Yesterday I volunteered to give up my seat for a ticket and had a free night in Memphis, TN. (In between one week of meetings on the east coast to a convention in Florida).
It happened to be the weekend of an annual music festival. Four stages in a park with different musical acts were playing all day long. I got downtown Memphis around midnight when it the festival was ending.
There happened to be a nice girl in my shuttle and she agreed to go down to the famous Beale Street where Elvis used to play. BB King has a restaurant/bar there too.
Today when I returned to the airport, I saw Dennis, a member of the Temptations. He was going to Birmingham, VA I believe. What an interesting night. I rented a taxi roundtrip to Mississpi’s Grand Casino. I didn’t stay long, but the drive was nice.
I’ve realized that when I travel alone, I am more apt to meet people and reach out, relate, visit and not be as skeptical of hidden agendas.
This trip has refreshed my sensibility that people are good.
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Published by Trudy Sobocienski
My blog, "Beyond Leadership" is a creative place to share my personal feelings and thoughts while working in leadership roles for a variety of Alaska Native organizations, both for and not-for profit entities.
An incredible leader and mentor of mine once asked while we were in Washington, DC, "What happened to you between the ages of 7-10 that motivated you to serve in a native leadership capacity". I was struck by that poignant thought and as such, include actual entries from my mother and my diaries beginning in the early 1970's.
I enjoy sharing these excerpts because it captures the parallels she and I were experiencing throughout life, from two separate worldviews. Hers as a young mother of four and mine as her eldest child.
I have never came across a book on leadership that lays bare a leaders personal feelings, thoughts, hopes, fears and dreams they were experiencing.
So for me, my goal is two-fold:
1. Share the incredible life my parents created for my siblings and I growing up in remote Alaska; and,
2) Sharing my humanity, through my personal diaries and journals, while serving as the youngest-ever President/CEO for the Alaska Native Health Board.
There are passages that will include significant policy issues I was working on throughout my career and travels. There are many more passages that do not.
I cannot speak for my mom's passages, because I am reading them as I share them here, with you; with her permission of course.
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