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Hello and welcome to Building Leadership Community Podcast. I'm your host, Dora Mendez. I am the founder and CEO of Coach Dora LLC. Our guests will be entrepreneurs, small business owners, and community leaders that drive social impact. It can be lonely at the top, but it doesn't have to be.
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Host
Hello and welcome to Building Leadership Community Podcast. I'm your host, Dora Mendez. I am so excited about today's show. I cannot wait to share it with you.
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Host
I also want to remind folks,
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Host
Thank you. I just want to remind you how much it means to us that you tune in and you watch, and you listen, to our show.
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Host
Season two has been really exciting. Since launching Building Leadership Community Podcast, the journey has been nothing short of transformative. As a champion of inclusive leadership, growth and connection, season two is all about deepening the conversations and expanding our impact. At its core, Building Leadership Community Podcast is about fostering authentic leadership and empowering professionals to build stronger, more engaged communities.
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Host
Every episode dives into strategies, insights, and personal stories that help leaders navigate their leadership journey with confidence and purpose. So if you like what you're hearing, thank you to all our listeners and viewers. And if you're new to our show, please don't forget to like, share and subscribe and hit that little bell so you get notified when new content gets posted.
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Host
So let me tell you about our guest today. Speaking of powerful journeys, let me tell you about our guest today, Angela R Lewis. It's amazing. The ways we connect in this digital age. Angela and I connected through LinkedIn. And I knew instantly I had to have her on my show. This woman is a force of nature.
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Host
I'm going to read to you from her bio. A former pro basketball powerhouse, a coach who knows what it takes to win championships. A published author who empowers the next generation and the driving force of the head of operations at Speaker Hub, a global platform that's helping leaders like you expand their reach and impact. Like me, Angela has personally coach and mentored over 500 athletes, shared her wisdom with multiple books for young women in sports, and now brings her leadership magic to the nonprofit, education and startup sectors.
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Host
Get ready to hear someone who truly embodies resilience, finding your voice and leading with unstoppable confidence. Welcome to the stage, Angela R.
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Lewis.
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Guest
Dora, thank you so much. Thank you for having me. Thank you for that introduction. That
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Host
I meant it, genuinely. I'm so blown away that you agreed to be on our little show. And I wanted to ask you if you could begin. We always asked every, guest to begin by sharing, their leadership story, their career trajectory.
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Guest
story encompasses Sure, so my leadership story encompasses three big areas basketball, education, and then entrepreneurship. So I was I am six foot one, and I've been this tall since I was 12 years old. And I was really, like, uncomfortable. And very, sure of myself. And at a young age, I wasn't very confident by any means, and someone asked me if I could play basketball.
00:04:19:28 - 00:04:41:27
Guest
It was my first. Coach, Luther Coil, asked if I could play on the team. Dora, what I didn't know is that team was a traveling team, and that team gave me the opportunity to leave Saint Louis, Missouri and go beyond the places that my family had gone. And that ultimately led to me getting an NCAA Division one scholarship and playing professionally in Germany and seeing part of the world.
00:04:41:27 - 00:05:11:19
Guest
And so after I finished playing, I started working with youth programs and also nonprofits, really opening the doors of access with college tours and afterschool programs and entrepreneurship camps and those entrepreneurship camps. When I was executive director of a nonprofit called Nifty, we had these entrepreneurship camps. And that's what really changed my life, because I started to see that there are all these people who are creating the lives that they want, and they're all these different types of businesses that exist.
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Guest
And that led me to publishing books and speaking, which led me to creating an agency. And through that podcast, through that is the PR agency that led me to Speaker Hub, and now I'm head of operations at Speaker Hub, and I helped lead our team of over 30 people who are all based in different parts of the world.
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Guest
So I'm very grateful that basketball opened up the world to me and helped me to meet some unbelievable people.
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Host
I want to. Well, thank you for sharing that. It's an incredible journey that you've been on. And I guess I want to just follow up a little bit with with nifty. Because as a, you know, as a young or as a new, entrepreneur myself, I could have used something like that. When I, when I was younger.
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Host
And there's so few women of color in C-suite roles in the, in the US. So, your entrepreneurial spirit and what you learned really? I'm so glad you're putting it to, to use in terms of sharing with, with with the next generation of leaders. Can you tell us, what advice you would give to the next generation of leaders who are interested in, you know, starting a business or, you know, just even asking for that promotion or are unsure about, where to take their career.
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Host
What what advice would you give young young women?
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Guest
curious. Follow I would say “Stay curious, follow your curiosity”. One of my mentors. When? When I was in my late 20s. Early 30s, I asked, like, I don't really know. Should I get an MBA? So I do this. And he said, this. Follow your curiosity and let that open the doors. And then be willing to have conversations and ask questions about what do you do?
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Guest
How does it work? And the last thing I would say is go for it. Go for it. I listened to the audiobook “Lean In”, Sheryl Sandberg, and she said this stuff with me. She said, when you get a chance to take a seat on a rocket ship, take it. Even if you don't know if you can do the role.
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Guest
Like, I never worked in business operations before in this way with Speaker Hub, and because I had an agency, I had the skill set. But I've never been in a role and managed these many people before. But had received the opportunity and took it. So take the opportunities. If even if you don't feel like you're ready because you can learn anything.
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Guest
So just be willing to learn something new and take the opportunities and figure it out. Once you
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Host
I love that, sort of. Lead with curiosity. Follow curiosity. I just think that that's just great advice. And then I also like. I want to just, elevate what you said about, not feeling ready because oftentimes, no one's ever ready. You know, and, you know, so I don't think anyone could ever be ready.
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Host
Right. So I just think I just want to elevate that for our listeners and viewers because, if you don't take the chance, this is what my business coach had told. Told me, you know, I'm a coach. I have a coach because I believe in it. You've been a coach. But actually like a sport. My business coach has said move with imperfect action.
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Host
Because as long as you're moving, you are. You're advancing and you won't know if if if you're going to succeed or not. You won't know unless you take the chance.
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Guest
You’re absolutely right. Either you're gonna You’re absolutely right. Either you’re gonna learn something. Are you going to learn something. So it, it makes sense to just try. And if you read a job description and you can do everything that's listed don't apply for that. Apply for something else because you already know how to do
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Host
There's no challenge. Yes. That I love that.
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Guest
No. Take the challenge, take the risk.
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Guest
Every role I've ever had, I haven't known how to do it. And I think some of it comes from having played sports. And I know what it's like to not be able to make a left hand layup, but then you practice and you get better, and then eventually you can do it without even thinking. So know that you can grow and learn anything.
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Guest
If there's a role that you want, go after it. Go after the things that you want, even if you don't necessarily know how to do them yet. And trust that you will learn.
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Host
So, so I'm going to transition to our next, our next conversational prompt. So this is Building Leadership Community Podcast. And here I always ask folks what community means to them and how, you know, how do you build it? How do you leverage community? Because as our tagline says, it's it can be lonely at the top, but it doesn't have to be.
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Host
So can you share? I mean, you, you know, a lot of your wisdom. You you have a lot of wisdom. Can you share with our listeners and viewers what community means to you?
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Guest
Community, to me, meanse service. Find a place to serve. Find it. If you are looking for anything. Serve and give, give it away. So if there's someone who's looking, I'll give you a prime example from my life. I moved to Dallas, Texas recently, and I did my role as speaker hub. It's 100% remote. There is no one else in the US besides me, so I don't have colleagues.
00:11:01:27 - 00:11:21:18
Guest
And so I need colleagues and I love sports, and so I found out about an organization called Women in Sports and Events, and I decided to apply to be on the board and to serve in the organization. Now I have friends and colleagues and I'm, you know, involved in sports. And so now I have community, but it was through service.
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Guest
So find a way to serve to get your community. And your community can fill your soul.
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Host
I love that service. Community means service. Soundbite. I love that. Community means service. So. So I guess I want to elevate that for a second, because I serve on a board of a organization called Sinergia. Later this season will be interviewing the executive director of that organization. And they help, children, in fact, people throughout their lifespan with intellectual disabilities and the developmental disabilities and that has, it's it's hard.
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Host
But that has really been rewarding for me. But I, I have found that people are reluctant to serve. They're reluctant to serve or so how do how do we and and I have found that sometimes people don't have that sort of like, legacy of service or. I mean, I grew up in a, my both my parents were of service.
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Host
My father was in the military. My mother was an activist. So I so I, I was going to protest when I was a baby. I mean, you know, like, so I, I when I got to college and I met people who didn't vote, I didn't understand it. So I was always very civic minded. And I was surprised at how many people, you know, didn't like, like, didn't have that connection of, like, serving.
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Host
I mean, I grew up and that was all we did. That was all everybody did. So, I was shocked that other people didn't have that, like, volunteer serve, like, so how how would you sort of address that? How would you coach that? Because sometimes I had to learn to stop being judgmental because I used to like, really judge people and be like was like, I don't understand, why don't you serve?
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Host
And so how how do we address that? Because I agree with you. I think community is service. And, you need something kind of outside yourself sometimes to help, you know, you're not your job. You know, just something a little bit outside yourself. So could you share? You know, what would you do? Like if you encountered someone who, like, just is really, like the service part is not there.
00:14:04:05 - 00:14:20:18
Guest
I would say service looks different for everyone because of the life experiences I've had. It makes sense that I would serve in this way. But my mother was never on a board. My mother didn't do anything in the community. But every time someone walked up and asked for change, she would give it to them. The neighbors down the street.
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Guest
We were the house that had the basketball hoop in the backyard. So all the kids were over there playing basketball. Every. Every time there were a group of kids, mom was cooking and making sure all the babies have food to eat. So service is going to look different. For some people, it's serving your family. I'm a big proponent of take care of the people closest to you first.
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Guest
So you don't want to be someone out there in the world doing all these things, but the people closest to me don't have access to me, you know? So I think it's important for us to serve, but it's going to look different and take care of the people right next to you. That's really important.
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Host
So I, I, I like what you said because, it's similar to sort of what I kind of learned, which is I would have people say, well, I'm not a leader. I'm not. And and leadership looks different. And I was like, well, you you are. I don't don't think of yourself. Don't, you know, it's good to have humility, but don't downplay the fact that here you are.
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Host
Here you are with me. Here we are doing this thing. You are a leader and have confidence, and I. I really like that service is. Looks different. Serving in different ways. And sometimes people don't even realize the kind of community they're building, the leadership they're taking in, the service they're doing. So I really appreciate you lifting that up.
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Guest
Oh. You're welcome, you're welcomed.
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Host
Go ahead.
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Guest
You mention leadership. And some people don't feel like leaders. I used to think I was like that. I used to think that leadership was a title. The head of this or the president of that. But the truth is, we lead ourselves daily and we're the most important person that we can lead.
00:16:06:22 - 00:16:35:07
Guest
And even if someone doesn't have a title, you can still have influence. And ultimately, that's what makes someone. That's what determines if someone is a good leader or not. If you actually can influence someone's behavior, hopefully in a positive way, then that creates leadership. So we all have it on someone, even if it's not in a professional setting or in a in the community, but you're leading somebody yourself and maybe hopefully others.
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Host
I like that, so leadership, isn't a job title. So I'm going to a few minutes that we have left. Can you share with us how people can learn more about you, how they can follow you, what your social media handles are. And we will be sure to put that in the description of this episode so that, if you're listening, you don't have to pull the car over.
00:17:10:07 - 00:17:18:25
Host
If you're listening to the card over the car over. But we will add it in the description so you guys can click. So please share with us.
00:17:18:25 - 00:17:35:24
Guest
Yes, so you can find me on LinkedIn: “AngelaRLewis”. The R is very important. There are a lot of us out there. So, “Angela R Lewis” on LinkedIn, AngelaRLewis.com, “@theAngelaRLewis” on Instagram so you can find me there. I would love to chat about all things leadership, teamwork, communication.
00:17:37:11 - 00:18:09:20
Host
That's wonderful. So, before we wrap up, I just want to share that, again, how grateful we are for you to join us today. And, you know, I want let's continue building incredible community. One meaningful episode at a time. I know you and I will continue to stay in touch. And, I ask everyone to continue to follow Building Leadership Community Podcasts for more inspiring content.
00:18:09:22 - 00:18:15:12
Host
And let's lead together. Thank you so much, Angela.
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Guest
Thank you, Dora. Thanks for having me.
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Intro and Outro
You've been listening to Building Leadership Community. Watch on YouTube @CoachDoraM. Listen, wherever you get your podcast, follow me on LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube @CoachDoraM. Visit me on the web at CoachDoraMendez.com. Hosted by me, Dora Mendez. Produced by Dora Mendez and Dylan Rogers. Graphics, editing, and sound mixing by Dylan Rogers.
00:43:02:18 - 00:43:29:20
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Hello and welcome to Building Leadership Community Podcast. I'm your host, Dora Mendez. I am so excited about today's show. I cannot wait to share it with you. I also want to remind folks, Thank you. I just want to remind you how much it means to us that you tune in and you watch and you listen, to our show.
00:43:29:22 - 00:44:02:06
Intro and Outro
Season two has been really exciting. Since launching Building Leadership Community Podcast, the journey has been nothing short of transformative. As a champion of inclusive leadership, growth and connection. Season two is all about deepening the conversations and expanding our impact. At its core, Building Leadership Community Podcast is about fostering authentic leadership and empowering professionals to build stronger, more engaged communities.
00:44:02:08 - 00:44:30:25
Intro and Outro
Every episode dives into strategies, insights, and personal stories that help leaders navigate their leadership journey with confidence and purpose. So if you like what you're hearing, thank you to all our listeners and viewers. And if you're new to our show, please don't forget to like, share and subscribe and hit that little bell so you get notified when new content gets posted.
00:44:30:27 - 00:44:56:07
Intro and Outro
So let me tell you about our guest today. Speaking of powerful journeys, let me tell you about our guest today, Angela R Lewis. It's amazing, the ways we connect in this digital age. Angela and I connected through LinkedIn. And I knew instantly I had to have her on my show. This woman is a force of nature.
00:44:56:09 - 00:45:46:14
Intro and Outro
I'm going to read to you from her bio. A former pro basketball powerhouse, a coach who knows what it takes to win championships. A published author who empowers the next generation and the driving force of the head of operations at Speaker Hub, a global platform that's helping leaders like you expand their reach and impact. Like me, Angela has personally coach and mentored over 500 athletes, shared her wisdom with multiple books for young women in sports, and now brings her leadership magic to the nonprofit, education and startup sectors.
00:45:46:17 - 00:46:15:21
Intro and Outro
Get ready to hear someone who truly embodies resilience, finding your voice and leading with unstoppable confidence. Welcome to the stage, Angela R Lewis. Dora, thank you so much. Thank you for having me. Thank you for that introduction. That was really, really kind of you. I meant it genuinely. I'm so blown away that you agreed to be on our little show.
00:46:15:23 - 00:46:42:21
Intro and Outro
And I wanted to ask you if you could begin. We always ask every, guest to begin by sharing, their leadership story, their career trajectory. So. So my leadership story encompasses three big areas. Basketball, education and then entrepreneurship. So I was I am six foot one, and I've been this tall since I was 12 years old.
00:46:42:23 - 00:47:18:23
Intro and Outro
And I was really, like, uncomfortable and very, sure of myself. And at a young age, I wasn't very confident by any means. And someone asked me if I could play basketball. It was my first. Coach. Luther Coil, asked if I could play on the team. Dora. What? I didn't know is that team was a traveling team, and that team gave me the opportunity to leave Saint Louis, Missouri and go beyond the places that my family had gone and that ultimately led to me getting an NCAA Division one scholarship and playing professionally in Germany and seeing part of the world.
00:47:18:23 - 00:47:48:14
Intro and Outro
And so after I finished playing, I started working with youth programs and also nonprofits, really opening the doors of access with college tours and afterschool programs and entrepreneurship camps. And those entrepreneurship camps. When I was executive director of a nonprofit called nifty, we had these entrepreneurship camps. And that's what really changed my life, because I started to see that there are all these people who are creating the lives that they want, and they're all these different types of businesses that exist.
00:47:48:16 - 00:48:10:12
Intro and Outro
And that led me to publishing books and speaking with led me to creating an agency. And through that podcast, through that is the PR agency that led me to Speaker Hub, and now I'm head of operations at Speaker Hub, and I help lead our team of over 30 people who are all based in different parts of the world.
00:48:10:14 - 00:48:40:02
Intro and Outro
So I'm very grateful that basketball opened up the world to me and helped me to meet some unbelievable people. I want to well, thank you for sharing that. It's an incredible journey that you've been on, and I guess I want to just follow up a little bit with, with nifty. Because as a, you know, as a young or as a new, entrepreneur myself, I could have used something like that.
00:48:40:04 - 00:49:25:13
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We're not it when I was younger. And there's so few women of color in C-suite roles in the in the US. So, your entrepreneurial spirit and what you learned really? I'm so glad you're putting it to, to use in terms of sharing with with with the next generation of leaders. Can you tell us, what advice you would give to the next generation of leaders who are interested in, you know, starting a business or, you know, just even asking for that promotion or are unsure about, where to take their career.
00:49:25:13 - 00:49:52:16
Intro and Outro
What what advice would you give young young women? I would say stay curious, follow your curiosity. One of my mentors when when I was in my late 20s, early 30s, I asked, like, I don't really know, should I get into. So I do this and he said this, follow your curiosity and let that open the doors and then be willing to have conversations and ask questions about, oh, what do you do?
00:49:52:19 - 00:50:08:26
Intro and Outro
How does it work? And the last thing I would say is go for it. Go for it. I listened to the audiobook Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg and she said, this stuck with me. She said, when you get a chance to take a seat on a rocket ship, take it. Even if you don't know if you can do the role.
00:50:08:26 - 00:50:30:07
Intro and Outro
Like, I never worked in business operations before in this way with Speaker Hub, and because I had an agency, I had the skill set. But I've never been in a role and manage these many people before, but had received the opportunity and took it. So take the opportunities. If even if you don't feel like you're ready because you can learn anything.
00:50:30:14 - 00:51:00:26
Intro and Outro
So just be willing to learn something new and take the opportunities and figure it out once you get there. I love that, sort of lead with curiosity. Follow curiosity. I just think that that's just great. It. And then I also like, I want to just, elevate what you said about, not feeling ready because oftentimes, no one's ever ready.
00:51:00:29 - 00:51:21:21
Intro and Outro
You know, I, you know, because I don't think anyone could ever be ready. Right? So I just think I just want to elevate that for our listeners and viewers because, if you don't take the chance, this is what my business coach had told. Told me, you know, I'm a coach. I have a coach because I believe in it.
00:51:21:22 - 00:51:46:19
Intro and Outro
You've been a coach, but actually like a sport. My business coach has said move with imperfect action. Yes, because as long as you're moving, you are. You're advancing. And you won't know if, if if you're going to succeed or not, you won't know unless you take the chance. You're absolutely right. Either you're going to learn something.
00:51:46:19 - 00:52:09:08
Intro and Outro
Are you going to learn something? So it it makes sense to just try. And if you read a job description and you can do everything that's listed, don't apply for that. Apply for something else because you already know how to do every challenge. Yes, I love that. No, take the challenge. Take the risk. Every role I've ever had, I haven't known how to do it.
00:52:09:08 - 00:52:32:25
Intro and Outro
And I think some of it comes from having played sports. And I know what it's like to not be able to make a left hand layup, but then you practice and you get better, and then eventually you can do it without even thinking. So know that you can grow and learn anything. If there's a role that you want, go after a go after the things that you want, even if you don't necessarily know how to do them yet, and trust that you will learn.
00:52:32:27 - 00:52:59:10
Intro and Outro
So, so I'm going to transition to our next community, our next conversational prompt. So this is Building Leadership Community podcast. And here I always ask folks what community means to them and how, you know, how do you build it? How do you leverage community? Because as our tagline says, it's it can be lonely at the top, but it doesn't have to be.
00:52:59:12 - 00:53:26:26
Intro and Outro
So can you share? I mean, you, you know, a lot of your wisdom. You you have a lot of wisdom. Can you share with our listeners and viewers what community means to you? Community, to me means service. Find a place to serve. Find it. If you are looking for anything, serve and give. Give it away. So if there's someone who's looking, I'll give you a prime example from my life.
00:53:26:26 - 00:53:51:15
Intro and Outro
I moved to Dallas, Texas recently and I did. My role as speaker. Hub is 100% remote. There's no one else in the US besides me, so I don't have colleagues. And so I need colleagues and I love sport. And so I found out about an organization called Women in Sports and Events, and I decided to apply to be on the board and to serve in the organization.
00:53:51:15 - 00:54:27:09
Intro and Outro
Now I have friends and colleagues and I'm, you know, involved in sport. And so now I have community, but it was through service. So find a way to serve, to get your community. And your community can feel your soul. I love that service. Community means service. Soundbite I love that community means service. So so I guess I want to elevate that for a second, because I serve on a board of a organization called synergy.
00:54:27:12 - 00:55:19:08
Intro and Outro
Later this season will be interviewing the executive director of that organization. And they help, children, in fact, people throughout their lifespan with intellectual disabilities and the developmental disabilities and that has, it's it's hard. But that has really been rewarding for me. But I have found that people are reluctant to serve, they're reluctant to serve or so how do how do we and and I have found that sometimes people don't have that sort of like, legacy of service or I mean, I grew up in a, my both my parents were of service.
00:55:19:08 - 00:55:45:28
Intro and Outro
My father was in the military. My mother was an activist. So I so I, I was going to protest when I was a baby. I mean, you know, like, so I, when I got to college and I met people who didn't vote, I didn't understand it. So I was always very civic minded. And I was surprised at how many people, you know, didn't like, like, didn't have that connection of, like, serving.
00:55:46:01 - 00:56:11:20
Intro and Outro
I mean, I grew up and that was all we did. That was all everybody did. So, I was shocked that other people didn't have that, like, volunteer serve, like, so how how would you sort of address that? How will you coax? I'll call it that, because sometimes I had to learn to stop being judgmental because I used to like, really judge people and be like, I was like, I don't understand, why don't you serve?
00:56:11:22 - 00:56:44:08
Intro and Outro
And so how how do we address that? Because I agree with you. I think community is service. And, you need something kind of outside yourself sometimes to help. You know, you're not your job. You know, just something a little bit outside yourself. So could you share? You know, what would you do? Like if you encountered someone who, like, just is really, like the service part is not they like I would say service looks different for everyone because of the life experiences I've had.
00:56:44:15 - 00:57:03:02
Intro and Outro
It makes sense that I would serve in this way, but my mother was never on a board. My mother didn't do anything in the community, but every time someone walked up and asked for change, she would give it to them. The neighbors down the street. We we run the house. They have the basketball hoop in the backyard. So all the kids were over there playing basketball.
00:57:03:02 - 00:57:22:02
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Every. Every time there were a group of kids, mom was cooking and making sure all the babies have food to eat. So service is gonna look different. For some people, it's serving your family. I'm a big proponent of take care of the people closest to you first, so you don't need want to be someone out there in the world doing all these things.
00:57:22:02 - 00:57:46:14
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But the people closest to me don't have access to me, you know? So I think it's important for us to serve, but it's gonna look different and take care of the people right next to you. And that's really important. So I, I, I like what you said because, it's similar to sort of what, I kind of learned, which is I would have people say, well, I'm not a leader, I'm not.
00:57:46:14 - 00:58:12:10
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And, and leadership looks different. And I was like, well, you you are I don't don't think of yourself. Don't, you know, it's good to have humility, but don't downplay the fact that here you are. Here you are with me. Here we are doing this thing. You are a leader and have confidence, and I. I really like that service is looks different and, serving is different ways.
00:58:12:10 - 00:58:34:14
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And sometimes people don't even realize the kind of community they're building, the leadership they're taking in, the service they're doing. So I really appreciate you lifting that up. Oh you're welcome. You're welcome. Got you. When you mentioned leadership and some people don't feel like leaders, I used to think I was like that. I used to think that leadership was a title.
00:58:34:17 - 00:59:01:15
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The head of this or the president of that. But the truth is, we lead ourselves daily and we're the most important person that we can lead. And even if someone doesn't have a title, you can still have influence. And ultimately, that's what makes someone. That's what determines if someone is a good leader or not. If you actually can influence someone's behavior, hopefully in a positive way, then that creates leadership.
00:59:01:15 - 00:59:44:16
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So we all have it on someone, even if it's not in a professional setting or in a in the community, but you're leading somebody yourself and maybe hopefully others. Well, it's I like that. So leadership, isn't a job title? Not at all. So I'm going to a few minutes that we have left. Can you share with us how people can learn more about you, how they can follow you, what your social media handles are, and we will be sure to put that in the description of this episode so that, if you're listening, you don't have to pull the car over.
00:59:44:19 - 01:00:09:00
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Please. Listen, if you're listening to the card over the car over. But we will added in the description so you guys can click. So please share with. Yes. And so you can find me on LinkedIn Angela R Lewis. The R is very important. There are a lot of us out there. So Angela our Lewis on LinkedIn Angela our lewis.com the Angela our Lewis on Instagram so you can find me there.
01:00:09:00 - 01:00:38:05
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Would love to chat about all things leadership, teamwork, communication. That's wonderful. So before we wrap up I just want to share that, again, how grateful we are for you to join us today. And you know, I want let's continue building incredible community. One meaningful episode at a time. I know you and I will continue to stay in touch.
01:00:38:08 - 01:01:02:17
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And, I ask everyone to continue to follow Building Leadership community podcasts for more inspiring content. And let's lead together. Thank you so much, Angela. Thank you, Dr.. Thanks for having me. You're very welcome. Can you hold on, while the outro goes out, and then we'll debrief really quickly, okay.
