Leadership Portraits

Leadership Portraits is a conversation created to inspire the leader in you! In episode nine of Leadership Portraits, Kristen Wilson shares with us some very powerful truths about leadership from her life and career with years of leadership experience in both the real estate and church industries. Kristen is an internationally recognized cultural ambassador in the Keller Williams realty group. She shares about her journey from being abused as a child and overcoming to find a strong sense of identity and fulfillment. Kristen and her husband Lionel live in the Corvallis, OR area and have four grown children. This was an inspiring conversation for me and I hope it will be for you too. Thank you so much for listening and learning! Please share this episode with someone you think will benefit from it! Quotes from This episode: "God has a plan to honor women more." "The mind is the key to the soul–as a man thinks in his mind, so he is." "Leadership is about empowering others..helping them see in them more than they see in themselves." "Throw out the language of quitting." "Feed your own determination." "Surround yourself with dream-makers not dream-takers." "Start develop daily habits of growing in leadership." Free music on this episode of Leadership Portraits is provided by: www.bensound.com www.freestockmusic.com audioblocks.com

Leadership Portraits is a conversation created to inspire the leader in you! In episode seven of Leadership Portraits, Jerry Bumgarner shares with us some very powerful truths about leadership from his career spanning four decades of leadership experience in the corporate world. He also shares about being sexually abused as a child and how this hindered his leadership ability until he was able to find healing. Jerry and his wife Denise live in the Corvallis, OR area and have four grown children.This was an inspiring conversation for me and I hope it will be for you too. Thank you so much for listening and learning! Please share this episode with someone you think will benefit from it! Quotes from This episode: "Deal with your past. Get to the level of growth that you need to, don't wait! If there's pain in your past, you need to deal with it." "Leadership is to facilitate a shared team effort to accomplish a goal." "Love is freedom from self-interest." "Love is demonstrated by asking others for input into decisions and planning." "Leaders seek to create an environment where people like to come to work." "If you're leading, you really have to be transparent. Don't just assume other know you care. Show them!" "Part of a leader's goal is to bring others along with them." Music on this episode of Leadership Portraits is from: www.bensound.com, www.freestockmusic.com, and audioblocks.com

Leadership Portraits is a conversation created to inspire the leader in you! Have you ever started a business? Founded a community? Planted a church? Are you currently leading a long-term project or team? This will be a helpful conversation for you; offering tools well-suited to navigate your challenges. In episode seven of Leadership Portraits, Jeff and Kari Patterson share with us some very powerful truths about leadership and building trust as well as some of their backgrounds and paths of leadership development. This was an inspiring conversation for me and I hope it will be for you too. Thank you so much for listening and learning! This leadership portrait features Jeff and Kari Patterson. Together, they are the leaders of Renew Church in Oregon City, Oregon. Jeff is the lead pastor at Renew Church and also a triathlete. He's currently training for a half-ironman triathlon raining money for Team World Vision, helping provide clean drinking water to people in need. Kari Patterson is a well known speaker, blogger, and author of several books such as "Faithfully Frugal: spend less, give more, and live more." You can learn more about Kari at her website and also follow her blog, "The Sacred Mundane." Jeff and Kari have two children, Dutch and Heidi. Together they live in Beaver Creek, Oregon. Quotes from Jeff Patterson: "People like to follow a leader who doesn't have it all together." "Our title should follow the character we have." "If I think of others as lesser than me, I will not elevate them." Quotes from Kari Patterson: "What men do in private effects every relationship they have." "Public dishonor is chipping away at people's ability to follow that person." Building and protecting trust: -Never embarrass or make another person uncomfortable publicly. -Create safety to fail in private by never misrepresenting your spouse/team in public. -Ask for permission before sharing private stories in a public setting, and only if they will be helpful for others to know. -Make role/job decisions based on gifting rather than tradition. -Look for and act on opportunities to honor each other in public. -Don't advertise a private disagreement into a public setting. Referenced resources: "The Making of a Leader" by Robert J. Clinton Connect with Jeff and Kari Patterson: Renew Church: www.godrenews.us Jeff Patterson blog: www.detheos.us Follow Jeff on Twitter: www.twitter.com/detheos Kari Patterson resources and blog: www.karipatterson.com Follow Kari on Twitter: www.twitter.com/karipatterson Find Kari's books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BOAB7KW Music on this episode of Leadership Portraits is from: www.bensound.com, www.freestockmusic.com, and audioblocks.com

Leadership Portraits is a conversation designed to inspire the leader in you. This portrait features John Marr. John currently leads a micro-church called "The Green Tree," a part of the Hive Communities, in Corvallis Oregon (www.thehive.org). John also works for Nike in Beaverton, Oregon doing application development as well as owns his own business doing mobile application development. John is a true renaissance man; an artist, author, song-writer, videographer, and more. John is currently publishing a children's book called "Little Yukka" (www.littleyukka.com). John is also a husband and father of four. John's leadership journey unexpectedly began shortly after he became a Christian and steadily progress as he began to lead mission trips around the world, youth groups, mission internships, Bible schools, and now as a house church leader. In episode six of Leadership Portraits, John shares with us some very powerful truths about leadership as well as some of his own background and personal journey of leadership development. This was an inspiring conversation for me and I hope it will be for you too. Thank you so much for listening and learning! Quotes: "How a man leads at home is how he leads." "Leadership is a blessing that creates a blessing. That's the point; the creation of a blessing for others, it's the common good that's the focus." "Either you love people or you don't." "Leadership makes real the best common good." "A part of leadership is recognizing and calling out the good in someone, opening up opportunities for them where they can even fail and making room for them to fail." "Good leadership creates the best experience for the common good of people." "Leadership ISN'T me somehow experiencing my gifts and making waves in the world and leaving a stamp." "Leadership is the bridge between where we are and where we should be–at all levels; whether it's emotional, psychological, financial, relational..." Music from www.bensound.com, www.freestockmusic.com, and audioblocks.com

Leadership Portraits is a conversation designed to inspire the leader in you. This portrait features Cindy Rodgers. Cindy is currently the director of womens ministries at Calvary Chapel Corvallis where she also oversees the day-to-day function of the church office and building. Cindy lives in Corvallis, Oregon and is the mother of three grown children and has five grandchildren. Tragically, Cindy's husband Russ lost his life in a valiant battle with cancer after 25 years of marriage. Cindy has been through the best of times and some of the absolute lowest. Through it all she has blossomed into a great leader and she is still getting stronger. This was an inspiring conversation for me and I hope it will be for you too. Thank you so much for listening and learning! Quotes: "Build your team." "God hasn't created us to be everything to everybody." "Communication communication communication; so we're not second-guessing each other, so we know what's going on in both of our worlds, what the expectations are, that really helps." "Here it is Lord. If he wants me to continue doing it, he's going to give it back to me and it's going to be with walking in surrender." "Don't let fear rob you of what God wants to do through you." "When our strength and our gifting and our everything is from the Lord, from the filling of the Holy Spirit, then we can't help but be effective for the Kingdom; it's not that we've tried to but it's just him in us." Referenced Resources: (1) "Daily Guideposts Devotional" (2) "The One-Year Bible" (3) "Draw the Circle" by Mark Batterson (4) Tours in Israel led by Pastor Rob Verdeyen of Calvary Chapel Corvallis: http://inspiredtravel.com/Corvallis/#tab-id-3 Music from www.bensound.com & www.freestockmusic.com

Leadership Portraits is a conversation designed to inspire the leader in you. This portrait features Lionel Wilson. Lionel is currently the CEO of Keller-Williams Realty of the Mid-Willamette Valley in Corvallis in Corvallis, Oregon. Lionel is also a husband and father of four. He has led large casts in dramas and musical productions, pastored youth groups, and served as a leader at Calvary Chapel Corvallis for many years. This was an inspiring conversation for me and I hope it will be for you too!

Leadership Portraits is a conversation designed to inspire the leader in you. This portrait features Rick Fletcher. Rick is currently the Administrative & Associate Pastor at Calvary Chapel Corvallis in Corvallis, Oregon. Rick also served as a professor and leader in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University for more than 30 years. He has a wife, Peggy, of more than 41 years and two adult sons now married with their own families. This was a very helpful conversation for me and I hope it will be for you too! Who can you inspire with this edition of Leadership Portraits? Let me know who you would like to hear on this podcast as well as additional or different questions you would like to hear answered! Thanks so much for listening. Music from www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Leadership Portraits is a conversation designed to inspire the leader in you. This portrait features Bond Martin. Bond is an instructor at Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, Oregon. She is also in a leadership role with the Heart of the Valley House of Prayer; an organization dedicated to facilitating corporate prayer gatherings and unity between church congregations in Corvallis, Oregon. Who can you inspire by sharing Bond's leadership portrait with? Music from www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music