Kristina Schmitt
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Christina Schmidt turns leadership concepts into practical ways to make decisions, develop teams, and create room for productive disagreement.
Christina Schmidt treats leadership as something practiced in meetings, decisions, and the everyday management of people. Business Building Blocks Podcast alternates guest conversations with solo instruction, and Schmidt keeps asking how an idea would work once a leader brings…
Christina Schmidt has a question for your too-quiet team meeting: what doesn't feel right?
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A practical coaching episode about turning broad questions into commitment.
Christina Schmidt lays out a coaching framework that starts with a broad problem and narrows toward a decision. The episode keeps things practical, with leadership treated as a working tool for helping people think through options, stretch a little, and settle on a next step.
A clear idea still has to beat habit, and habit usually gets the first swing.
Christina Schmidt uses this episode to look at a familiar change management problem: even a clear, visual fix can stall when people are asked to leave old habits behind. The wheel in a groove image is the strongest part, because it makes the pull of the old pattern easy to feel.
A quiet reminder that a clearer purpose can make pressure easier to manage.
The episode opens in everyday renovation decisions: a new house, floorboards, color choices, and the pressure of what to buy now versus what can wait.
A clear look at how leader dependence develops and how teams can start carrying more of the load.
This conversation looks at why some leaders end up as the default problem-solvers for their teams. Christina Schmidt shows how that habit gets built one answer, one fix, and one rescue at a time, then argues that it can be unlearned through different behavior, not just more…
A steady reminder that goals only work when they are revisited before daily fire drills take over.
Business Building Blocks treats goal-setting as a follow-up problem: Christina Schmidt makes the case that progress can stall when goals are not revisited at the right cadence.
A calm reminder that leadership stress often starts with where the calendar goes.
Leadership overwhelm is framed as a calendar problem, which is a useful place to start. Christina keeps asking whether leaders are making time for coaching, development, succession planning, and the follow-through that tells them if the work actually happened.
A practical look at the forming stage, with leadership framed as structure, coaching, and follow-through.
The episode stays with the forming stage and treats it as plain work. Christina keeps the advice concrete: leaders set when the team meets, decide how projects are tracked, and keep one-on-one check-ins going alongside group coordination.
A practical talk about what really moves life forward when the work starts piling up.
Christina and Dana K. White keep the conversation fixed on what actually has to get done at home and at work. White says in plain terms that not every task carries the same weight, and the strongest line runs from making beds and washing dishes to business habits.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
Naval Ravikant on epistemology, startups, and crypto, from David Deutsch to Vitalik Buterin.
Alex Theuma interviews SaaS founders and investors on scaling to $10M-plus ARR.
Guy Raz traces founders' origin stories and fields live advice-line calls from entrepreneurs.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Christina Schmidt picks up the team-development stages again and stays with the storming phase.
Christina Schmidt explains the four stages of team development—forming, storming, norming, and performing—plus adjourning, detailing how leaders should adapt their approach at each phase to build effective teams and manage conflict.
Christina Schmidt opens with a very real-life decision mess: a half-finished house, renovations everywhere, and a pile of choices that keep multiplying.
Host Christina Schmidt explores the challenges of employee engagement, debunking hustle culture and emphasizing sustainable strategies to make teams care more.
Christina keeps the conversation going with Dana, picking up where part one left off and digging further into the ideas behind Dana’s work.
Christina Schmidt opens the conversation with a familiar leadership snag: decisions stack up quickly.
Christina Schmidt opens with a blunt warning: when a team is fighting, undermining, or simply not working well together, a business can end up far short of the potential it should reach.
Christina Schmidt continues the leadership model series with this model.
Christina Schmidt opens from her new basement office, sounding a bit under the weather but still ready to dig into why copied best practices can miss the mark.
Christina Schmidt opens with a LinkedIn poll.
Christina Schmidt opens with a familiar problem: goals get set, everyone nods, and then the work slips out of view.
Problem employees gets quotation marks for a reason.
Christina Schmidt frames episode 4 of the Business Building Blocks Podcast around two change frameworks: the Prochaska and DeClemente stages of change and the Kubler-Ross change curve.
Christina Schmidt welcomes Nicole Donnelly for a collaboration episode focused on women’s success, strengths, and growth in life and business.
Christina Schmidt says leaders can ask for input without surrendering final say, and she uses a Microsoft-to-Google switch to separate the "what" from the "how." She argues that listening to concerns is not the same as complying with them, and she quotes Dr.
Christina Schmidt opens with clear enthusiasm for Dana K.
Christina Schmidt discusses strategies for leaders to improve team performance by focusing on communication, clarity, and employee motivation.
Christina Schmidt starts with a familiar leadership trap.
Christina starts from a temporary living room office.
Christina Schmidt sits down with Alexander Michael Gittens, also known as AMG, to talk about closing the clarity gap.
Host Christina discusses feeling overwhelmed and shares a story about a business owner whose team lacks ownership, tying personal and professional challenges to business success.
Host Christina Schmidt introduces the podcast's focus on helping leaders and entrepreneurs achieve success through personal and professional development, then shares a personal story about feeling overwhelmed in algebra to illustrate a lesson on problem-solving and developing people.
Host Christina introduces the podcast's focus on business and personal development, sharing her concept of 'experiments' as a less intimidating approach to change.
Host Christina interviews James Flanagan, executive director of Catholic World Mission, about their work in evangelization, dignified living, and education.
Host Christina discusses the Cornerstone Framework course for leaders, emphasizing the importance of addressing wounds and faith for effective leadership.