“The soul of the business was maintained because I drove the culture of the business so passionately.”

This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

This Mini Chief episode features Cliff Gale, former MD of Lite ‘n Easy for over 20 years.

His full episode is titled Leading with passion, respect for your people and keeping the soul alive in your business.

You can find the full audio and show notes here:

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I met Cliff through a former Inner Chief podcast guest, Sara Chamberlain, in 2019.

Cliff started his career running Bob-Jane T Mart Franchises. He then bought into Lite n’ Easy after he saw a two line ad in a paper in its very early days.

He proceeded to lead the business for over two decades and grew it into one of the most successful businesses of its type.

Lite n’ Easy is a 100% Australian owned healthy food business and has been around nearly 40 years.

In the full episode we talk about:

✅ Keeping his finger on the pulse by respecting and listening to his people and customers

✅ How he kept the emotion and energy in the business as it grew to dizzying heights

✅ Building the soul of the business by focusing on the things that count and profit will come, and

✅ The difference between givers and takers.

Deal hope,

Greg

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