Do you suffer from Worries, Anxiety, Fear, Frustration, Lethargy and Stress aka WAFFLES? Do you struggle to sleep at night with all the thoughts racing in your mind? Do you appear successful in your life but still feel that there are personal barriers that people don’t see? Today, we learn about WAFFLES and how to access your power house to transform your purpose and manage your stress.

On this episode, Chad Lingafelt chats with Dr Katie Nall, Professional TEDx Speaker, Certified EFT Practitioner, Qi Gong Instructor, and DISC Trainer.

We learn what steps you can take to dissolve your specific WAFFLES – Worries, Anxiety, Fear, Frustration, Lethargy, Exhaustion, and STRESS!

Dr Katie leads Chad through an exercise with EFT to help manage stress and techniques that can help in the future.

This is an excellent conversation for leaders that want to manage stress and reduce anxiety.

Connect with Dr Katie Nall, Ph.D.

Do you feel overwhelmed or anxious about your business? Are you frustrated with your unhealthy work life balance? What if you could transform your habits, mindsets, and improve your leadership skill set all by journaling? Today, we learn why you don’t have to be 16 year old victorian school girl in order to journal!

On this episode, Chad Lingafelt chats with Antonio Garrido, Leadership Expert and Author of My Daily Leadership: A Powerful Roadmap for Leadership Success.

Antonio has over twenty-five years in senior leadership positions and is an expert in leadership transformation helping to shape high-performance leaders.

Today, Antonio shares his story about learning to journal and how transformative it has been in his career and others that he has coached

Journaling is an activity that many people associate with high school students or aspiring writers, but it's a powerful tool for leaders.

It allows leaders to reflect on situations, which helps them become better equipped to handle the pressures of leading a team. It also allows leaders to gain insight into how they approach situations and make improvements to their thought processes.

This is an excellent conversation for leaders that want to go from good to great!

Connect with Antonio Garrido

On this episode, Chad Lingafelt chats with Grace Judson, a leadership geek who helps midsize companies create good leaders.

Grace shares some tactile tips to help you become a good leader. We cover core values and why they need to be operationalized.

We also dig in to identifying office politicking and what you can do about it. Grace shares the toxic red flags that you should be on the lookout for.

This is an excellent conversation for businesses looking to refine their organization and incorporate effective leadership practices.

Connect with Grace Judson

How do you figure out the direction of a company? In the commercial world, evolving lower management to upper management doesn’t have a straightforward plan, but what if it did? Today, we talk with a former member of the elite NAVY SEAL Teams about visionary leadership.

On this episode, Chad Lingafelt chats with returning guest and Author Marty Strong.

Marty shares some insights from his newest book Be Visionary: Strategic Leadership in the Age of Optimization.

This is an excellent conversation for owners that are looking to become a better leader and promote leaders within their organization.

Connect with Marty Strong

Buy Marty’s Book: Be Visionary: Strategic Leadership in the Age of Optimization

https://www.amazon.com/Be-Visionary-Strategic-Leadership-Optimization-ebook/dp/B0BNWF36Y9?ref_=ast_sto_dp

Buy Marty’s Book: Be Nimble: How the Creative Navy SEAL Mindset Wins on the Battlefield and in Business

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1789048400/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_MXD18B0M26R55G4X7946

“My business is complicated, and I’m too busy to figure out a strategy. ” How many business owners are faced with the struggle of figuring out how to market their business? Today, we talk with an expert about gaining a competitive edge.

On this episode, Chad Lingafelt chats with Kimjera Whittington, an award-winning sales and marketing corporate executive and entrepreneur, about increasing your revenue by being a disruptor in the industry

We dive into Disruptive Marketing, how to start setting up differentiators and touch on the Power of story.

This is an excellent conversation for any business wanting to take the next step in its marketing strategy.

Connect with Kimjera Whittington and Evolve Global Marketing

What do you do when faced with an impossible task or decision? As business owners, you may feel like giving up or quitting when it gets complicated. Today, we talk with an expert coach on persevering through adversity.

On this episode, Chad Lingafelt chats with Master Amy Kim of USK Martial Arts, Sabomnim 5th Dan, Certified DTS Krav Maga Instructor, Fort Mill Business Person of the year, and Ms Strawberry Festival Queen.

Watch the Video Version https://youtu.be/xuPHyhR7zhU

Master Amy shares the fundamentals of their organization and how they are impacting the next generation in the greater Charlotte area.

She also tells a story of perseverance from a student-teacher standpoint and the early origins of their business.

We learn about the struggle for discipline regardless of age and how to start small.

This is an excellent conversation for any business facing hard times and thinking of throwing in the towel.

Connect with Master Amy Kim and USK Martial Arts

Your business is beginning to grow and you’re starting to look at expanding. How do you onboard and train new employees for each role if none of your processes are documented? Find out why you need to be Aggressively Lazy when expanding!

On this episode, Chad Lingafelt chats with Dean Soto, founder and president of ProSulum.com — a business process outsourcing company with Virtual Systems Architects that document and implement company processes.

Dean shares why process documentation is valuable for your company and how it doesn’t have to be frustrating or hard! Dean also suggests focusing on one thing that will either make you money or save you a ton of time.

We learn about having a specific structure and why Dean thinks you should become aggressively lazy. What does aggressive lazy mean? You’ll find out when you watch or listen!

This is a great conversation for any business looking to expand but needs processes documented to smooth onboarding.

Looking to Sell Your Business? Connect with Chad Lingafelt for an Exploratory Call.

https://www.businessmeeting.online/schedule-time-to-meet

Connect with Dean Soto & Pro Sulum, LLC

So you’re ready to retire from your business. What happens now? Do you have someone in mind to inherit the business? Do your children even want the business? These questions and more will be answered in today’s conversation!

On this episode, Chad Lingafelt chats with Stephen Shortt, a succession planning coach from Dublin, Ireland. Stephen not only has the smoothest voice with a beautiful accent, but also shares some insights that can help you decide what needs to happen before

People hate thinking about the finality of life, but ignoring what needs to happen when you are ready to retire or pass the business on can be a costly mistake.

Stephen shares the 4 possibilities that can happen to a Family Business:

Shift thinking from being the hero of everyone’s story to being the mentor for the next generation.

This is a great conversation for any business owner that is looking to the future and what needs to transpire once they decide to retire.

Looking to Sell Your Business? Connect with Chad Lingafelt for an Exploratory Call.

https://www.businessmeeting.online/schedule-time-to-meet

Connect with Stephen Shortt & Successful Succession

We are so excited to be celebrating 200 episodes and have a great giveaway for our followers as a thank you! See below for details.

In this episode, Chad Lingafelt, the host of Coffee Break Podcast, shares a look back at some of the guests and episodes that have been impactful not only to our listeners but to our team!

Two Hundred Episodes (plus an extra 20 episodes from our first season in 2018 that our editor forgot to count) is a huge milestone for any content creator so we wanted to take a moment and celebrate by highlighting some of our favorites over the past 5 years.

We launched the podcast in 2018 with a few microphones and a desire to consistently release 1 episode a week where we would share business ideas, practices, and strategies.

Over the past 5 years, we’ve had 6 different sets, countless updates to our studio and equipment, 200 amazing guests, and so much knowledge shared from Business Leaders and Influencers in our local Charlotte community and even world wide.

We are so grateful for all the practical advice and takeaways that can help develop and challenge our listeners and even ourself to improve! We have always believed in the mantra #alwaysimproving and being able to share knowledge in our community and help others learn and grow collectively has been incredibly fulfilling.

A very special thank you to our listeners in Charlotte, NC, the USA, Canada, Mexico, UK, Italy, Australia, Netherlands, Guam, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Russia, Sweden, Israel, France, China, Argentina, South Africa, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Romania, Indian Japan, and so many more!

Here are the full episodes that we highlighted today!

Ep 138 Jonathan Jenkins https://youtu.be/nN8VwlqY0YM

Ep 146 Lucas Boselli https://youtu.be/OkgqwLp9MNs

Ep 116 Austin Helms https://youtu.be/YrZiKyoeU9A

Ep 130 Blair Primis https://youtu.be/2shscAgMW-k

Ep 106 Josh Elmore https://youtu.be/vnKFKgNGfY0

Ep 65 Larry Hubakta https://youtu.be/vG9uvIzSG8Y

Ep 69 Jake Fehling https://youtu.be/DP9_-uE2B94

Ep 21 Kurt Graves https://youtu.be/SCgb7SY6MQs

Ep 1 https://youtu.be/Q6sxUABIwZY

To enter our giveaway, like this post, tell us your favorite episode, and share this 200th episode on Facebook!

** We highly recommend you watch this episode for the samples that are displayed to understand Culture Index. Click Here to Watch 

Is your team is struggling with communication barriers? Does it seem that there are continual miscommunications amidst team members that could be easily rectified? Stay tuned for help in Part 2 of the continuation of the culture index conversation.

Today, Chad Lingafelt chats with Eileen Stephens, consultant at Culture Index, a strategic advisory firm that works exclusively with visionary entrepreneurs, CEOs, business leaders, and management to scale and transform their organizations using applied analytical traits.

Eileen has been a guest previously in 2020 where she introduced our company to Culture Index.

Episode 92 https://youtu.be/ODLFPh0aUtU

Episode 93 https://youtu.be/KGKXEquqk7s

Since that point, we’ve implemented Culture Index into our hiring decisions, internal interactions, and realized the benefits of utilizing this transformational learning tool for our whole company.

Today Eileen is showing us real samples of the culture index and how they would work better together. We take a deeper look at three types of the 19; Craftsman, Trailblazer, and Influencer.

Utilizing the Culture Index tool can help you distinguish who is right for a role before expense is laid out to onboard and invest. It can also help mitigate internal team struggles when navigating different personalities in the workplace.

This is a great conversation for people ready to transform their team and make better hiring decisions and place the right people in the right roles.

Connect with Eileen Stephens & Culture Index