• Chef Life Radio: Strategies to Empower Culinary Leadership for Success, Sanity, and Satisfaction in the Culinary Industry

  • By: Adam M Lamb
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Chef Life Radio: Strategies to Empower Culinary Leadership for Success, Sanity, and Satisfaction in the Culinary Industry

By: Adam M Lamb
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  • Welcome to Chef Life Radio, your go-to podcast for chefs looking to thrive in the kitchen and beyond. Empowering chefs with the tools and strategies they need to succeed in their culinary careers while maintaining their sanity and cultivating effective leadership skills. I'm your host, Chef Adam Lamb, your Culinary Career Coach. Join me as we explore practical strategies for success, from enhancing emotional intelligence and communication to building collaborative teams and fostering a positive kitchen culture. Whether you're a seasoned chef or just starting in the industry, Chef Life Radio offers valuable insights and perspectives to support you in achieving your culinary career goals and reclaiming your passion, purpose, and process in the kitchen. In each episode, I address reducing turnover, increasing staff retention, maximizing team performance, creating sustainable kitchen cultures, and balancing work-life commitments. Through actionable advice, Chef Life Radio provides the inspiration and guidance you need to unlock your full potential as a culinary leader. If you’ve been asking yourself questions like: - How can I reduce turnover in my kitchen staff? - What strategies can I implement to increase staff retention? - How can I maximize my team's performance in the kitchen? - What steps can I take to create a sustainable culinary culture within my business? - How can I foster a regenerative environment in my kitchen? - What practices can I adopt to promote equity among my culinary team? - Can I balance sustainability with profitability in the culinary industry? - How can I address issues of burnout and improve the overall well-being of my staff? - What role does leadership play in creating a positive culinary culture? - How can I ensure that my business contributes positively to the community and the environment? Then Chef Life Radio is for you. You can expect to learn the critical human skills for: - Improved kitchen efficiency and productivity. - Enhanced team collaboration and morale. - Higher quality culinary creations and innovative dishes. - Increased customer satisfaction and loyalty. - Greater personal fulfillment and career success for the chefs themselves. Ready to take your culinary career to the next level? Chef Life Radio is the top resource for chefs seeking professional excellence and personal fulfillment in their culinary careers. Are you ready to light the spark and reclaim your passion, purpose, and process? Subscribe to Chef Life Radio today and enjoy success, sanity, and satisfaction in your culinary career wherever you get your podcasts.
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Episodes
  • 102: Holiday Hell 2016
    May 4 2021

    The last table is served, the station is broken down – everything’s labeled and put away; inventory is complete and now it’s time to meet me on the back dock, where all the important meetings are held.

    Take a deep breath and enjoy a job well one

    Now it's just between us.

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    1 hr and 22 mins
  • 103: Shawn Wenner on Entrepreneurship
    May 4 2021

    1.) “Wherever we are, whatever we’re doing and wherever we are going, we owe it to ourselves, to our art, to the world to do it well.”

    2.) “To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.”

    3.) “It is well and good to opine or theorize about a subject, as humankind is wont to do, but when moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.”




    A little later in the show, we’ll be talking to Shawn Wenner – publisher of Entrepreneurial Chef Magazine so I thought I would read from the piece that he and his staff were kind enough to include in last month’s issue.


    By the way, Shawn is offering a free subscription for an entire year exclusively to listeners of Chef Life Radio. The link and the discount code are in the show notes.


    What to Do, When You Doubt


    “In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.” — Seneca


    As a man, husband, father, chef and entrepreneur I have had my fair share of setbacks, failures and disappointments. I remember all too well the several dishes I was so proud of which didn’t sell or the restaurant I took over in Marblehead Massachusetts that six months later was shuttered because the original owner had a tax debt that couldn’t be renegotiated or wished away.


    Often the memories, when I, my team or my operation have come up short, are more real, visceral, and annoyingly present than the successes we’ve enjoyed. Is there ever a time when you think about what you could have done differently to change the outcome of ‘X’? Maybe it was a stage, an interview, a job change, or a business that you started? My failures can sometimes be quite mesmerizing, haunting my actions and forming my perceptions in the now; causing me to mutter a mantra-like, ‘this time I’m gonna get it right’.


    I consider myself essentially an optimist; what other label could apply to someone who has been married and divorced three times? If I am honest with myself I must also admit that there are times when I doubt. Sometimes that doubt can turn into an impediment to progress; it can stay my hand and have me questioning my decisions.


    Nothing is so dangerous as doubt if it has us second-guessing our essential mission. If that is true, then it must also be true that doubt can also serve as a catalyst for change and evolution, forcing us to reconsider the mechanism for our vision. The trick is not to get stuck in the doubt and let it become a mental circle jerk, undermining the ‘why’ of what we do.


    In moments when I doubt, I take heart in the realization that certainty is for fools and wisdom comes from a consistent evaluation of goals and the path with which we achieve them. There may be many trails up the mountain but the summit remains the destination.


    "The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." — Marcus Aurelius

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • 104: Master Butcher Kari Underly
    May 4 2021

    We visit Master Butcher Katri Underly and find out, even in Chicago, why family farms and ranches are so critical for our supply chain.

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    1 hr and 58 mins

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Best Hospitality podcast out there!

A must listen for anyone in the hospitality industry. It will bring you back to loving what we do.

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