Life As Leadership

Lizzy Engele is an activist, creative, and life-long learner in the corporate and social impact communities.  She is the co-founder and executive director of MakerGirl, a 501c3 that has educated over 3K girls in STEM, and she uses her nonprofit knowledge at LinkedIn as a Nonprofit Account Executive.  She is a member of Park Community Church where she serves in the children's ministry, and she also enjoys staying active and baking.  Her passion for technology stems from how she's witnessed its capability to bring people together for economic opportunity as well as building and supporting visionary companies.    LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS - Be as focused on your volunteers/followers as those you are serving. Become interested in their success. - You make time for what is a priority for you. - Drive forward your product or program from your own personal motivations. - "Everybody wins... In order for an organization to succeed, every individual person has to succeed on their own level." - "Anything can be resolved thr

Josh, Bevelynne, Creed, and Elijah talk about Monday's interview with Jackie Nourse. The discussion goes into the importance of leading others with mission and the role of passion in mission (hint: passion should be based on commitment and goals rather than feeling and emotion). They also talk about how - as a leader - to think about group experiences and how to make the most of these shared experiences. Finally, the discuss the difficult question, "Am I worth following?"

Download a year’s worth of https://www.leadershipactionlist.com/ (weekly action steps to improve your leadership) for FREE!   Jackie Nourse is the host of the international hit podcast JUMP with Traveling Jackie, and she is the founder of The Budget-Minded Traveler, an award-winning blog and community designed to encourage and equip US-Americans to travel overseas. She also hosts adventure trips and retreats for her audience, leads mentorship programs for women, and blogs about adventure travel and lifestyle at TravelingJackie.com. She is a four-time study abroad alum, a linguist (with five languages and counting), and a serial expat. Her work has been featured by Self, Business Insider, Forbes, and more.   LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS Nearly everything in your life has come from a decision you have made People largely underestimate their own resourcefulness Life is what you make it. Do you even know what you want? As you grow, be aware that your passions and work may need to expand as well Invite people to

Josh, Cody, Kelsey, and Michelle talk about Monday's interview with Samuel Bolen of the Jackson Leadership Foundation. They discuss the importance of using your unique position to connect your network, how to plan well before implementing the plan, what makes a leader worth following, and finding the balance between planning and implementation.

The Jackson Leadership Foundation focuses on empowering leaders through capacity-building services including coaching, training, office support, networking, and other key areas important for leadership growth. The goal is to transform the city of Jackson, Mississippi. The Jackson Leadership foundation is a part of a larger network of Leadership Foundations across the world.

Josh, Thomas, Parker, and Maria talk about the second interview with CEO and ultramarathoner Greg Nance's experience with the World Marathon Challenge and many other challenges of his. The conversation ranges from how to use your life to inspire others, centering your actions around your purpose in life, how to be a good competitor, and the importance of being proactive instead of reactive.

Download a year’s worth of https://www.leadershipactionlist.com/ (weekly action steps to improve your leadership) for FREE!   Greg Nance is working to expand education access. Greg is the CEO of Dyad.com, which is a mentorship platform that has helped students earn over $27M in scholarships. He is also the Chairman of Moneythink, a nonprofit providing teens in 30 cities with financial capability mentorship to boost college success. His work has been recognized by President Obama, Harvard Business Review, and the World Economic Forum. Greg has been a Gates Scholar at Cambridge University and a Truman Scholar at UChicago. Greg loves endurance challenges and has solo climbed Mont Blanc, swam across the Nile River, and run 250KM through the Gobi Desert. He recently completed the World Marathon Challenge where he ran 7 Marathons in 7 Days on 7 Continents to help at-risk students overcome the financial barriers to college. The main drive behind the challenges Greg takes on: "I want to push past my limits and r

Josh, Maria, Thomas, and Parker discuss Monday's interview with CEO and ultramarathoner Greg Nance about his work with his business, Dyad.com and his nonprofit, Moneythink. The conversation goes from what your strengths are as a leader, how to select a team to complement your own abilities, identifying key points in your life connected to what you are passionate about today. They also talk about ways they find are and much more.

Download a year’s worth of https://www.leadershipactionlist.com/ (weekly action steps to improve your leadership) for FREE!   Greg Nance is working to expand education access. Greg is the CEO of Dyad.com, which is a mentorship platform that has helped students earn over $27M in scholarships. He is also the Chairman of Moneythink, a nonprofit providing teens in 30 cities with financial capability mentorship to boost college success. His work has been recognized by President Obama, Harvard Business Review, and the World Economic Forum. Greg has been a Gates Scholar at Cambridge University and a Truman Scholar at UChicago. Greg loves endurance challenges and has solo climbed Mont Blanc, swam across the Nile River, and run 250KM through the Gobi Desert. He recently completed the World Marathon Challenge where he ran 7 Marathons in 7 Days on 7 Continents to help at-risk students overcome the financial barriers to college.   LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS "Best team wins" put together the best group of people to mak

Josh, Bevelynne, Maria, and Jake talk about Monday's interview with Brian Tibbs, CEO at Ardeo Global. They discuss how to guide teams toward more effective work and how to foster trust. They also talk about Brian's thoughts on Millennials' drive - the importance of objectives, tools, training, value alignment. Are Millennials different in this than other generations? Finally, they discuss the importance of passion and purpose and how they relate to each other.

Download a year’s worth of https://www.leadershipactionlist.com/ (weekly action steps to improve your leadership) for FREE! Brian Tibbs is the CEO at Ardeo Global. Ardeo Global is a Christian nonprofit whose primary goal is to make disciples who make disciples. They do this by sending missionary teams around the world to plant new churches. Since starting the organization, they’ve sent 360 longterm missionaries to more than 10 countries, planted 94 new churches, and led tens of thousands of people to become followers of Christ. Brian lives with his wife Jill and three kids in Quito, Ecuador.  LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS  The goal of a 40/40 teammate should be to work yourself out of a job by preparing others for leadership. Objective, tools, training, and purpose create an effective recipe for success with young people Communal living leads to quickened maturity and preparation for for future relationships. Young people (20s30s) are much more moldable for leadership because they tend not to bring preconceiv

Josh, Anna-Maria, Austen, and Michelle discuss Monday’s interview with Wes Griffin, president and CEO at the International Leadership Institute. They discuss how different experiences in their lives worked together in unexpected ways, the difficulty of measuring outcomes (especially in small organizations and small group settings), and how to grow along with your organization or your team.

Download a year’s worth of https://www.leadershipactionlist.com/ (weekly action steps to improve your leadership) for FREE! Dr. Wes Griffin serves as President and CEO at the International Leadership Institute (ILI). ILI is a global organization dedicated to equipping leaders to accelerate the spread of the Gospel. They’re a great example of how to effectively produce leaders that produce leaders. Their training is centered around eight key principles: 1. Intimacy with God, 2. Passion for the harvest, 3. Visionary leadership, 4. Culturally relevant evangelism, 5. Multiplication of leaders, 6. Family priority, 7. Faithful stewardship, and 8. Integrity. From its beginning in 1998 till today, ILI has more than a quarter-million alumni and are working to have alumni in 100 nations by the year 2020. Wes has some great insight to share with us today, so let’s get started with the interview. Leadership insights Leadership affects everything else. Leaders need to care about results. Stories are not good enough for me

Josh, Kelsey, Jake, and Jonathan discuss Monday's interview with Phil Darke, president at Providence World. They discuss their experiences with mentorship, what it means that “leadership doesn’t always make sense,” when to delegate, and their thoughts on personality assessments (mainly, the enneagram).

Phil Darke, president at Providence World, shares his leadership insight on mentorship, excellence, learning, and cross-cultural leadership. Phil also shares about La Providencia, Providence World's incubator model for family-based orphan care.

Josh, Anna-Maria, Elijah, Tubby talk about their thoughts on the interview with Dr. Kathleen Patterson, servant leadership expert. They discuss some of they insights they found most interesting and point out what they think are contemporary examples of servant leadership.

Dr. Kathleen Patterson serves as a professor at Regent University, and she is the Director of their Doctor of Strategic Leadership program. She is a noted expert on servant leadership and has coordinated annual Servant Leadership Roundtables in the United States as well as three Global Roundtables in the Netherlands, Australia, and Iceland. She has been involved in a number of consulting projects nationally and abroad and sits on the board of directors for the Larry C. Spears Center for Servant Leadership, Care Net, and Millennials for Marriage. LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS Dr. Patterson shares about her path to studying and developing the theory of servant leadership. She discusses what servant leadership is and is not as well as how it is possible to lead more effectively as a servant. She shares some practical tips on what it looks like to serve as a leader - including how to fire people as servant leader! Unlike transformational leadership, which is focused on the organization, servant leadership is focused on the

This introductory episode of the Life as Leadership podcast gives you a preview of what's to come, including why this podcast exists, what it's about, and what you can expect each week. Highlights: There are opportunities in nearly every situation in life to lead. There are three questions each of us is faced with: Are you able to see these opportunities to lead? Are you prepared to lead? Will you actually step up and take action? This podcast is meant to give you access to lessons and insights from great leaders and to connect you with a community of leaders as a way to encourage and motivate you on your path toward becoming a better leader - to be a place where leaders gather to grow together. CONNECT WITH JOSH Instagram: https://instagram.com/joshuafriedeman (@joshuafriedeman) Email: josh@friedemanleadership.com Music credits: DJ Quads | Cruise Around | Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads/cruise-around DJ Quads | It Just Makes Me Happy | Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads/it-just