Breakfast Leadership Show
The Breakfast Leadership Show is a top 20 global podcast hosted by Michael D. Levitt. It features thought-provoking discussions with industry leaders, experts, and influencers, focusing on leadership, burnout prevention, workplace culture, and personal growth. The show provides listeners with actionable insights on improving productivity, fostering resilience, and enhancing well-being in both professional and personal life. Want to be a guest on the Breakfast Leadership Show? Send Michael Levitt a message on PodMatch here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/michaellevitt The Breakfast Leadership Show may include sponsored guest appearances, which means the guests may have provided financial compensation to participate in the podcast.
Episodes

Monday Dec 14, 2020
Interview with Rosalyn Palmer
Monday Dec 14, 2020
Monday Dec 14, 2020
Rosalyn Palmer is an award-winning Advanced Rapid Transformational Therapist, Clinical Hypnotherapist and Certified Coach. Rosalyn was one of the very first to train in RTT with Marisa Peer and has become one of the most sought-after RTT practitioners worldwide. Rosalyn was recently recognised at the ‘Janey Loves 2019 Platinum Awards’ with an award for her Trust Transformation package.
As bestselling author of the award-winning self-help book: ‘Reset! A Blueprint for a Better Life’, Rosalyn makes emotional wellbeing accessible to all. Rosalyn is also a co-author of Amazon No.1 bestselling self-help books ‘Ignite Your Life for Women’ and ‘Ignite Your Female Leadership’.
Rosalyn co-hosts the popular radio show Girls Around Town on Radio Newark (as the wellbeing expert), has a monthly newspaper column and features regularly on podcasts and in many publications, including most recently Psychology in Practice. She was featured as an Emotional Wellbeing Expert on the Janey Lee Grace show on UK Property Radio.
Formerly the MD/Founder of award-winning PR agency RPPR, Head of Marketing for an international charity and with an enviable CV from leading London agencies in the 80s and 90s, Rosalyn has grown from many challenging life experiences. This colour and tempers her writing, broadcasting and speaking.
Email:rosalyn@rosalynpalmer.com
Website:https://www.rosalynpalmer.com/
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Medium:https://medium.com/@RosalynPalmer
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Friday Dec 11, 2020
Interview with Johanna Lyman
Friday Dec 11, 2020
Friday Dec 11, 2020
Support the Breakfast Leadership Network! Burnout Proof Your Life Online Course. Enter the code NINETY at checkout, to save 90% off the course:https://breakfastleadership.teachable.com/p/burnout-proof-your-lifeHire Michael to speak at your event: https://BreakfastLeadership.com/speakingBuy 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+daysContribute on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bfastleadershipOr PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/bfastleadershipBreakfast Leadership Network Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/breakfast-leadership-networkLike, Rate and Review the Breakfast Leadership Show on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/breakfast-leadership/id1207338410------
Johanna Lyman (she/her or they/them) is the Principal Consultant and Practice Leader for Culture and Inclusion at Kadabra, a Silicon Valley based leadership and culture consultancy. She is a dynamic, energetic Leadership and Culture coach and consultant with nearly 30 years of experience of leadership development and culture change.
She is adept at combining coaching, training, and facilitation to help clients build sustainably profitable businesses while creating deep meaning in their work. She quickly establishes rapport and creates a container of psychological safety, belonging, and deep trust with her clients and their teams. She believes that inclusion and diversity should be seen as the natural outcomes of building great cultures.
Johanna is wife to the best husband on the planet, mother to an adult daughter, and dog-mom to Petey the Amazing Tripod.Go to www.wearekadabra.com to learn more. Do you want to know if you have a Brave Culture at your company? Go to www.ngo.sjleadershipcoach.com to find out.
https://linkedin.com/in/johannalyman

Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Interview with William Rhind
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Support the Breakfast Leadership Network! Burnout Proof Your Life Online Course. Enter the code NINETY at checkout, to save 90% off the course:https://breakfastleadership.teachable.com/p/burnout-proof-your-lifeHire Michael to speak at your event: https://BreakfastLeadership.com/speakingBuy 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+daysContribute on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bfastleadershipOr PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/bfastleadershipBreakfast Leadership Network Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/breakfast-leadership-networkLike, Rate and Review the Breakfast Leadership Show on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/breakfast-leadership/id1207338410------
William is the founder of Graniteshares, an independent exchange-traded fund built for investors seeking simple, cost-effective access to differentiated investments. GraniteShares is backed by leading fintech VCs such as Bain Capital Ventures and Clocktower Technologies. Rhind has built and managed businesses in the ETF market for nearly his entire career, and previously was CEO of World Gold Trust Services which is the largest commodity fund in the world.
https://www.graniteshares.com

Monday Dec 07, 2020
Interview with Brett Trembly
Monday Dec 07, 2020
Monday Dec 07, 2020
Support the Breakfast Leadership Network! Burnout Proof Your Life Online Course. Enter the code NINETY at checkout, to save 90% off the course:https://breakfastleadership.teachable.com/p/burnout-proof-your-lifeHire Michael to speak at your event: https://BreakfastLeadership.com/speakingBuy 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+daysContribute on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bfastleadershipOr PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/bfastleadershipBreakfast Leadership Network Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/breakfast-leadership-networkLike, Rate and Review the Breakfast Leadership Show on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/breakfast-leadership/id1207338410------
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www.getstaffedup.com/VIP for the discount Brett mentioned during the show

Friday Dec 04, 2020
Interview with Harry Stout
Friday Dec 04, 2020
Friday Dec 04, 2020
Support the Breakfast Leadership Network! Burnout Proof Your Life Online Course. Enter the code NINETY at checkout, to save 90% off the course:https://breakfastleadership.teachable.com/p/burnout-proof-your-lifeHire Michael to speak at your event: https://BreakfastLeadership.com/speakingBuy 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+daysContribute on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bfastleadershipOr PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/bfastleadershipBreakfast Leadership Network Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/breakfast-leadership-networkLike, Rate and Review the Breakfast Leadership Show on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/breakfast-leadership/id1207338410------
Harry N. Stout is a senior leader in the global financial services business with expertise in personal finance, life insurance, annuities, product innovation, and business management. He has over 30 years of financial services industry experience in the U.S. and abroad, working in Europe, Northern Asia, Africa, New Zealand, and Australia. He is a past director of the National Association for Fixed Annuities (NAFA), the Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association (LIMRA), the Financial Services Council of Australia, and the Insurance Marketplace Standards Association. He was a governance fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors from February 2014 to February of 2020.
His over 25 years of U.S. business experience includes serving as President of Voya’s U.S. Retail Annuity Business Group, where he directed the fixed, indexed, and variable annuity businesses. He spent over a decade with Fidelity & Guaranty Life Insurance Company where he served as Chief Executive Officer and President as well as holding key senior leadership roles for its parent companies USF&G Corporation, Travelers Corporation, and Old Mutual U.S. Holdings, Inc. He has also been a corporate officer or Board member of several financial advisory and insurance marketing organizations. Harry, a Certified Public Accountant by training, began his career in public accounting with KPMG where he spent 10 years working primarily with multi-national enterprises.
Harry’s experience also includes serving as Managing Director of Investments and Insurance with Australia and New Zealand Bank (ANZ), where he was based in Sydney and ran the Australian life insurance, investment, retirement services, general insurance and advice businesses for this large regional Australasian bank. During his time in Australia, he was also Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ING’s Australian insurance, advice, investment, and retirement services businesses.
Harry is a nationally known speaker and author on personal financial management, life insurance protection, and later in life saving and income planning using insurance products.
https://www.financialverse.com/the-author

Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
Featured Interview with Peter C. Mitchell
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
For years you have passed them on the streets, as much a part of your routine as your morning shower, your half-hearted scan of the world's news — fake or otherwise — and the barista who artistically crafts the £4 cappuccino with soya milk, three drops of vanilla, and a flutter of chocolate sprinkles that has to be made just right or it throws your day off in ways that nobody else understands.
You see them as often as you see your own family. The disenfranchised. The rough sleepers. The homeless. Camped out and befouling the sidewalks and alleyways of your daily commute, their worldly possessions, such as they are, spread around them —as dirty and worn out as the sleepers themselves, but as valuable to them as your £100 brogues are to you.
Occasionally you get the urge to throw some loose change at them as a gesture of magnanimous humanity, but when push comes to shove you would rather tip the honest, hard-working barista who ensures your day gets off to a proper start. Better to support the successful rather than throw good money after bad trying to keep the great unwashed afloat.
You have conditioned yourself to look through them – allowing your eyes to pass over them without actually seeing them. A defeated acceptance of lives gone wrong; uncomfortable reminders of what can happen when the best laid plans of mice and men go horribly awry. "Thank god I'm not like them," you think, sipping your £4 cup of liquid gold. "I could never let that happen to me."
Until suddenly – inexplicably – it does. And you discover the life you have built was nothing more than a house of cards that crashed down around you with frightening ease. A spate of bad luck, a poor decision or two, and the ubiquitous 'circumstances beyond your control' conspire to create a perfect storm of events that leaves you cast away on the streets feeling dazed, disjointed, and damned.
This is Peter C. Mitchell's story. But it could be your story. Not to mention the thousands of others, past and present, that have found themselves broken behind closed charity doors. Theirs are the stories that need to be heard. To be read.
Peter's book: https://www.amazon.com/Awakenings-Sleeping-Rough-Peter-Mitchell-ebook/dp/B08NRKWLS9/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Rude+Awakenings+from+Sleeping+Rough&qid=1606919380&sr=8-1
Investigating a story on Corporate Social Responsibility inspired me to look beyond profit margins and PR into the very real problems faced by society. This interest motivated me to begin research for “A Knight in the Slums,” a biography of my great, great grandfather, Sir John Kirk.As Secretary of The Ragged School Union, John championed the causes of children, the disabled, and the working poor in Victorian-era London. His influence extended beyond the city limits, and his life proved more interesting than previous biographies revealed. Dust-buried references have surfaced in the most obscure locales, showing the consequences—both good and bad—to the ragged and crippled children John Kirk devoted his life to helping.In 2017, I returned to London to complete my work. The past was ready to be mined; the future, bright. The present, however, took an unpredictable -and darkly ironic—turn.A series of unfortunate events transpired, creating a perfect storm of calamities leaving me penniless and sleeping rough. I had unwittingly fallen victim to the same societal ailments John Kirk fought. That nightmare inadvertently provided me with an inside look into the current workings of these same systems -put in place over a century ago. That experience frightened me more than the horrors of homelessness itself.Armed with the scars of this unexpected, but disturbingly relevant, knowledge I continue to work on “A Knight in the Slums” with renewed insight. John Kirk created solutions over 100 years ago that are still in play today. Times have changed; yet the solutions have stagnated, and proven to not be solutions, but mechanisms that perpetuate the cycle of poverty: a Hell’s Carousel funded by well-meant individuals and institutions blinded by the brand of “charity.” New systems need to be developed; new solutions need to be found.By better analyzing the past, "A Knight in the Slums" will serve as a springboard to create a better future.
Peter C. Mitchell
LinkedIn
A Knight in the Slums
In Someone Else's Shoes
How It Feels to be Homeless (Huffington Post)

Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
Interview with Dr. Travis Perry
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
Support the Breakfast Leadership Network! Burnout Proof Your Life Online Course. Enter the code NINETY at checkout, to save 90% off the course:https://breakfastleadership.teachable.com/p/burnout-proof-your-lifeHire Michael to speak at your event: https://BreakfastLeadership.com/speakingBuy 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+daysContribute on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bfastleadershipOr PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/bfastleadershipBreakfast Leadership Network Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/breakfast-leadership-networkLike, Rate and Review the Breakfast Leadership Show on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/breakfast-leadership/id1207338410------
Dr. Travis G. Parry is the founder of the Make Time Institute, where they help financial professionals and business owners achieve work/life balance.
What’s unique about Travis, though, is that he spent nearly a decade working as a financial advisor as well and living firsthand the challenges of balancing the demands of an advisory firm with the needs of his family and home life before going back to school to earn a Ph.D. in family relations and human development and to study what it really takes to achieve a better work-life balance.
Most recently he published ‘Achieving Balance’ which is all about making time to achieve business and personal goals in an overworked world.
Dr. Perry shares advice on how to really achieve a better work-life balance and mythics around it. He is also open to all things time-management and productivity.

Monday Nov 30, 2020
Interview with JB Steenkamp
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Support the Breakfast Leadership Network! Burnout Proof Your Life Online Course. Enter the code NINETY at checkout, to save 90% off the course:https://breakfastleadership.teachable.com/p/burnout-proof-your-lifeHire Michael to speak at your event: https://BreakfastLeadership.com/speakingBuy 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+daysContribute on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bfastleadershipOr PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/bfastleadershipBreakfast Leadership Network Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/breakfast-leadership-networkLike, Rate and Review the Breakfast Leadership Show on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/breakfast-leadership/id1207338410------
Jan-Benedict (“JB”) Steenkamp grew up in Amsterdam in the Netherlands with two older brothers and a passion for history. His parents instilled in him the values of hard work and taking responsibility. My greatest mentor on everything concerning leadership was my late father, who was a businessman, dean at a technical university and a leading politician. My father took his leadership cues from historical leaders and before I was even a teenager, he spent his (admittedly limited) spare time explaining to me what we can learn from historical figures.
JB began his career as an assistant professor of Marketing at a university in the Netherlands. He held leadership positions in a political party, three universities in the Netherlands, and Belgium, and professional organizations before being hired as chairman of the marketing department by the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School in 2006, a position he held for 12 years. During his stint as chairman, the global ranking of the marketing improved from #24 to #7. In 2016, he became an American citizen.
JB has written several business cases on inspired leadership. He felt the urge to write a book on leadership, in which he combined his passion for history, his marketing knowledge, and his leadership knowledge and experience. The book’s title is Time to Lead: Lessons for Today’s Leaders from Bold Decisions that Changed History. It will appear on September 15. In today’s time of global crisis and obvious lack of faith in leaders at all levels, more than ever, we need to – and can – learn from the great men and women in the recent and more distant past, who often faced much greater challenges. As The Economist wrote a little while ago: “Those who have passed through the fire surely have something to teach modern-day managers.”
JB is Knox Massey Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and co-founder and Executive Director of AiMark, a non-profit institute that bridges the world between academia and practice, and has helped countless academics to do work that actually matters to business. He has given executive seminars and guest lectures on all continents and to a multitude of organizations including the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. He shares leadership insights and articles as a LinkedIn Influencer, featured speaker, and on his own website.
JB currently lives in Chapel Hill with his wife Valarie. They have four kids scattered throughout the world and three grandchildren.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-benedict-steenkamp-bb535ab/