<p>In&nbsp;this&nbsp;episode of the&nbsp;<em>It's&nbsp;a Good Life&nbsp;</em>podcast, host Brian Buffini talks with&nbsp;David Berke, an accomplished Marine Corps pilot, TOPGUN instructor&nbsp;and author, about the real-world leadership lessons&nbsp;he has learned&nbsp;throughout his career.&nbsp;David&nbsp;relays how as a child, he watched&nbsp;Marine fighter jets&nbsp;flying over his El Toro, CA neighborhood. Years later,&nbsp;he too became a&nbsp;Marine&nbsp;pilot&nbsp;flying&nbsp;jets, including&nbsp;combat missions&nbsp;in&nbsp;Afghanistan.&nbsp;David also was in the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program,&nbsp;(commonly known as TOPGUN), and returned there to&nbsp;become an instructor.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><br><p>Now retired from the&nbsp;Marines, he is a&nbsp;leadership&nbsp;instructor and speaker, as well as the Chief Development Officer&nbsp;of Echelon Front.&nbsp;</p><br><p><strong>YOU WILL LEARN:</strong>&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Why leadership is a learnable skill&nbsp;—&nbsp;and how to grow it at work, at home, and within yourself.&nbsp;</li><li>How discipline and process carry you through seasons when motivation is nowhere to be found.&nbsp;</li><li>Why humility, teamwork, and relationship-building are the true foundations of long-term success&nbsp;</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;</p><br><p><a href="https://a.co/d/01aSQo8e" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Need to Lead —&nbsp;A TOPGUN Instructor's Lessons on How Leadership Solves Every Challenge&nbsp;</em>by David Berke&nbsp;</a></p><br><p><strong>NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:</strong>&nbsp;</p><br><p>“Leadership is a skill that you can learn.” — David Berke&nbsp;</p><br><p>“If you have anything that contributes to this team, which you&nbsp;do, you are a leader.” — David Berke&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><br><p>“Every problem is a leadership problem in your family, within yourself, in your business, whatever it is. And the attributes of good leadership apply everywhere, which means that through good leadership, you can solve all those problems.” — David Berke&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><br><p>“Motivation is a waning emotion. What is a sustaining thing, is&nbsp;working&nbsp;hard and being disciplined and&nbsp;powering&nbsp;through when&nbsp;you're&nbsp;not motivated.”&nbsp;&nbsp;—&nbsp;David Berke&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><br><p>“When you put in the work when things are dark and difficult and hard, what you get in the end is so much more powerful.” — David Berke&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>