Carol Raines
LEAD- 2000
Selfie Assignment
03, September 2015

My selfie is a picture of my family. When thinking about this assignment, I went through various aspects of my life to try and decide what leadership role influenced and meant the most to me. I have never written anything or shared much about my family, but thinking about this assignment I felt that it is my most important leadership role. I didn’t want to choose a role less important just because I don’t enjoy talking about my role in my family. My family is quite unique and large because my parents are divorced, which added new members. When I was roughly six years old my parents got divorced and about two years later my mother got remarried. My stepfather has three children that were then my new brothers and sister. Including my biological younger brother and I, there were then a total of five children all under the age of eleven, which is a lot. It was a hard adjustment, but we did not live together full time so it made it easier. About a year and a half later my father remarried, but there was a large curveball that came with it. The man that my mother married, was the previous spouse of the woman my dad married, meaning my parents and my stepparents switched places. This was all new and exciting at the time, but my brother and I quickly realized that meant that our three stepsiblings would then be almost full time siblings. We both liked them, but it is hard to have that many children in the first place and even harder to have five children that aren’t biological siblings. A couple years later after everything had settled my dad and stepmother had a daughter of their own. About a year after that, my mother and stepfather had a daughter of their own. This added two half-sisters to the already crazy mix. Having six siblings, someone had to pick up the role as a leader. Me being the oldest of my