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Learn how you can become more authentic and discover your own style as a leader as you apply your strengths in your role.

So I care less about what the strengths are of my team, and more, Do we know what our strengths are and what the strengths of our teammates are, so we know when to lean in and lean out? And that understanding, I need to lean on people who can help me, like, create the concrete plan, so that I can go, go share it with, with, with comfort and excellence. So the more you can connect the two aspects -- who you are in your soul, the core of your being, your hardwiring -- to the role you play, that is a bridge gapped by strengths. I think part of what burns leaders out over time is a sense that they're supposed to have all the answers and have it all figured out and be the one that can always fix every situation. The easiest way to become a leader that is sustainable -- and, and this is where I think the connection comes -- is understanding what it is you instinctively do well to begin with, and how that applies to leading, inspiring, motivating other people. And so the only way I know, as an authentic version of me, to do that is to be honest about what I'm experiencing, what I'm seeing, and then asking my teammates to lean in in certain times, and why I'm asking them. So I think in a world where people are aspiring to do better and to make an impact, it can oftentimes, you know, there's a lot of books written and content out there of, you know, the 10 Tips to Being a Better Leader and 5 Things That Great Leaders Do. Because I think it's, it's, it's sort of part of that reality of work and life is being able to be authentic about the goods, the bads, the uglies. That's where it begins, and that I, you know, I'm trying to get people to buy in, to be excited about the things I'm excited about, and to try to push us in a direction that I think is going to help better our cause and help us get where we're trying to go organizationally. And that, to do that, the only way I know to lead others is to be honest and open and vulnerable. And so in my, in my life's experience, I think that this idea of leading people -- of, you know, what is it that people are looking for? And the way you just described it, too, I love how you're talking about like a lot of things that you manage.