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| Grady |
My leadership
role model is one of my mentors from high school. Grady was in charge of
operating the local origination television station that was required from the
law that cable operators had to give back to the community. We had a small television
studio that was run by students from the two high schools in Pacifica,
California. We televised the city council meetings live, and high school football
games live as a remote operation.
We, as students,
created original programming, in television and radio broadcasts as well as
many community involved people. It opened up my worldview and gave me a focus
and direction when my life was falling apart. Grady is gifted in handling
people and has a wonderful worldview. His experience in varied careers at that
time was impressive. Oh my, that was 43 years ago. He wasn’t tied down to a
straight path.
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| My mom, and me! |
I was accepted
to Ringling Bros. Clown College and he gave me the best advice, “Go and learn,
enjoy and find out who you are and if it doesn’t fit, don’t worry about it. Nothing
has to be forever.”
He taught me how
to hold life together under extreme circumstances and looking back I see how
much he gave to us as students, to the community and to his family. He gives
and doesn’t take. I pay it forward now. I try to give without wanting back. He
is one of the reasons I became a teacher. Oh yeah, that clown thing did work
out for a while too.
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| Grady's Company |
You can do
ANYTHING you want to. There are no limits, Grady showed me that. Grady has a really successful
online company, Audio Editions, books on cassettes and CD’s. www.audioeditions.com/. His journey through life has a great payoff. He earned it and deserves everything he has now. Karma is a good thing.
Image Sources;
my own photos & audioeditions.com
What a wonderful role model and life model. How will one know what to do unless one tries... we can get so tied up with our fear of failure and end up trapped. I'm so glad that the road was very different for you.
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