192: Carey Lohrenz - The 1st Female F-14 Tomcat Pilot: Fearless Leadership, Top Gun, Courage
The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk
Ryan Hawk
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🗓️ 20 February 2017
⏱️ 52 minutes
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"The best have the courage to step up. Don't ever think others are better than you or they have advantages that you don't. Step up. Do the work."
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
- Common themes of leaders who sustain excellence:
- Mindset about how they view setbacks
- Have a comfort in the uncomfortable
- They are always learning, constantly striving for more
- How JJ Watt seems to embrace "the suck"
- Carey answers the question... "Why was she the first female F-14 Tomcat pilot?"
- Going to Miramar to train as a fighter pilot -- The experience of it...
- Some of Carey's classmates flew in the movie Top Gun
- Call sign: Vixen
- Where was Carey deployed? World wide on aircraft carriers. Discreet missions
- Carey has landed over 150 times on an aircraft carrier and many times at night
- Listen to her detailed description of what it's like to fly at night over the ocean (pitch black)
- An aircraft carrier = "Looks like a postage stamp... I have to land in 1.2 seconds on it"
- How does Carey overcome the palpable fear?
- Constant repetition
- Why write the book Fearless Leadership?
- The 3 Fundamentals of Fearless Leadership
- Courage
- Tenacity
- Integrity
- Courage -- You will be filled with self doubt. "The best have the courage to step up. The ability to go for it even when they're afraid."
- "The most successful people I've seen do what they need to do even when they don't want to do it."
- Keys to building a great culture
- Be a great wingman
- Trust
- Get help with your blind spots - have open lines of communication built on trust
- Must hold each other accountable
- What is the military's secret weapon to improvement?
- Debriefs:
- What was supposed to happen?
- What did happen?
- Why was it different?
- What can we learn from this?
- How do we incorporate this next time?
- Debriefs:
- The military has the ability and processes in place to learn faster than the competition. Businesses can do this too, but most don't.
- It starts with the Leader -- "This is what I did wrong... And how I will fix my mistake."
"I went from Mach 2 to pre-school."
Continue Learning:
- Follow Carey on Twitter: @CareyLohrenz
- Read: Fearless Leadership
- Connect with me on LinkedIn
- Join our Facebook Group: The Learning Leader Community
- To Follow Me on Twitter: @RyanHawk12
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| 0:17.4 | We have to land on about 300 feet so every time I come aboard the aircraft carrier going about 160 miles an hour as I cross the back end to that deck and I slam the deck, I come to a full complete stop in 1.2 seconds. And that force, that deceleration force alone |
| 0:20.7 | is enough to blow any other airplane in the military's inventory into a little |
| 0:24.8 | tiny LEGO pieces and parts. |
| 0:27.4 | Hey and welcome to the Learning Leader Show. I am Ryan Hawk. Thank you so much |
| 0:34.8 | for being here. Thrilled with my featured leader tonight. It's Carrie |
| 0:39.4 | Lorenz. She was the first female F-14 Tomcat pilot, a true pioneer in military aviation. |
| 0:48.0 | She flew missions worldwide as a combat mission-ready United States Navy pilot. She then went on to write a |
| 0:56.4 | best-selling book titled Fearless Leadership High Performance Lessons |
| 1:00.4 | from the Flight Deck. In addition to that, she's a high content, keynote |
| 1:04.8 | speaker speaking around the world inspirational talks to Fortune 100 companies. |
| 1:10.7 | What a conversation, a few of the things we got into, what it's like to land on an aircraft carrier at night. |
| 1:18.0 | And then the three fundamentals of fearlessness, followed up by the military's secret weapon to |
| 1:25.8 | continuous improvement. |
| 1:27.8 | Ladies and gentlemen you're gonna love this one with Carrie Lorenz. Carrie, thank you so much for being here on the Learning Leaders Show. |
| 1:37.0 | Welcome. |
| 1:42.0 | Hey, thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here. |
| 1:45.0 | So I have a question that I like to ask to high performers like yourself. |
| 1:50.0 | It is discussing how we sustain excellence and you've spent time around other |
| 1:56.8 | extremely high performers you certainly are one yourself what are some of the |
| 2:01.3 | common themes you found amongst those who sustain excellence |
| 2:04.6 | over an extended period of time? Wow, out of the gate with a tough one. Well one of the |
| 2:11.8 | things that I found and not only in my time as a fighter pilot, but even in the time since then, working with really high performers, is really how important mindset is and your mindset around how you choose to think |
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