This week’s episode is an Authentic Interview with Village Bank’s, Bill Foster. In this interview, Bill is as authentic as it gets. I appreciate how he is real in this interview while also exuding his character as a leader.

In this episode we talk about:

  • Leading Village Bank through the other side of the recession. I love how he paints a picture of being in control of the ship.
  • How he has been able to be confident when letting someone go and his rule for hiring when he comes across an “A” player.
  • What Bill says is the hardest thing about leadership and what you have to give up when you are a leader. Bill says that leading is not about being free to be whoever you are.
  • Bill tells a great story about a big mistake he made when taking over a project at his former bank and then what that big mistake meant to him when something similar happened soon after joining Village Bank.
  • Bill shares a simple formula about TRUST.
  • and much, much more.

I have known Bill for several years and had somewhat recently gotten to know Bill more because of some local community interactions. Our conversations in the past have been very low-key which I think comes through in this recorded conversation.

Like other Authentic Interviews, this recorded with a live audience. So please forgive some of the background noise that you will hear during the recording.

The last 5 or so minutes of the audio also changes. I had a technical problem with the main feed and the last few questions were captured by the phone I was using to record video. You can still hear it, but the sound quality clearly shifts.

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On Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, or at Village Bank

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