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Welcome to this Tailgate Talk episode! There is no guest today; it’s just you and me, and we’re talking all about YOU! We’ll focus on your relationships with others and maximizing your strengths in this two-part episode. Next week, we’ll be joined by Alyssa Dare Nelson, a strengths coach and host of the Maximize Your Strengths podcast. Visit www.strengthsfinder.com to find out how to take the online assessment test to identify YOUR strengths. What you’ll hear in this episode: The analogy of “the toolbox,” birthed from my own experience working in my little corner of my dad’s workshop, with child-sized tools and scraps of wood How each of us is given an individual “toolbox” in life, but many people don’t know what tools they have or how to use them The mark of a successful person is someone who KNOWS what’s in their toolbox and how to use it. The problem with school environments is that often we are put in places with no tools, with tools we don’t understand, or with tools we don’t know how to use. “Knowledge