Bart Nollenberger just got back from twelve days in Lusaka, Zambia — and he came home with a message he can't stop thinking about. Invited to speak to more than two dozen audiences, from children in the slums to recovering men in a treatment center to business leaders and church congregations, Bart realized he wasn't giving twenty different talks. He was giving one.

In this episode, Bart puts leadership, recovery, and faith on the same table and shows how they all connect. Drawing on 41 years of sobriety and 42 years in the automobile business, he walks through the first four steps of a changed life — admit, believe, decide, and take honest inventory — and makes the case that they don't just heal a person, they change a culture. Because culture never changes from the outside in. It changes from the inside out, one heart and one surrendered morning at a time.

Whether you lead a company, a church, or a family around the dinner table, this one's for you. You are not too young, not too important, and not too far gone.

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David Long returns to Keep the Change to talk about his new book, Step Zero — and why winning isn't just about executing the process, but everything that happens before step one.

Bart and David break down the three things that separate top performers: attitude, energy, and approach. David also shares his personal journey — building four businesses, walking in faith, life as a grandfather, and his path of sobriety, with a message of hope for anyone struggling.

David Long is the COO of VAN (Vehicle Acquisition Network), President of David J. Long Consulting, VP of Schumacher Chevrolet, founder of All Things Used Cars, and creator of the "Pandemic of Positivity."

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COVID didn't just inflate paychecks — it gutted a generation of car people. Old dogs cashed out, GSMs got promoted before they were ready, and salespeople learned to take orders instead of build value. Now the margins are gone and a leadership gap is staring the industry down.

Bart sits down with John Alcorn — Operating Partner of Dogwood Auto Group (Mazda, VW, Volvo) — for a raw conversation on:

→ The mistake quietly costing managers their best people → John Maxwell's 5 Levels of Leadership — and where most managers are stuck → Why he raises men, not boys ("leaders eat last") → Why "change in the mirror first" is his #1 advice → A first look at SEF Score — his new tool fixing the measurables problem

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Your team isn't underperforming. Your feedback loops are.

The best leaders I know aren't failing because they lack knowledge. They're failing because nobody around them is telling them the truth.

Their team nods. Their managers agree. Their numbers stay flat. And somewhere in the back of their mind, they already know something's off, they just can't name it yet.

That's exactly what this episode is about.

If this resonates and you want to go deeper, I work one on one with dealership leaders who are ready to close the gap between their current leadership and what they're actually capable of. Email me at bart@bartnolenberger.com and let's start with a conversation. I'll also send you the full Goldsmith framework as my way of making sure you walk away with something valuable regardless.

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Most leaders are making this mistake daily, and their team already knows it.

Drew Tutton has built what most people in automotive only talk about at 20-group meetings and never actually create.

Multiple dealerships. Multiple partnerships. A reputation that precedes him across Georgia and Alabama.

But what's driven all of it isn't what you'd expect.

It started on an airplane. One book. One mirror moment that showed him exactly where he was winning and exactly where he was quietly failing the people around him.

He came back from that flight a different leader.

In this episode Drew goes deep on:

• The conversation most leaders avoid their entire career and what it's actually costing them
• Why your top performers might already be looking for the door without a single word of warning
• The hiring signal in the first few weeks that tells you everything you need to know
• What he draws a hard line on that most leaders are too comfortable to touch

And there's one moment in this episode where Drew says something about the person most leaders completely overlook in their building, and it reframes everything you thought you knew about what a winning culture actually looks like.

If something in your business feels slightly off but you can't name it yet —

This episode has a name for it.

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What separates thriving dealerships from failing ones? It's not the tools. It's not the leads. It's the culture, and most dealers are building theirs on a cracked foundation.

In this episode of Keep the Change, Bart sits down with Wendy Reeves, founder of BDC Angels and EiQ Performance Solutions, and one of the most connected and results-driven operators in automotive for a raw, unscripted conversation about what's really broken in dealerships today and exactly how to fix it.

Wendy has spent decades walking into struggling stores, diagnosing the real problems, and driving measurable change.

In this episode you'll learn:

• Why a shiny new tool inside a broken process will always fail
• The dangerous gap between fixed ops and variable ops, and how to bridge it
• How to actually change employee behavior
• Why your 70,000-name database is a goldmine you're completely ignoring
• The "trifecta" strategy for driving traffic without spending more money
• How the best leaders activate thinking instead of forcing compliance
• Why continuous learning and development is the most overlooked ROI in any dealership

Whether you're a dealer principal, GM, fixed ops director, or BDC manager, this episode will challenge how you lead, how you coach, and how you build a team that actually performs.

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Be honest, when's the last time someone actually challenged how you lead? Not your strategy. Not your numbers. You.

I didn't know Emer Sanabria before we sat down. Michael Cillo told me I had to talk to him. Within minutes I understood exactly why.

Emer spent 20 years in the Marine Corps. He's seen chaos most people can't imagine. And somewhere in the middle of all of it he learned something that changed everything about how he leads, in business, in faith, and at home.

In this episode we get into what it really means to set the temperature when everything around you is falling apart. We talk about the difference between telling people what to do and actually leading them. Emer shares a story that involves nothing but a broom and silence, and it's one of the most powerful leadership lessons I've ever heard. We also go somewhere personal toward the end that I wasn't expecting and I'm so glad we did.

This one is going to make you think about how you show up. For your team. For your family. For yourself.

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A dad watches his daughter lose everything — her strength, her coordination, her independence — over six months. Doctors have no answers. Hope is running thin.

Then one night, everything changes.

What Brian Robbins did with that moment didn't just transform his family. It became a nonprofit that has now quietly, without fanfare, changed the lives of 107 women who needed a fighting chance.

He's not famous. He's not on a stage. He buys used cars at a Toyota dealership in Michigan and spends his Saturdays in a garage with 30 volunteers fixing up cars to give away for free.

And somehow he's one of the most compelling people I've ever put a microphone in front of.

In this conversation we talk about obedience, gratitude, and what it actually looks like to build something — a business, a ministry, a marriage, a life — around love instead of ambition. We also get into leadership, culture, fatherhood, and the one question Brian asks himself that I haven't been able to stop thinking about since we recorded.

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