EP 201: Major Matina Jewell - The Front-line of Leadership, Resilience and Change
- Author
- Major Matina Jewell / Gary Bertwistle
- Published
- Thu 14 Jan 2021
- Episode Link
- https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/themojosessions/Ep20201_mixdown.mp3
Major Matina Jewell joined the Army at age 17. After 15 years of service, 5 missions, 9 war medals and being badly wounded in combat as a Peace Keeper for the UN in Lebanon, Matina shares her views on courageous decision making and values-based leadership to empower teams. Having served in some of the toughest environments on earth Matina provides a life-changing perspective from the front-line of leadership, resilience and change.
- What exactly does a Peace Keeper in Lebanon do?
- When promoted to captain of the HMAS Kanimbla the largest warship in the Australian Navy Fleet, how did Matina's identity change?
- As a leader was there ever a time when Matina tried too hard to earn trust from her team?
- How do you earn trust?
- When Matina joined the military, her parents said her language changed. How did it change?
- How did Matina handle her insecurities as a leader?
- Doubt and fear show us where the edges are. Did Matina ever find the edge?
- What’s your internal dialogue when you leave the helicopter on a fast rope and you are ripping towards your target down below with no safety harness?
- In difficult times that's when your training kicks in. How do you actually know your training will kick in?
- A moment of crisis that Matina carries with her even today?
- The day when Matina is thrown into a bullet-proof windscreen which broke her back in five places. What does Matina remember about that day?
- While in hospital in Cyprus Matina got the news. There was a direct hit in Khiam where 4 team mates were killed in action. What happened?
- Does Matina carry survivors guilt?
- Did Matina ever think to herself "I wish that had of been me.. I wish I could have replaced one of the four and it was me?"
- What would Matina say to those men in a quiet moment?
- Why did Matina have the feeling that she had been let down by the people who had sent her to do that mission?
- After getting home Matina struggled, it got kinda dark. What was the pivotal moment?
- What is the greatest limitation Matina placed on herself and how did she work through that?
- Matina had a strong background in compliance through her career. Is Matina a compliant person through and through?
- When a brigadier recently presented Matina with her 9th War Medal in front of her piers, who did she think of immediately?
- What was Matina's greatest attribute as a leader?
