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Your Preshift

Showing up human and leading with heart. Leadership is tough—especially on the frontlines of restaurants, retail, and fast-paced industries where the pressure is high, and the stakes are real. Your Preshift is your five to ten minute boost of insight, encouragement, and challenge to help you show up as a more human, more intentional leader. Whether you’re managing a team or leading yourself, this podcast equips you with actionable ideas to lead in truly human way. Tune in, open your heart, and

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14:58

Why Your Best People Are Getting Average Results

Your Preshift ·

2026/04/22

Why do talented leaders end up with average results?This episode looks at how systems, not people, usually cause the slide, rigid rules, busy work that doesn’t use your brain, and losing your say in how things run. It also gets into the shift happening right now with technology, where holding onto the old work can actually keep you stuck.The challenge is simple: step out of the “machine work” and get back to the part of leadership only a human can do.

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13:36

Hitting the number, missing the work

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2026/04/15

A seasoned restaurant leader shares a story from early in his career, when the pressure to hit numbers led him to game the system, not out of defiance, but because he didn’t actually understand what he was being asked to do. This episode unpacks how easily leaders can fall into the same trap, asking for results without creating understanding. When numbers become the focus, behavior starts bending to protect the metric instead of improving the work. Teams work harder, but not always better

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12:42

The Number Isn’t the Problem

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2026/04/08

In this episode of Your Preshift, Ryan challenges a common leadership habit, chasing numbers as if they’re the problem. Using the metaphor of trying to hold an inner tube underwater, he shows why pushing metrics only creates new issues somewhere else.The real shift is learning to see numbers as signals and symptoms, not causes. Every metric is the result of human behavior shaped by the environment leaders create.Through simple root cause thinking and the “5 Whys,” this episode helps leaders move

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13:52

Better for Your Time Here

Your Preshift ·

2026/04/01

In this Preshift, we talk about a simple question for every leader and organization: are people actually better off for having worked with you?This one is also a small tribute to Bob Chapman, whose work in Everybody Matters shaped how many of us think about leadership and human dignity at work. Bob believed the way we lead impacts the way people live, and that shows up most clearly in the day-to-day moments between a frontline leader and their team.We get into what that looks like in real life. Not

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14:15

When You Inherit a Mess

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2026/03/25

When you step into a struggling team or organization, it’s easy to focus on fixing the numbers. But most of the time, the numbers are just a reflection of something deeper, the beliefs, behaviors, and patterns that have taken root over time.In this episode, Ryan explores what it really means to lead a turnaround. Drawing on ideas from Spiral Dynamics and real-world examples like Barry-Wehmiller and Ford, we look at how leaders shift not just performance, but the way a team thinks, communicates, and

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14:41

What kind of organization are you growing?

Your Preshift ·

2026/03/18

Leaders don’t just lead differently, they see the world differently. And the way we see people shapes the kind of workplace we build around them.In this episode of Your Preshift, we explore a powerful question: What kind of organization are you growing?Drawing on the work of Frederic Laloux and the Spiral Dynamics framework, we walk through five common ways organizations operate: Red, Amber, Orange, Green, and Teal, and the leadership beliefs behind each one. From fear-driven environments to

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14:38

Rewind: Here Comes Help or Here Comes Trouble? (New...

Your Preshift ·

2026/03/11

How does your team feel when they see you coming? Do they breathe easier, or brace for impact?This episode takes a look at one of the truths of leadership: your presence, your reputation, arrives before your words do, and your team already has a reputation for you, whether you’ve named it or not.We explore how your internal view of leadership shapes the way you show up either from the “mechanic” mindset of correcting and tightening to the “gardener” mindset of teaching and growing. Then we break

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12:33

Why Leaders See the Same Situation Differently

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2026/03/04

Why do smart, well-intentioned leaders look at the same struggling team and come to completely different conclusions?In this opening episode, Ryan explores how leaders don’t just disagree on solutions, they disagree on what the actual problem is. One sees accountability. Another sees burnout. Another sees broken systems. Same facts. Different stories.Drawing on Spiral Dynamics and Karl Weick’s research on sensemaking, the episode unpacks how we don’t react to reality itself, we react to the story we

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14:10

Leadership is Locating Yourself

Your Preshift ·

2026/02/25

Leading people over time requires more than good intentions. It requires self-location.Before you recalibrate trust, adjust structure, or change your level of involvement, you have to know where you’re actually standing. Not on your best day. Not in theory. In pressure.This episode explores three mirrors that help you locate yourself as a leader over time: pressure, which reveals your reflex, repetition, which exposes the edge of your strengths, and your wake, which shows what your leadership

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14:43

Mistaking stability for effectiveness

Your Preshift ·

2026/02/18

In this episode, we look at a tension most frontline leaders deal with: stability versus effectiveness.Stability keeps stuff from falling apart and unfortunately become the goal. Leaders start protecting what’s steady instead of improving what’s possible. Standards get softened. Feedback gets delayed. Rescue replaces development. The team functions, but it doesn’t get better.This episode challenges you with two questions:What are you compromising to keep things stable?What are you willing to risk to

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14:47

The Leadership Trap of Familiarity

Your Preshift ·

2026/02/11

Familiarity sets in faster than most of us realize, and when it does, leadership effort drops. Expectations go unstated, involvement fades, and leaders start leading from old assumptions instead of present reality.Nothing is wrong. Performance often looks fine. But development stalls.In this episode, Ryan helps leaders spot when they’re on autopilot with people they know well, understand why trust without attention creates distance, and learn how to reopen familiar relationships with clarity,

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14:13

Why Your Brain Keeps Reusing Old Leadership

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2026/02/04

In this episode of Your Preshift, we explore why good leaders keep leading people the same way, even as those people change. Drawing from cognitive psychology and leadership research, the episode unpacks how the brain rewards familiarity and efficiency, quietly pushing leaders to reuse approaches that once worked instead of reassessing what’s needed now.You’ll learn why consistent performers often receive the least intentional leadership, how assumptions replace curiosity over time, and why

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11:24

Leading People Where They Are, Not Where They Used to Be

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2026/01/28

Leadership doesn’t stop working because people get worse. It stops working because the approach stops fitting.This episode challenges the idea that great leaders have a single leadership “style.” Instead, it makes the case that effective leadership adjusts as people grow and the work changes. When leaders stay fixed: friction and frustration follow.Using Trust, Structure, and Involvement alongside a healthy take on the 9-box, this episode helps leaders see where someone is right now and make small,

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14:41

Adjusting Your Leadership as People Grow

Your Preshift ·

2026/01/21

Most leaders don’t struggle with caring about development, they struggle with knowing how to adjust as people change.In this episode, we talk about a core issue in leadership development: binary thinking. Leaders are often taught to choose between trust or structure, involvement or empowerment, autonomy or accountability, when real development requires holding these together.This episode introduces a practical way to think more clearly about how people grow through the work, not outside of it

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12:34

Leading Over Time: How Leaders Develop People as They...

Your Preshift ·

2026/01/14

People development has become an industry. Programs, trainings, certifications, and frameworks promise growth, but most leaders don’t struggle with knowledge. They struggle with application. They’re leading real people, in real roles, under real pressure, where growth isn’t clean, linear, or predictable.In this opening episode of Leading Over Time, we talk about how development is relational. Over time, people become more like the leaders who lead them, not because of formal training, but because of

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13:36

Rewind: Inspiring Curiosity (New Episodes Next Week!)

Your Preshift ·

2026/01/07

Ryan will be back next week with a brand new series, but in the meantime, please enjoy a rewind of the final episode of our Fantastic Four of Frontline Leadership series, where we explore how curiosity keeps teams engaged, adaptive, and human. We unpack what healthy curiosity looks like, and how unhealthy curiosity can subtly erode trust. You’ll learn how curiosity is rooted in trust, agency, and hope, and why cultivating it makes leadership easier, not harder. We offer practical ways to model and

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14:55

Rewind: Buddy to Boss Series Recap

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2025/12/31

This episode is one of our most talked about and what so many new leaders feel but don't acknowledge out loud.The transition from peer to leader isn’t awkward because you’re not good at it, it’s awkward because your identity, relationships, responsibilities, and expectations are all shifting at once. In this final episode of theFrom Buddy to Bossseries, we pull together the most shaping ideas from each of those shifts and talk what actually helps leaders find their footing.You’ll hear why imposter

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15:15

Rewind: Inspiring Hope

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2025/12/24

This is our most-listened-to episode for a reason.Frontline leaders don’t need hype, they need something more eduring. This episode breaks downreal hope, not optimism or cheerleading, but the belief that the future can be better and that your actions matter in bringing it to life.You’ll hear why hope is a practical leadership skill, especially in hard seasons, and how it’s built through trust, agency, and honest conversations, not slogans. We explore how leaders can inspire hope without ignoring

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14:55

Here comes Help

Your Preshift ·

2025/12/17

When you walk into the room, your team expects what your presence brings.In this episode ofYour Preshift, we focus on what it means to be a“here comes help”leader, someone whose presence makes work clearer, steadier, and more doable.A “help” leader doesn’t rush in to fix or take over. They show up focused on people, not just tasks. They listen before deciding, bring context others don’t have, and use their authority to help bring clarity and insight instead of pressure.This episode explores how

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14:38

Here Comes Help…Or Here Comes Trouble?

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2025/12/10

How does your team feel when they see you coming? Do they breathe easier, or brace for impact?This episode takes a look at one of the truths of leadership:your presence arrives before your words do, and your team already has a reputation for you, whether you’ve named it or not.We explore how your internal view of leadership shapes the way you show up either from the “mechanic” mindset of correcting and tightening to the “gardener” mindset of teaching and growing. Then we break down some patterns

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