About
CLINT
A Christian & Business leader
My love of learning is driven by a desire to make a difference. That’s Who I am.
I believe that one of the greatest gifts that you can give to the people in your life, is the willingness to grow and mature as a person. Healthy relationships are what make life worth living. Unfortunately, none of us is born with all the knowledge that we need to create and maintain them. Healthy working relationships, healthy marriages, healthy parent/ child relationships, are all things that I am passionate about helping people have in their lives. As such, I love the areas of personal growth and leadership development. In my opinion, you can’t have one without the other. In its most basic sense, leadership is nothing more than influence. And whether you aspire to become a leader or not, when you are in relationship with someone that trusts you enough to allow themselves to be influenced by you in any way – you are leading. This can include all manner of people; a co-worker, a friend, your spouse, your children. You name it. When our lives touch other people’s lives, we owe it them to strive to be the best person that we can be. For me, it’s something that we should never stop pursuing.
I was born in Knoxville, Tennessee while my dad was working as a basketball coach at Hiawassee College. We moved to central Florida when I was two, and we lived there until partway through my second-grade year. From there, we moved to north Florida, where I stayed until I graduated from college and moved away. I am the oldest of three. I have a sister, three years younger than me, and a brother, a year younger than her. My parents divorced when I was 14, my dad moved to a town about an hour away, and we moved out onto a 38 acre piece of property that my mom’s parents had bought several years before. My mom’s only sibling, and her husband and two kids, already had a trailer on the property. So, when we moved out there, we had my whole mom’s side of the family in one place. Some of the best years of my life were those spent living on that small farm. My two cousins and the three of us kids eventually, one-by-one, moved off the farm to start our own lives elsewhere. But until each one passed away, my grandparents, aunt and uncle, and even mom, all stayed on the farm.
When I graduated from high school, I went straight into college at Florida State University, where I received a BS degree in Hospitality Administration.
I was recruited by a restaurant company as a manager trainee and wound up managing one of their restaurants in south Alabama, close to where I grew up. During my time there I decided to spend one of my vacations doing an Outward Bound nine-day intensive trip up in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. Thus, began my love of rock climbing and ropes courses. After about two and a half years in that job, I actually moved to the mountains of North Carolina to work as a restaurant manager at the Nantahala Outdoor Center, allowing me to still work as a manager, but also affording me the opportunity to play in the mountains again. While there, I met whom would eventually become my first wife. While married to her, I worked in several different places as a restaurant or hotel manager. I also began working part-time with a local leadership development company. In all of my years in management, it had either been a part of my responsibilities, or I had intentionally placed myself in a position to train others. I have always been passionate about training and developing other leaders. And working for the leadership development company was a perfect fit. We did everything from boardroom workshops to individual performance coaching, to outdoor teambuilding and activities on a six acre challenge course. I spent roughly 16 years working part-time for this company before it eventually dissolved.
Around three years after my first marriage ended, I met Hannah. It didn’t take long for us to realize that we wanted to be together. I have four wonderful children, two from my first marriage, a son and a daughter, and two stepsons. For the sake of both of our sets of children, Hannah and I progressed slowly in the relationship, making sure that it was going to be a good fit for them as well. On our honeymoon, within 24 hours of us being married, Hannah and I had our first experience ministering to someone as a couple, and it has been going on ever since. We couldn’t be happier. Hannah and I would love to share with you some of the things that we have learned through the years. Things that we have learned through study or through plain old life experiences, and have survived by the sheer grace of God. Our hope is to give you some tools and information that might help cut through some of the frustration of having to learn things the hard way. We certainly don’t have all of the answers. But what we do have, we are willing to share with you in the hopes that it will help in some possible way.
Leadership has no limits
I mean come on! Does it really get any better than this?
