Environmental Leadership Chronicles
Sep 28, 2026 · 52 min · 11 segments
Recorded in person at the 2026 AEP State Conference in San Diego, this episode features longtime AEP leader and former Environmental Leadership Chronicles co-host Laurel Glass Lees. She moves to the…
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And when I first started my career, my very first boss said, if you are offered a position in like an industry organization, a professional organization, just say yes, just do it.
And here we are, was it like 20 years ago at the AAP conference? And I gave so many hugs last night that my badge fell off and I lost it and had to get a new badge.
That kind of tells you like AAP has just been a part of my life, my whole career.
I, like, earlier today, Laurel was saying how she grew up with AEP.
And, like, certainly, you know, one of the many people who I feel that with grew up together.
And it's been super fun to, you know, continue to do kind of increasingly cool things with people like Laurel who, you know, we've had, you know, lifetime, AEP lifetime friendships.
And doing that was, like, I mean... totally expands the universe of things and opportunities and we kind of got to work like on special projects like like the podcast is one special project and the video on the website when you go to calif aep.org shameless bug my face is there in a video We did like a what is 80? I just loved meeting people who are open not only to supporting like my career, but but friendships, just like the social value that comes, not just the professional growth.
I
Great plug.
Oh, yeah.
Well, I think there's a few things before we really get into everything else.
But is that one you touched on this, but we're recording in person at the AEP State Conference in San Diego.
Yeah.
So it's been a great.
And when I first started my career, my very first boss said, if you are offered a position in like an industry organization, a professional organization, just say yes, just do it.
And here we are, was it like 20 years ago at the AAP conference? And I gave so many hugs last night that my badge fell off and I lost it and had to get a new badge.
That kind of tells you like AAP has just been a part of my life, my whole career.
I, like, earlier today, Laurel was saying how she grew up with AEP.
And, like, certainly, you know, one of the many people who I feel that with grew up together.
And it's been super fun to, you know, continue to do kind of increasingly cool things with people like Laurel who, you know, we've had, you know, lifetime, AEP lifetime friendships.
And doing that was, like, I mean... totally expands the universe of things and opportunities and we kind of got to work like on special projects like like the podcast is one special project and the video on the website when you go to calif aep.org shameless bug my face is there in a video We did like a what is 80? I just loved meeting people who are open not only to supporting like my career, but but friendships, just like the social value that comes, not just the professional growth.
I
Great plug.
Oh, yeah.
Well, I think there's a few things before we really get into everything else.
But is that one you touched on this, but we're recording in person at the AEP State Conference in San Diego.
Yeah.
So it's been a great.
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