FLIGHT PATH
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FLIGHT PATH
A chat with two Bluebird volunteers
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Two young leaders volunteered their time at The Executive Sales Forum and we get a chance to hear their thoughts.
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SPEAKER_02Welcome everybody. Mike Mosquito Buzz here at Bluebird Leaders Sales Leadership Forum here in Boston this week. I have got two young folks that have joined us. Their dad, Larry, is actually going to be presenting with me this week. Introduce yourselves. I'm LJ, and I'm uh also excited to be with me. So I've got the youngsters with me this week. We're gonna have a good time. You know, I'm usually giving interviews to folks of industry. It's time for us to find out the upstart. What's Larry been teaching his kids behind the scenes that he's brought in front of us this week? Now, Michaela, talk to me. What is your favorite thing to do if you're not sitting at work or school? You want to listen to a podcast, you want to read a book, you want to go to the movies. What's your favorite?
SPEAKER_01Um, I love to golf.
SPEAKER_02Okay. All right. Golfer. Golfer. Carrying a handicap.
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_02All right. All right, can you beat your dad?
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_02Okay, alright. Larry Larry's saved today.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Same for me. Same, same thing.
SPEAKER_03What do you like? Talk to me. I like to uh I like boating. I like uh we just got jet ski, so I like jet skiing. All right, active family. Yep, I like to keep it active. I like golfing as well. Uh-huh. Play little sports like basketball, I like pick up with friends. Um I like to get active. I like to be out.
SPEAKER_02That's it for healthcare.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. But you want to be out and about. I think Larry, Larry, he's the same way, right? He is like to be out and about. All right, coffee or tea?
SPEAKER_01Tea.
SPEAKER_02Uh neither. I don't like either. You don't do either one. Stays away from the caffeine. All right. All right, sunrise or sunset. Young folks, which one are you?
SPEAKER_01Definitely sunset. I don't think I'd ever get up early enough for sunrise.
SPEAKER_02I think that's our new generation. They're gonna see a bunch of sunsets. Yeah, sunset. Sunset? Yeah. All right. What time do you typically get up during the morning?
SPEAKER_01Uh when I'm sleeping in, like 8 30, 9 o'clock.
SPEAKER_03Okay, that's not a bad sleep, man. Like 11 30 if I'm lucky. Probably. That's what I was expecting, right? Yeah, yeah. 11 30. If I'm lucky, yeah. Probably 12, 12, 12. 12. So yeah, it's creeping back for me. It's getting further. Yeah, this is what my dad yells at me. Have we ever seen 2 o'clock? Uh back in my day. I don't I don't know. I don't know. What's your day look like? I don't know. I don't know about recently, but back in your day.
SPEAKER_02You might have seen the two o'clock somewhere around there. Yeah. Alright. What's your favorite? Rebecca got hit me with these. What's your favorite summer snack?
SPEAKER_03Um, oh geez. Uh probably like fruit. I like like watermelon, okay? Like strawberry or something. Something like that. Alright, fruit. Seasonal. Taylor.
SPEAKER_01I do really like a low country boil.
SPEAKER_03Good luck. Good luck.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Welcome to the cookout. All right. Low country boil. I just that was three weeks ago for me. Yeah. Low country boil.
SPEAKER_01That was we had a we did occasion boil a couple of weeks ago last week.
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, every time I go down to Georgia, they we do a low low country boil.
SPEAKER_02Well, I'm from Georgia, so yeah. Right, that's nice. Alright, last thing you guys binge watched.
SPEAKER_01Oh god.
SPEAKER_02You sat down and didn't get up until it was done.
SPEAKER_01Oh.
unknownDamn.
SPEAKER_01I think parks and rack is what we're doing now.
SPEAKER_02Parks and rack? Yeah. Beginning and end.
SPEAKER_01Beginning. I still in the middle of that one. I don't know. I think Ted, right? We're almost done with that.
SPEAKER_03Watching Ted. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Ted Ted.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Ted. Yeah. That's a good one.
SPEAKER_01Ted is a good one. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Alright. That's a good one. Alright. So, alright. So when you're flying, you guys you guys fly with your dad.
SPEAKER_01We do.
SPEAKER_02Alright, talk to me. Window or aisle. Which one do you say? Dad, don't sit me here. I want to be window or aisle. Isle. I like window. Okay. So guys are mostly aisle. I know Tim and I were aisle. Yeah. Michael and I think Yeah, I think Michael and who else? Was Rebecca Isle? Rebecca was window. So, you know, ladies wanna.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I like the window. If I'm with people, I know. If I'm alone, then I want to be aisle.
SPEAKER_02I want to be awesome. You want to be able to get off the plane. You want to be able to get out.
SPEAKER_01I want to get right out of there.
SPEAKER_02All right. You guys have been joining your dad on this adventure. You're here helping out this week. Um, what excites you about being here around the rest of us crazies in this healthcare industry, the bluebird leaders? What excites you about this?
SPEAKER_03Um, well, my dad like wants me to be, you know, who uh you know, a good person. And uh he wants me to be able to like follow in his footsteps in some sort of way. So I think for this it's like a good entry. Uh for me, you know.
SPEAKER_02So I think that that's that's all it's not a bad way to start your career out of having your dad wanting to put you in the best places, right? Yeah, and he and he he leads by example by doing that. He's showing up here, been around Larry for several years now. So that's a it's a great example. Put you in a room with this many women, too, to see how to interact, what what the interaction is like with other guys, with women in the industry. Um, and how to how do you need to conduct and manage yourself when assisting, helping, or engaging with them. So it'll help you long term in your in your career, no matter what that path is. Yeah. Fail it for you.
SPEAKER_01And for the same similar for me, I mean, I want to end up in healthcare IT as well. So seeing this firsthand, especially as a woman in healthcare IT in the future. Um it's been these past few years have been really great seeing everyone come together trying to support women in the field, um, and continuing to do so with this event.
SPEAKER_02All right. So it's summertime. When you think of summer, what favorite song artists or soundtrack hits your head right off cuff? What's your favorite song? When you when it when it's summertime.
SPEAKER_01Summertime, I will listen to a lot of reggae.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Reggae. All right. Uh I switch in and out of certain things. I like a lot of rock, and then uh once in a while I'll go to rap, and then I'll switch it back to like alternative 90s. So I mean, I I listen to every day. You're all over the place. You're like my you're like my podcast, my podcast. It's all over the place.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. All right, favorite vacation. Where have y'all gone? Where's dad taking you that you say this is my favorite spot?
SPEAKER_01Oh. Favorite favorite recurring spot would be Disney World. All right, Disney. But favorite, all-time favorite trip.
SPEAKER_03What was our favorite trip? I said the coolest one was Japan.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Japan was cool. The most fun recent one we took was Vegas. Las Vegas, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Las Vegas.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. All right. Yeah, for his 21st birthday.
SPEAKER_02Oh, definitely. Vegas style. Yeah. Like, very good. Well, thank you two for joining me and having a good time here with Bluebird Leaders. We're here in Boston this week. We got the young folks sharing what they know, what they're gonna plan to learn. And again, trying to get up before one o'clock in the afternoon.
SPEAKER_03That's uh that's why I'm here.