Ep219: What People-First Leadership Actually Requires (with Julio Garcia)

Hey, Julio, it's great to have you here on the Global Leadership Network podcast.

And thanks for taking time with us today.

Thank you for the invitation.

I've been looking forward to reconnecting with you right after the conference.

Yeah.

So, Julio, it was wonderful having you at the Leadership Summit this year.

And it sounds like from what you told me, it was a good experience for you, but thoroughly enjoyed you sharing your story and the things that you're doing with Ambrizio.

Hey, well, you said it was a challenging thing for you, but you've done a lot of challenging things in your life.

And you've kind of worked in almost every level of restaurant, in the restaurant business.

Now you're an owner.

And so let me just ask you, you started at the, I don't know if you like to call it the bottom, but we'll just say you started at the bottom of the organizational chart.

And how did that teach you? What did that do to help you be the leader that you've become today?

You know, I have this great conviction that take chances, every opportunity, every time somebody says, hey, yeah.

There's a promotion, there's a challenge, there's a position.

Don't be so close-minded and just take it.

Because every position, every role would help you develop gifts and talents.

When your organization contacted me to be on stage, I didn't want to do it.

I just didn't.

It was...

I knew it was going to be hard.

I knew it was going to be a huge challenge for me.

I knew I had to prepare and I just didn't want to do it.

But I wanted to experience that.

I wanted to learn, you know, and develop gifts and talents from all of those challenges.

So I think starting from the bottom, it's been a great way to develop me as a human, develop my trade, my experience.