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S3E34 3 Ways to Lead Well When the Organization Around You Is a Hot Mess
You love what you do. You love the people around you. But the organization? Some days, it feels like it is actively working against you. The endless hours. The feeling of juggling fifty things while finishing none of...
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S3E33: What a Real Food Safety Foundation Looks Like for a Growing Small Business
In this episode of Real Talk, Catalyst Food Leaders co-founders Tia Glave and Jill Stuber sit down with someone we have worked with and genuinely love. Taylor Clarke founded Amborella Organics, a seed-bearing lollipop...
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S3E32 The Leadership Decision You Keep Putting Off Is Already Costing You
Every food leader has something they know they need to do. Develop themselves. Build their team. Fix their culture. And most of them have been meaning to do it for a while. In this episode of Real Talk, Catalyst Food...
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S3E31 From Burden to Solutions: What Food Safety Leadership Actually Requires
World Food Safety Day is June 7. But the conversation about what food safety leadership actually requires does not start on a single day. It starts when food safety professionals honestly ask themselves: Am I just the...
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S3E30: Why Small Food Businesses Struggle with Food Safety (And It's Not What You Think)
May is Small Business Month. And here's a number worth sitting with: small businesses were responsible for 88.9% of all private-sector job growth from 2023 to 2024. In food, those small businesses are also navigating...
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S3E29: What I See in Food Companies That Leaders Can't See Themselves
When you've been inside an organization long enough, you stop seeing what's actually there. The workarounds become normal. The silence becomes expected. The gap between what the culture says it values and what...
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S3E28 The Leadership Feedback Nobody's Giving You (And Why That's a Problem)
Most leaders aren't getting the feedback that would actually help them grow. Not because their teams don't have it, but because the culture, the dynamic, or the leader's own behavior has made it unsafe or pointless to...
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S3E27 What SQF Edition 10 Is Actually Asking of Your Leadership Team
SQF Edition 10 was released on March 1st. Audits begin in February 2027. The change that most food companies aren't prepared for isn't technical — it's cultural. For the first time, food safety culture is a scored,...
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S3E26 The Leadership Bias You Don't See — But Your Team Feels
What if the thing holding your leadership back isn't a skill gap — it's a blind spot you can't see on your own?
That's the conversation Catalyst Food Leaders cofounders Tia Glave and Jill Stuber are having on this...
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S3E25 4 Reasons Leadership Development Fails in Food Companies
Most companies say leadership development matters.
But in many organizations, it’s treated like a side project instead of a system.
A strong technical expert gets promoted.
Suddenly, they’re leading people, navigating...
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S3E24 The 3 Leadership Patterns Keeping Food Companies Stuck in Reaction Mode
Food companies operate in one of the most complex environments in the world.
Recalls.Audits.Supply disruptions.Customer pressure.
It’s no surprise leaders often feel stuck responding to the next fire.But what if the...
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S3E23 Leading Across Generations and Continents
Leadership doesn’t look the same everywhere. And it definitely doesn’t look the same to every generation. On this episode of Real Talk, Catalyst Food Leaders cofounders Tia Glave and Jill Stuber are joined by Grace...
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