Camp Storm

Lessons From Life - Episode 3

 

In this episode Brandon and Dustin talk about what it means to be a leader during crisis, how to become a good follower and how importance of evaluating information in your decision making.  We hope that this episode will encourage you as we all navigate the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis together.

 

Story Parts:

[00:02:02] - The Summer Storm

[00:06:42] - Leadership means thinking of other people

[00:07:34] - The Hiking Trip - Rattlesnake

[00:09:04] - Knowing when to look at the information you have and make decisions is important

[00:09:55] - How do you become a good follower?

[00:10:34] - The power outage

 

Quotes from the Episode:

“An adventure is an inconvenience rightly perceived.” ~ G.K. Chesterton [00:01:17]

“Hindsight is always 20/20. When you are in leadership, it is hard to say that and justify it.” [00:06:05]

“Sometimes our leaders may do things that we think are really strange and we don’t understand but to some extent a good follower trusts that their leader has the best thing in mind.” [00:07:01]

“Often times inconvenience creates the biggest opportunity.” [00:12:05]

 

Links:

LessonsFromLife4U.com

 

Host Bios:

Brandon Hill, PhD

Brandon loves collecting stories, whether those are his own experiences, or the experiences of others. He loves to have adventures and take trips to create new memories.

Brandon has one adult son, Levi, and three exchange students (Jonathan, Luca, and Henry) who he also considers to be part of the family. Brandon is passionate about adoption, higher education, and developing people. Brandon has an undergraduate degree in Accounting and Information Science, a Master's in Education, and a Doctorate in Higher Education Administration. Brandon current serves as Chief Student Affairs Officer at a 4-year private institution. One of his favorite jobs has been serving as a Resident Director for 7 years where he developed friendships with many people, and experienced a lot of life lessons. Brandon is a StrengthsQuest Educator Trainer, and loves helping people achieve their maximum potential through discovering and developing their strengths. Brandon's hobbies include gardening and creating scrapbooks for the family adventures, as they are a great way to capture the stories and life lessons from these experiences.

 

Dustin Fenton

Dustin’s mission is to help people achieve more than they thought possible, by helping them stretch out of their comfort zones. He loves to provide value to those he engages with by connecting them to new ideas or people so they can see success in their lives professionally and personally. With a background in organizational leadership and nineteen years of working with young professionals he has experience in coaching people to new and greater heights and helping them find the purpose God has for them.

He has had the privilege of facilitating many life-transforming events from mission trips to multiple week-long backcountry trips to advising Christian music festivals. He most recently served at SpringHill as the General Manager of Indiana Overnight Experiences and served both staff and guests in ways that gave them to the opportunity to achieve more than they thought possible. His life motto is “There is more in you than you think” which is taken from Kurt Hahn, a patriarch of the experiential education movement.

Dustin has been married to Jan for 18 years and they have two children. He is a graduate of Greenville University (BS Youth Ministry/Mass Communication) and Azusa Pacific University (MA Organizational Leadership). He enjoys time with family, reading great books, exploring outdoors, and learning all he can about the intersection of leadership development and transformational experiences.