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593: Kim "Killer Chick" Campbell - Contingency Planning, Responding to Adversity, Earning Trust & Respect, Flying in the Face of Fear, and How To Run a Debrief

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1h 4m
Broadcast on
28 Jul 2024
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Episode #593: Kim Campbell - Contingency Planning, Responding to Adversity, Earning Trust & Respect, Flying in the Face of Fear, and How To Run a Debrief

  • Aviate, Navigate, Communicate - "Aviate, navigate, communicate" is a fundamental principle in aviation that pilots learn early in flight training. It's a priority order that helps pilots stay focused and in control, even when they're under pressure or distracted:
    • Aviate: Keep the plane flying
    • Navigate: Figure out where you are and where you're going
    • Communicate: Talk to air traffic control (ATC) or someone else as needed
  • On March 20, 2003, Kim wrote letters to her loved ones in case she died in battle.
  • Prepare, practice, and plan for contingencies. My college football coach, the late great, Terry Hoeppner used to always say, have a plan, work the plan, plan for the unexpected. As leaders, it's on us to prepare, practice, and plan for contingencies. You don't have to get ready if you stay ready.
  • I love the way Kim's dad helped support her dream to be a fighter pilot. If you want to do this, you have to put in the work. Run hills, and do pull-ups every time you go to the bathroom. He didn't just tell her you can do whatever you want… He created opportunities for Kim to do the necessary work to achieve what she wanted.
  • Kim's telling of the story of how she was hit and how she responded. An amazing example of responding in the face of fear, dealing with adversity in a calm, poised manner, and making a tough decision. Kim's training and her attitude is what set her apart and saved her life.
  • Response to Rejection: Initially Kim was rejected by the Air Force Academy because of a low SAT score. In response, instead of quitting and moving on, she wrote a letter to them every week stating why they should accept her… Which they eventually did.
  • Dealing with fear: What's most important is what we do in the face of fear. We can't freeze. We must take action.
  • The Debrief:
    • Check your rank and ego at the door.
    • Write all the objectives down. Next to each one, grade it a plus or a minus. Find the root causes of each mistake.
    • What lessons can we learn from our mistakes?
    • What will we change for our next mission based on what we learned?
    • Share lessons learned beyond that room.
  • Johnny Bravo - Be humble, approachable, and credible. That's how you earn trust and respect and inspire others to follow.
I remember just popping out down below the weather and seeing this huge firefight. There's tracers and smoke and it's just, it's very surreal. And I just feel this huge explosion at the back of the airplane. Captain's KC withstands for killer check. Flying in the face of fear, amazing pilot. Take me to the moment when you wanted to go to the Air Force Academy, you didn't get in and then most importantly, what you did next. If you see the word "no" and to really feel like I wasn't good enough, it was devastating. I needed somebody to say, "Don't quit, you've got this, keep trying, keep going for it." I have always followed an approach of prepare, practice, and plan for contingencies. That's helped me in so many stages of my life. Can you go deeper on what it means to create a wingman culture outside of the military? Green culture is about serving a bigger purpose, something more important than ourselves. We learn early in flight training, AV8 Navigate Communicate. Welcome to The Learning Leaders Show presented by Insight Global, I am your host, Ryan Hawk. Thank you so much for being here, Tech Hawk, 266866 to become part of Mindful Monday. You, along with tens of thousands of other learning leaders from all over the world, will receive a carefully curated email from me each Monday morning to help you start your week off. Right? You'll also learn more about how our book, The Score That Matters, will help you become a more effective leader, Tech Talk 266866, now on to tonight's feature leader so good. Kim Casey, Killer Chick Campbell, is a retired Air Force colonel who served for over 24 years. She has flown more than 100 combat missions protecting troops on the ground in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2003, Kim was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism after successfully recovering her battle-damaged airplane after an intense, close air support mission in Baghdad. She's also the author of a great book called Flying in the Face of Fear, a fighter pilot's lessons on leading with courage. During this conversation we discuss how to make better decisions in the face of extreme stress and risk, and how to be better prepared to perform at any moment. You don't have to get ready if you stay ready. Again, how to deal with imposter syndrome, as well as how to create a "wingman culture" at your place of work. Ladies and gentlemen, this one is so good. Please enjoy my conversation with Kim Campbell. Kim it is awesome to see you again, welcome back on The Learning Leaders Show. Thank you so much, it's great to see you again as well. I need to publicly acknowledge, so I invited you to our Learning Leader Growth Summit this year in Columbus, Ohio, unfortunately you had a speaking engagement in Cincinnati so you could just drive up or get a car ride up. I didn't want to force you to speak, I wanted you to be able to relax and enjoy yourself and just kind of get a feel for what it's like. But everybody in the room was fan-boying, fan-girling out on you that I had to finally kind of come up to you and say you got to speak and then what did you do? You get up at the end of the first day and absolutely just destroyed the room. So I'm so thankful for you for getting up and doing that without even knowing that you were going to do it. It was awesome.

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