5: 'Forced' Chaplaincy Internship Sets A Career Path of Service and Advocacy - Larry Minnix
Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love
Don Hutcheson
5.0 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2015
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
At his ‘forced’ chaplaincy internship in seminary, Larry Minnix faced a turning point. His decision set him on a 45-year career path of service and advocacy for aging and mentally ill persons. As President and CEO of the Washington, DC-based nonprofit, LeadingAge, his advocacy work is at the nexus of public policy and money. He traces his career trajectory to a Methodist summer camp in his mid-teens, where he felt a call to minister. “The key is to relate to many different kinds of people,” he tells Don Hutcheson, host of DiscoverTalentPodcast.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison. Every day I interview someone from around the world who has discovered his talents to do work he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. |
| 0:28.9 | Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Larry Minnix. |
| 0:33.4 | Hello, Larry. Welcome to the show. |
| 0:35.3 | Hey, Don, how are you? |
| 0:36.5 | I am great, and I'm glad to be with you. |
| 0:38.4 | Larry Minix is president and CEO of leading age, a position he has held since 2001. |
| 0:45.5 | Been in the mental health and aging services fields for over 45 years and is a frequent speaker on strategic planning, quality, ethics, policy, and the not-for-profit |
| 0:57.5 | responsibility in today's world. |
| 1:00.3 | Thanks for the opportunity, Don. |
| 1:01.6 | Yes, I head up an organization that represents 6,000 members. |
| 1:08.0 | It's a not-for-profit organization. |
| 1:10.4 | The vast majority of our members are aging service |
| 1:13.0 | pride or some offering services with younger people with disabilities. Most of them have been |
| 1:20.5 | serving their communities on average for about 75 years, so they're the Jewish home and the |
| 1:25.9 | masons and the Baptists and the Catholics, |
| 1:28.2 | and they have a service footprint of about 4.5 million people. |
| 1:33.1 | My word. |
| 1:33.9 | And so my job is to lead and to serve. |
| 1:37.7 | I got the best job in the aging services field on. |
| 1:41.1 | I'm right here in Washington, and I'm here to help you. |
| 1:45.0 | My word. Tell us a little more about what are a few agenda items that you spend your time |
| 1:49.5 | dealing with with those 6,000 members. |
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