Forge Ahead: Transformational Leadership Secrets
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
My one favorite key to success is forge. You're moving, you're applying heat, you're applying drive, you're applying grit, you're applying determination. Forge ahead. Never become stagnant. The day that you become stagnant is almost as bad as the day that you stop learning. Because the day you stop learning, you need to retire from whatever endeavor you're in because you've just become dangerous.
Dr. Joel Smith is a battle-tested, disciplined, and transformational leadership expert, executive coach, and former U.S. Army aviator who helps CEOs and high-performing leaders lead with clarity and purpose.
Love your people intentionally. I like to teach them to notice, to nourish, and to navigate. You came in the room, we came in the room. How did you arrive? It's not what mode of transportation did you arrive in? What was your head space? Were you happy? Were you sad?
How did Dr. Joel Smith’s early life and military upbringing shape his leadership philosophy?
When you as a leader can pick up on the vibe of your people, you can get ahead of a lot of things. I've had many, many suicide cases and I've lost friends and I've lost soldiers. There were things that you absolutely noticed, but did we take the time to nurture them?
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Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of the Living Your Legacy podcast. I'm your host for today, Jason Tyler, and I am joined by Dr. Joel Smith. Welcome to the show, Doc. How are you feeling?
Thank you so very much for having me. I am ecstatic.
I'm happy. I love the good energy, the good vibes, the good vibes. Now, you just finished recording your episode What would you say is like the number one lesson you want people to be able to take away from your story?
My three P's, my three P's framework, people, purpose, and perseverance to love your people selflessly, to selflessly provide vision and purpose and to lead them through with perseverance.
Man, Kofi was not lying. You got bars, man. I was not prepared for that. I don't know if you saw it. I was taken aback a little bit. So this is the audience's first time getting to know you. Give me a little bit of your background, your story. What brings the Dr. Joel that is in front of me today? How do we get from a young Joel to the one sitting here today?
We're going to do some sound bites for this one. born on Fort Campbell, Kentucky, grew up in Clarksville, Tennessee, right outside the base small neighborhood called Birchwood Estates, predominantly African-American military families, very athletic, very much into everything. Father was a soldier, mother was educator, first African-American teacher on Fort Campbell. So if you know anything about growing up in a house full of educators, I do.
I do a little.
My pops was one of them. Non-negotiable at its best. So any homework that wasn't legible and that she couldn't read, she would just tear it up. You couldn't copy it and redo it. You had to start over from scratch. So you learned to get it right the first thing. Grew up, like I said, in Birchwood, which was just outside of Fort Campbell. So on one side of me was Fort Campbell, which had the military helicopters. On the other side of me was Outlaw Field, which was the small civilian airport. So I grew up knowing from second grade, just laying out in the yard that I always wanted to be. Took my first flight at the controls at the age of 16. My degree was in aerospace. My bachelor degree was in aerospace. Joined the military, became a pilot for the military, flying attack helicopters, little birds, all those kind of fun things.
Also flew military intelligence airframes, did 32 years in the military. Came out of the military, started off with United Express, COVID, went to Atlas flying Amazon Prime, COVID in, back to United flying jumbos out of Dulles, primarily South America and Europe. Lost my medical due to multiple surgeries due to 32 years in the military.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:59
2
How did Dr. Joel Smith’s early life and military upbringing shape his leadership philosophy?
0:59–10:54
3
What is the 3P framework (People, Purpose, Perseverance) and how did Joel develop it?
10:54–17:28
4
Why did Joel choose aviation and what key career milestones defined his path to leadership?
17:28–20:10
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