Welcome to another episode of The Blue Shirt Leadership Podcast! In today's interview, we dive deep into the world of entrepreneurship and business scaling with our special guest, Beate Chelette. Join us as Beate shares valuable insights on building a signature system and taking your business to new heights. Notable Quotes: "So you need to now really think through how you are, how you are going to take one customer and keep the customer for longer, over a longer period of time, for different...

Are you ready to build your personal brand and become a recognized authority in your field? In this episode of the Blue Shirt Leadership podcast, Kyle Gillette sits down with Dylan Vance, a two-time eight-figure founder and business speaker, to discuss the power of personal branding. Notable Quotes: "If your 'why' is strong enough and if you believe that it's not gonna be a two-week fix, you're gonna commit to it long term, anything is possible." "Here's something that can never be taken away...

Are you looking to become a better leader? In this episode, Kyle Gillette and Velma Knowles discuss the importance of serving with heart, influencing with purpose, and creating a sense of belonging for individuals. Velma introduces her acronym "SHIP" and Kyle shares the Blue Shirt Leadership Framework, both of which emphasize the importance of self-awareness, accountability, a growth mindset, and empowering others. Notable Quotes:  "Leadership is not about position, it's about...

Today's episode of The BLUE Shirt Leadership Podcast features Thad Frye, a licensed clinical social worker and certified brain spotting consultant who specializes in a somatic modality called brain spotting. Thad explains how brain spotting works and its benefits, and shares some stories of clients who have benefited from it. He talks about how brain spotting can help people overcome blocks in their personal and professional lives. I think you'll really enjoy today's episode. Notable...

In this episode of the BLUE Shirt Leadership Podcast, host Kyle interviews Barbara Sloan, author of "Tipped: The Life-Changing Guide to Financial Freedom for Waitresses, Bartenders, Strippers, and All Other Service Industry Professionals." They discuss the importance of an abundance mindset and creating boundaries around money for service industry professionals.  Notable Quotes: "Money comes easily and frequently." "Identity is very important to building an abundance mindset." "When you are...

In this podcast episode, Kyle Gillette, the host of the Blue Shirt Leadership Podcast, shares his personal experience with chronic pain and personal discipline, and how it relates to the Blue Shirt Framework for leadership. Notable Quotes: "This isn't about changing you, this is about shifting to a better version of you, the one that you're intended to be. That's why self-discipline is so powerful." "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." Show Notes: Chronic Pain Story...

In this episode of the Blue Shirt Leadership Podcast, host Kyle Gillette interviews Todd Miller, a financial expert who helps small businesses build credit. Miller shares his personal experience with business debt and explains how building business credit is crucial for small businesses to achieve financial success. He offers a seven-step process to build business credit, emphasizing the importance of building all three pillars of business credit equally. Miller also notes that building...

Joining us on the Blue Shirt Leadership Podcast is Chris Michel. Chris is the founder of Coach Chris Consulting and the author of The Red Chair Experience: Daily Inspiration for Success in Life and Business. He helps heal the self-inflicted sales harm that people do to prevent them from being more profitable and successful. Today he is going to share with us a few techniques to overcome sales stumbling blocks and avoid becoming too 'salesy.'    Sales Stumbling Blocks [00:01:09] Chris Michel...

In this episode of the Blue Shirt Leadership podcast, I had the pleasure of interviewing Juanita Kapp, a successful entrepreneur, public speaker, and martial artist. Juanita shares her insights on personal awareness, framing mindset for business success, and when to walk away from a business situation. Notable Quotes: "Our mindset is imperative in anything that we do." "I make sure the people I listen to are people that value me, that love me, that believe in my mission. And if there are...

In this episode of the Blue Shirt Leadership Podcast, we welcome Michelle Thompson. Michelle is an accomplished brand strategist and creative director with over 20 years of experience building market leader brands with Procter & Gamble and most recently with start-up companies through her company, BrandSpark. Today, Michelle shares valuable insights and tips on branding for businesses. She highlights the significance of conducting a brand audit, understanding customer feedback, and making...

Today's episode of The Blue Shirt Leadership Podcast features JM Ryerson, a bestselling author and performance and mindset coach. Kyle and JM discuss the significance of being your authentic self, having a mentor or coach, and affirmations in personal development. JM Ryerson emphasizes the importance of instilling a growth mindset in children from a young age and shares an example of how his son used affirmations to overcome bullying at school. The conversation also touches on self-limiting...

On today's episode of The Blue Shirt Leadership Podcast, Kyle speaks with LinkedIn expert Tracy Enos. She shares with us powerful insights on making the most of your LinkedIn Profile and the importance of business networking.  00:00-01:10 Kyle welcomes us to the Blue Shirt Leadership Podcast. He shares with us the meaning behind BLUE and how everything he does (running a business, coaching, this podcast, and even the rest of life) is influenced by the four key pillars of...

On today’s episode of the Blue Shirt Leadership Podcast, Kyle talks to Faith Wood, a communications and presentation specialist, about relationships that can get messy. If you are looking for someone to help you build a strong cohesive team and culture, develop responsive leadership practices, reduce conflict and unnecessary stress and help you overcome communication barriers,  Faith is the person to reach out to. Join us as Faith and Kyle discuss conflicts in the workplace, how your posture...

Welcome to today’s episode of the Blue Shirt Leadership Podcast. On today’s episode, we welcome back to the show Bill Lennan. Bill is a former mechanic, first responder, and tech solution developer. Currently, Bill is coaching people toward self-confidence by training them on their emotional operating system.   Notable Quotes on Becoming an Entrepreneur: “I started thinking about how to improve things. I always thought about how do I improve the business here. Where is the friction in the...

On today’s episode of The Blue Shirt Leadership Podcast, Kyle interviews guest Matt Shoup. After being laid off from his job, Matt started M & E Painting with just $100 and quickly built it into a multi-million dollar company. He has received dozens of state, national, and international business awards and has some fantastic insights to share with us today.    Notable Quotes: “Learn how to say no to people and learn how to say no to things.” “People are going to fail before they succeed...

On today’s episode of the Blue Shirt Leadership Podcast, we welcome guest George Brisker. After spending over 30 years in the corporate tech world, George now owns a handyman business. He talks about how the skills and lessons that he learned in the tech world made it possible for him to be where he is today. Join us now as we listen in on the conversation with Kyle and George.   Notable Quotes:   “You have to start figuring out what's more profitable for you: to be in the field and work in...

Today’s guest on The Blue Shirt Leadership Podcast is Ameet Khabra, founder of Hop Skip Media and expert on digital advertising and Google AdWords. Join us today as Ameet shares how she got into digital marketing and lets us in on three of the top things to focus on when considering Google ads and digital marketing.  Notable Quotes:   “The aim is to get as many leads for the lowest amount of money.”   “Having conversion tracking in place not only helps with our advertising efforts, but will...

Today’s guest on the Blue Shirt Leadership Podcast is Frank Agin. Frank is the founder of AmSpirit Business Connections, a speaker, and a consultant. He is passionate about empowering entrepreneurs, sales representatives and professionals around the country to become more successful through networking.    Today Frank and Kyle talk about the value of giving and making connections in business. They discuss the importance of relationship, of getting to know others, and of continually giving and...

In today’s podcast with guest Joe Rockey, Kyle and Joe discuss leadership based on the four principles of gaining knowledge, which include listening to your employees, being courageous, justice, and humility. They focus on trusting and empowering your employees, setting up systems so that your business can function without you being present, and how each of the four principles works together to make you a better leader.  Joe Rockey launched his first business from scratch at age 25, and over...

On today's podcast, Kyle talks about SMART goals and the best way to create these goals so you can set yourself up to be successful. He encourages listeners to use a 12-week timeframe and discusses why this is the perfect amount of time. Contact information can be found at the bottom of the show notes if you’d like to connect with Kyle. He would love to chat with you about your business and how together you can accomplish your goals.   Notable quotes:   “Get that story [of why you’re doing...

Today’s guest on the Blue Shirt Leadership Podcast is Jerry Macnamara. For 25 years, Jerry’s fearlessly positive approach to business led to massive success. He’s led five companies in five different industries in B2B and B2C and in both products and services. Jerry has been selected as Business Journal’s Ultimate CEO and Business Journal’s 40 under 40. He runs Proven Chaos, a company driven to help CEO’s create compelling companies that outperform…and still make it home for dinner. His...

In today’s podcast, Kyle Gillette interviews Bill Prater, renowned for providing commendable services to business owners and emerging entrepreneurs that help them break free of inertia and accelerate their journey to accomplishing all their goals and ambitions. He is also the owner of Scaleology and the Business Mastery System, which both equip entrepreneurs with the knowledge needed to grow their business models. Let's hear his inspiring story!   Things ARE going to go wrong, but...   Key...

Sometimes you know when it's time to make a shift. You know you've found your tribe and the people you can have the greatest impact on. Today, we get to do just that. It's not every day that you have the opportunity to shift gears and transition a podcast that has over 200 episodes!! Well, this week, we are doing exactly that. The podcast has also transitioned as the business has been rebranded to Blue Shirt Coaching.  What does this mean for our listeners? It means you will get amazing...

In today's episode of the SAGE Mindset Podcast, we dive in with Janet Granger on overcoming your leadership fears, setting your culture as you want it to be, and building business systems. Janet Granger speaks about the generational divide in the workplace and team building.  With over 25 years of marketing and strategy experience, she published Digital Influence for Baby Boomers: Why you should care, and yes, you can do this! (2016) and Ok Boomer! Revelations of a Baby Boomer Working with...