Savage Simplicity™ presents LeanVerse Storytellers: simplifying modern human life.
Real stories about how continuous improvement shows up at home and at work. Lean, change management, Six Sigma, and operational excellence, practiced at the kitchen table and in the moments that matter.
Each episode, host Bernadette Hill finds the practice inside the story. These aren't just tools. They're practices for thinking clearly about a full human life.
Season 1 gathers the original LeanVerse and Storytellers conversations.
Come for the stories. Leave with something new you can try.
Blame the Process, Not the People - Easier said than done | Sonia Singh | S2E01
"Blame the process, not the people" is one of the most repeated phrases in Lean and continuous improvement.It is also one of the most consistently violated ones.In the Season 2 premiere of LeanVerse Storytellers, Bernadette Hill sits down with Sonia Singh — ICF-certified executive coach and founder of Point Three Leadership — to explore why the gap between knowing this principle and living it is so much wider than most leaders want to admit.Sonia brings the emotional intelligence lens: what is actually happening when someone reflexively blames a person instead of a process, how she built a diagnostic tool to help leaders surface that gap, and the in-the-moment tactics that help redirect a conversation before it slides into blame.She also shares how she applies her own framework to her own life — not just her clients.This episode is for the leaders who teach systems thinking and still catch themselves doing the very thing they coach others away from.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 JOIN THE LEAN MASTERY MAKERS SPACE (FREE)A free community inside the Savage Simplicity ecosystem for people who want to practice Lean thinking beyond tools — to see systems clearly, reduce friction intentionally, and improve without overwhelm.👉 https://savage-simplicity-ecosystem.circle.so/📌 CONNECT WITH SONIA SINGHLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/soniaksinghSubstack: https://substack.com/@point3leaderStress Patterns: https://stresspatterns.com📌 CONNECT WITH SAVAGE SIMPLICITY™Savage Simplicity Ecosystem (Circle): https://savage-simplicity-ecosystem.circle.so/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SavageSimplicityTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@savagesimplicityFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/savage.simplicity.with.bernadette/LinkedIn – Bernadette Hill: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernadettehill/Substack: https://savagesimplicity.substack.com/Savage Swag Studio: https://savageswag.printful.me/━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━PRODUCTION CREDITSLeanVerse Storytellers is hosted by Bernadette Hill.Produced and edited by Bernadette Hill.
26 Apr 2026
Motion & Transportation Waste | The Hidden Friction in Movement (Flow vs Friction Finale)
Not all movement creates value
.In this final chapter of our Flow vs Friction series, we explore the last two of the eight wastes of Lean:
Motion and Transportation — and how unnecessary movement quietly creates friction inside systems.
Transportation is the movement of materials or information between steps.
Motion is the movement of people within the work itself.Both consume time.Both increase cost.
And both often go unnoticed.In this episode, we explore:The difference between Motion and Transportation in Lean
How poor layout and process design create hidden waste
Why movement often compounds other forms of friction
The “surgeon concept” and what it teaches about flow
How to design systems where work moves with intention
This episode closes our Flow vs Friction series — a four-part exploration of all 8 wastes of Lean:
Defects
Overprocessing
Overproduction
Inventory
Waiting
Non-Utilized Talent
Motion
Transportation
🔹 Watch the Full Flow vs Friction Series
If you’re landing here first, this episode is part of a larger system.
Each chapter builds on the last to show how friction compounds — and how to see it clearly.
▶️ Watch the full series here:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrdHOE7q0pvd6mdHlGm4o3uQcB-zNNkp6
🔹 Lean Mastery Makers Space (FREE)
If this way of thinking resonates, the Lean Mastery Makers Space is now live inside the Savage Simplicity ecosystem.It’s a free space for people who want to practice Lean thinking beyond tools — to see systems clearly, reduce friction intentionally, and improve without overwhelm.
🌱 Explore here:https://savage-simplicity-ecosystem.circle.so/
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🔹 Production Credits
LeanVerse is hosted by Bernadette Hill and Tatiana Sell. All episodes are programmed and written by Tatiana Sell. Produced and edited by Bernadette Hill.
15 Mar 2026
Waiting & Non-Utilized Talent | Flow vs Friction Ch. 3
When the talent is there but the system won't let it through.In this episode, Bernadette shares a years-long experience with a pediatric optometrist practice — a doctor who was genuinely skilled, and a system that couldn't reliably deliver that skill to patients.
Three-hour appointments. A forgotten dilation. A front desk that had simply accepted the wait as normal.
Tatiana and Bernadette use this story to unpack two of Lean's most human wastes:
WAITING — when people, work, or information can't move forward.NON-UTILIZED TALENT — when the system constrains what people are capable of contributing.
Together, these wastes don't just slow things down. They erode trust, drain engagement, and ensure the same problems keep coming back.
This episode closes with a reflection worth sitting with:Where might ego, ownership, or turf protection be quietly turning talent into waste?Part of the Flow vs Friction series on The LeanVerse Podcast.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🔗 JOIN THE LEAN MASTERY MAKERS SPACE (FREE)Practice Lean thinking beyond the tools.👉 https://savage-simplicity-ecosystem.circle.so/
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LeanVerse is hosted by Bernadette Hill and Tatiana Sell. All episodes are programmed and written by Tatiana Sell. Produced and edited by Bernadette Hill.
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