A LOT with Audra

Ep14
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Audra Dinell: [00:00:00] All right. Welcome back to a lot with Audra. We're so excited to have you here, and today is a super special episode because I'm introducing my team at the thread. So before you meet them, I want to share something that you may have heard before but is relevant to this conversation and that is that as adults.

Studies show we spend more time with our coworkers than we do with our friends and family, which is crazy in my mind. And why I think it's so important to have coworkers that we love, trust, inspire us, and [00:01:00] are just good humans to be around, which is exactly what my team is. So they're each amazing in their own right.

And I'm gonna let them introduce themselves. But before we do that, I wanna share something that I think is a little unique about our team at the thread, and that is we are all contractors. So my team at the Thread is, my business is an S Corp, and I'm an employee of the S Corp. And then the rest of the team are contractors.

So not only do they spend their time dedicated to our mission to support women and help them build confidence and power skills, but they also run their own businesses in their other lives. So without further ado, I'm gonna kick it off to Kendra. She is our COO at the thread. And Kendra, tell us about yourself.

Kendra: Hello. Yes. So, my name is Kendra. I am the COO and my journey with the Thread [00:02:00] started as a member of cohort one. I was a HR professional and wanted to work on my confidence. So found the thread and just fell in love with everything that Audra had built and wanted to be a part of it in a bigger way.

And so joined the team. Gosh, has it been,

Audra Dinell: it's been three years. Years next month.

Kendra: Wow.

Audra Dinell: Which was almost exactly a year after you started your cohort experience.

Kendra: Yeah, it was. Which is so, so crazy and it's been such a fun ride and truly has allowed me to pour into my family. I have a wonderful spouse, three wild fun boys.

And then I also own my own health coaching business. I love getting to work with and be around women who are doing the things that they love and pursuing their dreams, and it helps keep me motivated to do that for [00:03:00] myself.

Audra Dinell: Well, and it's kind of crazy how you came on board because during your cohort experience we went and had coffee one time.

Yeah. And we were just catching up and connecting and I was telling you about how excited I was that the thread had taken off because you know, it started as an idea, wasn't sure if it was gonna work. It did. And so I thought, okay, I need to bring people on board. I need some help. And I was thinking about a person I had in mind who was very similar to me.

And what did you say?

Kendra: I said, will you please consider me for this role?

Audra Dinell: And I was so shocked. I was like, oh my gosh, I am so honored. I can't even believe that you know this amazing HR leader who works for a large company and is just like so poised and polished, and experienced, would wanna come build this with me.

And so I was lucky enough to have a business coach at the time, and I was talking to her about this conversation and she knew that I was looking to hire soon. And she was like you are [00:04:00] crazy if you don't hire someone who is very much not like you. And that is a role that Kendra totally fit into.

So tell us a little bit about what you do as the COO of the thread.

Kendra: Yep. So my main role as the COO is I manage the operations of the cohort. I also onboard, I just make sure that the, I mean, I guess we all do this from the environment, but really the processes, ooh, that's my favorite part.

The processes, and I know we'll talk about our strengths, but trying to create some consistency for scalability and really just managing the day to day of the cohort, of the alumni experience. Yeah.

Audra Dinell: Well, in addition to that, you've really helped us scale to, I know you mentioned scaling, but you really helped us navigate opening up a new market.

Yeah, so we're currently in two markets and that largely was due to you, [00:05:00] so I was kind of tackling it by myself. For several months as the CEO thinking, okay, this is my role. I've gotta grow US strategy. And it was just going so slow and I kept hitting all of these internal roadblocks. And one day I was like, why am I not bringing Kindra into this?

Mm-hmm. And so you hugely helped us create those processes that were enabling us to move to another market.

Kendra: Thank you. Yeah, that was a lot of fun.

Audra Dinell: Yeah. Okay, so I introduced Kendra first because she spends the most time on the Thread, but really the first person on our team was Kristen. So Kristen, please introduce yourself.

Kristen Selby: Yeah. Hi. I am Kristen Selby, and I have been on the thread team for four years.

Audra Dinell: Yeah, four years this June.

Kristen Selby: So I think I, we met four years ago and I came on right after cohort one had launched. And personally at that time, I was just trying to figure out kind of my place in this world.

I had just started a business. You know, on a personal level, I was trying to create a [00:06:00] life that felt more aligned and was based on the values that I knew I held. We had a mutual friend who introduced us. I had reached out to this mutual friend to share about the business that I was trying to create and the type of leader I wanted to support, and she said, you need to

meet this Audra girl. She's kind of popping up all over the place and she's doing some really cool things. And so I reached out for coffee at Cocoa Dolce downtown, and just fell in love with your leadership skills and who you were as a person and this mission, and I knew I'd wanted to be a part of it.

Audra Dinell: Thank you for saying that. And since you were my first hire, I don't even think I was paying myself yet, actually. And you know, when we met, we met in April. I started the business in August of 2020. Pulled my LLC, started our very first cohort of women in March of 2021.

We met in April of 2021. I don't think I paid myself until August of 20 21, 1 year in. And so I was like, I don't know what exactly I need you for, but I know I need you. And the rest is [00:07:00] history and we have been building together. I mean, it's funny to think about how the things that you and I did the very first year we were working together are so drastically different than now.

Kristen Selby: Oh my gosh. I remember the first cohort. We really wanted the women, and we still do want women to feel loved and treasured. And so we thought, let's just open it up for coffee orders and see what kind of coffee each one of them wants. And so you and I were, were really focused, I think, on the nitty gritty details and like alphabetizing

all of the name tags, every workshop. And so it was a lot of workshop, logistics and really getting that right, and building that foundation that I think we did together. And now it just feels like such a well-oiled machine and so, so beautiful. I don't know.

Audra Dinell: I agree. That's a great way to say it. And it is funny thinking about like all those tiny details.

Some of them matter and we kept, and then some of them were like, okay, we can't do it all. We're gonna let this go. I don't think anyone cares if the name tags are alphabetized, but I do remember it was [00:08:00] cohort two and we're like, genius. We've got a great idea.

We're gonna ask everyone what they prefer to drink in the morning. And we got hilarious. Orders all the way from like green tea to Red Bull to like double, triple mocha, quad shot whip on the side. And that was the cohort where we were like, okay, we think we've taken it too far.

Kristen Selby: Yeah. Can't do this. Not sustainable.

Audra Dinell: Oh my gosh. Okay. So you're the chief administrative officer at the thread. Tell us what you do in that role.

Kristen Selby: Right. So I think originally my title was project, special projects manager. And so I did a lot of workshop logistics and still do just kind of supporting the workshop arranging, you know, catering, creating the experience guide and then really just being Audrey, your right hand just in any of the initiatives that we're working on.

And I really see my role is kind of the back office role of keeping everything on track and making sure that everything that we're doing really aligns with the [00:09:00] mission of the thread. There are so many opportunities that kind of come across our desks and just making sure that yes, this aligns and here's how we might be able to do it.

And then working really closely with Kendra to just help support her in all the operations.

Audra Dinell: Yeah, I'm so grateful, because I don't wanna do any of that. I think I actually blanked out a little bit when you were talking

Kristen Selby: The glazed over look.

Audra Dinell: Okay. So last but not least, our newest team member who coincidentally also we connected in April, so this is wild. Kristen and I connected Chris, did I say Kristen? Kristen and I connected in April of 2021. And that's when you came on board. Kendra and I connected, maybe it wasn't April. You came on board in April of 2022. Sierra reached out via dms. She slid into my dms in April of 2024. Yeah, so welcome Sierra.

Sierra Brown: April, 2024. Hi. So I am Sierra Brown and I'm the social media coordinator for the thread. [00:10:00] So I reached out to Audra on a whim. I have seen her do work through another job that I had previously, and I was like, this is so cool.

This is such a cool group of women. I don't even know what they do exactly, but I know I wanna be a part of it. So I'm just gonna shoot her a dm. And see if I could join in whatever capacity. I threw out the idea of interning and so I started as the summer intern last summer of 2024.

Currently in my life, I'm still on my education journey, so I am pursuing a master's degree in curriculum and instruction at Emporia State, and I own a floral business with my best friend as well. So we do build your own bouquets and I love flowers, all things in nature and things like that. And I'm a dog mom.

So that's all the things about me.

Audra Dinell: So fun. Yeah. Well, and I love about when you reached out, we've had many women say, Hey, I would love to work for the threat. And that always feels so like humbling and I feel grateful when people [00:11:00] say that because it just you know, just warms your heart of like, oh, you, you really see the value in what we're doing and you'd love to be on the team.

But what I loved about Sierra was that she was so proactive. We met up at our martini bar after I was MCing event, so I feel like I was half brain dead. And I was like, okay, well tell me like about you, what you wanna do. So Sierra came and pitched all of these ideas shared how much she wanted to make, which I also loved and was just really willing to jump in wherever needed.

And then. I am so embarrassed about this, but like, I left without picking up her tab.

Kendra: Oh,

Audra Dinell: I know. Did I even pay for my drink? I sure hope so. But I was just like so brain dead. I was like, okay, this is awesome. Let's do something. Yes, I'm gonna talk to Kendra about it because Kendra's actually my boss and, but you know, we'll figure this out.

And I think two days later I was like, oh my gosh, I don't think I paid for your martini.

Sierra Brown: Yeah, I think you sent me a text. I'm so sorry.

Audra Dinell: Oh my gosh. It evolved from interning over the summer and we had a very [00:12:00] like, time bound schedule. Yes. We were like, okay, eight weeks, here's how many hours, here's what we're gonna do.

Yeah. And then we just absolutely loved having you on the team. Saw the value that you brought, you're so creative. And so once you started grad school, we were like, will you stay on as our social media coordinator? And that's what you do for the team now? Yes. You wanna talk a little bit about your role?

Sierra Brown: Yeah, so I have been shooting all of the content at workshops any sort of alumni events, anything we do that, the threads there, any outside speaking engagements, and I create the posts around it. I do Facebook, Instagram, and our LinkedIn, and it has been a wild ride. I didn't have any experience in social media beforehand.

And so it's been interesting just like learning and growing with the team with this. So it's been a lot of fun.

Audra Dinell: Well, and I always appreciate you just willing to jump in, willing to learn. Like, I always think that when you're at the stage of your career that you're in, that is so valuable. To just be like, I'm gonna say yes to everything.

And I'll [00:13:00] figure out some things I'm good at and I like or I don't like, or I'll always learn.

Sierra Brown: Yeah, absolutely. And I think it was interesting at the start of my internship, I was working more with Kendra on the operations side, which was interesting and a little bit of fun. More of the learning process was fun.

But as I started working more with Audra on like the marketing side, I was like, okay, this kind of clicks a little bit easier and just works with my brain better. And so I feel like my strengths definitely aligned more, and I've learned that through this process. Of just going from intern to coordinator to, yeah.

Audra Dinell: Okay, so speaking of strengths, we are big as a team on really diving into like who we are and really all aim to work in like our zone of genius. And it takes a little bit to find that. And so we've used a lot of different tools in addition to like real world experience, right? We try different things to see what we like, what we're good at, what

we want to grow. But we've used a lot of tools to support that too. [00:14:00] And I'll name a few of them in case you're interested, but we're gonna dive into one today. Some of the tools that we've used are the Highlands Assessment, so that's an aptitude assessment, and that was super interesting. Really helped our team connect with each other.

We did that before Sierra was on board. What would you say our biggest learning from Highlands was? As a team? Was it true compass? Yeah, that's, we took the Highlands test through True Compass.

Kristen Selby: I remember the futuristic, that's that one where it's, each one of us either kind of thinks in the present or the past or the future, and that was really interesting to see how our team strategically planned together with those different perspectives.

Audra Dinell: Yeah, I agree. That's the big thing that sticks for me too, is just knowing that like my brain always thinks way in the future and your brains fell closer together more on the present scale. And that was super helpful for planning because you all would then let me like think way out, but then be [00:15:00] able to like rope me back into, okay, well if that's the big goal in three years, what are we doing right now?

Kendra: I think the thing that stuck out to me too with that assessment, and I don't remember the exact scale, but Audra, you were on one end as like a visionary idea, and then Kristen, I believe that you were on the other end of the execution in the detail, and one of the things that we realized is that I can dabble in both.

I'm not really on either end, but I think they call that an integrator. And so it was great just to see which areas we all covered well, but we didn't have a lot of overlap, which I thought was really cool was that we had so many different components covered as a team, but there isn't much that we kind of step over each other's toes on, like we all have different areas.

Audra Dinell: I agree. And that was the assessment where we were like, [00:16:00] oh my gosh, we, we do have a genuine love for each other and enjoy working together, but we actually make a really great team. My big takeaway from that was how high I am on I ideating and how that was overwhelming to you all sometimes and how everything I said, you know, you would want to take immediate action on, but I say so many things that you can't. Right. And so that was the big learning for me as a leader of, okay, I need to communicate when I'm in ideation mode. So that I can, number one, know if you are able to like, jump in and accept that. Or number two, if you've had enough of it.

And then for you all to know that okay, we're just brainstorming here, for lack of a better term. We're not gonna take action on any of this until we say, well, let's take action on that.

Kristen Selby: Yeah, and I think on the flip side, you know, Kendra and I can, we tend to be processors and so advocating for ourselves in those moments where we might feel overwhelmed and just say, Hey, okay, if this is just a brain dump, like we, [00:17:00] we need some time now to process what we've discussed before moving into the action piece.

And so within the thread team and then outside with, you know, working with other people. That's been so helpful to me. Just to advocate for myself and say, Hey, I'm a processor. I'd love to get back with you tomorrow, and just allow myself that think time. That's been really a game changer for me.

Audra Dinell: And it's funny because when prepping for this podcast that's what we did.

Like you two, you know, we talked about it, I mean, yesterday, so a little bit of time before but yesterday in the morning and you had time to prep it. And Sierra, do you like time to process or are you more of an ideator person like me.

Sierra Brown: Yeah. I'm ideator is number two on my strengths.

Audra Dinell: Okay. That's, that's what I thought because I'm like, Sierra and I can just roll. But also I value the processing because there's times where I'm like, okay, I'm just gonna make a decision because I've got these ideas and it's maybe not as strategic as it could be if we don't process. So I love that about our team.

Need the processors. Yes, we need the processors. Okay, so a couple other [00:18:00] assessments we've taken. We have taken the pi, that's the predictive index. We all know our Enneagram numbers. We've taken so many, I know there's a few more. Any that come to mind before we talk about strengths finders? So the big one that we like to share with our cohort members, so if you're a part of one of our cohorts, you are likely going to go through the Clifton Strength Assessment because we find it so valuable and so just easy to conversate about.

It doesn't have any terms that you have to look up. Like disc, for example, is a very popular one. Well, I can never remember what those letters stand for. And I have to remember, okay, what's an S What's an I? So Strength Finders is one of the main ones that we like to use to learn about ourselves and learn about how to work together as a team.

Because everything that we've ever done, I feel like we always pick out at least a nugget, you know, and really that's the goal. I've seen some companies like full on adopt one assessment over the [00:19:00] other, and I think that's an interesting way to do it because you get to deep dive in that language and that's your culture.

For us, I feel like we are kind of a little bit more of the quantity of like, we'll take any assessment because we can pull out a nugget from anywhere, but strengths finders is more of what we deep dive in. So I'd love to hear your strengths if you want to share them and share your roles again so people can kind of match those up.

Kendra: Okay. So I am COO and my strengths are discipline, empathy, consistency, communication, and developer.

Audra Dinell: And you've had an interesting sort of shift recently with discipline.

Kendra: Yeah. It's so, I also used to think, and for ever since we've started doing values work, I thought that self-discipline was a value of mine.

And in doing our Finding Your Why [00:20:00] workshop, you know, the 12 times that I've been able to do it, which is amazing, I learned something new about myself every time, but I had a moment at our Kansas City workshop when we were doing this, where I realized that self-discipline was not a value of mine, but it was something that I used to control the environment around me.

Just growing up split family, a lot was out of my control and so I realized that it wasn't necessarily something that I valued, but something that kind of made me feel safe. And so I, it is a strength of mine because I've developed it over many years, but I don't know that it's a value. Yeah. So to speak.

Audra Dinell: That's so interesting. I think. Yeah, because it can be both. Sure. A value. Or not a value. And a strength. Yeah. That was a cool realization. How about you, Kristen? What? What are your strengths?

Kristen Selby: Yeah, so I'm CAO and my top five strengths are achiever, maximizer, developer, consistency and discipline. [00:21:00]

Audra Dinell: I love how some of yours overlap with Kindra.

Some of yours overlap with mine. What do you think has been like a gift of, of knowing these strengths and did you know them before the Thread? Did you done this?

Kristen Selby: I didn't. No. Yep. I took the Clifton strengths and mine actually changed last year, which is interesting. And I think it has to do with growing my own

business and having to step into more of a CEO role there and having to really lean into maximizer more than maybe I do on the thread team. You kind of cover, I think the maximizer for all of us on the thread team. I see achiever in me every minute of every day and I think that's such a gift and a skill, but I think what working with a Thread team has

provided me is a safe place to show up imperfectly in that achievement. This ties in. I'm, I'm okay. I'm achiever in an Enneagram three. It's like I have to be the best at everything. I have to do everything. I have to, yes to everything. So a huge perk and gift. [00:22:00] One of the greatest gifts of my life is getting to go through these workshops and learn about, you know, how strengths can be set on fire and maybe it's too much and, and learn more about balance and, and just taking the space that I need for myself.

And again, just being able to show up in our team meetings imperfectly and have such a supportive system that like shows my nervous system. Like it's okay not to base everything on your productivity.

Audra Dinell: Yeah. I think one of the unique things about our team is we do start every single team meeting with that check-in.

Like it is not about, all right, let's get to work. How's this project? How's that? But it's more like, how are you? Because you know, one of the things that I think we've found is if we can show up as we are as humans and like share what's going on in our lives in that room. Like we just feel more connected and more productive, honestly, and just safer.

And just once we've talked about that and had our just personal check-in, like we're kind of ready to go.

Kristen Selby: Yeah. And just [00:23:00] knowing each other's strengths has been huge. It's like, you know, when we butt up against each other, as far as like ways of thinking or opinions on something, it's like, oh gosh, that's her maximizer kicking in, or that's her discipline kicking in and just seeing each other's strengths and working together to build a solution and just honoring, like, I'm so thankful that we don't all have the same strengths.

Audra Dinell: Oh my gosh. Yes. And what I think is so funny about our team is Kristen usually plays the tiebreaker role in between Kendra and I. You know, Kendra's usually at one end. Like, we are gonna not spend this money, and I'm at the other end of like, it's gonna be worth it. Let's maximize it. You know?

And so we're usually like both. At some point when we're having discussions, we turn to Kristen. We're like, Kristen. You make the decision. No pressure.

Kendra: Can you turn your achiever on and make the decision for us?

Audra Dinell: I know you're the boss now. You are the captain now. I have seen you do such a beautiful job with that achiever too.

When you say set it on fire, like, explain a little bit what that means, because I have seen you do such a beautiful job of [00:24:00] recognizing that as a strength in yourself, but also tell us what it means to have it on fire and how you've reconciled this to be at the proper place in your life.

Kristen Selby: Yeah. So I love my work. I am passionate about it. I love to work. And so, I know that kind of a red flag for me is when I cross over some boundaries around, like when I'm working. Like I actually really love to set my own schedule. So there are some evenings and weekends that I love to work. But when it is feeling like there's just a feeling in me, like, oh, I probably need to spend some time with my husband or my kids, you know, just kind of keeping that in check and really paying attention to my work habits like that is super important.

And then just also remembering that I have worth in just being and that it isn't tied to my productivity. It feels really good for me to check off a checklist. But just remembering that even if I don't check off a checklist, I'm worthy and I bring value.

Audra Dinell: Yeah. [00:25:00] Okay. Ciara, tell us what your strengths are.

Sierra Brown: Okay, so my strengths are, oh, I'm the social media coordinator, positivity, ideation, activator, woo, and adaptability. So good.

Kristen Selby: Yeah. Oh my gosh, those are so sexy. I'm so jealous of the do.

Audra Dinell: It says the disciplinary, and over here, both, both of them. I love your faces during that. You're like, I know we're fangirling.

We fangirl over Sierra. How do you think those come out in your work?

Sierra Brown: Okay, so whenever I have to think about a post to be crafted, I always try to think about who are we trying to target? What message do we want them to have and like, what are they taking away from the post? Even if it's just like they're looking at it for a second and they scroll past, are we wanting to motivate them?

Are we uplifting them? What's, what's the goal there? And so I think with positivity and ideation, for sure, all of our posts are very positive. [00:26:00] We're a positive organization, so I believe that all of our posts are pretty positive in that way and creating the ideas behind them with the help of everyone.

I've, our entire team, we all kind of sit down during marketing sessions and getting questions and creating ideas but it's definitely a tool of mine that I use to just come up with fun things to like reach the audience differently than what we have before.

Audra Dinell: And I think you do such a good job at that.

I ran the social media for the years before you came on and we had others dabble in. But I just really value your different ideas because I think you just bring such a fresh lens. Thank you. And on your woo, I see the way you are in the community and I just feel like you align yourself with just

really powerful women and you show up well and you present well and you're curious and it's all coming from like a good heart, you know? I mean, it's like your heart is so good and that may be where like the positivity comes in. Yeah. [00:27:00] But I just see your Woo a lot when you're out in the community.

Kendra: Mm-hmm.

Audra Dinell: And that probably reflects on social media too. Yeah. Like winning others over for the Thread via social media.

Sierra Brown: Yeah. That's the whole point. The woo. I know. I love that.

Audra Dinell: Right. Okay, so my strengths are futuristic, activator, maximizer, positivity, and communication. So I feel like I overlap with almost everyone, actually

everyone, because Kendra and I have communication. You and I have maximize, or I mean positivity, Sierra and Activator. And then Kristen and I have maximizer together. The one seat that I fill is that futuristic. And we've talked about that a lot on this podcast, which is, I just love it. I love being in this role.

And I haven't always been in like a CEO seat. I've been a marketing coordinator and worked my way up in different roles, but I just really love and appreciate that futuristic role. Even if I use it to gaslight y'all sometimes I'm laughing because yesterday during our team meeting, I was like, [00:28:00] you guys, we really have to like get organized for Q2.

And I got just blank stares and Kendra and Kristen were like, oh. I think we did that two weeks ago.

Kendra: I think we're organized. Yes, and I think it may have been more than two weeks ago. So to give you, give yourself some credit.

Audra Dinell: Well, thank you. Yeah. I thank you. So I think for me, yeah, just that futuristic, like really leaning into that.

But what I have learned with these strengths and why I think it's so helpful to show up is they fall into buckets under the strengths finder. And so some of the buckets are executing relationships, strategy. What's the other bucket y'all remember? Influencing. Influencing, yeah. So many of my strengths fall under the influencing and the relationships.

Maybe one is strategy zero or execution, which. I say that everyone has to execute. But I think the cool thing here is as we're all working to work in our zone of genius, over the years, we have tried many different ways to figure out who needs to [00:29:00] do what on the team. Like here's the, let's say 30 things that need to be done to make this business run.

Who's gonna do what based on their zone of genius. And do they have the capacity? So I think for me, knowing and just really leaning into those roles and allowing myself to have permission to be who I am and not feel bad about it, know that sometimes I do have to execute, but I am not going to thrive if I am in a heavy execution role much of the time.

That has been a big aha moment for me, and I remember talking to you all probably at the end of last year and saying it would be so insane if I got to work in my zone of genius most all of the time in this business, and I really feel like that's what we work to build. What would you all say about your zones of genius?

Kendra: I feel like it's so interesting because in previous roles I remember wanting to be more strategic, wanting to be that visionary, but it just always didn't feel like it [00:30:00] clicked. Being on this team, I feel like knowing that I don't have to try and stretch into something that I'm not, and that what our team needs is for me to lean into these areas of strength.

And so I love that. I almost feel like we cover so many different areas, but there are times where if you are having some ideation, you'll bring us in to be a part of it. And that's super fun. But I don't know that I could live there every day. And so it almost gives in, in my mind, it gives us permission to not feel like we have to be something that's uncomfortable or that we're not, but that we can really lean in and hone the strengths and abilities that we have, knowing that the other areas of business are covered by each other.

Audra Dinell: I love that. I think that's so true. And I think like if someone's listening and they're a small business owner and maybe [00:31:00] they're a solopreneur and they're starting to build their team, I think the lessons I've learned in building the team are you have to have people that you genuinely like and love and wanna be around.

Like that energy is so important. And then when you have those people, it's a messy road to figure out, like, where does everyone fit? What is our zone of genius? But once you have that fit. Really, I love the way you say it. Give yourself permission. Give everyone permission to live in, work into their strengths,

most of the time. Of course, we all have to, to jump out and stretch at times, but the goal really is like for us to love our work. And if we're loving our work and we're working in areas that are strengths of ours, like we're gonna be more productive, we're gonna go further. So I think those are the three lessons, like in building this team I would share.

Kendra: Yeah.

Audra Dinell: Okay. Any final thoughts before we wrap up our first team podcast? This was fun. This was fun. [00:32:00]

Sierra Brown: Yeah. First podcast, check, check,

Kristen Selby: checklist.

Audra Dinell: How's that feel for your achiever?

Kristen Selby: Feels so good. My nervous system's like buzzing. Check, check, check, check, check. Okay. I'm excited to come back again and talk about.

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Audra Dinell: I know. So we wanted to do this podcast because we'll have the team on more over the next several months, and we just wanted to do an introductory of our team, how it's structured, who we are, what roles we play, and then the unique strengths that we have for those roles. In the show notes, we will include, you mentioned integrators, so I know that's from traction, which we haven't yet done as a team.

But we have talked about some EOS concepts. So we'll link that, we'll link the strengths finders and the book that you can find if you're interested in figuring out what your strengths are. And I will say one more note before we go. I've been doing the strengths finders assessment since I was in my early twenties.

I got laid off right before I was getting married in 2010, [00:33:00] and that was the first time where I was like, okay. I need to figure out what I'm gonna do next for work and I'm need to figure out who I am. So this was the first tool I went to, and then I've really taken it every few years since then. I think the StrengthsFinder certified coaches from Gallup do not suggest that you retake it over and over again.

So I've since kind of stopped that, but I have noticed. That my top five strengths, many of them have stayed the same. Futuristic is always number one. Some of them have fallen down to maybe my top 10, and some of them have risen up to my top five. But you can also look at like, not just your top five, but like 34 strengths.

And mine have always stayed in the top 10 if there are strengths that ever show up in the top five. So it's just a really great tool. Okay. Thank you for joining us. If this episode resonated with you, we would love if you would share it with your team members, fellow entrepreneurs, your friends who might need to learn a little bit more about themselves, or maybe they're in a season where they're building a [00:34:00] team or maybe they are a solopreneur and they aspire to build a team.

We want these people to hear this podcast and just know this is what we've done. This is great. This is possible for you too, and we'll see you next time.