Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness.

We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset.

Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach,

2012 and 2013 Cross-Tic Games Champ,

Michael Kaju.

Mind, Body, Brute. body grouped.

Hey, this is Michael Kaju and I want to talk to you about how to use your relationships to catapult you to the next level.

So the next level of success, of financial freedom,

of your athletic ability, success and relationships,

how to use your current relationships to catapult you to the next level.

And this is also something that I think that successful people use

to become more and more and more successful.

I had this experience about a year ago

where I did something called a 360 assessment.

So I hired this new business coach and this is the first thing that he

wanted to do with me. He had me pick the 12 people that I work most closely

with in my life and in business and he interviewed every single one of

them for 60 to 90 minutes. He asked them first what my biggest strengths were and

then for the majority of the time where my opportunities for growth were

also known as my weaknesses. After all of these were done, he put them all together into one large document where I could

see what other people thought were all of my biggest strengths and all of my biggest weaknesses.

When I first got the results of this thing, I felt like I was being punched in the gut.

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