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The Leadership Nature Podcast — 99 episodes
166: Cultivating a love for the land
165: You're looking at a Tree Farmer's dream
164: I couldn't have done anything more rewarding
163: We Don't Take Away without Rebuilding
162: The Call of the Bobwhite Is Now a Normal Thing
161: Land is More than Finances; It's Your Culture and Heritage
160: Tree Farming Is a Way of Life for Me
159: 990 Acres That I Am Very Proud To Own
158: Trees Are a 50-Plus-Year-Long Term Investment that Pays Off
157: Heritage Property: Working on the Land in South Carolina
156: We have Potential. We have Strengths and We have Opportunity.
154: Wildland Fire is Tough, but Rewarding Work
155: We're All Connected in the World of Wildland Fire
153: Interagency Cooperation Starts Before the Fire Begins
152: Your Weakest Link Is Your Strongest Point
151: Fire Knows No Boundaries so We're All on the Same Team
150: In Wildland Fire, It's All About Interagency Cooperation
149: In Wildland Fire, Once-In-A-Lifetime Experiences Keep Happening
148: People in the Forest Sector Go Many Generations Back and Affect Many Generations Forward
147: As a Leader, You Have to Become Comfortable With Discomfort
145: Nothing Is Cookie Cutter with NRCS
146: Getting to Work Outdoors and Starting a Career Right After You Graduate
144: What We're Doing Now Will Affect Generations
143: Trust Takes a Minute
142: The Stories of Each Generation Make the Land as Important as the Blood in Your Veins
141: A Management Plan Without Clear Title Is like Putting the Cart Before the Horse
140: You Owe It to Your Ancestors to Maintain That Land
139: Conservation Is About Relationships
138: To See Changes in Family Dynamics, Those Are the Wins
137: We inherited a farm. Now what?
136: When a Landowner Gets a Forest Management Plan, Good Things Start to Happen
135: From an Organic Standpoint, I'm Diversifying the Portfolio of My Land
134: Women Landowners Are Incredibly Important in Land Management
133: To Build Trust, You First Have to Admit That the Stories Are True
132: Having Learned More Now, I Think I Would Have Asked More Questions Back Then
131: The Trust Factor Takes up 70% of My Time Even Today
130: They Were Losing Twice — Once on Productivity and Once on Price
129: It's All about Relationships When There Is a History of Abuse
128: You Have to Establish Trust Before You Try to Provide Service
127: The Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act
126: The Power of Social Media in Forestry and Natural Resources
125: The Difference Between Leading and Following Is the View
124: If You Have 25 Landowners, You Have to Have 25 Different Ways to Explain Something
123: The Number One Trait for Being a Forestry Consultant Is Persistence
122: You Have to Be an Educator and a Salesman to Be a Successful Forester
121: When I Put ACF Behind My Name, People Know They Will Get Value
120: Being a Boss and Being a Leader Are Not the Same Thing
119: Be Proud of What You're Doing in the Woods; Dirt Forestry Needs to Make a Return
118: Field Work Is Easy but Dealing with People Is Hard
117: Anybody Who Is an ACF Member Has the Credentials That We Demand
116: Leaders Evolve from a Chain of Events and a Series of Decisions
115: A Life of Service Having to Do with the Forest
114: The Best Advice Is Honest Advice
113: As a Forestry Consultant, Every Day Is Different
112: Take the Toughest Jobs, Do them to the Best of Your Ability and Don't Give Up
111: Fear Is a Choice
110: Successful People Do the Things That Unsuccessful People Are Not Willing to Do
109: My Activism Is Being Accessible and Creating Safe Spaces to Have Difficult Conversations
108: Why Can't I Have Big Dreams like Everyone Else?
107: Sometimes We Have to Let Go of the Past so that We Can Move into the Future
106: I'm Here to Teach What I Learned in Life Not What I Learned in the Classroom
105: Get out of Your Box and Go Find Some People of Color to Talk to About the Profession
104: It Takes a Lifetime of Learning to Become a Good Leader and Good Leaders Are Lifetime Learners
103: The simplest form of being a leader is having a positive influence on others
102: Learning to Be Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
101: If You Don't See Yourself as a Leader, You'll Probably Never Be One.
100: If We're Not Learning from Our Mistakes, That's the Real Failure
099: My Legacy Is Not What I Do Now, It's What I Leave for Later
098: To Be a Good Leader, You Have to Show That You Can Be a Good Follower
097: Do Your Best; The Rest Falls on Me
096: Being in This Profession Has Allowed a Country Boy like Me to Go to Places I Never Dreamed Of
095: We've Got a Planet to Take Care Of, and It's Not Just One Group of People Who Are Going to Save It
094: Don't Let Anyone Make You the Gazelle; I Choose to Be the Lion!
093: Leadership Is a Verb: It's a Constant State of Becoming, Not Something You Arrive At
092: You Can't Be Bogged down in This Moment, This Day or This Hour; This Is About Is About a Legacy
091: It's One Thing to Help People but Another Thing to Empower Them
090: It's Not About Inspiring, It's About Building Trust
089: You Can't Be Afraid to Act
086: Work Hard at Work Worth Doing
087: The Work We Do Is Ego-System Management, Not Eco-System Management
085: I Don't Believe in Leadership by Title; I Believe in Leadership by Influence
084: Leadership and Learning Are Indispensable to Each Other
083: Don't Skip the Middle Learning Curve.
082: I'm Smart Enough to Know What I Don't Know
081: If You Aren't Getting Flack, You're Not over the Target
080: If There Is a Problem, Tackle It Head On
Not Many of Our People Believe in Status Quo
None of Us Is as Smart as All of Us
077: Leadership Is Related to Ambition, and Ambition Is Born
076: Don't Raise Your Voice, Elevate the Conversation
075: Don't Be Afraid to Step into New Territory
074: Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan
073: You Can't Make Decisions in a Vacuum
072: You've Gotta Love What You Do so You Can Sell It
071: I Like Folks That Don't Think Like Me!
070: Get the Right People With the Right Strengths in the Right Place
069 - Just Like Forests, Leaders Need to Be Productive, Diverse, Complex, and Resilient
068 - Let the Experts be the Experts
067 - Winning Isn't Everything but Wanting to Win Is