Life's Essential Ingredients
Life’s Essential Ingredients is spinoff of C4 Leaders, a California based non-profit who uses PIZZA to guide all people in RISING TOGETHER. The show is hosted by two best friends who were college roommates at the University of San Francisco – (Jeff with a Mike). Season 5 started in 2025 and the show is currently listened to in 94 countries and 918 cities.
The educational and entertaining show takes a deep, yet humorous look at life’s essential ingredients. The hosts engage in interesting conversation with some of the world’s best leaders, authors, athletes, musicians, chefs, architects, moms, dads, brothers, sisters, comedians, CEOs, coaches, professors, teachers, and many, many, more industries and professions.
The goal of the show is to have the guest highlight their life’s essential ingredients and for the listener to add an ingredient or two to their life recipe.
The hosts create space for the guest to be the star of the show and provide an incredible platform to highlight their life, their business, their passion, and most importantly, their gift they share with the world.
Our listeners are diverse and 9% are 18-24, 18% 25-29, 13% 30-34, 18% 35-44, 18% 45-54, and 55+ 24%.
Life's Essential Ingredients
Season 3 Episode #30 Katja Schleicher is Guiding People to Discover Their Story.
C4 Leaders – the ONLY nonprofit to utilize the pizza making process to create space for our companions to be seen, heard, and loved. We also write children’s books, host this podcast, and use the most amazing handmade, hand-tossed, sourdough pizza to bring out the best in each other. Please check out PIZZADAYS.ORG to support our important work.
Season 3 Episode #30 Katja Schleicher is coming from The Netherlands
You can find via her website katjaschleicher.com
About our guest: With three languages, two passports and a European heart, Katja travels across borders constantly to bring people and ideas closer through communication. She speaks at conferences about communicative misunderstandings and how to initiate change through communication. Known for her provocative style and her sense of humor on stage she looks deeper into our communication troubles – and is not afraid to talk about them.
Katja has degrees in both German and English in Language, Literature, Linguistics, and Psychology. For more than a decade Katja has passionately crafted her style and has shared her gifts with clients all over the world. Katja, thanks for helping many people communicate more effectively and thanks for being our guest on Life’s Essential Ingredients. Welcome to the show!
TOTD – “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink… although, you can make it thirsty.” Unknown
In this episode:
What was life like growing up?
What are your life’s essential ingredients?
What is intercultural communication?
The importance of transparency?
Flexibility in how you deliver information/meet…having the right format for the right purpose
The importance of reading the room
How important is LISTENING
What is the process for becoming a speaker?
Last book or books you recommend?
Enhancing the skill of giving and receiving feedback… how do you do that for your clients
Legacy