91: Sabrina Dalton — Leadership as a Mom & The MMoment II (An Event with Military Mentors))

July 08, 2022 by Cal Walters in Intentional Living, Leadership

Sabrina Dalton is the Director of Programs for Military Mentors. Military Mentors mission is to elevate, educate and facilitate mentorship for the military and beyond. In her capacity as the Director of Programs, she oversees the eMMissary Program, a leader development fellowship, and the MMoment, a one-day, intensive leadership conference in the DC area.

Sabrina is a graduate of the University of Colorado, Denver and is currently pursuing a Legal Assistant certificate through the University of Oklahoma Law Center. Most importantly, Sabrina is a military spouse, homeschooler and a mother. She is married to Tyler, a US Space Force Officer, and together they have 3 children that bring light and joy to their lives.

On this episode, we discuss an exciting live event on Saturday, July 23 in the DC area. If you’re interested in attending this powerful event, please click on the picture below.

We also discuss:

the backstory to her joining Military Mentors
the inspirational leadership of Dr. Chevy Cook (the Executive Director of Military Mentors)
her decision to be a stay at home mom
some of the tough (and controversial decisions) that carry guilt and shame as a mom
some of her key principles for success as a mom

This is Dr. Chevy Cook, the Executive Director of Military Mentors, with his lovely family

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90: Joe Byerly — What's in His Green Notebook and How to Capture Life Lessons

June 10, 2022 by Cal Walters

Joe Byerly is a military officer and founder of From the Green Notebook. He’s a graduate of the University of North Georgia and Naval War College. Over the years, Joe’s been a contributing writer to multiple professional journals and magazines and a contributing author to two books. He’s also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Modern War Institute.

If you’re in the military, you’ve probably heard of From the Green Notebook. It has become the go-to resource and platform for military leaders to share their lessons learned and grow in community. Joe also has a killer podcast, From the Green Notebook, where he interviews leaders from all sectors. We dig into the original story of From the Green Notebook, how military leaders have reacted to Joe’s work (some not so supportive), his “why” for doing this work, some of his practices for reading, reflecting, and capturing lessons learned, and stick around to the end where Joe shares his top takeaways from working closely with GEN H.R. McMaster, GEN Scott Miller, and GEN Chris Donahue, some of the top military leaders of this generation.

Also, check out Joe’s new book to help you reflect during a moment of career transition, My Green Notebook: Know Thyself Before Changing Jobs.

My Green Notebook: Know Thyself Before Changing Jobs

By Byerly, Joe, Crosby, Cassie

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89: Cal Walters — Reflections on 3 Years of Podcasting, Setbacks, and Self-Leadership

May 25, 2022 by Cal Walters in Intentional Living, Leadership

We're celebrating 3 years of podcasting!

Thank you to all of you that listen to and support this show!

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Today I get the mic flipped on me by my good friend Wes Cochrane. Wes joined me on Episode 84 when we interviewed his brother, Graham Cochrane, and as you’ll hear during this conversation, Wes was part of the reason I started this show in the first place.

So why am I doing this unique format today? Well, three main reasons.

First, I’ve had many of you ask when I was going to get behind the mic like I did the first 20+ episodes and share what I’ve been learning.

Second, this is a natural point of transition for me as my family and I are packing up to move in the next month and I’ll be changing jobs. It’s a natural moment of reflection.

And, third, we’re approaching the 3 year anniversary of this podcast starting, and it seemed appropriate to take a moment to celebrate and discuss highlights from the past 3 years.

On this episode, I get a bit vulnerable about some of my struggles over the past few years, some key lessons I’ve learned interviewing 65 or so leaders from all walks of life, I try to define what self-leadership means to me and how it’s different than self-help, I answer some listener questions at the end, and much more. I hope you enjoy this. Let me know what you think please! And whether you want more episodes in this format.

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88: Gino Wickman — How to Find Out if You’re an Entrepreneur, Create a Personal Vision, and Get Over Rejection

May 12, 2022 by Cal Walters in Courageous Leadership, Leadership, Intentional Living

I'm really excited to have Gino Wickman on the show today!

An entrepreneur since the age of 21, Gino has had an obsession for learning what makes businesses and entrepreneurs thrive.

At 25 he took over the family business, which was deeply in debt and in need of help. After turning the company around and running it for seven years, he and his partners successfully sold the company.

Gino then set out to help entrepreneurs and leaders get what they want from their businesses. Based on his years of real-world experience, he created the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), a practical method for helping companies achieve greatness. He has personally delivered more than 1,900 full-day sessions for more than 135 companies, helping them implement EOS. He is also the author of the award-winning, best-selling book Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business, which has sold over 1 million copies, as well as five other books in the Traction Library that have sold almost 2 million copies. Gino is the founder of EOS Worldwide, an organization that helps tens of thousands of businesses implement EOS with the aid of an international team of over 450 professional and certified EOS Implementers and online support. There are over 130,000 companies using the EOS tools worldwide.

Gino is now devoting time and energy toward helping entrepreneurs-in-the-making get a huge jump-start on taking their entrepreneurial leap, which is why he created Entrepreneurial Leap. The mission of Entrepreneurial Leap is to find all of the entrepreneurs-in-the-making, at any age, wherever they are—to help them realize their purpose and live the life they were born to live.

Entrepreneurial Leap: Do You Have What it Takes to Become an Entrepreneur?

By Wickman, Gino

Entrepreneurial Leap: Do You Have What It Takes to Become an Entrepreneur? is available for purchase through all major retailers.

Visit e-leap.com to Take the Free Entrepreneur-in-the-Making Assessment

Subscribe to the Entrepreneurial Leap YouTube Channel

Other items discussed during the interview:

10 Lessons Gino Learned from His Dad

10 Disciplines to Maximize Your Energy

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87: Whitney Johnson — The Benefits of Disrupting Yourself and Smart Growth

April 30, 2022 by Cal Walters in Intentional Living, Leadership

I want to publicly thank Ryan Gottfredson, a previous guest on this show, for introducing me to Whitney Johnson. I really think you will enjoy this interview. If you’re someone who feels a bit stagnant or like you’re coasting in this season of life, this conversation may inspire you to deliberately grow and find greater fulfillment.

Whitney Johnson is CEO of the tech-enabled talent development company Disruption Advisors, an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private company in America (2020). One of the top ten business thinkers in the world as named by Thinkers50, Whitney is an expert at smart growth leadership. Whitney has worked at FORTUNE 100 companies, and as an award-winning equity analyst on Wall Street. She co-founded the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business School’s late Clayton Christensen. She has coached alongside the renowned Marshall Goldsmith, selected by Goldsmith in 2017 as a Top 15 Coach out of a pool of more than 17,000 candidates. Whitney understands how companies work, how investors think, and how the best coaches coach.

An award-winning author, Johnson teaches the S Curve of Learning to managers and companies as both a keynote speaker and a frequent lecturer for Harvard Business School’s Corporate Learning. She is a LinkedIn Top Voice (2020) with 1.8 million followers. Her course Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship has been viewed more than 1 million times.

An innovation and disruption theorist, Whitney is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. Author of the bestselling Build an A Team (a Financial Times Book of the Month), Disrupt Yourself (fittingly described by Publisher’s Weekly as “Savvy . . . often counterintuitive . . . superb”), and Smart Growth. She hosts the weekly Disrupt Yourself podcast with guests including Brené Brown, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and General Stanley McChrystal.

Whitney was co-founder of the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Clayton Christensen. Her role included fund formation, strategy, and capital raising. They invested and led the $8 million seed round for South Korea’s Coupang ecommerce platform, currently valued at $50 billion.

Build an A-Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve

By Whitney Johnson

Disrupt Yourself, With a New Introduction: Master Relentless Change and Speed Up Your Learning Curve

By Johnson, Whitney

Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company

By Johnson, Whitney

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