Embrace Your Strengths

EP 139 Creating Digital Media On Purpose with Thom Gibson

Thom's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are Connectedness, Communication, Achiever, Competition & Belief 

Thom is a former classroom teacher turned social media strategist with a love for audio and video technology.  He lives in Austin, TX with his wife Sara who is a pediatrician, and their two kids, Audrey and Tam.  He's a big fan of running, chicken wings, and jiu jitsu.

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EP 138 Positively In It Together with Solomon and Jamie Wang

Solomon's Top 5 ClfitonStrengths are:  Positivity, Woo, Harmony, Belief & Connectedness  

Jamie's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are: Connectedness, Belief, Adaptability, Positivity & Developer

Solomon and Jamie have lived in Austin for 15 years, are native Texans and proud Longhorns. They have two precious kids, Austin (3yr) and Haven (10mo). Solomon works for Brookline Wealth, a multifamily office that serves families with financial advisory and generational planning with a high value of generosity. Jamie cares for the household and children, which often involves a mix of baseball in the yard, art projects, and keeping crayons out of Haven's mouth. They both love being involved in the local church, eating at new restaurants, and spending time with their friends

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EP 137 Together as a Team Reaching the World with Jesse and Tricia Marcos

Jesse's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are: Woo, Positivity, Adaptability, Empathy, Connectedness 

Tricia's Top 5 Cliftonstrengths are: Connectedness, Deliberative, Developer, Belief & Harmony

Jesse is from Houston, Tx and served with Campus Crusade for Christ (Cru) for 39 years. He  served in various roles in the Campus ministry most of that time qne  was a campus team leader for years as well as serving as a regional director for Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. For almost 3 years, he has been the missions pastor at Faith Bible Church in The Woodlands, Tx. 

 

Tricia is from Texas  and has been on  Cru staff over 40 years. She has mainly worked with students, but for the last 6 years she has been with our City Global ministry doing staff care for our American City staff in Europe. She is also a coach with Envision Pathway which is a ministry designed  to help our staff 55 and over maximize their final years for kingdom impact. 

 

Jesse and Tricia have been married 42 year and  lived in Germany 4 years and Italy 10 years. They have 3 children and 6 grandchildren. 4 girls and 2 boys!. 

 

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EP 136 Being Seen and Valued at Work with Barbara Culwell

Meeting together for a team workshop to unpack each person's Top 5 CliftonStrengths can be a great way to understand and "see" the people that you work with.. and to help leverage what each person brings to the table!   It can give language to encourage each other, be more productive and find more joy in doing more of what you are wired to do!    

Listen in to hear some takeaways from some recent team workshops!   

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EP 135 Learning To Care for Others From Her Strengths With Andrianna Watson

Andrianna's top five strengths are Strategic, Responsibility, Context, Achiever, and Input.

Growing up in Cleveland, OH she was determined to change the world and stopped at nothing to make that dream a reality. In 2016 Andrianna moved to The Bayou State to attend Louisianan State University where she double majored in Political Science and English. During her freshman year, she became a member of The Impact Movement. As a member and eventually student leader of Impact, Andrianna grew in her faith. She had a chance to put her faith into action by participating in two annual summer mission trips to South Africa. In 2020, Andrianna graduated from LSU and knew the Lord was calling her into campus ministry. By August 2020, she leaped to become an intern working for Cru and Impact full-time. Now, 4 years later Andrianna is currently serving as The Impact Movement campus coach for LSU where every day she walks alongside students in their walk with Christ. When she's not on campus you can catch Andrianna taking a trip, reading a book, or binge-watching the latest Netflix show! 

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EP !34 Leading With His Passion for People with Brett Marcos

Brett's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are: Harmony, Developer, Empathy, Connectedness & Positivity 

 

Brett graduated from Texas Tech University, where he met his wife Kim, they fell in love, and soon after graduation tied the knot. At Tech is also where they both saw their own lives changed – all through the Cru ministry! After interning there, they joined staff full-time and moved to Baton Rouge, LA to work with Cru at LSU. Now leading the team at LSU, Brett loves bringing staff or students together to feel seen, building them up in their walk with God so that they can become leaders, and ultimately be sent out equipped with the hope of Christ to do the same for others. 

 

Brett is a sports fanatic – with basketball and football taking high priority. He also enjoys hanging with friends, roasting coffee, smoking a brisket, and cooking great meals.

 

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EP 133 Surprised by the Impact of Her Strengths with Becky Getter

Becky's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are: Developer, Responsibility, Woo, Communication & Learner

Becky is a 71 yr old wife to her husband of 48 years, mom to two adult children and grandmother to 5 precious grandchildren.She has lived in Texas all of her  life with the last 30 years being in the Austin area. She graduated from high school in Lufkin, Texas and then 4 years later graduated from University of Texas Austin. She  taught school, started 3 different successful businesses, and immersed herself in studying the Word of God the last 25 years. She also loves music and plays the guitar, ukulele and piano. When she was 50 yrs old, she was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that strongly impacted her energy level which was a major life change for her. She loves everything Jesus, family and friends!!!! She gives God the glory for all her blessings and trusts Him for her future. 

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EP 131 2023 Episode Highlights with Susan Barrett

Barbara and Susan chat about some of the top downloaded episodes  of Embrace Your Strengths in 2023 

EP 96 Cousins and Friends for Life with Carol Dodds and Kim Laughton 

EP 89 Dreaming of and Creating Beautiful Spaces with Aryn Guillory

EP 103 Setting the Table for Conversations about Faith, Hope and Forgiveness with Mary Beth Minnis

EP 91 Experiencing God's Love in Loss with Will and Sarai Neusch

EP 126 Encouraging Herself and Others that God is Always at Work with Judy Douglass

EP 92 Till Death Do Us Part with Susan Barrett

 

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EP 130 Treasuring the Christmas Story with Janet Pope

Janet’s Top 5 CliftonStrengths are: Focus, Belief, Learner, Discipline & Communication

Janet is a Bible teacher and speaker at women’s event.  She has  Master’s in Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary, and is the author of His Word in My Heart, Moody Publishers. Her favorite things are memorizing Scripture, granddaughters, girlfriend lunches… and football. She resides with her husband Ethan in Birmingham, Alabama, and is a member of The Church at Brook Hills. 

Her book His Word in My Heart

Video of Christmas Message The Treasure and the Sword: 37 minutes recorded December 9. 2023

Janet’s website

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EP 129 Wondering How you Show up this Christmas Season? With Bria Abudu and Barbara Culwell

Bria and Barbara chat about how their CliftonStrengths are showing up this season including topics about traditions, movies, the meaning of Christmas, families and more!  

Bria lives in Austin and works with the Impact ministry of Cru. Her top 5 CliftonStrengths are Positivity, Connectedness, Woo, Achiever & Input

Barbara's top 5 CliftonStrengths are Harmony, Adaptability, Empathy, Connectedness & Maximizer. 

You can listen to previous episode with Bria here.

Impact Movement Website

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