Business Building Blocks Podcast
We’ll talk about all things that will make your business better like personal and professional development, leadership, healing, parenting, wellness of your mind, body, and spirit…What?? Not the list you expected?? Tune in and walk with my guests and I on a journey toward improving yourself that will not only get you better business results but will get you the life you want.
Episodes
Leadership boundaries are often the early warning sign most leaders ignore.
In this episode of the Business Building Blocks Podcast, Kristina Schmitt explains how weak leadership boundaries contribute to employee burnout, resentment, poor accountability, and unhealthy workplace culture.
If you’re a business owner, manager, or team leader trying to create a healthier and more sustainable workplace, this episode wi...
Repeated questions from your team are often a sign of broken systems, unclear processes, or missing development.
In this episode of the Business Building Blocks Podcast, Kristina Schmitt explains how leaders can stop answering the same questions every day by building better systems, improving coaching, and developing more proactive teams.
If you’re a business owner, manufacturing leader, or people manager consta...
Why do leaders keep getting asked to take personality and leadership assessments?
In this episode of the Business Building Blocks Podcast, Kristina Schmitt explains why tools like Working Genius, StrengthsFinder, and MBTI can help leaders improve self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and team performance.
Many business owners and managers feel skeptical about leadership assessments—especially when the...
Many organizations believe growth requires moving faster, doing more, and constantly reacting to problems.
But sustainable business growth often comes from improving fewer things with greater focus, operational clarity, and alignment.
In this episode of the Business Building Blocks Podcast, leadership coach Kristina Schmitt sits down with Chad Bareither to discuss how business owners, manufacturing leaders, and operat...
Leadership growth often requires a shift that most leaders avoid.
In this episode of the Business Building Blocks Podcast, leadership coach Kristina Schmitt explains the leadership growth shift that helps business owners and managers scale their teams without staying the bottleneck.
You don’t have a knowledge problem.
You have a growth problem.
If you’re still the go-to person, the problem ...
Leadership feels hard when you’re trying to lead in a way that doesn’t match how you naturally operate.
In this episode of the Business Building Blocks Podcast, leadership coach Kristina Schmitt explains why leadership feels harder than it should—and how leaders can shift toward a style that actually works for them.
If you’re a business owner, manager, or leader who has ever felt like leadership should be easier—...
Leadership overwhelm doesn’t come from doing too little—it comes from carrying too much for too long.
In this episode of the Business Building Blocks Podcast, leadership coach Kristina Schmitt breaks down why leaders feel overwhelmed and where to start when everything feels urgent.
If you’re a business owner, manager, or leader who feels stuck in the day-to-day—despite doing all the “right things”—this episode wi...
The CEO role is often misunderstood, especially by leaders who feel like they need to stay involved in everything to keep control.
In this episode of the Business Building Blocks Podcast, leadership coach Kristina Schmitt explains what a CEO should actually be doing and how to lead without losing control.
Most business owners, manufacturing leaders, and managers don’t struggle with effort—they struggle with letti...
Leadership strategy often fails not because it’s wrong—but because it’s never used.
In this episode, we break down leadership strategy that actually works and how to turn it into consistent action.
If you’re a business owner, manager, or manufacturing leader who has spent time defining vision, mission, and purpose—but rarely revisits them—this episode is for you.
In this episode of the Business Building Blocks Pod...
Managing problem employees is one of the most frustrating challenges leaders face.
In this episode of the Business Building Blocks Podcast, leadership coach Kristina Schmitt explains how to deal with problem employees by focusing on behavior, not labels.
If you’re a business owner, manager, or team leader feeling stuck, frustrated, or drained by someone on your team, this episode will give you a practical and eff...
Leaders often try to copy best practices from other companies—but still struggle to get results.
In this episode of the Business Building Blocks Podcast, leadership coach Kristina Schmitt explains why best practices fail for leaders and how to make them actually work in your organization.
If you’re a business owner, manufacturing leader, or manager who has ever implemented something that “should have worked” but ...
Leadership overwhelm is real. Many leaders feel like they must handle everything at once—strategy, team management, operations, and constant “fires.”
In this episode of the Business Building Blocks Podcast, Kristina Schmitt shares practical strategies for leaders dealing with leadership stress and overwhelm. Drawing from her experience as a plant manager and business owner, she explains why high achievers often try t...
You built your business with passion, grit, and long nights.
Now you're asking:
“Why don’t my employees care like I do?”
In this episode of the Business Building Blocks Podcast, leadership coach Kristina Schmitt breaks down the real reason employee engagement drops — and it’s not laziness.
When teams feel:
- Unclear about direction
- Disconnected from meaningful goals
- Unrecognized for consistent performance
They d...
Want to involve your team in decision making… without losing leadership control?
In this episode of the Business Building Blocks Podcast, Kristina Schmitt shares how leaders can invite team input while still maintaining clear direction for the business.
Because here’s the reality:
You can ask for feedback
You can listen to concerns
Your team can disagree
…and your leadership decision can still be right for the c...
Decision making under pressure for leaders is one of the hardest parts of leadership.
When you're making 100+ decisions a day, clarity matters before the stress hits.
This episode is for business owners, manufacturing leaders, and people managers who need to make aligned decisions — even when there’s no perfect answer.
In this conversation, you’ll learn how to:
- Make better leadership decisions under pressu...
Your team is capable.
Your strategy is sound.
So why does progress feel harder than it should?
In Episode 89 of the Business Building Blocks Podcast, Kristina Schmitt unpacks how team discord—both loud and quiet—can slowly damage performance, morale, and results.
You’ll learn:
- Why division distracts teams from real issues
- How ego and self-protection stall progress
- Why “agree to disagree” is a leadership red f...
Your business is growing.
Your team is expanding.
From the outside, everything looks successful.
So why are you exhausted, frustrated, and quietly miserable?
In this episode of the Business Building Blocks Podcast, leadership coach Kristina Schmitt addresses a truth many business owners and leaders are afraid to admit:
👉 Success without alignment leads to burnout.
Using r...
Why won’t employees take responsibility—and why does it keep falling back on you?
If you’re working harder than everyone else and constantly fixing what your team should own, this episode is for you.
In this episode of the Business Building Blocks Podcast, Kristina Schmitt unpacks a question leaders ask behind closed doors:
“Why won’t my employees take responsibility?”
The answer may be uncomfortable—because i...
Struggling to move your goals—or your team’s goals—forward?
In this episode of the Business Building Blocks Podcast, Kristina Schmitt shares actionable strategies for leaders, managers, and business owners to set goals that actually work and follow up effectively to ensure results.
You’ll learn how to:
- Set SMART goals that actually work
- Stay focused on priorities without getting distracted
- Follow up with your te...
Leadership clarity is the difference between working hard and actually moving the business forward.
In this episode, we break down why many capable leaders still feel stuck—and how closing the clarity gap leads to stronger decisions, aligned teams, and sustainable growth.
This conversation is for:
- Business owners who feel stretched but not scaling
- Leaders and managers navigating complexity and competing priorities
- Ex...
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