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Now, here's your host, Ken Colman.

Coming to you from the Music City, this is the broadcast of leaders, by-leaders, four-leaders.

Thank you so much for joining the conversation.

Our feature conversation this episode is with Cheryl Batchelder, the former CEO of Popeye's chicken

and the author of Dare to Serve, how to drive superior results by serving others.

And we also have some great free resources for you that you have come to love.

Well, I got to tell you that Cheryl Batchelder is a fantastic lady.

Obviously, when you're the CEO of any type of quick serve restaurant or any national chain, you are accomplished.

But what I love is, is that she took over a company where the stock price had dropped from $34 to $13.

It's basically going to the basement.

And in eight years, the market cap grew from less than $300 million to over $1.3 billion.

At fiscal year in 2015, Popeye's revenues were $3.1 billion in growing, all because of this idea of serving others.

And this lady is phenomenal. This is a great book.

And I think it really does give you a different perspective on true servant leadership, a term that many of you've heard before.

But this conversation is really going to challenge you. Here is Cheryl Batchelder.

The reason I love this story is because I don't know if most people know this until they read the book.

But this was a second chance for you as well, not just Popeyes.

And so before we dive into the book and how you led Popeyes through a downtime and really a rebirth,

I want people to have a sense of where you were at, what you had gone through, and a failure,

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