Val Trullinger (UCLA)

About this Episode

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 training and exploring the limits of human strength

You can find Val on the internet at http://pantagruel.net :)

Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3