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by Trevor Hill

15 episodes
Updated Daily
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Podcast Overview

Most people running a hospitality business look fine from the outside. Keeping the shifts running, holding the team together, showing up every day. But underneath, a lot of them are exhausted, isolated, and wondering how much longer they can keep going. Lead Well is for those people. Hosted by Trevor Hill, founder of award winning restaurant Ojo Rojo, each episode goes into the inner world of hospitality leadership. The pressure, the burnout, the identity. Built from real experience by someone who has been through the worst of it.

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3/27/2026

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Episode thumbnail for Are You Leading Your Team or Being Its Bottleneck? Ten Signs to Watch For.

July 30, 2026

Are You Leading Your Team or Being Its Bottleneck? Ten Signs to Watch For.

<p>Most hospitality founders would not describe themselves as bottlenecks. They&#39;d describe themselves as hands on. Involved. Standard bearers. But if everything in the business has to pass through you before it can happen, the pattern is the pattern regardless of what you call it.</p><p>In this episode Trevor gives you ten specific signs you might be functioning as a bottleneck without knowing it, explains why the pattern reinforces itself so quickly, and shares one practical thing to do this week to start unwinding it.</p><p>This episode was originally recorded for The Lead Well YouTube channel. If you&#39;d like to watch as well as listen, search The Lead Well Channel on YouTube.</p><p>New episodes every week. If this resonates, leave a review and share it with someone who needs it.</p>

Episode thumbnail for What Nobody Was Talking About at the Biggest Hospitality Event I've Been To

July 16, 2026

What Nobody Was Talking About at the Biggest Hospitality Event I've Been To

<p>Last week Trevor went to the Propel Operational Excellence Conference in London. A room full of big brands, sharp operators, growth stories and multi site businesses. In this episode he shares his honest observations on what he took from the day, the ideas from Jamie Haziel and Chris Stagg that stayed with him, and the gap he noticed between where the industry conversation currently lives and where the reality lives on the ground.</p><p>Plus news of his own upcoming talk at the next Propel conference in October.</p><p>This episode was originally recorded for The Lead Well YouTube channel. If you&#39;d like to watch as well as listen, search The Lead Well Channel on YouTube.</p><p>New episodes every week. If this resonates, leave a review and share it with someone who needs it.</p>

Episode thumbnail for Why the Best Hospitality Founders Can Do Everything But Choose to Do Very Little

July 13, 2026

Why the Best Hospitality Founders Can Do Everything But Choose to Do Very Little

<p>You step in to cover a shift because the business needs it that day. Fair enough. Then next week the same gap appears and you cover it again. And within a month, without anyone actually deciding it, that shift has become part of your job.</p><p>This episode is about the difference between the founder who can move fluidly into and out of different roles and the founder who absorbs every gap and never gives any of it back. Why structure is not the enemy of flexibility but the condition for it. And what a balanced founder actually builds when the centre holds.</p><p>This episode was originally recorded for The Lead Well YouTube channel. If you&#39;d like to watch as well as listen, search The Lead Well Channel on YouTube.</p><p>New episodes every week. If this resonates, leave a review and share it with someone who needs it.</p>

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What is Lead Well?

Most people running a hospitality business look fine from the outside. Keeping the shifts running, holding the team together, showing up every day. But underneath, a lot of them are exhausted, isolated, and wondering how much longer they can keep going.

Lead Well is for those people.

Hosted by Trevor Hill, founder of award winning restaurant Ojo Rojo, each episode goes into the inner world of hospitality leadership. The pressure, the burnout, the identity. Built from real experience by someone who has been through the worst of it.

How often does this podcast release new episodes?

This podcast updates daily.

Where can I listen to this podcast?

This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.

Does this podcast accept guests?

No, this podcast does not typically feature guests.

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