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Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

February 12, 2025By Trevor BlondeelBook Reviews, Leadership
Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success | Darcy Luoma, 2021 What’s It All About? Do you want to change how you show up and impact your team? It starts with intentionality—and to bring more intentionality to your team, you need to be mentally fit! But if you’re a busy manufacturing leader, … Read More

Deliberate Creative Teams: How To Lead For Innovative Results

January 28, 2025By Trevor BlondeelBook Reviews, Leadership
Deliberate Creative Teams: How To Lead For Innovative Results

Deliberate Creative Teams: How To Lead For Innovative Results | Dr. Amy Climer, January 2025 What’s It All About? Does creativity have a role on the manufacturing floor? While you might not associate creativity with the technical world of manufacturing, Dr. Amy Climer’s Deliberate Creative Teams: How to Lead for Innovative Results is here to … Read More

Death By Comfort: How Modern Life is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It

December 15, 2024By Trevor BlondeelBook Reviews, Leadership
Death By Comfort: How Modern Life is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It

Death By Comfort: How Modern Life is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It | Paul Taylor, 2023 What’s It All About? What a title! I love when you can tell what a book is about just by the first few words in the title, and the message of Paul Taylor’s Death by … Read More

The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact

November 6, 2024By Trevor BlondeelBook Reviews, Leadership
The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact

The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact | Chip Heath & Dan Heath, 2017 What’s It All About? If you ask me to think of “memorable moments,” two experiences pop into my mind. One is when I was driving and a large raccoon scuttled out of a ditch and into my path, … Read More

Lessons From The Drive Thru: Real Life Wisdom for Frontline Leaders

October 17, 2024By Trevor BlondeelBook Reviews, Leadership
Lessons From The Drive Thru: Real Life Wisdom for Frontline Leaders

Lessons From The Drive Thru: Real Life Wisdom for Frontline Leaders | Monica Rothgery, 2024 What’s It All About? What does a Taco Bell drive-thru have to do with manufacturing? When it comes to connecting the top to the shop, a drive thru and a manufacturing floor actually have a lot in common! In her … Read More

The Reset Mindset: How to Get Unstuck, Focus on What Matters Most, and Reach Your Goals Faster

September 3, 2024By Trevor BlondeelBook Reviews, Leadership
The Reset Mindset: How to Get Unstuck, Focus on What Matters Most, and Reach Your Goals Faster

The Reset Mindset: How to Get Unstuck, Focus on What Matters Most, and Reach Your Goals Faster | Penny Zenker, 2024 What’s It All About? In a fast-paced industry like manufacturing, focus and clarity are key. In her new book The Resent Mindset: How to Get Unstruck, Focus on What Matter Most, and Reach Your … Read More

The 6 Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team

August 4, 2024By Trevor BlondeelBook Reviews, Leadership
The 6 Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team

The 6 Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team | Patrick Lencioni, 2022 What’s It All About? We all have something at work that brings us joy and energy… and on the flip side, we all have work tasks that make us feel frustrated and burnt-out. … Read More

The Time To Win: How to Exceed Customers’ Need for Speed

July 3, 2024By Trevor BlondeelBook Reviews, Leadership
The Time To Win: How to Exceed Customers’ Need for Speed

The Time To Win: How to Exceed Customers’ Need for Speed | Jay Baer, 2024 What’s It All About? We all only have so much time available to us, and how we spent our valuable time is more important than ever. In The Time to Win: How to Exceed Customers’ Need for Speed, Jay Baer … Read More

The High-Impact Manager: Your Blueprint for Bringing Out the Best in Your Team

June 3, 2024By Trevor BlondeelBook Reviews, Leadership
The High-Impact Manager: Your Blueprint for Bringing Out the Best in Your Team

The High-Impact Manager: Your Blueprint for Bringing Out the Best in Your Team . | Justin Patton, 2024 What’s It All About? On our website, we don’t often review multiple books by the same author… but when we do, you know it means we’ve struck gold! This is the case with Justin Patton, who wrote The … Read More

Unleash Your Primal Brain: Demystifying How We Think and Why We Act.

May 10, 2024By Trevor BlondeelBook Reviews, Leadership
Unleash Your Primal Brain: Demystifying How We Think and Why We Act.

Unleash Your Primal Brain: Demystifying How We Think and Why We Act. | Tim Ash, 2021 What’s It All About? Understanding the past plays a powerful role in how we evolve, think, and behave. How can we learn more about our past and harness that information to improve the way we think and act? Find … Read More

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Our show is about providing listeners with real stories that come from a place of experience, transparency, and authenticity. Most importantly it’s about what we learn from these stories and applying Mindfulness in our everyday work and personal lives.
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157 Better Teams, Better Outcomes: Manufacturing Leadership Through Deeper Conversations with Reggie Davis
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Strong manufacturing leadership isn’t just about process improvement or hitting production targets. It’s about how we show up for people on the shop floor—and if you’re ready to transform your leadership and change how you show up for your team, the first step is leaning into discomfort.

Learn more with guest Reggie Davis, the founder of UpLift Coaching and Consulting and the author of Better Together: Embracing the Discomfort of Difference. With over two decades of leadership experience, Reggie helps people navigate the hard-but-necessary conversations they need to forge lasting connections and drive deeper change. In this episode, Reggie explores how leaning into tough conversations can strengthen manufacturing culture, team engagement, and employee retention. He also shares practical insights on coaching in manufacturing, building psychological safety, and developing stronger frontline leadership habits that drive both performance and trust.

From plant managers to supervisors, anyone responsible for production leadership or safety culture will take away new ways to improve communication, foster accountability, and create a more connected workplace where better people create better parts.

1:15 – Inclusive leadership and authentic communication improves teamwork, safety, and innovation 3:21 – Discomfort can be a valuable tool for growth 4:33 – Better people create better parts 5:19 – Great leaders focus on results and relationships 6:22 – When you welcome diverse perspectives, you drive teamwork and improve your processes 8:09 – For better conversations, replace “why” with “tell me more.” 13:50 – Be aware of how everyday language impacts morale and inclusion on the plant floor 17:30 – Invest in your people through coaching, frontline leadership, and communication training 19:31 – Stay focused on growth, even when the path is uncomfortable 20:40 – Conversations and self-awareness are key to sustainable manufacturing innovation 22:06 – To drive continuous improvement culture, lead with humility and openness 26:39 – Always remember the human side of manufacturing excellence to build trust, reduce turnover, and create a stronger sense of belonging across teams

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156 Manufacturing Teamwork and Accountability: Leading with the Thermostat Mindset with Sheri Holt
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155 Culture Improvement Starts with Self-Awareness in Leadership with Anne Bonney
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154 Break the Blame Cycle: Approaches to Solving Problems with Maggie Harlow
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153 Closing the Generational Gap: What Manufacturing Leaders Must Get Right Now with Michelle McCullough
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152 Why Your Team Lacks Motivation and How You Can Improve It with Jim Pancero
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151 You Think People Don’t Want to Work in Manufacturing? You’re Asking the Wrong Questions with Chad Littlefield
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150 Lessons from the Pentagon: Commanding Our Chaos with Angela Billings
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149 No Manual for Leadership: Building Loyalty, One Story at a Time with David Semersheim
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148 Keep Talent, Crush Risks: The Power of Transparent Accountability with Christopher Santomassimo
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