I’d have to master marketing, influence, and copywriting (words that sell).
9 years later, I now have 7 bestselling books that have sold over 75,000 copies. You can find my work in Forbes, Entrepreneur, SUCCESS magazine, and other world-renowned publications. My certifications include an NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) Trainer Certification, Digital Marketer Copywriting Certification, and the Capital Copywriting Certification.
If you’re like me though, you don’t care about a consultant’s certifications nearly as much as the bottom-line results he or she can deliver. What’s most important for you is I’ve been able to help hundreds of business owners like you grow their businesses.
That’s why my team and I focus on results-driven services to help you craft marketing messages that generate greater sales and customer loyalty. My mission now is to help your company grow online through email marketing, persuasive ad copy, blog content, and other forms of content marketing.

Jul 17, 2020 • 25min
Interview with Dr. Eddie Price
Dr. Eddie Price is the Nostradamus of the evolution of modern healthcare.
His new book is called Out Of His Mind: Medical Revolutionary.
You can check out his book here: https://amzn.to/3aaIRMx
At eHealthier we provide physicians, health providers, hospitals, mental health providers, health insurers and injury insurers value-based healthcare platforms that enable patients and clients to complete electronic Patient Reported Outcome Measures.
Specifically, we provide physicians and health professionals the capacity to select the ePROMs most appropriate for their individual patients or clients. The clients/patients complete the ePROMs on their digital device and their ePROM scores compared to normal values are available to both the physician and patients. These new tools measure a client’s progress to total well-being.
“Working with our partners, we measure and treat reductions in function until full function is restored.”
This is consistent with moves by governments, health organisations and insurers worldwide who are seeking ways to reduce the number of people succumbing to injury, disease or chronic ailments.
At eHealthier, we focus on restoring patients in the quickest time possible to a state where they can function to a degree that represents, for them, their best achievable ‘quality of life’.
Our goal, working together with our healthcare and insurer partners, is to measure and treat those suffering reductions in function… until full function is restored!
http://www.ehealthier.net/

Jul 15, 2020 • 30min
Featured Interview with Carlee Myers
Carlee Myers is an expert at helping professionals who feel overworked, overwhelmed or on the verge of burnout relieve stress so they can find more joy at work, home and beyond. As the founder of The Stress Less Company, Carlee has helped hundreds of professionals across the country take action to reduce stress through coaching.
She believes there is no-one-size-fits-all when it comes to stress management. Her work has most recently been featured through media outlets such as Good Day Philadelphia, FOX 29, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philly Mag and Whoolly Magazine.
Carlee's new course: http://thestresslessco.teachable.com/


