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Restaurant Leadership Podcast: Overcome Burnout, Embrace Freedom, and Drive GrowthAuthor: Christin Marvin
Welcome to the Restaurant Leadership Podcast, the show that teaches you how to overcome burnout, embrace freedom, and drive growthYour host, Christin Marvin, of Solutions by Christin.With over two decades of extensive experience in hospitality leadership, Christin Marvin has successfully managed a diverse range of concepts, encompassing fine dining and high-volume brunch. She has now established her own coaching and consulting firm, collaborating with organizations to accelerate internal leadership development to increase retention and thrive.Each week, Christin brings you content and conversation to make you a more effective leader. This includes tips, tricks and REAL stories from REAL people that have inspired her-discussing their successes, challenges and personal transformation. This podcast is a community of support to inspire YOU on YOUR unique leadership journey. This podcast will help you answer the following questions:1. How do I increase my confidence?2. How do I accelerate my leadership?3. How do I lower my stress as a leader?4. How do I prevent burnout?5. How do I improve my mental health?So join the conversation and listen in each week on spotify and apple podcasts and follow Christin on LinkedIn.Voice Over, Mixing and Mastering Credits:L. Connor Voice - LConnorvoice@gmail.comLconnorvoice.comArtwork by Solstice Photography, Tucson, AZ. https://solsticephotography70.pixieset.com/ Language: en-us Genres: Business, Careers, Management Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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112: Turn Reactive Operators into Intentional CEOs
Episode 112
Monday, 13 April, 2026
Most multi-unit restaurant operators don’t have a growth problem, they have a focus problem. When your leadership team doesn’t know what matters most for the next 90 days, everything turns into a fire, your ops meetings drift into venting, and you become the decision bottleneck for every location. We walk through the most underused tool in a multi-unit operator’s arsenal: the quarterly planning meeting, and why it’s often the difference between a restaurant group that scales and one that stalls. We share what a great quarterly planning meeting looks like in the real world, including how to start with an intentional check-in that builds trust, how to review the prior quarter using wins, losses, P&L, guest feedback, and a simple scorecard, and how to spot trends your team keeps repeating without connecting the dots. From there, we get into the part most teams skip: true problem identification that goes beyond symptoms, so you stop putting band-aids on issues and start fixing root causes across people, process, and profit. Everything we talked about in today's episode — the systems, the leadership structure, the framework that makes quarterly planning actually work — it all lives inside the Independent Restaurant Framework. Want the full blueprint? Pick up your copy of Multi-Unit Mastery at IRFbook.com. This is the book I wish every multi-unit operator had in their hands before they started scaling.P.S. Ready to take your restaurant to the next level? Get the Independent Restaurant Framework that's helped countless owners build thriving multi-location brands. Grab your copy at https://www.IRFbook.comHere is my calendar link so you can book time with me: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/bookings/christin-marvin-personal-calendar-r1jjarmnwPodcast Production: https://www.lconnorvoice.com/











