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The EntreLeadership Podcast

#174: Kat Cole—The Value of Messy, Gritty Experience

The EntreLeadership Podcast

Lampo Licensing, LLC.

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.74.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Imagine trying to launch a brand with a different team, different country, different culture and different language every week. Impossible, right? Not if you’re this week’s special guest, Kat Cole. The Group President of Focus Brands, parent company to well-known franchises like Cinnabon, Auntie Anne’s Pretzels, Carvel and Moe’s Southwest Grill, joins us to discuss her amazing story. Plus, Kat shares how building trust with your team is one of the main ingredients of success. Also on tap, we’re heading down to Main Street to learn from EntreLeader Adam Kugel, CEO of Kugel Corporation in Chehalis, Washington. entreleadership.com/podcast Free Tool: "5 Habits That Kill Team Unity" Free tool: 5 Habits That Kill Team Unity Free tool: 5 Habits That Kill Team Unity Infusionsoft's Office Automation Guide

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0:00.0

Music

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Helping business leaders grow themselves, their team and their profits.

0:12.0

This is the Entrez Leadership Podcast.

0:15.0

Now, here is your host, Ken Gullman.

0:19.0

We are broadcasting from the Music City and this is the podcast of leaders, by-leaders,

0:24.0

four leaders. Thank you so much for joining the conversation. Here's what's on tap.

0:28.0

Our feature conversation is with Kat Cole. She's the group president of Focus Brands.

0:34.0

You may not know Focus Brands, the parent company, but you know some of their brands,

0:40.0

Cinebun, Moze, Antiannes, my favorite pretzels, by the way.

0:45.0

And McAllister's, which happens to be Stacey Coleman's favorite place to get a sandwich.

0:49.0

And so she has a wonderful leadership story. You're talking about somebody who started

0:52.0

at the bottom, rung of the ladder and climbed up. And really is somebody who understands

0:58.0

great culture and great organizations. And here's what's great, even though this is a gigantic company.

1:03.0

What you're going to do is get a real scalable conversation because they are working many times

1:08.0

because of those different restaurants. They're working with entrepreneurs like you.

1:12.0

And all around the country. So this is going to be fun. You're going to enjoy that.

1:15.0

And then we bring back a popular thing, something we like to do.

1:19.0

It's our Main Street leaders. We focus in on one of our untrained leader members,

1:24.0

or a member of the tribe, in other words, somebody who is just like you who listen to this podcast,

1:29.0

who comes to our events and is winning big. We'd love to share those stories.

1:32.0

And of course we have some free resources. So hey, let's get right to this.

1:36.0

Adam Kugel is our Main Street focus this episode.

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