#168 - Sergeant Major Roy Lewis: How to Raise Lions and Be a Leader
Enter the Lionheart
Lawrence Dunning
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Sergeant Major Roy Lewis is a retired Army Sergeant Major and a professional speaker specializing in intentional leadership and personal development.
Roy has a relentless passion for empowering individuals and organizations to reach their full potential through transformative leadership.
0.00: Roy’s background leading to the military
6.00: Leaders make other leaders
12.00: Why effort is more important than results
18.00: Why kids today need better leadership examples
25.00: Problem of today’s “Microwave society” - wanting results without putting in the work
34.00: Raising money and the dangers of technology
40.30: Worries about his son serving abroad in the Middle East
47.00: How Military Services provides a Rite of Passage for young men
56.00: Why married couples should be a cohesive team
1.02.00: Marriage Tips from Roy
Book an online coaching session with Roy here: https://speaksgtroy.com/
Check out the latest episode here:
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/enter-the-lionheart/id1554904704
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4tD7VvMUvnOgChoNYShbcI
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | A single theme is too narrow for great minds and daring hearts. |
| 0:18.0 | Get ready to enter the Lionheart with your host, Lawrence Dunning. |
| 0:22.1 | What a pleasure to be joined by Sergeant Major Roy Lewis, retired after 36 years in the |
| 0:27.4 | military, and I know you've got so many wonderful lessons you've learned along the way. |
| 0:32.3 | Yeah, thank you, Lawrence. I'm glad to be here, and hopefully enough, share some funny stories |
| 0:36.8 | of just how this crazy ride has been all these years. My pleasure to be here. And hopefully enough, I share some funny stories of just how this crazy ride has been all these years. |
| 0:39.3 | My pleasure to be here. |
| 0:41.2 | So, can we please start with you, but just before you joined the military? |
| 0:44.9 | Were you one of those people? |
| 0:45.9 | I feel like the military is such a wonderful thing to give young men and women kind of a rites of passage. |
| 0:51.7 | Were you a bit lost in the minute you already needed a disfate from the military, or was there other reasons why you joined? |
| 0:58.1 | But that's a great question, because believe it or not, a lot of people don't realize, |
| 1:02.7 | I'm from New York, and I come from this little town called Island Falls, New York, |
| 1:07.8 | and it's about an owner from New York City, but however, it's the little town |
| 1:12.4 | that's connected to the famous West Point Military Academy in New York. And my relatives, |
| 1:18.6 | they all moved up there in the 60s for work. So my impression of the military was West Point. |
| 1:24.9 | So I, to be honest with you, I remember we went to go pick my dad up from work one |
| 1:29.0 | evening. And I saw these new freshmen come in and these upperclassmen came out of nowhere. |
| 1:35.1 | And they were like screaming at these kids. And I was like, I didn't want any part of that. |
| 1:39.8 | I was like, that was my impression of the military. So I did graduate in high school and I did two years of college. |
| 1:46.0 | And my major, believe it or not, was in music and theater. |
| 1:49.0 | Wow. |
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