Ron reflects on five things he'd do differently in leadership, speaking from 35+ years of experience that started at 21 without formal mentorship. He's 56 now, grateful for what worked, and ready to share what he'd change.
Foreign. Hey, guys, don't turn away because Hope's not sitting here. Come on, give me a shot. It is running Hope. Unfiltered, real raw and relevant. And she's doing. Come higher. She's got the ladies. I forgot how many. She's, I think about a dozen ladies. And they're booked up, like, all the way through next year. So she does, I don't know what, five or six of them a year. And they last from, like, she has to go in on Tuesday and prepare, and they last from like a Wednesday to Saturday morning, something like that. And so there's always going to be probably 8 to 10 times a year where you just going to have to deal with me and when I'm best, when. When I'm by myself, it may be in a conversational style, doing some things that I think have maybe helped me, things that have maybe changed my life or things that have affected my life in a positive way. But what you don't get with the absence of Hope is the banter of going back and forth. I know this past weekend in the church service, we showed a clip of me and Hope talking about when I'm driving, and basically I'm cracking on the way she does and she's busting on the way I'm driving, this, that and the other. And everybody in the building was laughing by the time the clip was over. I can't bring you that by myself because I'm not a comedian, but when we get together, there's a lot of comedic value to our podcast. I'm glad you're here. I want to, first of all, start by saying this. My podcast only lasts about a half hour. I can't do the Joe Rogan three hour thing. I think I've got too much add. I don't claim that in a bad way. Sometime I think a touch of that helps you because you can multitask. But it is hard for me to dial in on something. Three hours. Whenever I pull up podcasts, I pull up 10 minute segments of people's podcasts broken down because I don't have the bandwidth nor the time to sit down and listen two or three hours of something so intentionally. I've just decided to keep mine in about 10 minutes. I mean, 30 minutes. I'm big on trying to give credit, and there's something I want to speak about and I don't know who to give credit to. So if you see it, that's where I saw it. If you're the one who did this, thank you for it. I give you credit for it. Here again, I say these. These principles are not original with me. However, my thoughts on these principles are original with me. So let me make that straight. I have people use my stuff and I give them permission to. I tell my pastors, I tell guys with me. I give them my notes and preach it, put your name on it. But, boy, I'm going to tell you, everybody don't feel that way. So the long and short of it, if I was not paying attention because I didn't see myself really reusing it in this way, but I felt like coming in here almost impressed by the Lord that this was something I needed to talk about because it was going to benefit somebody. I'm at the age in life where you do reevaluate. I don't have many regrets. I wouldn't trade places with anybody. I love the life God has given me, the people I've been called to, the places I've been called to. And I feel very blessed and I feel very fortunate. And there's a sense of gratitude that rolls with me in and out of every day of my life. I'm a never should have been anything. I was never voted most likely to do anything. So every day I get up and the fact that I get to talk to as many people as you is nothing really short of a miracle to me. And so I don't take anything for granted. But I am at the place in my life where I have enough life in the rearview mirror to reevaluate, you know, what would you have done different? I'm not an old man. I'm young at heart, young in mind and thought. But I'm, you know, I'm not a youngster anymore either. I'll be turning 57 next month, so I got 57, got a little bit in rearview mirror. Plus, I started being a senior leader so early in my life, age 21, that, you know, my tenure is very, very long. Not because I'm old, but because I started so young. Wish I would have had the five or six or seven years I could have trained under a great man of God. I wish I could have carried somebody's briefcase and observed and learned and served. That door was not open to me. It was not afforded to me. So I took the doors God did give me, and I tried to make the best of them. It was not the best path in the world. I sure could have used some wisdom. But I took my experiences, I tried to learn from my mistakes, and here I am. But I do have a few things I look back on, and I would do these things differently. And I saw somebody who put this Instagram post, and it was a literally Instagram post. And Hope held it up and said, this is pretty good. And I read them. She put it down. I said, hold me. Pull that back up. And there were 10 things somebody were talking about they would have done differently. I wouldn't have done all ten differently, but I did jot down five.
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