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🔥 In this episode of Lex Lumina, Sam Castor sits down with William “Butch” Barton to talk about leadership in places where mistakes don’t stay theoretical. Early on, Butch says something that keeps coming back throughout the conversation: he tries to show up as the least important person in the room. Not as a tactic. As a discipline. That idea was shaped by years in aviation and military service, where ego doesn’t just hurt feelings, it creates risk.

What starts as a discussion about airplanes and safety slowly opens into something deeper. How teams actually work. Why people stop speaking up. And what happens when leaders confuse authority with importance.

Butch doesn’t talk in leadership slogans. He walks through real situations. Pilots. Flight attendants. Mechanics. Operations staff. All needing different environments to succeed. He explains why pilots say “don’t scare the money,” how fatigue calls really work, and why he would rather cancel a flight than let someone fly when they already know they’re not right. Being the least important person in the room, for him, means creating space for other people to speak before something goes wrong.

🎯 Episode Summary
This conversation moves between leadership, safety, and belief without clean lines between them. Butch explains the Swiss cheese model and how disasters usually form long before anyone notices, when small gaps line up over time. He shares a moment from India that stayed with him, watching people rebuild after losing everything, and how that changed the way he understands resilience. The discussion also turns toward faith, including his shift from a self-guided approach to Christianity into a more structured life of discipleship. One idea keeps surfacing: leadership isn’t about being seen or being right. It’s about carrying responsibility, even when it’s uncomfortable. Especially then.

👤 About William “Butch” Barton
Butch joined the military at 17 and built a career in aviation before becoming Head of Aviation at MGM. He oversees complex flight operations where safety and trust matter more than titles. He believes leaders exist to serve the people around them, not to stand above them.

💼 About Sam Castor
Sam Castor is an attorney and entrepreneur who hosts long-form conversations about leadership, faith, power, and responsibility. Lex Lumina is where those conversations live.

💡 About Lex Lumina
Lex Lumina is a space for slow conversations with people who have carried real responsibility and learned things the hard way. No scripts. No hype.

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leadership, aviation leadership, servant leadership, least important person in the room, safety culture, swiss cheese model, fatigue management, team culture, faith and leadership, resilience, accountability, military leadership, Lex Lumina