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Hosted by Jose Lamas Gonzalez · business · EN-US
Are you a restaurant owner or leader? Discover a better life, balance and profits. Practical advice to grow yourself and your restaurant so you can lead a more successful and happy life.
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Signup to Generate a PitchAre you a restaurant owner or leader? Discover a better life, balance and profits. Practical advice to grow yourself and your restaurant so you can lead a more successful and happy life.
Your Life and Restaurant is hosted by Jose Lamas Gonzalez. The show has published 134 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Stop Planning, Start Doing" (20 October 2026, 31 minutes), "What I Learned From a Successful Restaurant Owner in Mexico" (6 October 2026, 27 minutes), and "Your Maximum Capacity Is Not Your Sustainable Capacity" (8 September 2026, 31 minutes).
Your Life and Restaurant publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 26 minutes across 134 episodes.
Booking probability for Your Life and Restaurant is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Your Life and Restaurant requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Your Life and Restaurant's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Your Life and Restaurant are Restaurants. Your Life and Restaurant has a business audience.
Jose Lamas Gonzalez hosts Your Life and Restaurant, a business podcast with 134 episodes published.
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Episode #134
In this episode of Your Life and Restaurant , I talk about the dangers of overthinking in business. From endless research to the fear of making the wrong decision, sometimes we spend so much time planning that we forget...
Episode #133
On my recent trip to Mexico, I got the chance to talk shop with a successful restaurant owner. We talked about how he runs his restaurant, manages his employees, tracks individual performance, and other restaurant...
Episode #132
Just because you can handle a certain workload doesn't mean you should build your life around it. In this episode of Your Life and Restaurant , I reflect on a pattern I've noticed after another busy summer at the...
Episode #130
Imagine one of your employees becomes a restaurant owner and asks, "What's the most important advice you can give me?" That's the question I answer in this episode. I share the lessons I've learned from operating a...
Episode #129
Every restaurant owner has experienced it: you open the next day only to find that the roll-ups weren't finished, the beer wasn't stocked, side work was missed, or someone forgot an important closing task. The first...
Your Life and Restaurant
One day a coach told me something that completely changed the trajectory of my career: "You need to stop waiting tables immediately." At the time, it sounded crazy. I was making great tips, helping the business, and...
Episode #127
With the World Cup kicking off this week, I started thinking about how much running a restaurant resembles leading a championship sports team. The best teams don't win because they have one superstar. They win because...
Episode #126
Most restaurants don’t have the luxury of “hiring slow.” When you’re short staffed, busy, and trying to survive another weekend, sometimes you just need a body on the schedule. But what happens when the wrong hire...
Episode #125
In this episode of the podcast Your Life and Restaurant, I reflect on what busy holidays like 5 de Mayo and Mother’s Day reveal about a restaurant operation. High-volume days don’t usually create problems; they expose...
Episode #124
In this episode of The Your Life and Restaurant Podcast, I talk about a hard truth that many restaurant owners eventually face: sometimes the biggest bottleneck in the business is the owner. It usually comes from...
Episode #123
In this episode of the podcast Your Life and Restaurant, I talk about why I track almost everything in the business, and how that actually creates more calm, not more stress. At first, tracking can feel like extra work...
Episode #122
In this episode of the podcast Your Life and Restaurant, I talk about one of the most overlooked bottlenecks in restaurant operations: the window. Most owners think their problem is the kitchen or the servers, but often...
Episode #121
A few episodes ago on the podcast Your Life and Restaurant, I talked about the transition from the first generation to the second in a family business. In this follow-up episode, I explore the psychology behind that...
Episode #120
What do you do when one of your top servers gives two weeks notice and you didn’t see it coming? In this episode, I break down the emotional and strategic side of turnover in restaurants. Not every exit is a culture...
Episode #119
If you’ve ever run a restaurant, this episode will feel familiar. I take you inside a real month of restaurant operations by walking through my incident log; call-offs, lateness, ignored instructions, and all the small...
Episode #118
In this episode of Your Life and Restaurant , I talk about a simple truth we often avoid: everything in life has a price. Success in business, financial freedom, a strong marriage, personal growth—none of it is free...
Episode #117
Raising prices doesn’t have to feel scary. In this episode, we break down the art and science behind restaurant pricing, anchoring strategies, and how to raise prices the right way. Start making confident, intentional...
Episode #116
Most family restaurants don’t fail because of bad food or bad service, they fail because the handoff between generations isn’t handled right. In this episode, I talk about what really needs to happen for a second...
Episode #115
In this episode of Your Life and Restaurant , we talk about the power of ideas. How keeping a steady flow of new ones keeps your restaurant evolving and growing. We’ll also dive into what to do when those ideas don’t...
Episode #114
After 20 years in the restaurant industry, I think I’ve found the #1 thing leaders can do to build a restaurant where people don’t quit. Curious what that’s all about? I break it down, and share other key retention...
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