• Love Is Free. Guac Is Extra.

  • How Vulnerability, Empowerment, and Curiosity Built an Unstoppable Team
  • By: Monty Moran
  • Narrated by: Monty Moran
  • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (120 ratings)

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Love Is Free. Guac Is Extra.

By: Monty Moran
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Imagine you’re one of 75,000 people working in a huge company, and the CEO wants to talk to you, one-on-one, to get to know and understand you. That’s what Monty Moran did 20,000 times as he built the extraordinary culture that took Chipotle Mexican Grill from a regional burrito chain to a Fortune 500 superstar.

In Love Is Free, Guac Is Extra, Monty shows how he used curiosity, vulnerability, love, and a unique understanding of the true meaning of empowerment to build a distinctive and wildly effective culture. From his teenage days befriending homeless people at a Colorado Dairy Queen to his nuanced navigation of a complex co-CEO relationship, Monty demonstrates a relentless humility and desire to understand the person across from him.

This is not your average leadership book. This is a book about business leadership executed in a way you’ve never encountered before, by becoming the best version of yourself.

©2020 Monty Moran (P)2020 Lioncrest Publishing - Monty Moran

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Spectacular insight into leadership/communication

Amazing to hear Monty's journey and what a gift to be able to pull leadership lessons from his stories. Slightly biased as I was a GM at Chipotle during Monty's tenure having heard him speak in Vegas; he was always engaging and the highlight of the agenda. Looking forward to sharing a recommendation for this book to colleagues and also reading it again.. and again.

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Engaging story of a great leader

Highly recommended reading for anyone interested in how to revolutionize corporate culture and become a great leader. It’s inspiring to hear about how the phenomenal growth of Chipotle was built on a revolutionary transformation of it’s corporate culture. Monty Moran’s narration makes Chipotle’s story come alive.

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Great message, average delivery

This book delivers a great message with excellent advice for aspiring leaders from a lawyer turned CEO who is passionate about teaching others how to lead by truly caring about team members and listening intently to what they have to say. The writing and narration quality were only average though.

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Epic story and super inspiring author

really enjoyed the book, so many lessons to apply to my own life and business.

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Every leader must read this book

The last chapter titled “Next” was my favorite. How Wendy was helpful for the author to discover his next steps, I found encouragement and inspiration from his closing message. I’m certain that this message helped many others but it showed up to me in a perfect timing.

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Great Lessons For A Leader And Business Owner

Great book! Learned so many lessons that it will take time and discipline to incorporate them. But the book has made me confident in my abilities

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Both Reassuring & Challenging [In a good way]

Great lessons and insight from Monty! I'm still working on being a great leader and appreciated his journey. Easy listen and I will appreciate going back to re-listen.

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Inspiring and full of teachings

Monty has and amazing story and a wonderful character, that he shares in the book.
I will need to read it multiple times because there is so much where one can improve from his thoughtful words.
Not only good for being better in the work setting, but it’s j just any aspect of our lives, as a parent, spouse, a son or daughter, a friend, etc.

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MUST READ

Motivational! A lot of self reflecting moments that make you want to do better. Best book I’ve read in two years! I’ll be highly recommending this book to all! Free advertising

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Great for young leaders

Great book from start to finish. Many life lessons I can apply to my work and business today. Highly recommend.

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