The Inner Chief

"The soul of the business was maintained because I drove the culture of the business so passionately."

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

This Mini Chief episode features Cliff Gale, former MD of Lite 'n Easy for over 20 years.

His full episode is titled Leading with passion, respect for your people and keeping the soul alive in your business.

You can find the full audio and show notes here:

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I met Cliff through a former Inner Chief podcast guest, Sara Chamberlain, in 2019.

Cliff started his career running Bob-Jane T Mart Franchises. He then bought into Lite n' Easy after he saw a two line ad in a paper in its very early days.

He proceeded to lead the business for over two decades and grew it into one of the most successful businesses of its type.

Lite n' Easy is a 100% Australian owned healthy food business and has been around nearly 40 years.

In the full episode we talk about:

✅ Keeping his finger on the pulse by respecting and listening to his people and customers

✅ How he kept the emotion and energy in the business as it grew to dizzying heights

✅ Building the soul of the business by focusing on the things that count and profit will come, and

✅ The difference between givers and takers.

Deal hope,

Greg

• Cass Spies, Founder & CEO of Twisted Healthy Treats, on being nimble, promoting from within, and winning globally

• Vince Lebon, CEO and Founder of Rollie Nation, on streamlining systems, scaling up and business rhythm

• Julie Mathers, Founder of Flora & Fauna and CEO of Snuggle Hunny, on being adventurous, bootstrapping a business, and first-mover advantage

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"Know that if you are a leader, you have an impact on the health and wellbeing of the people around you. That's why leadership is either a life-depleting or life-feeding line of work."

In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Stephen "Shed" Shedletzky, on how to foster a speak-up culture where people feel safe, trusted and worthy.

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"Shed", as he is known to everyone, is a leadership author and coach who helps leaders and organisations create a culture where people feel encouraged, safe and valued in speaking-up.

He became the fourth person to join well-known leadership expert Simon Sinek's team and has had the roles of Chief of Staff and Head of Brand Experience, Training & Development. The two still collaborate together.

He is also a TEDx Speaker Coach and the author of Speak-Up Culture: When Leaders Truly Listen, People Step Up.

In this episode we talk about:

✅ How he overcame a stutter and fear of public speaking to become a guru in speak-up culture.

✅ His framework and principles for helping you build a speak-up culture at work, and

✅ The most important things to consider in delivering a TEDx level presentation.

Thanks to former guest, James Whittaker, for introducing me to Shed.

Deal hope,

Greg

You can connect with Stephen via LinkedIn and the Shed Inspires website. You can also see his Speak-Up Matrix on his website (see more details below in the show notes).

• Man's Search for Meaning - by Viktor Frankl

• The Attributes - by Rich DeVinney

• Culture Map - by Erin Meyer

• Outliers - by Malcolm Gladwell

• Don't sleep, there are snakes - by Daniel L. Everett

• Matt Abrahams, author of Think Faster, Talk Smarter, on Managing your reputation before you enter a room, thinking on your feet, and getting to the point

• Roger Love, World's #1 Voice Coach on Teaching Bradley Cooper, Reese Witherspoon, The Beach Boys and more to use their voice to change the world

• Minisodes by Greg Layton - Meetings as a Performance Theatre and BREAC a leg!

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"There's been too much focus on profit outcomes in business rather than maybe building the process along the way through empowering people, through effective delegation."

In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Cliff Gale, former Managing Director of Lite n' Easy for over 20 years, on leading with passion, respect for your people and keeping the soul alive in your business.

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I met Cliff through a former Inner Chief podcast guest, Sara Chamberlain, in 2019.

Cliff started his career running Bob-Jane T Mart Franchises. He then bought into Lite n' Easy after he saw a two line ad in a paper in its very early days.

He proceeded to lead the business for over two decades and grew it into one of the most successful businesses of its type.

Lite n' Easy is a 100% Australian owned healthy food business and has been around nearly 40 years.

In this episode we talk about:

✅ Keeping his finger on the pulse by respecting and listening to his people and customers

✅ How he kept the emotion and energy in the business as it grew to dizzying heights

✅ Building the soul of the business by focusing on the things that count and profit will come, and

✅ The difference between givers and takers.

Deal hope,

Greg

• Cass Spies, Founder & CEO of Twisted Healthy Treats, on being nimble, promoting from within, and winning globally

• Vince Lebon, CEO and Founder of Rollie Nation, on streamlining systems, scaling up and business rhythm

• Julie Mathers, Founder of Flora & Fauna and CEO of Snuggle Hunny, on being adventurous, bootstrapping a business, and first-mover advantage

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👍 Follow Chief Maker on LinkedIn

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"The truth is, these 5 traits are disappointingly quite uncommon amongst leadership teams, but if you follow them, you will be closer to outsmarting the competition."

Chief, in today's minisode, I'm going to discuss five leadership lessons from a powerhouse executive team with whom I have worked for around five years.

Having played just a small part in their journey, I wanted to share with you five traits that each of us can take from this group.

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Greg

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"There's no faster way to learn than to do. And the beauty of VR is that it allows you to learn through experience without the physical or emotional risk."

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

This Mini Chief episode features Angus Stevens, Co-Founder and CEO of Start Beyond.

His full episode is titled Taking learning by experience to new frontiers, putting guardrails on innovation, and creating useful technology for tangible real-world problems.

You can find the full audio and show notes here:

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Angus is the CEO and Co-Founder of VR and AR studio, Start Beyond, which was named in the Top 10 2023 AFR Most Innovative Tech Companies as well as in the Top 20 Australian Startup Employers.

They've delivered more than 1.2million AR and VR learning experiences and work with the likes of Accenture and Meta, as well as US-based VR software giant, Strivr, and Australian companies like Westpac, University of Technology Sydney, St John's Ambulance, and Woolworths.

Angus started out in writing, directing and producing television, documentaries, theatre and short films for Southern Cross Austereo and Nova, working with artists such as Bob Geldof, Ed Sheeran, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Taylor Swift.

He was named a 2023 Australian Top 50 Small Business Leader, and is the Chair and Co-Founder of the Australian Metaverse Advisory Council (AMAC), and is also a recent first-time author, having released Viewer Discretion Advised in 2023.

In the full episode we talk about:

✅ The pioneering work he did in radio a decade ago by bringing a visual element to a live broadcast

✅ Recognising when to act on the tension between gaining enough experience and launching his own business

✅ How he has taken learning by experience to stratospheric heights while putting guardrails on innovation, and

✅ His thoughts on where education is going to be in 10 years' time.

Deal hope,

Greg

Thanks to Sam Dybac and her team at The PR Hub for introducing us to Angus.

You can connect with Angus via LinkedIn and the Start Beyond website.

• Viewer Discretion Advised - by Angus Stevens

• Mark John, Founder & CEO of frntlne, on Partnering with the world's top performers and business people, what a leader's natural state is, and feeling lucky every day

• Dr Lia DiBello Ph.D on debunking the 10,000 hour mastery rule through accelerated learning, and how this will drastically improve business outcomes

• Minisode by Greg Layton - Choosing the right course or program to boost your career

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"One of the great pitfalls is that we just throw them in the deep end and assume they're going to swim. And when they fail, we say, oh well, they just weren't up to it."

Chief, in today's minisode and YouTube video, I'm going to dive into some reasons for why so many people struggle with the shift from a technical, hands-on role into a leadership role, and how you as their leader can ensure a more smooth transition.

The reality is that a lot of leaders are promoted based on their technical abilities and not so much on their leadership capabilities, the misconception being that you 'earn your stripes' through being hands-on and experienced. This approach so often leads to poor outcomes and staff turnover, and for the promoted person feeling hopelessly out of their depth.

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So today, Chief, we're going to talk about:

✅ Why technical staff land up being poor fits for strategic and leadership roles

✅ The Professional Excellence Framework known as the Chief Maker GREAT Method, and

✅ How to help your leaders and up-and-coming management avoid the poor performance and isolation that often comes with not supporting this role transition.

Deal hope,

Greg

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"If you can simulate a problem by removing all of the normal, easy, well-travelled roads, then you're forcing yourself to be truly creative in getting to the end result."

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

This Mini Chief episode features Roland Frasier, CEO of All Channels Media.

His full episode is titled Pulling off creative business deals with no money down, and modelling your mentors.

You can find the full audio and show notes here:

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At the time of our conversation in 2018, Roland was the CEO of War Room Mastermind.

He is currently the CEO of All Media Channels, and is also a Principal in DigitalMarketer.com, The Scalable Company, EPIC Network and Traffic & Conversion Summit.

Roland is the co-founder and/or principal of multiple Inc. Magazine fastest growing companies (e-commerce, e-learning and SaaS) and a serial entrepreneur who has founded, scaled or sold almost two dozen different businesses ranging from consumer products to industrial machine manufacturing companies with adjusted sales ranging from $3 million to $337 million.

His expertise covers digitally-centric customer acquisition, activation, referral, retention, revenue and growth strategies and plan implementation and he is a guru in the art of the deal. He is also one of the most humble and generous chiefs you'll ever meet.

In the full episode we talk about:

✅ How to buy property and businesses for no money down

✅ Infusing creativity into business deals and structuring deals even if you are a full-time employee

✅ What made his mastermind, The War Room, such a winning program, and

✅ The lineage of his learning way back to the greats like Milton Erickson, John Grinder and Richard Bandler..

Deal hope,

Greg

You can connect with Roland via LinkedIn, his podcast or his website.

• Business Wealth Without Risk - by Roland Frasier and Jay Abraham

• Nothing Down - by Robert Allan

• The Psychology of Winning (Audiobook) - by Denis Waitley

• Unlimited Power - by Tony Robbins

• The works of Milton H Erickson

• Measure What Matters - by John Doerr

• High Output Management - by Andy Grove

• Uncommon Therapy - by Jay Haley

• The 4 Disciplines of Execution - by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling

• Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It - by Kamal Ravikant

• Rebirth - by Kamal Ravikant

• Jay Abraham, Founder and CEO of The Abraham Group on How to achieve business wealth without risk through acquisition and the most powerful marketing strategies in the world

• Bushy Martin, CEO of KnowHow Property on playing the long game and living a life by design not default

• Joel Holland, CEO of Harvest Hosts on Buying versus building a business

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"There's no faster way to learn than to do. And the beauty of VR is that it allows you to learn through experience without the physical or emotional risk."

In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Angus Stevens, Co-Founder and CEO of Start Beyond on taking learning by experience to new frontiers, putting guardrails on innovation, and creating useful technology for tangible real-world problems.

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Angus is the CEO and Co-Founder of VR and AR studio, Start Beyond, which was named in the Top 10 2023 AFR Most Innovative Tech Companies as well as in the Top 20 Australian Startup Employers.

They've delivered more than 1.2million AR and VR learning experiences and work with the likes of Accenture and Meta, as well as US-based VR software giant, Strivr, and Australian companies like Westpac, University of Technology Sydney, St John's Ambulance, and Woolworths.

Angus started out in writing, directing and producing television, documentaries, theatre and short films for Southern Cross Austereo and Nova, working with artists such as Bob Geldof, Ed Sheeran, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Taylor Swift.

He was named a 2023 Australian Top 50 Small Business Leader, and is the Chair and Co-Founder of the Australian Metaverse Advisory Council (AMAC), and is also a recent first-time author, having released Viewer Discretion Advised in 2023.

In this episode we talk about:

✅ The pioneering work he did in radio a decade ago by bringing a visual element to a live broadcast

✅ Recognising when to act on the tension between gaining enough experience and launching his own business

✅ How he has taken learning by experience to stratospheric heights while putting guardrails on innovation, and

✅ His thoughts on where education is going to be in 10 years' time.

Deal hope,

Greg

Thanks to Sam Dybac and her team at The PR Hub for introducing us to Angus.

You can connect with Angus via LinkedIn and the Start Beyond website.

• Viewer Discretion Advised - by Angus Stevens

• Mark John, Founder & CEO of frntlne, on Partnering with the world's top performers and business people, what a leader's natural state is, and feeling lucky every day

• Dr Lia DiBello Ph.D on debunking the 10,000 hour mastery rule through accelerated learning, and how this will drastically improve business outcomes

• Minisode by Greg Layton - Choosing the right course or program to boost your career

📝 Subscribe to the Finish Strong monthly newsletter and podcast drops

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🎓 Take one of the Chief Maker Academy courses

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"My mother has this wonderful saying: Tell the time, don't build the clock. Many of us are clock builders when we communicate, but if we can structure our messages to be concise and clear, we can be much better communicators in any situation."

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

This Mini Chief episode features Matt Abrahams, author of 'Think Faster, Talk Smarter'.

His full episode is titled Managing your reputation before you enter a room, thinking on your feet, and getting to the point.

You can find the full audio and show notes here:

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Matt is a leading expert in communication with decades of experience as an educator, author, podcast host, and coach.

As a Lecturer in Organizational Behavior at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, he teaches popular classes in strategic communication and effective virtual presenting.

Matt is also a sought-after keynote speaker and communication consultant. He has helped countless presenters improve and hone their communication, including some who have delivered IPO roadshows as well as TED, World Economic Forum, and Nobel Prize presentations.

He is the author of Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot and his previous book, Speaking Up without Freaking Out: 50 Techniques for Confident and Compelling Presenting has helped thousands of people manage speaking anxiety and present more confidently and authentically.

In the full episode we talk about:

✅ How you can actively build your reputation and make great first impressions

✅ Why you need to train for spontaneous, on-the-spot conversations

✅ What martial arts has taught him about managing his physiology when communicating effectively

✅ His 6 step method to think faster and talk smarter, and

✅ A fool-proof way to construct the perfect email.

Deal hope,

Greg

You can connect with Matt via his website or LinkedIn.

• Think Faster, Talk Smarter - by Matt Abrahams

• Speaking Up without Freaking Out - by Matt Abrahams

• Roger Love, the World's #1 Celebrity Voice Coach, on teaching Bradley Cooper, Reese Witherspoon and The Beach Boys to use their voice to change the world

• Paul Jones on Getting cut through and building trust through your writing

• Minisode by Greg Layton - Meetings as a Performance Theatre

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"I believe that everything that you want to accomplish can be accomplished with mentoring, modelling and masterminding."

In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Roland Frasier, CEO of All Channels Media, on pulling off creative business deals with no money down, and modelling your mentors.

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DOWNLOAD THE CHIEF MAKER OPERATING RHYTHM HOW TO GUIDE AND PUT YOUR VISION AND MISSION INTO ACTION FAST: chiefmaker.com/operatingrhythm

At the time of our conversation in 2018, Roland was the CEO of War Room Mastermind.

He is currently the CEO of All Media Channels, and is also a Principal in DigitalMarketer.com, The Scalable Company, EPIC Network and Traffic & Conversion Summit.

Roland is the co-founder and/or principal of multiple Inc. Magazine fastest growing companies (e-commerce, e-learning and SaaS) and a serial entrepreneur who has founded, scaled or sold almost two dozen different businesses ranging from consumer products to industrial machine manufacturing companies with adjusted sales ranging from $3 million to $337 million.

His expertise covers digitally-centric customer acquisition, activation, referral, retention, revenue and growth strategies and plan implementation and he is a guru in the art of the deal. He is also one of the most humble and generous chiefs you'll ever meet.

In this episode we talk about:

✅ How to buy property and businesses for no money down

✅ Infusing creativity into business deals and structuring deals even if you are a full-time employee

✅ What made his mastermind, The War Room, such a winning program, and

✅ The lineage of his learning way back to the greats like Milton Erickson, John Grinder and Richard Bandler.

Deal hope,

Greg

You can connect with Roland via LinkedIn, his podcast or his website.

• Business Wealth Without Risk - by Roland Frasier and Jay Abraham

• Nothing Down - by Robert Allan

• The Psychology of Winning (Audiobook) - by Denis Waitley

• Unlimited Power - by Tony Robbins

• The works of Milton H Erickson

• Measure What Matters - by John Doerr

• High Output Management - by Andy Grove

• Uncommon Therapy - by Jay Haley

• The 4 Disciplines of Execution - by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling

• Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It - by Kamal Ravikant

• Rebirth - by Kamal Ravikant

• Jay Abraham, Founder and CEO of The Abraham Group on How to achieve business wealth without risk through acquisition and the most powerful marketing strategies in the world

• Bushy Martin, CEO of KnowHow Property on playing the long game and living a life by design not default

• Joel Holland, CEO of Harvest Hosts on Buying versus building a business

📝 Subscribe to the Finish Strong monthly newsletter and podcast drops

👍 Follow Chief Maker on LinkedIn

📈 Join the waitlist for the Chief Maker MiniMBA

🎓 Take one of the Chief Maker Academy courses

🍏 Give The Inner Chief podcast a 5-star rating on Apple Podcasts

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🎬 Subscribe to the Chief Maker YouTube channel

🤝 Connect with the Chief Maker