Ep. 1023: Becoming a Better Outdoor Leader - Jeanette Stawski
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
There is no one "right way" to lead--you don’t have to be the fastest, strongest, or most experienced to be a great leader. What the best leaders possess is a deep commitment to the greater good.
Drawing on her decades of experience as a national outdoor leader, Jeannette Stawski explores the elements of transformative leadership. Using real-life examples from the outdoors and every day, she focuses on the essentials: resilience, grit, integrity, tolerance for adversity, and highly developed listening and communication skills.
Whether you spend time in city parks, on mountains, in rivers, or beyond, you know that nature is a powerful teacher. Stawski shares inspiring stories from a range of outdoor enthusiasts and professionals, including Elyse Rylander, Kenji Haroutunian, Joe Stone, Stacy Bare, Victoria Lopez-Herrera, and more, as well as key principles from the Cornell Outdoor Education program, co-directed by Karel Hilversum.
Jeannette Stawski serves as executive director for the Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education (AORE). She is a Certified Association Executive (CAE) and a Certified Executive Coach. She was the director of Outdoor Adventures at the University of Michigan for eleven years and has worked as a professional outdoor guide, a wilderness medicine instructor, and NOLS instructor. She is currently the chair of the Coalition for Outdoor Access (COA) and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with her husband and their two children.
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| 0:00.0 | getting up a little late this week sorry about that just been behind lots of work |
| 0:11.6 | lots of family stuff trying to get back on track it seems like every time I travel for work |
| 0:16.8 | it just I don't think it's going to throw me off, but it ends up just the ripple effects. |
| 0:21.7 | Just, it takes weeks to get over. |
| 0:23.3 | It's so funny. |
| 0:24.7 | Travel for work used to be a lot of fun, you know, when I was in my early 20s now, it's like, oh, my gosh. |
| 0:30.6 | This is a hassle. |
| 0:32.2 | But, no, we're getting back on track. |
| 0:35.5 | And what's cool, this episode's definitely worth the wait because Jeanette is an amazing |
| 0:41.1 | communicator. |
| 0:42.2 | And as you're going to hear, has a ton of experience. |
| 0:44.5 | We're going to learn a lot in this episode. |
| 0:45.9 | But it's just going to be a little teaser of her book that's out, the outdoor leader. |
| 0:50.2 | And this is connected to the episode from last week with Jerome Rand, where we talked about |
| 0:54.9 | learning to share your outdoor and adventure experiences and knowledge and to start inviting |
| 1:01.6 | others with you. |
| 1:03.2 | You know, no matter if you're just, you know, you like going out enjoying time alone in nature |
| 1:08.4 | or you like doing huge, big adventures |
| 1:11.4 | that take multiple months, it becomes your life. |
| 1:13.7 | At some point, it is your responsibility |
| 1:16.3 | to start sharing that knowledge, sharing that story, |
| 1:20.2 | and helping others get into this, |
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