Stay ConnectedThe Limitless Leadership Podcast was created to help automotive repair shops learn how to lead, coach, train, and manage people better by sharing proven techniques and thought provoking interviews from industry leaders.
The key to sustainable growth and profitability lies in the perfect synergy of leadership and performance, and we’re dedicated to helping aspiring leaders in the automotive repair industry tap into unrecognized potential to achieve limitless results.
People + Process = Profit.
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In today’s episode, Josh Parnell and Michael Smith have a conversation about the changing landscape of leadership today and how business owners CAN look to the future with security. Michael shares his unique outsider perspective, having transitioned from a career in big consulting and private investment into the world of shop ownership and coaching. He reveals the pivotal role that chance encounters and powerful peer networks have played in his journey, and discusses how industry-wide shifts—driven by consolidation, private equity, and the coming wave of baby boomer retirements—are reshaping the future for business owners everywhere.
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I'm Josh Parnell, Founder and CEO of Limitless Leadership. With a team of leadership coaches, trainers, and speakers, Limitless Leadership helps aspiring leaders tap into unrecognized potential to achieve limitless results.
For more information, please visit https://www.limitlessleadership.co.
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Erich Schmidt is the owner of Schmidt Auto Care. Since founding the company in 2009, Erich has learned a great deal about leadership through serious change and growth. After leasing several properties over the years as the business expanded, Erich recently acquired the very property and buildings where the shop currently operates—a significant milestone after years of planning and perseverance. What did it take to get there? What has Erich learned through this season? Find out today!
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I'm Josh Parnell, Founder and CEO of Limitless Leadership. With a team of leadership coaches, trainers, and speakers, Limitless Leadership helps aspiring leaders tap into unrecognized potential to achieve limitless results.
For more information, please visit https://www.limitlessleadership.co.
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In this episode, Josh Parnell and David Martin talk about the upcoming Sunrise Training and Expo in Chandler, Arizona. David also reflects on his career from pumping gas at his father’s Chevron station, to running a thriving full-service automotive repair shop. He tells you why true leadership is about listening more than talking, building culture, and creating space for every team member to contribute and grow.
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I'm Josh Parnell, Founder and CEO of Limitless Leadership. With a team of leadership coaches, trainers, and speakers, Limitless Leadership helps aspiring leaders tap into unrecognized potential to achieve limitless results.
For more information, please visit https://www.limitlessleadership.co.
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In this episode, Josh is joined by Samantha Higdon, owner and head coach at Shift Point Training Academy and 2024 AAPEX Service Advisor of the Year.
Samantha shares her journey from CSR to award-winning service advisor, emphasizing the importance of continuous, individualized training for automotive professionals.
She also discusses actionable strategies for reducing workplace stress through prioritization and time management, and highlights how personalized, virtual coaching can help advisors and teams achieve greater results.
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I'm Josh Parnell, Founder and CEO of Limitless Leadership. With a team of leadership coaches, trainers, and speakers, Limitless Leadership helps aspiring leaders tap into unrecognized potential to achieve limitless results.
For more information, please visit https://www.limitlessleadership.co.
Every great leader deserves a great beard. Be sure to visit https://www.thebeardedbrotherhood.co/LEAD15 to grab your favorite beard oils, beard balms, mustache waxes, and more, and get 15% off in the process.
In this episode, Josh Parnell sits down with Andrew Fischer, owner and trainer at FACTS (Fischer Automotive Consulting and Training Services).
Andrew shares his journey from watching his grandfather attend technical classes as a child to becoming a leader and trainer in the automotive industry.
Three key points stand out: Andrew emphasizes the lifelong importance of training and networking for technicians; he challenges the perception of being “just a tech” by highlighting the professionalism and impact of specialists in the industry; and he offers a heartfelt discussion on leadership, stressing the power of extreme ownership and lifting up others.
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I'm Josh Parnell, Founder and CEO of Limitless Leadership. As a leadership coach, trainer, and speaker, I help aspiring leaders in the automotive repair industry tap into unrecognized potential to achieve limitless results.
For more information, please visit https://www.limitlessleadership.co and check out The Limitless Leadership Blueprint HERE: https://youtu.be/xEmac_vEbhg
I'm Josh Parnell, Founder and CEO of Limitless Leadership. With a team of leadership coaches, trainers, and speakers, Limitless Leadership helps aspiring leaders tap into unrecognized potential to achieve limitless results.
For more information, please visit https://www.limitlessleadership.co.
Every great leader deserves a great beard. Be sure to visit https://www.thebeardedbrotherhood.co/LEAD15 to grab your favorite beard oils, beard balms, mustache waxes, and more, and get 15% off in the process.
In this episode, Josh Parnell explores the daily huddle's transformative impact and essential structure.
Josh emphasizes three key points: the importance of holding huddles daily to boost team communication and engagement, the value of starting huddles in the morning to set a positive tone for the day, and the inclusion of engagement opportunities—such as icebreakers and public praise—to create genuine connection and increased performance among team members.
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I'm Josh Parnell, Founder and CEO of Limitless Leadership. As a leadership coach, trainer, and speaker, I help aspiring leaders in the automotive repair industry tap into unrecognized potential to achieve limitless results.
For more information, please visit https://www.limitlessleadership.co and check out The Limitless Leadership Blueprint HERE: https://youtu.be/xEmac_vEbhg
I'm Josh Parnell, Founder and CEO of Limitless Leadership. With a team of leadership coaches, trainers, and speakers, Limitless Leadership helps aspiring leaders tap into unrecognized potential to achieve limitless results.
For more information, please visit https://www.limitlessleadership.co.
Every great leader deserves a great beard. Be sure to visit https://www.thebeardedbrotherhood.co/LEAD15 to grab your favorite beard oils, beard balms, mustache waxes, and more, and get 15% off in the process.
In this episode of the Limitless Leadership Podcast, host Josh Parnell interviews Dave Macholz, CEO and founder of AVTECC, about his mission to reshape the automotive technician industry.
Dave highlights that the real challenge facing the industry is not a shortage of technicians, but rather a problem with retention, which leads to significant costs and disruptions for shop owners.
He also discusses the need to move beyond traditional cognitive exams and instead implement performance-based, proficiency testing and ongoing continuing education so that technicians can demonstrate their true capabilities and maintain current skills.
Finally, Dave emphasizes the importance of grassroots support from technicians, shop owners, and educators, noting that broad industry change will only be possible through collective action and a shared commitment to improving professional standards.
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Visit https://www.avtecc.org/ to learn more.
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I'm Josh Parnell, Founder and CEO of Limitless Leadership. As a leadership coach, trainer, and speaker, I help aspiring leaders in the automotive repair industry tap into unrecognized potential to achieve limitless results.
For more information, please visit https://www.limitlessleadership.co and check out The Limitless Leadership Blueprint HERE: https://youtu.be/xEmac_vEbhg
I'm Josh Parnell, Founder and CEO of Limitless Leadership. With a team of leadership coaches, trainers, and speakers, Limitless Leadership helps aspiring leaders tap into unrecognized potential to achieve limitless results.
For more information, please visit https://www.limitlessleadership.co.
Every great leader deserves a great beard. Be sure to visit https://www.thebeardedbrotherhood.co/LEAD15 to grab your favorite beard oils, beard balms, mustache waxes, and more, and get 15% off in the process.
Bryce Evans, Founder and Editor of Auto Service Leader, joins me to talk all things leadership, from leading and driving change in an industry that he didn't have a background in, to learning, listening, and ultimately starting his own publication.
Bryce is well known and respected in automotive repair, and the voice of the customer is at the forefront of the minds at Auto Service Leader.
When the leader gets better, everyone gets better, and the automotive repair industry is better because of Bryce Evans.
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I'm Josh Parnell, Founder and CEO of Limitless Leadership.
As a leadership coach, trainer, and speaker, I help aspiring leaders in the automotive repair industry tap into unrecognized potential to achieve limitless results.
For more information, please visit https://www.limitlessleadership.co and check out The Limitless Leadership Blueprint HERE: https://youtu.be/xEmac_vEbhg
I'm Josh Parnell, Founder and CEO of Limitless Leadership. With a team of leadership coaches, trainers, and speakers, Limitless Leadership helps aspiring leaders tap into unrecognized potential to achieve limitless results.
For more information, please visit https://www.limitlessleadership.co.
Every great leader deserves a great beard.
Be sure to visit https://www.thebeardedbrotherhood.co/LEAD15 to grab your favorite beard oils, beard balms, mustache waxes, and more, and get 15% off in the process.
Shop owner Chris Enright joins me to talk all things leadership, how to level up in multiple areas of our lives, and how he leverages social media for exposure, growth, and education.
An industry leader in his own right, Chris believes in the power of coaching and training, and shares how investing in yourself, exercising self care, and sharpening the ax allows you to grow in to the leader you were destined to be, at work and at home.
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I'm Josh Parnell, Founder and CEO of Limitless Leadership. As a leadership coach, trainer, and speaker, I help aspiring leaders in the automotive repair industry tap into unrecognized potential to achieve limitless results.
For more information, please visit https://www.limitlessleadership.co and check out The Limitless Leadership Blueprint HERE: https://youtu.be/xEmac_vEbhg
I'm Josh Parnell, Founder and CEO of Limitless Leadership. With a team of leadership coaches, trainers, and speakers, Limitless Leadership helps aspiring leaders tap into unrecognized potential to achieve limitless results.
For more information, please visit https://www.limitlessleadership.co.
Every great leader deserves a great beard. Be sure to visit https://www.thebeardedbrotherhood.co/LEAD15 to grab your favorite beard oils, beard balms, mustache waxes, and more, and get 15% off in the process.
Any time I'm introduced to a fellow leadership coach, I'm always excited. But when I find out that the leadership coach also coaches Limitless Leadership AND lives in Houston, I can only assume that the connection was fate.
As a believer in the power of transformation and our limitless potential, Rick Torrison understands how our life experiences both positive and negative, can shape our perspective and view of our own lives, the world and the people around us.
As a global speaker, bestselling author and master coach with over 20 years of experience, Rick is passionate about empowering individuals and organizations to break free from their limiting beliefs and step into their limitless potential.
Tune into this episode to crush limiting beliefs, cultivate an infinite mindset, and unleash your true potential.
For more information on Rick Torrison, visit https://www.ricktorrison.com and buy his best-selling book, Born Limitless, by visiting https://www.amazon.com/Born-Limitless-Limiting-Cultivate-Potential/dp/1636802028/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0
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I'm Josh Parnell, Founder and CEO of Limitless Leadership. As a leadership coach, trainer, and speaker, I help aspiring leaders in the automotive repair industry tap into unrecognized potential to achieve limitless results.
For more information, please visit https://www.limitlessleadership.co and check out The Limitless Leadership Blueprint HERE: https://youtu.be/xEmac_vEbhg
I'm Josh Parnell, Founder and CEO of Limitless Leadership. With a team of leadership coaches, trainers, and speakers, Limitless Leadership helps aspiring leaders tap into unrecognized potential to achieve limitless results.
For more information, please visit https://www.limitlessleadership.co.
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