Embrace a Village with Joe Clendenny

<p>In this episode, we have Joe Clendenny. Joe was a businessman selling shoes who decided to take a missions trip to several countries that year. One of the stops along the way was to the leprosy colonies in India. A mission trip Joe made in September 2002 changed their lives forever.</p> <p><strong>How did your background inspired you to be where you are today? (05:15)</strong></p> <p>- Grew up in a little town of 48 people. It was predominantly a farm country and my parents owned a general store. We sold everything that I think the slogan was. We sell everything from soup to nuts. But it was groceries and hardware. We had the lunch counter, packaged liquor for a lot of years, my dad sold appliances, televisions, washing machines, just about everything.</p> <p>- We spent a lot of time on the Mississippi river, boating and water skiing.</p> <p><strong>What can we conclude about the ideal leadership? (09:36)</strong></p> <p>- I had this yearning or desire even fairly young age to try to get into business for myself. It wasn't really sure what that was, but<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> after spending a little over a year in Denver, I got transferred with the gallows down to Colorado Springs to run their distributor ship continental distributor ship, and became acquainted with a franchise at that point in time called the athlete's foot.</p> <p>- Gone bankrupt in St. Louis and had been taken back by the parent company. And over the next two and a half years, we were able to turn those stores around to the point where they were become very profitable. Stream in that the parent company who I was actually in partnership with. Got acquired. It was a large group out of France that acquired the parent company of the athlete's foot. So I was partners with them.</p> <p>- They ended up buying me out. I went to work for them for a short period of time. But after having owned my own business or operating it as my own, just wasn't as comfortable working in the larger corporate setting any longer.</p> <p>- Excelle