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🔥🦁E1: Know Your Strengths: In a Field of Kittens only the Lions Feast
DYD: For Real? Definitely NOT Your Average Career Podcast.
Underpaid? Underseen? Under duress? Then welcome to the newsletter that helps you stop surviving and start owning your career. Let’s feast. 🦁
ℹ️ DYD is now on Medium. This weekly series gives you the tools to build your career with clarity, swagger, and strategy. Episode 1? Let’s find your inner lion.
DYD: For Real? Definitely NOT Your Average Career Podcast
Under-paid, under-appreciated…under duress? Then welcome to DYD. An interactive podcast to fast track your career for real.
Rosann Santos and Rio Rocket flavor your day with delicious career advice digitally-served fresh to your device. Master the most valuable career skills from the secret success formula we retrieved from a subterranean fortress under the sea. Sort of.
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ℹ️ DYD Episodes always opens with a skit — but this isn’t just comedy. It’s a call to arms. You’re not a kitten. You’re built to feast.
🎭 Pre-Roll Skit
Are you a Kitten…?
Or are you a Lion?
Take this short quiz to find out:
Do you enjoy catnip? buzz!
Do you have furry whiskers and purr around the ankles of your co-workers? buzz!
Do you enjoy being called… ahem mhhh, skip buzz!
Are you finicky and comfortable nibbling on chicken gizzards? buzz!
If you’ve answered no to all of the above then you… my friend are a Lion.
Let the feasting begin.
ℹ️The Episode will always begin with this…
🧠 Let’s Dive In!
When’s the last time someone told you to stop trying to fix your weaknesses? That’s not usually what we hear. We’re told to hustle harder, “improve the areas where we struggle,” or worse — pretend that our flaws are what define us.
But what if that entire mindset is the trap? What if leaning into our strengths — not sanding down our rough edges — is how we actually level up?
In this episode, we’re kicking off the first of our 5 Pillars of Strength: Understanding Your Strengths. Because if you’re going to design your decade with intention, you’ve got to start by knowing what weapons you’re bringing into battle. And we’re not talking about soft meows — we’re talking lion-level energy. 🦁
🔄 Let’s Get Something Straight: You’re Not Broken
One of the reasons we decided to start this show was because so many people feel stuck. And they don’t realize that it’s not because they’re doing something wrong — it’s because they’re focusing on the wrong things. When you keep trying to “fix” yourself, you end up exhausted and mediocre at best.
Rosann here — I became a Strengths Coach because I wanted to flip that mindset. The quote that hooked me was from Don Clifton, who pioneered Strengths Psychology: “There is no more effective way to empower people than to see each person in terms of his or her strengths.”
That hit me like a ton of bricks. Most of us are conditioned to view ourselves through a deficit lens. We obsess over what we lack. But when you switch to a strengths-based lens, everything shifts.
💥 Strengths Aren’t Just Buzzwords. They’re Your Superpowers.
Don Clifton studied what made high performers thrive, and he realized something radical: the most successful people weren’t the ones who “balanced” themselves out. They were the ones who doubled down on what they were naturally great at. 🎯
That research eventually evolved into the CliftonStrengths assessment, and we both took it. Our results were…kind of eerily accurate.
Rosann’s top strengths:
· Woo
· Includer
· Communication
· Ideation
· Arranger
Rio’s top strengths:
· Strategic
· Achiever
· Communication
· Positivity
· Self-Assurance
What we both realized was this: our greatest power isn’t in becoming someone else. It’s in maximizing who we already are.
🦸♂️ Superhero Science: Strengths in the MCU
We love a good metaphor, and Rio dropped this one like Thor’s hammer. Think about your favorite Marvel characters. Every one of them operates from their core strength.
· Tony Stark doesn’t try to out-fight Thor. He engineers.
· Steve Rogers was chosen not for his muscles but for his heart.
· Hawkeye knows he doesn’t have superpowers — but he’s deadly accurate because he knows his lane.
There’s this line Hawkeye says that hits home: “If I miss, it means I’ve been fooling myself this whole time.”
And that’s the truth: people who know their strengths also know their purpose. That’s why they don’t miss.
🔓 The Process: 3 Keys to Unlocking Your Strengths
1. Eliminate Self-Limiting Beliefs
2. Guard Your Attitude Like It’s Gold
3. Take Bold, Fast Action
When you move without hesitation, fear doesn’t stand a chance. Even if you don’t have full clarity, move anyway. Motion creates emotion. Movement makes momentum.
💼 Real Talk: It Doesn’t Matter Where You Work
Whether you’re in corporate, wellness, marketing, or on stage — your strengths matter. Someone, somewhere, is affected by how you show up.
That’s why leading with your strengths isn’t just about you. It’s about the confidence you radiate when you’re in alignment with what makes you powerful.
💡 Health Tip of the Day
The greatest gift you can give yourself is cardio. The heart is the only muscle that never comes to rest and the one you can’t live without. Everyday challenge yourself to do something that raises your heart-rate. Jeremy, a friend of mine, summarized it when I was in Charlotte earlier this year and he said: “Everyday your body wants to be just a little hungry and a little out of breath.”
📚 StrengthsFinder Resources (Episode 1 Only)
Learn more about StrengthsFinder:
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