Authority Issues

In this episode, rachel, Kendall, and Val talk about: * Coming up to technical leadership via graphic design and creative writing * Becoming the person who fixes the printer * "If you can get through Finnegan's Wake, you can get through the technical manual" * Discipline, leadership, making herself heard in the Air Force Civil Air Patrol program and military family connections * Adjusting her military-learned leadership style for training interns * What "IT Communications" means * Learning the important difference between being effective and being right * Resiliency vs perfection * Prioritizing reinforcing the skills you can improve, some weaknesses won't be improved by grinding * Deciding to push through skill deficit for the love of sports * How academia means managing relationships for the long term with a soupçon of Game Of Thrones * Using one's physical assets to project confidence and be heard * Recognizing when you don't have to be the one who is in charge, freeing yourself * The joys of Strongman tra