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Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

145: Expert Interview: Finding the Hero Soul and Call in You, with Colonel Bill DeMarco

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5618 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Col. Bill DeMarco has a passion for leadership and helping others lead organizations to amazing results. He has commanded at the squadron, group, and wing (equivalent) level. His teaching posts include USAF’s Air University. To earn his three masters degrees he studied at Stanford University, Cambridge’s Business School, and works with Harvard’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative. “Some of us were born to be the hero of a story of epic proportions, but others are perhaps a hero of one small child, it could be your own or a child across an ocean, but both require a hero's soul, and a hero's call.”

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0:00.0

Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 145. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison. Every day I interview someone from around the world who has discovered his

0:21.7

talents to do work he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. Once a

0:28.5

week, I interview a well-known expert from the fields of personal development, education, career,

0:33.6

and life planning, who shares experiences, tools, and insights to help our listeners.

0:38.6

Today, I'm delighted to bring you our featured expert, Colonel Bill DeMarco. Welcome, Colonel

0:44.3

DeMarco. Thank you, Don. It's good to be here. Thank you, sir. Colonel Bill DeMarco has an

0:50.5

enduring passion for leadership and helping others lead organizations to amazing results.

0:57.1

He holds three master's degrees and a fellowship at Stanford's Hoover Institution and Cambridge,

1:03.7

Judge Business School, England.

1:05.7

He works with Harvard's National Preparedness Leadership Initiative as well.

1:09.8

He is commanded at the squadron group and

1:11.9

wing level teaches leadership at the United States Air Force's Air University, Auburn University, Montgomery,

1:18.9

is an international speaker and a senior associate with Giant Worldwide. So, Bill, that's a summary

1:25.4

of your illustrious career, your very impressive career.

1:29.3

Today's topic, as we've discussed, is finding the hero in you.

1:33.7

So as the expert, take the floor for a minute and tell us about how you frame this issue of hero and finding the hero in you.

1:42.4

Well, you know, Don, to me uh especially in the times we live in today

1:45.8

heroes are are so incredibly important you look at uh boy just look at our culture today you look at

1:52.0

anything coming out of Hollywood all the blockbusters are either something to do with uh dc comic heroes

1:58.5

marvel heroes star wars heroes yes Star Wars heroes. Yes.

2:01.1

You know, we all kind of look to these folks and think, wow, you know, look what they've accomplished.

2:05.5

I mean, I grew up in a family that we spent a lot of time looking at historic heroes.

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