A Conversation with Oneka McClellan
Leadership Lean In with Chad Veach
Leadership Lean In with Chad Veach
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🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You ever get stuck in the airport? |
| 0:02.0 | No, I've never been stuck in an airport, but I've been stuck in an elevator twice. |
| 0:06.0 | No, where? |
| 0:07.0 | So I do not, okay, don't touch me. It's my worst nightmare. Okay, so I'm in safe company, but I don't love elevators. It's not my favorite. Same. So my first question then I asked when I check into a hotel, does this require a key card? because I don't know if you've been in an elevator |
| 0:19.0 | when you're trying to press the buttons, |
| 0:20.0 | but it needs the key card. |
| 0:22.0 | So, and when Earl takes too long to get out his key card because I don't know if you've been in an elevator when you're trying to press the buttons but it needs the key card. So and when Earl takes too long to get out his key card, I get a little |
| 0:25.5 | antsy, but it's because I've been stuck trapped twice. Okay, tell me the two. Tell me the two. Because I got |
| 0:33.2 | stuck in Mexico on a mission trip when I was a high school. You get it.. So tell me yours. Two times. First time in Austin at Shoreline Austin. Older church, older building, stuck for 30 minutes. Okay. Firefighters. What time of year? It was like winter. Okay. Thank God. But I wasn't. Summer would be a home. No, I would have like, no, exactly. |
| 0:54.6 | But I kept pressing the button. The doors would not open. Firefighters had to come with like jaw |
| 1:00.8 | things to pry me open. The second time, I was in New York at Hillsong Conference and we were going |
| 1:06.9 | up to our room. All of a sudden that letter goes, gunk, gunk, and it shakes. |
| 1:12.6 | I'm reliving this right now. I'm, like, starting to sweat. But it started to shake. The lights went out in the elevator. I'm not kidding. I can't. I dropped to the floor. Earl goes, what are you doing? I don't know. Something about dropping to the floor, it comforted me. I don't know why. and I just dropped to the floor |
| 1:27.2 | and I just started praying |
| 1:28.6 | and Earl kept pressing the button |
| 1:30.6 | and then finally there was floor it comforted me. I don't know why. And I just dropped to the floor and I just started |
| 1:28.0 | praying and Earl kept pressing the button and then finally there was open. That was probably 10 minutes. |
| 1:33.5 | Okay. So, um, and was it hot or no? It was, it was warm and because my big thing is I love air. |
| 1:40.0 | I know all we needed to live. You know, my big thing is a human is air. |
| 1:44.8 | But I love like a cool breeze. |
| 1:47.4 | And I love being able to feel the air. |
| 1:49.6 | Of course. |
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