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The Cutting Onions Podcast

The Cutting Onions Podcast

By: Bobby Shaw
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On the Cutting Onions Podcast, restaurant executives Bobby Shaw and Myles Gift celebrate leaders and organizations that build strong people cultures that develop other leaders.

Bobby and Myles interview leaders who have built amazing cultures in their organizations through developing great leaders who produce amazing results, the right way.Copyright Bobby Shaw Art Cooking Economics Food & Wine Management Management & Leadership
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  • 121. Bobby & Myles talk Success vs. Significance

    121. Bobby & Myles talk Success vs. Significance
    Oct 29 2026
    In today's episode of The Cutting Onions Podcast, Myles and I shift the conversation from Success = what you accomplish for yourself to Significance = the positive impact you have on others.

    Here is some of what we tackle in this episode:
    • The Sustainability Gap: Success without significance often leads to burnout and rapid decline in the hospitality industry. Leaders focused solely on personal success fail to build the culture and infrastructure required for long-term growth.
    • The Significance Sacrifice: True significance requires being intentional enough to develop people who may eventually become better than you.

    We also discuss: Leadership Legacy Through People
    • Your greatest career accomplishments have very little to do with yourself
    • Legacy only lives beyond you if it’s built into other people

    Building Future Leaders, Not Followers
    • Develop leadership capacity, not dependency
    • Celebrate leaders who develop people better than themselves; make it a cultural honor
    Holding People Back vs. Empowering Them
    • Lesson: don’t let your need to feel indispensable block someone else’s growth

    Giving Freedom Without Losing Accountability
    • Developing people takes more time than just giving someone the answers
    • Undermanagement and overmanagement: both are failures in leadership

    This was a fun conversation, and we hope you find it inspiring and helpful as you think about your leadership legacy through the people you have developed throughout your career.
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    39 mins
  • 120. Building a Restaurant Company: The Grit, Growth, and Leadership Behind the Brand with Teneshia Murray Butler

    120. Building a Restaurant Company: The Grit, Growth, and Leadership Behind the Brand with Teneshia Murray Butler
    Oct 23 2026
    On this episode of The Cutting Onions Podcast, Myles and I are excited to share our conversation with Teneshia Murray Butler, an entrepreneur and restaurateur making a lot of noise in the Atlanta restaurant scene. She is the owner of T's Brunch Bar and T's Burger Bar.

    But that is just the start of Teneshia's story. What makes Teneshia's story so interesting isn't just the restaurants she's built. She's spent more than two decades as an entrepreneur, building businesses across multiple industries, navigating growth challenges, and creating restaurant concepts people genuinely get excited about.

    She's also passionate about mentoring other entrepreneurs and giving back to the communities that support her businesses.

    And we're going to get into all of it today. This was an incredibly fun and inspiring conversation, and we can't wait for you to hear it!
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    47 mins
  • 119. The Real Cost of Leadership Silence

    119. The Real Cost of Leadership Silence
    Oct 11 2026
    Have you ever stopped to think about how much damage a conversation that never happens can do?

    Not something someone said. Not a bad decision someone made. But something that needed to be said, and wasn't.

    In this episode of The Cutting Onions Podcast, Myles and I dig into a leadership challenge that we believe has quietly destroyed more trust, damaged more cultures, and driven away more talented people than most of us would care to admit.

    We're talking about the real cost of leadership silence.

    Check out this episode wherever you consume your podcast content.
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    39 mins
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