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It is a pleasure to have Bert Thornton for part two of our interview. Bert is the President/ COO – Vice Chairman Emeritus of Waffle House. As President and COO Bert felt his number one priority was investing in the development of others to produce quality leaders within the Waffle House management team.

Bert understood that you can accelerate your career and improve your success with a mentor. Attracting and retaining the best employees is a goal of Waffle House and Bert learned the importance of having a mentor in life and how this could be a distinguishing characteristic in the fast-food industry and give his team a competitive edge.

Bert now shares the lessons he has learned as an author and speaker and shares his message across the country. You can get his latest book High-Impact Mentoring via the link below. Please subscribe and share this podcast with your family and friends.

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Are you familiar with the Waffle House Index?

After Hurricane Ian devastated the peninsula of Florida Brian interviewed Bert Thornton President/COO – Vice Chairman Emeritus of Waffle House.

Listen in as Bert describes the Waffle House Leadership model, how serving in times of need is a top priority for the Waffle House team. The team is dedicated to keeping their stores open to provide food and a place of rest to first responders and those in the community without power or food.

Those who respond to storms can count on Waffle House, this is a distinguishing characteristic in fast food. The leadership at Waffle House has resolved they will not “turn tail and run during bad times” but will work intentionally to provide ground support to the restaurants to get them open immediately when safe to do so.

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Matt Abrahams is a passionate, collaborative, and innovative educator and coach. He teaches essential strategic communication at Stanford University. Matt also helps people improve their presentation and communication skills. Matt is the host of Think Fast, Talk Smart podcast.

On this episode Matt shares ideas for crafting your message to the audience and communicating effectively as a leader. He explains to us why strategic communication is important and how you can directly connect to your audience whether that be one-on-one, speaking from a stage or presenting virtually. Engagement is sustained attention and attention is a precious commodity that is being vied for from many directions.

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David Ousley learned servant leadership at an early age, his mother made many sacrifices as a single parent to raise her children and prepare them for life. Serving 18 years in management and leadership with the #1 insurance company in Florida prepared David for his newly launched leadership development company. David challenges businesses to improve their teams, leading to phenomenal industry distinguishing results. Listen in as David shares personal examples of how to increase engagement with the team through one-on-one interactions that are intentional and sincere.

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Oscar Trimboli is on a quest to create 100 million Deep Listeners. He is an author, host of the Apple award-winning podcast Deep Listening and a sought-after keynote speaker. 

Listen in as Oscar teaches us the importance of developing deep listening skills. Learn how to ask clarifying questions that increase your retention and show that you value what others are saying. 

Consider where the other person is coming from and what they are facing in the moment. Please subscribe and share.

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Alexis Haselberger is a time management and productivity coach, who helps people do more, and stress less. On this episode Alexis shares ideas for being intentional with your time. Brian and Alexis discuss the age-old question of “Why is it important to prioritize your time?” Avoiding daily distractions is just one of the methods for tactical time management shared in this episode, listen in for more tips and techniques on finding time for what is important.

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Levent Yildizgoren is an international translation expert and the author of Good Business In Any Language. On this episode of the Build Your Success podcast, Levent shares his experience in engaging emotions with language and tailoring your message to your target audience. He defines leadership as leading to positive outcomes for others. While working with his team to help companies do business in over 100 languages, Levent has learned that honoring cultural differences is a key to working with international teams. Please enjoy, subscribe and share.

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Choosing a positive outlook on life, this is truly a choice. Ulunda Baker is our special guest and you will feel her smile through the recording :) We all have trials and life isn’t fair at times, but we need a mindset to recover, overcome and move on, choosing happiness as our "go to" state of mind.

This episode is a replay of Episode 9 from August of 2019. Both Ulunda Baker and I have grown over the last three years and many changes have taken place since this was recorded. However, choosing to be happy is still a principle that serves us well and I decided to pull this up from the archives for our new listeners. Please enjoy, subscribe and share.

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Steve Robinson joins us on this episode, Steve is the former Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Chick-fil-A. Steve was part of the team at Chick-fil-A who lived out Character, Culture and Consistency across the brand. The Chick-fil-A business model is one that sets an example for company culture and leadership development. In his book Covert Cows and Chick-fil-A, Steve pulls back the curtain on some of the value-based vision of Truett Cathy, Jimmy Collins and the executive team. Clear vision casting was imperative to the success of this iconic brand. Please listen, share, and subscribe to the Build Your Success Podcast.  

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Melahni Ake is a friend and fellow John Maxwell Team Member; she is also a fellow author in the Voices For Leadership book. In her chapter Melahni wrote about the importance of leaving a legacy in leadership.

I am grateful to finally introduce her to my podcast audience. Melahni is the host of the Everyday Leaders podcast.

On this episode we discuss getting clarity from heart-based leadership. Melahni gives great examples of how consistency has compounded in her life and how she helps others by being consistent. Please enjoy, subscribe, and share.

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