Lead Without Losing Yourself.

One Episode, One Story, One Shift at a Time.

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About the Podcast

Chef Life Radio
Redefining Culinary Leadership
Chef Life Radio is for chefs and culinary leaders who already know how to cook, but were never taught how to carry responsibility without burning out, breaking their teams, or losing themselves in the process.

Hosted by Chef Adam Lamb, culinary leadership coach and creator of The Successful Chef™ framework, this show explores what it actually takes to lead in modern kitchens, emotionally, operationally, and humanely.

This is not a cooking show.

It’s a leadership conversation. Each episode cuts through industry noise to address the real work beneath the apron:

• Leading people instead of managing chaos
• Rebuilding personal agency in high-pressure environments
• Creating cultures rooted in trust, clarity, and accountability
• Reducing burnout without sacrificing standards
• Choosing sustainability over survival

Some episodes are solo reflections.
Some are conversations with chefs and leaders doing the work.
All of them are grounded in lived experience — not theory.

If you love the craft, but feel like the business has used that love against you, you’re not wrong.
You’re just ready for a different way to lead.

Chef Life Radio is where that conversation begins.

Register for the free monthly Culinary Leadership Lab: a live working space for chefs ready to lead without losing themselves @ https://link.cheflifecoaching.com/leadershiplab
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About your host

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Adam Lamb

Chef Adam Lamb is a culinary leadership coach and longtime industry veteran who helps chefs carry responsibility without burning out or betraying themselves.

After decades in professional kitchens, Adam’s work focuses less on “leadership skills” and more on restoring personal agency, clarity, and choice in high-pressure environments.

He is the host of Chef Life Radio and facilitator of the monthly Culinary Leadership Lab, a live working space for chefs ready to lead without losing themselves.

Find out more @ https://link.cheflifecoaching.com/leadershiplab