Nic Bittle: Life and Leadership

Are you setting clear expectations with the people you lead, or are you expecting them to read your mind? How often does frustration come from expectations that were never communicated in the first place?

What does it really mean to set CLEAR expectations? How are you communicating the why behind what you ask of others? Are you having conversations with your spouse or family about what matters most or do unspoken expectations create frustration?

In this episode, Nic and Tarina discuss how better communication and clear expectations can strengthen both your leadership and your relationships. Nic also shares insights from his new book, Build Your One, available at nicbittle.com and why developing people starts with making sure everyone understands what success looks like.

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🎬 Check out Nic's Work Force Pro YouTube channel.

📚 Nic has written 4 books. You can decide which one is best for you here.

Why is it that we often give our best to our clients, coworkers, and even complete strangers, but the people we love the most only get the leftovers?

Have you ever walked through the front door after a long day at work, physically home but mentally still on the job? Or caught yourself being more patient with a stranger than with your own spouse or kids?

Are we so focused on being successful at work that we forget to be fully present at home?

In this episode, Nic and Tarina tackle the challenge of giving our best to the people who matter most. From setting boundaries between work and home to putting down our phones and being intentional with our time, they share some personal stories, a few laughs, and lessons they've learned along the way.

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📚 Nic has written 4 books. You can decide which one is best for you here.

What are ways you make traveling easier? Have you ever flown to multiple cities in one week? What would you do different if you traveled for living?

Does your travel partner judge your snacks while they eat a Butterfinger? What’s your favorite part of traveling?

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📚 Nic has written 4 books. You can decide which one is best for youhere.

What was one of the most memorable moments from your first semester in college? What opportunities did you take advantage of to pursue your life goals?

We catch up with Cruze early in his first semester of college. You may recall our conversations about whether he would pursue a bachelor’s degree or a trade. You’ll hear how he’s doing great and we couldn’t be more proud.

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🎬 Check out Nic's Work Force ProYouTube channel.

📚 Nic has written 4 books. You can decide which one is best for youhere.

How do you deal change?What’s your reaction to being another year older? Or your child moving out and moving on to college?

Are you in the camp: “When you make plans, God laughs?” Change is hard, especially if it’s not part of our plan. Why do we welcome change we like and then don’t welcome change we don’t like?

What’s your mindset when approaching change—whether it’s volunteering to change or being forced to change?

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🎬 Check out Nic's Work Force ProYouTube channel.

📚 Nic has written 4 books. You can decide which one is best for youhere.

Are you humble? Do you try to reason you’re way out of a problem or do you ask, “What did I get wrong here?”

When you’re asked why you’re not humble, do you blame someone else or do you take ownership? Is this a “them” problem or a “you” problem? Is there something you might need to change internally instead?

When was the last time you allowed pride to protect your image rather than invite humility in to improve your leadership?

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❓ If you have questions or comments for Nic & Tarina, please send an email to info@nicbittle.com.

🎬 Check out Nic's Work Force ProYouTube channel.

📚 Nic has written 4 books. You can decide which one is best for youhere.

(This episode originally aired on July 30, 2024.)

How do you to see yourself from moment to moment as a Struggler, Thinker, Doer, or Achiever? Do you know what triggers The Struggler versus The Achiever mindsets?

How have you grown in awareness—whether it’s on the job or at home? As a leader, how do you communicate to create more connection and less friction? How are you meeting people where they’re at and not where you expect them to be?

Where did you put your cheat sheet for remembering the Four Mindsets?

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🎬 Check out Nic's Work Force ProYouTube channel.

📚 Nic has written 4 books. You can decide which one is best for youhere.

(This episode originally aired on July 23, 2024.)

What does a person with The Achiever want versus what he/she needs? How are you providing resources so The Achiever can put points on the scoreboard?

When have you found yourself in The Achiever mindset and not getting what you need or want? Did people communicate with awareness and patience? How did folks talk with you and what would you have done differently?

In what ways is building more connection through Nic’s communication framework going help you to produce better results?

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🧰 Check out Nic’s new solution for foremen: The Foreman's Inner Circle

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🎬 Check out Nic's Work Force ProYouTube channel.

📚 Nic has written 4 books. You can decide which one is best for youhere.

(This episode originally aired on July 16, 2024.)

What does a person with The Doer mindset need? How do you imagine managing the relationship with The Doer?

Are you the person The Doer refers to as “I know a guy”? How are you engaging with more patience and more awareness—and making the relationship matter more than what needs to get done?

What are the ways you show you care when working with The Doer?

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🧰 Check out Nic’s new solution for foremen: The Foreman's Inner Circle

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❓ If you have questions or comments for Nic & Tarina, please send an email to info@nicbittle.com.

🎬 Check out Nic's Work Force ProYouTube channel.

📚 Nic has written 4 books. You can decide which one is best for youhere.

(This episode originally aired on July 9, 2024.)

Do you know someone who struggles to make a decision? When someone can’t make up their mind, whether you’re a foreman or a parent, do you swoop in and make the decision for them?

When someone can’t make a decision, do you see this as a weakness or a call for help?

When was the last time you were stuck in indecision and someone showed you kindness by helping you find clarity?

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❓ If you have questions or comments for Nic & Tarina, please send an email to info@nicbittle.com.

🎬 Check out Nic's Work Force ProYouTube channel.

📚 Nic has written 4 books. You can decide which one is best for youhere.

(This episode originally aired on July 2, 2024.)

Do you have a framework you use to be good with people? Or are you just winging it?

What method or approach do you use to gain insight into where someone—even yourself—is coming from? As a foreman or site manager, how often do you seek understanding before being understood?

Do you see being good with people an essential or non-essential part of your job as a leader?

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❓ If you have questions or comments for Nic & Tarina, please send an email to info@nicbittle.com.

🎬 Check out Nic's Work Force ProYouTube channel.

📚 Nic has written 4 books. You can decide which one is best for youhere.

This is the second part of a conversation with Nic’s friend, Brian Hill, attorney by trade, investor, and father.

According to Brian, there are three responsibilities. Are you putting in the emotional labor of being a leader? How often do you shine a light on what’s right?

Have you ever asked yourself, “I wonder if everything I’ve ever done as a leader is wrong?”

When was the last time have you received training on how to be a leader or better leader? What are you currently doing to invest in your ability and adaptability as a leader?

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🧰 Check out Nic’s new solution for foremen: The Foreman's Inner Circle

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❓ If you have questions or comments for Nic & Tarina, please send an email to info@nicbittle.com.

🎬 Check out Nic's Work Force ProYouTube channel.

📚 Nic has written 4 books. You can decide which one is best for youhere.

A long-time friend of Nick, Brian Hill, attorney by trade, investor, and father, joins him in the Corn studio.

If you won the lottery today, would it be a blessing or a curse? Do you know how to allow money to be a tool to solve a problem?

As a leader are you trading busyness for effectiveness? Are you carrying the total load and not trusting your team to own their part of the work? Or are you doing all the thinking for them?

How frustrated are you with some folks on your team but you haven’t told them? How will they improve or keep doing well if you never tell them?

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🧰 Check out Nic’s new solution for foremen: The Foreman's Inner Circle

💬 To subscribe to Nic’s Leadership DRIP, please text the word “DRIP” to 866-998-4545 then follow the prompts.

❓ If you have questions or comments for Nic & Tarina, please send an email to info@nicbittle.com.

🎬 Check out Nic's Work Force ProYouTube channel.

📚 Nic has written 4 books. You can decide which one is best for youhere.

Have you ever felt like you’re flying in circles? Or met with delay after delay after delay?

When was the last time the plan got change, rerouted, or redirected and you kept your cool? A time when choosing the right attitude made all the difference?

Do you believe that how you show up matters?

A big thank you to Clayton: you are the hero in this story in the way you showed up. Your generosity will not be forgotten.

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🧰 Check out Nic’s new solution for foremen: The Foreman's Inner Circle

💬 To subscribe to Nic’s Leadership DRIP, please text the word “DRIP” to 866-998-4545 then follow the prompts.

❓ If you have questions or comments for Nic & Tarina, please send an email to info@nicbittle.com.

🎬 Check out Nic's Work Force ProYouTube channel.

📚 Nic has written 4 books. You can decide which one is best for youhere.

(Episode 49 originally aired January 21, 2025.)

What’s something that you are disciplined about? Are you so obsessed with a goal that the gains you’ve made are too valuable to lose them?

Do you have a morning routine that supports your goals? As a leader, how are you building both your mind and your body?

Or do you like Honey Buns to the extreme like Cruze used to?

To check out Cruze’s reflections online from his daily reading go to his Instagram @Cruze_Bittle or TikTok @Cruze.Bittle.

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❓ If you have questions or comments for Nic & Tarina, please send an email to info@nicbittle.com.

🎬 Check out Nic's Work Force ProYouTube channel.

📚 Nic has written 4 books. You can decide which one is best for youhere.

(This episode comes from Episodes 88 and 89. They originally aired October 2025.)

How are you making communicating effectively a hard skill in your leadership? What frameworks do you use to be an effective communicator?

What strategies do you use to take the emotion out of your hard conversations? How are you putting people development first and trusting that good people will deliver productivity and profits?

You can reach Patrick at patrick@punchn.io.

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🛟 Click here to order your copy ofNic’s Life Ready Curriculum

🧰 Check out Nic’s new solution for foremen: The Foreman's Inner Circle

💬 To subscribe to Nic’s Leadership DRIP, please text the word “DRIP” to 866-998-4545 then follow the prompts.

❓ If you have questions or comments for Nic & Tarina, please send an email to info@nicbittle.com.

🎬 Check out Nic's Work Force ProYouTube channel.

📚 Nic has written 4 books. You can decide which one is best for youhere.

(This episode originally aired on December 10, 2024.)

What is your goal or intention when you show up on a Zoom call? Is it to connect with other people or do you look like the meeting is a chore?

Nic’s guest, Patrick McGowan, is also his podcast audio producer. Patrick runs Punchn Communications where he advises and trains leaders on how to level up their communications.

Do you stop to wonder how your presence across the lens may impact your ability to influence and lead others? As a leader, how are you demonstrating to your people a higher standard for how to show up on camera and off camera?

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🛟 Click here to order your copy ofNic’s Life Ready Curriculum

🧰 Check out Nic’s new solution for foremen: The Foreman's Inner Circle

💬 To subscribe to Nic’s Leadership DRIP, please text the word “DRIP” to 866-998-4545 then follow the prompts.

❓ If you have questions or comments for Nic & Tarina, please send an email to info@nicbittle.com.

🎬 Check out Nic's Work Force ProYouTube channel.

📚 Nic has written 4 books. You can decide which one is best for youhere.

Do you remember what you learned after your first year of marriage? What was working and what wasn’t? How did you balance work and family?

As you reflected on your wedding day, what was most memorable? Did it storm and rain that day or did someone forget your shoes? Was your future mother-in-law uncharacteristically calm?

What was your first fight about? Or did you just work through disagreements?

The first year of marriage is full of surprises, shocks, and how to do daily life.

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🛟 Click here to order your copy ofNic’s Life Ready Curriculum

🧰 Check out Nic’s new solution for foremen: The Foreman's Inner Circle

💬 To subscribe to Nic’s Leadership DRIP, please text the word “DRIP” to 866-998-4545 then follow the prompts.

❓ If you have questions or comments for Nic & Tarina, please send an email to info@nicbittle.com.

🎬 Check out Nic's Work Force ProYouTube channel.

📚 Nic has written 4 books. You can decide which one is best for youhere.

(This episode originally aired on July 8, 2025.)

Nic tricks his new son-in-law, Micah Graf, to join him on podcast. He opens the conversation with a question, “What are your intentions with my daughter?”

They talk about farming in western Oklahoma, which includes scaring up wild pigs. His favorite part of farmer is corn harvest. He also posts drone footage on Instagram @Oklahoma_Farming, capturing the seasons of farming. Check out the mile-long, 100 bushel corn harvest while a storm rolls in here.

Micah’s brother (Instagram: @That_Gun_Guy) got him started using thermals for rifle shooting and is on the Pulsar Pro Staff. Oklahoma farming often requires shooting pigs and coyotes, what Nic comments “thin them out.”

Nic asks him, “What do you think will be the biggest challenge of married life?” Micah says it’ll be his work schedule as a farmer and all the hours involved.

Nic shared some Nic Bittle Crap with Micah when he asked permission to marry Elle. He said, “My family isn’t getting bigger. You’re creating a new family and that comes first. You got to have the courage to say no.”

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🛟 Click here to order your copy ofNic’s Life Ready Curriculum

🧰 Check out Nic’s new solution for foremen: The Foreman's Inner Circle

💬 To subscribe to Nic’s Leadership DRIP, please text the word “DRIP” to 866-998-4545 then follow the prompts.

❓ If you have questions or comments for Nic & Tarina, please send an email to info@nicbittle.com.

🎬 Check out Nic's Work Force ProYouTube channel.

📚 Nic has written 4 books. You can decide which one is best for youhere.

(This episode originally aired on May 13, 2024.)

Nic and Tarina are joined by their daughter, Elle. She shares how she got started making the Encouragement Cards and how this experience over the past 9 years has given her confidence in her gift of encouragement. It’s a special episode profiling Elle’s leadership as well as her courage to do what others may consider weird. Her example is living proof that small gestures—whether it’s encouragement, faith, or cookies—can have a big impact.

If you enjoy Nic and Tarina’s podcast and get something from listening to “all this Nic Bittle Crap,” please hit the like button, share it with a friend, or both. Your recommendation goes a long way in helping us reach more people.

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🛟 Click here to order your copy ofNic’s Life Ready Curriculum

🧰 Check out Nic’s new solution for foremen: The Foreman's Inner Circle

💬 To subscribe to Nic’s Leadership DRIP, please text the word “DRIP” to 866-998-4545 then follow the prompts.

❓ If you have questions or comments for Nic & Tarina, please send an email to info@nicbittle.com.

🎬 Check out Nic's Work Force ProYouTube channel.

📚 Nic has written 4 books. You can decide which one is best for youhere.