Episode 150 -- Lacy Babich -- One Shot At Everything

Stacked Keys Podcast

One Shot At Everything

She tries to build community around her and she’s interested in the comings and goings and soaking up the local aspects. Professionally she’s in higher education and has many stages to that aspect of her life. Meet Lacy Babich. We talk of the changes in higher education and thinking through some of what we all see in colleges and the new wave of how students are learning to the shift of how we actually teach. Her advice to a student looking at advance learning is to look at the goal and teaching and think toward the end game — focus on what you want to do in five years. She believes in meeting the student’s actual goals and treating them as a person and not a number or dollar sign makes a better outcome for all.

Lacy has moved a lot and has enjoyed a wild journey. She has a military life background.

We talk about travel and the impact it has on her life—any opportunity to travel, she takes it. Have you ever thought how simply traveling to a new community can rejuvenate or step further away to get a shift in absorbing other cultures and gain a broader perspective. Taking the opportunities to travel whenever she can is always underlying in what makes up her life and she 100 percent says that the outlets she has from everyday life rely on travel. Travel provides the little joys of handling this life.

We talk about how you travel and how you choose your travel partners so that you don’t just focus on going from point to point, but enjoying absorbing what’s going on around you at the moment. A schedule on a vacation changes the whole meaning of a break for Lacy as she prefers not to over plan.

Lacy has lived abroad and learned to find her comfort in the coming and going and accomplishing the daily tasks —and what it is like to live with family so far away. She talks about some points of what it’s like to be in the Air Force and helping others to learn cope and handle the distances and staying in the loops so you can feel somewhat involved.

Loving the water at a young age gave the opportunity to develop skills as a competitive swimmer and that helped her get organized and keep a schedule. She found her own discipline that helped her to attend college with scholarships. After that sport, Lacy found herself into beginning competition for IronMan—she likes the structure of training and schedule out how she moves.

You’ll hear talk about her dissertation for her doctoral degree and she’s deep diving in one incident of original documents and investigating an aspect of the Civil War. She treats life by figuring out puzzles and digging to find answers.

Role models and mentors played important parts for Lacy and Lacy talks about how she learned to be tactful, but yet get answers by just asking questions. She applies her experiences to make situations easier for those in similar situations as herself.

Finances can be a huge issue when you are living outside of the US and figuring out the tips and tricks are super important to be financially aware. It is staggering what one may take for granted.

This episode also gives a little insight as a couple and how they openly communicate and set their goals together. They deal with the hard conversations and work on establishing end goals and functioning as a team is super important to Lacy.

Life Can Be Short, I Don’t Want to Waste It.

Tune in! Music “STOMP” used by permission of artist Donica Knight Holdman and Jim Huff

Music "STOMP" used by permission of artist Donica Knight Holdman and Jim Huff