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Simsation NationS4 Ep. 2: Grounded Leaders w/ Lt Col Tamekia "T-Payne" PayneDuring this episode, T-Payne answered the following questions:
Tell us a little about your leadership role/responsibility
What is your definition of being grounded?
What does it mean to be a grounded leader?
What grounds you as a leader, and how do you stay grounded?
Is faith a huge part of your grounding?
How do you know you are staying grounded or when you are not?
How does one stay grounded in the right things?
Is being a grounded leader inherent or can it be learned?
Are there any barriers to groundedness?
You can add any other insights regarding the...2024-02-1533 min
Cadence ConvosGet in Step! MSgt Branden JohnsonIn today's episode, we get to chat with a person who has faced serious adversity, but makes no regrets for the path he was placed. In fact, this is a story of overcoming, creating generational benchmarks and annihilating the status quo. If anyone can relate to overcoming childhood homelessness, maternal drug addiction and teenage relocation and then become nothing like their environment, it's today's guest. There are often challenges that make or break a person and we hear from a real overcomer. He gets real with us about growing up in an Atlanta environment in...2021-04-1644 min
Cadence ConvosGet in Step! CMSgt Charmaine Kelley1. Know yourself. 2. Extend Grace. 3. Be true to your 'Why. 4. Form your own opinions about folk. 5. Touch lives We keep it short and sweet on today's podcast; but the convo we have here is not to be missed!
This South Carolina native, daughter of a single-parent home has made her mark in the Air Force and there is no doubt more to come as she continues to blaze the trails and ignite the fire for other women using her light to climb the ladder. She is living out her promise to finish what her brother...2021-04-0326 min
Cadence ConvosGet in Step! Maj Lenora Alva"What are you doing here? You're not supposed to be here..." are not words you think you would hear when walking into a recruiting station. But that's exactly what happened to our guest today before she was pushed into learning about officer careers in the military as she sat in the recruiter's chair.
Just in time for Women's History Month we chat with an African American Female, Third-Generation American with a Bahamian background about her experiences in the US Air Force. This South Carolina native, daughter of an Senior Non-Commissioned Officer talks about her first assignment...2021-03-1547 min
Cadence ConvosGet in Step! Lt Col Clementine Duke"When someone shows you who they are, believe them." - Maya Angelou
This sobering episode features a guest with a lot of credentials, but not a lot of credit throughout her career and her race is the reason. We talk deeply about "the conversation" that continues to follow black officers and Senior Enlisted members of the Air Force weather they are just starting or closing out their career.
From the Fourth Ward Houston projects to being a medical leader at Keesler Air Force Base, this fight nurse/instructor has overcome quite a few...2021-03-0143 min
Cadence ConvosGet in Step! MSgt LaShandra Denson (Ret)Angry. Black. Female. Stereotype or personal microaggressions?
She came in 1998 and saw her first black Chief Master Sergeant in 2012 on a deployment...
It's time to hear from a 21-year vet in the Active Duty game who reminds us that "it's OK to be a froot loop in a world full of cheerios."
She identifies herself by her faith first, then her race, and lastly her gender and service in the US Air Force. Her background from the projects did not prepare her for the racial and...2021-02-1625 min
Cadence ConvosGet in Step! Maj Henry SimsWhat do you get when you mix a 4 year Marine Corps enlistment and an 11 year Air Force enlistment with a total of 22 years of active duty service? You get a powerhouse leader who has done a lot, seen a lot and here to tell us about it! We are entreated to speak with 1/2 of a power couple...seriously, we have the utmost respect for this guest and his wife because they walk the talk, have accomplished much and remain humble despite their obvious amazing contributions to the culture. This legend in the making and father of two is...2021-02-0126 min
Cadence ConvosGet in Step! Anonymous GuestWho doesn't enjoy a little anonymity? This episode's guest appeared incognito, but we still get to the business at hand! We discuss a little about the Bataan Death March where tens of thousands of starving American and Filipino Prisoners of War were forced to march 66 miles in the scorching heat through the Philippine jungles. Source: https://bataanmarch.com/
We touch on the reality and unfortunate side of constantly getting hit on in male-saturated career fields and the verbalized perception that womanhood makes you weaker. Why doesn't training for leadership include ways to...2021-01-1544 minCadence ConvosGet in Step! Lt Col Jennifer-Ruth Green405. That's the approximate number of females of African American heritage who can say they're part of the Air Force Academy Alumni and we had the opportunity to chat with one of them! #girlpower #magic The Air Force Academy allowed women to attend beginning in 1980 and the number of graduates to date, including the class of 2020 is about 405...that's about 10 graduates per year for the past 40 years!
This conversation is saturated with positive experiences of a BL-ASIAN female pilot graduate from the Air Force Academy who successfully completed the Academy in 2005 due to her supportive friends...2021-01-0235 minCadence ConvosGet in Step! LTC (Ret) Michael Boykin, EsqAt the time of this recording, retired Army Reserves by way of the Army National Guard Lieutenant Colonel/Lawyer/UNC-Chapel Hill Business Analyst was finishing his PhD (phew!) so we, at Cadence Convos, want to send a huge congratulations and many virtual hugs for accomplishing another tremendously significant milestone in an already impressive legacy-building career! Join this '95 NC State University Alum in this sesh about how the military connected him to his father who served in Vietnam and his older brother. We talk about the normalization of racial traditions outside the military that found their...2020-12-1641 minCadence ConvosGet in Step! MSgt Asua RoseA nation at war has no time for racial or gender separations...right?! And even if it did (have time) the 1% of people who dedicate themselves to Serving are probably pretty good humans and therefore wouldn't entertain such petty divisiveness...right?! In this episode, we get to dive deeper into our convos with this Active Duty leader who is a proud graduate of the infamous Little Rock Central High School (the one from the black history books circa 1957) and a proud Arkansas native. We talk about how her hoop dreams and talent brought her to the Air Force, the...2020-12-0129 minCadence ConvosGet in Step! MSgt LaShaundra MyersIs it Black, African American or....something else and when to use which acknowledgement? In this episode, MSgt Myers and I talk about growing up in a seemingly racially unified Cali, being immersed into an ultra-black cultured Georgia and her early experiences in the Air Force that highlighted the need for diversity dialogue that allows a level of cultural curiosity and enforces real conversations.
Her favorite quote: "Whether your cup is half-full or half-empty, remind yourself there are others without one”
IG: @shebegreat
fb: Tamekia (Allen) Pa...2020-11-1540 min
Spirituali-TEA PodcastAre You Available? (Season 1: Episode 2)Building and strengthening your relationship with God is directly connected to your availability to him. Are you open enough to allow Go to speak to you and through you? Often, our schedules and routines do not allow God to freely speak to us and give direction. If you are ready to encounter God on a more regularly basis or want to learn simple steps to make yourself available to him, this is for you. Tune in as Dr. LaTanya converses with her best friend and bible scholar Tamekia Allen Payne. This conversation is a MUST LISTEN! Order Spi...2020-03-291h 12