Welcome to a gathering place created for leaders by leaders. You will find here conversations about starting and guiding organizations, whether for-profit or nonprofit. Our name, The Whole Enchilada, refers to a leadership spirit. These are the brave, buoyant souls who go all in, dreaming of better ways to solve problems.
In each episode, host Mitch Santala, CEO of a startup supporting the financial services industry, and his guests target two objectives: offering encouragement and providing insights to those on the sometimes foggy, often risky, and always rewarding path called leadership.
Mitch and Whole Enchilada guest, Kirk Wayman, founder of Ikon Coaching, dive into some carne asada tacos and talk about the finer points of slow-roasted pork. Chicken fajitas get an honorable mention…
Physical health and emotional health go together. The show starts out with a controversial dish: the California burrito. Are French fries really appropriate in Mexican food? Isaac does a deep dive in…
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…Jonathan Anderson is the Executive Director of the Good News Rescue Mission in Northern California where he is changing lives by leading collaborative relationships from the heart. He, Mitch Santala,…
Mitch, Gil, and Chris welcome Mitch’s business partner and older sister, Keri Gentry, to the Whole Enchilada Table. After sharing bean burritos and some colorful conversation the team gets down to bu…
Joining Mitch and Gil this episode are land developer Joshua Johnson and restaurateur Chris DiGiovanna. After digging into carne asada tacos (and fancying themselves food critics), the group digs int…
Long-time ESA client, Karen Graham, has been in the financial industry for 16 years, advisor and wholesaler. She and Mitch Santala talk about her experiences as a woman in a male-led industry and the…
Jefferson Lee, the Director of Philanthropy for World Vision, joins Mitch to talk about the differences (and similarities) of the entrepreneurial spirit in both the non-profit and for-profit workspac…
In this episode, Mitch Santala talks to Hope Seth, an expert in community development and start-up success. The conversation centers around humility and the importance of reaching outside yourself to…
Mitch welcomes Chris Lamm, a mortgage advisor from the Redding, CA area. Chris’ successes include $1 billion in funded loans, more than 600 five-star testimonials and 5,500 successful closings. He an…
This week, we welcome Daniel Gil, the 2020 American Ninja Warrior champion. Mitch and Daniel talk about having purpose and creating goals, using failure to your advantage, and the importance of how y…
Mitch and the team are joined by Peter Iliyn, a servant leader who dives deep into his family history and the principles he learned from people like Holocaust survivor Vicktor Frankl, world leader De…
When entrepreneurialism and academia collide, you end up with a conversation that gets to the heart of discourse in our culture. Mitch is joined by Rita Kirk in an interview that brings new perspecti…
Joining The Whole Enchilada this week is author Brandon Waldon, who draws on his own experiences in being an artist to give his own perspectives on the power of words and how being more childlike can…
Executive Scheduling Associates’ founder and CEO Mitch Santala talks to ER physician and entrepreneur, Jeremy Corbett, about his three start-up companies and the paths he took for each of them. The W…
Start-up CEO Mitch Santala talks to Elizabeth Dixon, the Principle Lead of Strategy, Hospitality, and Service Design at Chick-fil-A about her entrepreneurial background and the leadership principles …