In this episode Josh, Starr, and Ben talk about each of their results from taking the CliftonStrengths assessment and debate the validity of the results. They also discuss if having differing strengths and weaknesses has helped or hindered them working as a team.
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Ben: So, how's the vacation been everybody?
Josh: Good. For the most part.
Starr: Yeah. What have ya'll been doing?
Josh: Well, so I've been a little cynical today maybe because my family has been sick for the past few ...
Starr: Oh no.
Josh: My wife specifically. She's not feeling well and I've been on kid duty and kids are cooped up and tired of dad.
Starr: I'm so sorry, Josh. That sounds so rough.
Josh: But we'll get through that. Well, it is what it is.
Starr: Well, if you need to take a little break and go away, wrangle some kids.
Josh: Oh. I am ready to get back to work.
Ben: Just remember what Macklemore said, right? "These are the good ol' days."
Josh: Yeah. It is true. I have been enjoying the time with the kids for sure, especially after they go to sleep and I have time to reflect on the day.
Starr: Yeah. So, was Christmas great? Did your little ones just love it?
Josh: They did.
Starr: Did your little ones love it, Ben? Your slightly bigger ones.
Ben: Well, if they both hadn't had the stomach flu, they would have loved it.
Starr: Oh my God, everybody is sick this Christmas.
Josh: Everyone is sick, yeah.
Starr: Even when one of my friends back in Arkansas. I was like, "How was Christmas?" And she's like, "Oh, I got the flu." So, I don't know what's going on.
Josh: Yeah, my brother's daughter got the flu over Christmas too. So, it seems to be going around.
Ben: But we did get a new board game as a family thing?
Starr: Which one?
Ben: Five minute dungeon. If you haven't heard of that-
Josh: I have it.
Ben: ... it's a co-op card-based game. It's got a five minute time limit thing. So, you're rushing, you're playing cards to try and beat the monsters and obstacles to get through the dungeon. And it's pretty frantic and it's a lot of fun, so yeah check it out. It's three to five players. It's eight years old and above, I think. It's a lot of fun.
Josh: Pretty cool. Can we link that up in the show notes?
Ben: You betcha.
Josh: With an Amazon affiliate link.
Starr: It's so cool that you can just say that and somehow it'll happen. I'm not sure anymore how it happens. It just does.
Josh: It doesn't have to be an affiliate link for the record, Ben. But if it is, you're totally covered because I've just disclosed ...
Ben: Well, Ben will just slide his own affiliate link in there.
Josh: Right.
Starr: Yeah. So, I know for a long time, Josh, you listened to Dan Carlin's Common Sense podcast, which is now I think pretty much defunct. I listened to that too. He always talked to his producer ... I think his name is Ben, right?
Josh: Yeah. His name is Ben yeah.
Starr: And the joke is like you don't know if Ben is real, but he's just talking to Ben throughout the show. And so, I think maybe we should start doing that with our own Ben Findlay.
Josh: He really is our ... he's our producer, so yeah. I love him.
Starr: Yeah. Got our marketing expert, Ben Findlay, who is involved in the production of this podcast, so we should just start doing that and that would be really weird.
Josh: The dynamic on Common Sense was great though because he's always making fun jabs at him. And then, like any intro's like the announcer voice is taking jabs at Dan because I'm assuming Ben is writing the scripts for those.
Starr: Oh yeah. Fun fact. Our cheesy announcer voice was a direct ripoff of that show.
Josh: Yeah.
Starr: Cheesy announcer voice.
Josh: We're fans.
Starr: I don't have any original ideas, so what are we talking about today? We're talking about StrengthsFinder, right?
Josh: StrengthsFinder, yeah.
Starr: Should I set the scene?
Ben: I'm looking at it right now and, Starr, your number one strength. I'm just looking at it right now. Is id...