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248 | Chef Dean Harrison: Leave Your Ego on the Shore (opens the original)
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Chef Dean Harrison describes spending 14 years working as a yacht chef after starting in restaurants at age 15. He says he was drawn to yachting because it offered travel, better pay, and a different lifestyle than restaurants, rather than Michelin-star ambitions. He recalls an early dangerous crossing from Brisbane to Fiji on a 100-foot boat during a cyclone. The vessel lost stabilizers after the hydraulics overheated, the captain hand-steered for about 48 hours, and Harrison says he was sure t
247 | Gentle Pressure: How Chef Duane Keller Rebuilt a Kitchen Without Breaking His People (opens the original)
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"I like that it's hard. I just don't think it needs to be harsh." Chef Duane Keller spent a year turning around the kitchen at Bellmead Country Club in Thomson, Georgia — cutting cost of goods in half and nearly doubling sales — while running on a leadership philosophy he calls gentle pressure. This episode also brings in his sous chef Damon and general manager Josh Morris, so you get the same turnaround from three different seats in the room, and the answer to a much bigger question: what a yea
245 | Chef Keiona Jackson on the True Cost Resilience or Persistence (opens the original)
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Chef Keiona Jackson became the first African-American and first female executive chef in Oxford, Mississippi; then walked away from six figures and a kitchen she loved when her body finally said what her mouth wouldn't. This episode is for anyone who's ever been praised for their grit and never asked what that grit was actually costing them. ------------- Registration for the free monthly Leadership Lab is open — a live working space for chefs ready to lead without losing themselves — @ https://
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