Owning The Lead - Process, Management, and Leadership

In this final episode of Owning The Lead, we interview Rommel Pestano on his jouryney to be the engineer he is today, and how he takes ideas outside of his work life to generate new ideas.

Topics:

• Engineering fields
• School
• Metholodologies
• Tips
• Lessons learned

The first off-season episode of many called the Convergence series. These offseason episodes revisits a topic that we explore in the past season with two or more guests. They will usually go into more lengthy details about that topic.

They generally don't have any structure and multiple episodes could come out in between seasons. This is to ensure that you guys will still get content while we produce the next season.

This episode revisits Photography with John Salvador and Marvin Matias.

John Salvador

• S1.3 Leading in Photography with John Salvador (Last Season's Episode)
• Site: https://www.jcstudio.us/
• Email: [email protected]
• Instagram: @salvador.john

Marvin Matias

• Email: [email protected]
• Instagram: @bouyashougo

Topics

• Photography vs Videography
  • Which is easier to start with?
• Videography Frames Per Second
• Editing Software
  • Lightroom
  • Photoshop
  • Filmora
  • DaVinci Resolve
• Equipment being used
• Revisiting Lighting
• Editing Process and workflows
• Defining your style
• Defining the ‘intention’ of the shot
• Finding your value
• Learning your equipment
• Networking
• Camera Shutter life

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My guest today is a super star planner and organizer when it comes to planning medium to large group events. These events involve planning an annual winter lodge with 25+ people to a simple getaway with friends. My guest and I are in a social group where most of the time he plans our traditional lodges and overseas getaways. My guest today, Fred(erick) Sabino.

Topics and Notes:

1. Having "Friends of Friends" to come may not be the best thing to have when it comes to planning events. 
2. Using Group chat polling tools such  FB poll or Discord Polls.
3. How to handling different voices coming in.
4. How to delegation of different tasks.
5. Payment collection in large groups.
6. Handling cleaning/checkout during rental places.
7. How different age groups manage.
8. Planning Becomes Easier when you want to involve the things you want to do.
9. Cheap times to buy airline tickets is Tuesday around 3 pm.
10. Use AirBnb 16 person rental and Homeaway (Now Vrbo) for 16+
11. Utilizing Reddit Travel
12. Lonely Planet
13. Fun part when it comes to planning
14. Getting the money together
15. Challenges of getting a response
16. Understand why some property renters only rent to groups 25 and older
17. Planning events in 2020 to 2021: Play it by ear
18. Pay for flexible cancellation with COVID 19

Season Closing Notes
Well that’s it for the season. I have to say making this was not easy, but it was a lot of fun. The next season should be in production by next Spring! So keep an eye out on Social Media.

As you’ve probably been listening to this and the past episodes, you can see there is a lot of audio experimentation. I’m hoping to have it nailed down by next season..

I really want to say thank you to all my guests this season (Guest in Episode Order):

1. Kevin Lugtu
2. Lorelie Alejo
3. John Salvador
4. Melvin Matias
5. Fred Sabino

I also want to thank my lovely fiancee, Johnna, for supporting me with each recording. And lastly I want to thank you, the listener. I know there’s a lot of choices you have out there, but it means a lot to me for you to listen.

2020 has been rough for many people, but I hope you and your loved ones are safe and happy this Holiday Season. This is Josh V signing out for the year and hope you hear from you in 2021.

My guest today is a tax accounting manager at the National Basketball Association or famously known as the NBA. We talk about his journey on becoming an accounting manager, interactions with his team, lessons on how to deal with two opposing co workers, and advice for any accounting students and recent grads. My guest today, Melvin Matias.

Topics

• Journey to becoming a accounting manager
• Top 4 accounting auditors
• Late night grind
• Learning how to figure stuff out on your own
• Power of the Alumni networks
• Why documentation is important
• Power of networking
• What goes on in accounting interview for students and new grads
• Process in a accounting team
• What is a accounting lead
• Work from home life in the NBA
• Home Office Setup
• Employee Moral
• Communication Tips
• Advice on accounting students and recent grads
• All the cool perks for working in the NBA

For those who listened to the episode, here is additional context for certain sections.

• 7:42 reference is about my day job and how I need to look at some configuration files that may not have much documentation
• Amazon LG monitors on my current work set up

My guest today is a photographer who started his passion as a hobby and later turned it into a side business. His journey can show how you can get into photography and how it can teach you to be better at reading and understanding  people. Towards the end he gives some great advice for those who are starting out. I have known him for a long time and he actually shot my engagement photos last winter.

How to Contact John Salvador

• https://www.jcstudio.us/
• salvador.john @ Instagram
• Email at [email protected]
• Call or Text at 15514823725

Topics:

• JROTC
• Photography
• Techniques on Photography
• Smart Phones vs the Photographer
• Photography Tips
• Composition
• Going from Hobby to Professional Work
• How to start a photography business
• How to quote photo sessions
• Situational Awareness

Photo Links/Notes

• Solider kissing Nurse WWII V-J Day by Alfred Eisenstaedt
• Low Shot of Vladimir Putin's Photo by Platon
• Ben Long's Lynda Course
• "Incandescent light is more yellow not red."

Episode Cover Photo by ©John Salvador

My guest today has been in management from the indoor amusement park industry (For Kids) to the construction industry today. She became a general manager at the beginning of her college career managing high school kids. Later she transitioned to being an office manager at an engineering firm, where she is one of the youngest employees there (If not thee youngest there). She shares her experience on what it's like being a young female manager in both industries. Here’s my guest, Lorelie Alejo.

Topic Include

• General Management
• Types of Management
• Teams
• Managing teens
• Being young in Management
• Indoor amusement park Industry
• Construction Industry
• young management
• Glimpse into Filipino culture
• Relationships

Quote Reference:

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
-- Viktor E. Frankl

For the first episode my guest has been around the customer service and support industry since 2013. He has transitioned from a corporation which has been around for more than 50 years to a startup that is making its way up the payroll industry.  His experience can shed light on what goes on behind the call when you are on the line about a product that doesn’t work, and what the person on the other end of the line is going through. Here’s my guest Kevin Lugtu. Topics include:

• What it means to be in customer service/support
• What goes on behind the scenes in a customer service call
• Unofficially leading a team
• Leads vs Management
• Established Corporations vs Startups
• Customer Service/Support in a COVID19 World
• How to treat to a customer service representative
• Millennial

Literal Transcript

Hi there, I’m Josh V. I'm a software engineer.  I have worked in different companies in different industries. At those places, I always believed that good leadership can always make the company great. For some of those places, it seemed true, but one thing that did surprise me is the people working on the ground level. They can also lead in a way that can also make a big impact. These were people who found problems with the current system and wanted to improve it. Whether it was updating the process or style of management. They help push the status quo for something better. 

I also started seeing this outside of the work-life. Some friends and acquaintances who have taken initiatives to make the process better. Either this was planning for a weekend getaway or just trying to win escape the room. I wanted to know more about people on why they wanted to make a change. And those in leadership positions, I wanted to know what their journey was like. I think everyone takes the lead on some initiatives, although some may not realize it.

Join me in this new podcast,  owning the lead. We will be doing a 5 episode season, interviewing those who have taken initiatives to start something new. We will also talk about an important factor in learning, failure. Often we hear about the success stories without hearing the road bumps and lessons they have taken to get there. I want to talk about the hardships and the lessons learned from it. 

Stick around and I hope you learn something useful for you to try on owning your lead.