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Hosted by Chris Lee · education · EN-US
Great parks and healthy landscapes are the products of strong leadership. This show is dedicated to helping you become that leader.
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Signup to Generate a PitchGreat parks and healthy landscapes are the products of strong leadership. This show is dedicated to helping you become that leader.
Parks & Restoration is hosted by Chris Lee. The show has published 75 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "How to Create and Sustain Excellence as a Leader with Ryan Hawk | Episode 104" (20 October 2026, 56 minutes), "How to grow without losing what made you great with Pheasants Forever's Jared Wiklund | Ep. 103" (6 October 2026, 64 minutes), and "A bad outcome doesn't mean it was a bad decision | Steve Fredlund | Episode 102" (22 September 2026, 52 minutes).
Parks & Restoration publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 55 minutes across 75 episodes.
Booking probability for Parks & Restoration is 23%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Parks & Restoration requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Parks & Restoration's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Parks & Restoration are Fitness, Golf & Recreation and Environmental Agencies. Parks & Restoration has an education audience.
Chris Lee hosts Parks & Restoration, an education podcast with 75 episodes published.
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Episode #104
What if the secret to excellence isn’t reaching the goal—but learning to love the work required to get there? Ryan Hawk has spent more than a decade studying leadership and high performance through more than 700...
Episode #103
How do you grow an organization without losing the culture, relationships, and local ownership that made it successful in the first place? Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever have undergone extraordinary growth. What...
Episode #102
What if the outcome went badly—but you still made the right decision? Leadership rarely gives us complete information or guaranteed results. We make the best call we can, something unexpected happens, and hindsight...
Episode #101
What if protecting the parks and natural areas we still have simply isn't enough? Dr. Doug Tallamy has spent decades studying the relationships between plants, insects, birds, and the ecosystems that sustain them. His...
Episode #100
What can 100 conversations teach us about leadership, conservation, and the people who make meaningful work possible? For the 100th episode of Parks and Restoration, Chris Lee is joined by past co-host Jeremy Yost, with...
Episode #99
What if one of the best ways to prevent burnout is not reducing the work—but changing how people experience it together? Nonprofit leaders and volunteers often enter the work because they want to make a difference. But...
Episode #98
What changes when you treat leadership as a privilege instead of a position? Matt Doty has spent decades studying leadership in places where trust, accountability, and performance matter. After a 20-year career in the...
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How do we protect the places we love without forgetting the people who make that protection possible? Most people enter parks and conservation because they care deeply about the land. But as Rachel Franchina explains in...
Episode #96
Why would an award-winning filmmaker move to Iowa planning to retire... only to end up making one of the state's most ambitious conservation documentaries? That's exactly what happened to Charlie Morris. After years...
Episode #95
Are great leaders born...or are they built through experience, relationships, and deliberate practice? After spending ten years as a junior high English teacher, Teli Van Rycke made the kind of career change most people...
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What do a lightning storm, a white suit jacket, and a barbecue competition that ran out of food have in common? They all showed up at Burlington River Days 2026 — and they all left Chris with something worth talking...
Parks & Restoration
What if a robin-sized bird just flew 1,700 miles in 48 hours — and Iowa was a critical stop along the way? That's not a hypothetical. It happened. And we only know because of the Motus Wildlife Tracking Network. In this...
Parks & Restoration
What if your local conservation foundation didn't just sell raffle tickets at a banquet — what if it headlined a three-day riverfront festival that drew 12,000 people and netted over $20,000 for conservation? That's...
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What if the nonprofit that supports your park or agency did more than peddle firewood? What if its fundraising revenue had a few extra zeroes? That's exactly what's possible with a few small mindset shifts. The Great...
Episode #90
In this episode, Chris sits down with Brett Hoogeveen, co-founder of Better Culture and Mindset LLC, keynote speaker, TEDx speaker, and host of the Better Culture podcast. Brett’s work is built on a simple but powerful...
Episode #89
Chris sits down with Dr. Nick Askew, founder and director of Conservation Careers, for a wide-ranging conversation that spans barn owl behavior, international wildlife management, and the future of the conservation...
Episode #88
What if the way we’ve been thinking about leadership is fundamentally wrong? This episode is the meetup Chris hosted with Dr. Kathleen Allen, author of Leading from the Roots , and it explores a completely different way...
Episode #87
What makes people want to stay on your team for the long haul? In this episode, Chris is joined by Des Moines County Conservation’s Environmental Education Manager, Marcus Nack, for a conversation about workplace...
Episode #86
What do prescribed burns have to do with leading a team? More than you’d think. In this episode, Chris and Jeremy break down leadership lessons pulled straight from burn season — burn plans, clear objectives...
Episode #85
What’s the ROI of a prairie? A bat you’ll never see? A fence line removed to stitch habitat back together? In this episode, Chris and Jeremy dig into a pressure most parks and conservation leaders feel right now: the...
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keynote speaker, best-selling author, host of The Learning Leader Show, The Learning Leader Show
professional speaker and published author, Steve Fredlund Solutions
Author, Homegrown National Park, Professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, Home Grown National Park
National Employment Director, Ironhold Asset Management
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