Understanding your strengths isn’t just self-awareness — it’s a business advantage.

In this episode, we explore how leveraging your natural strengths can make even the parts of business you hate more effective. Using CliftonStrengths and the Big Five as a framework, they share personal insights and real-world examples from building creative businesses, and explain why alignment beats brute force every time.

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