Val Trullinger (UCLA)
Episode 55 · August 27th, 2020 · 50 mins 9 secs
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