Hey, this is John Gordon with Positive You. And today, my guest is Kate Lavelle. Kate is my co-author of the book Stick Together. And she returns now with her own book that she wrote called Super Power. Kate, how you doing?

I'm doing fantastic. So excited to be back on here with you.

It's great to have you, Kate. Well, we wrote this book Stick Together. It's been so much fun. So many teams have been doing it. And we are seeing teams come together and stick together as a result of these principles and practices.

Has that been enjoyable for you to see you write this book and see the impact that's having on all these teams?

It's really been incredible. You know, when I started putting that story together and we decided to put it out. I wasn't sure exactly how it was going to hit because, you know, it's a fable. You're familiar with doing these. It's simple.

It's just got some principles in there. And I thought, are they going to be able to read this and really take in the principles and see how does this relate to our team?

And it was so amazing to just watch people respond to it and say, wow, we use this for our entire theme of the season. In fact, now it's going to be the theme of our program, our organization.

And they've got the principles all over the building. And it's just been really incredible.

And now you have this new book, super power, amazing cover, amazing book. Tell us like why you wrote this, but actually let's start first.

What do you mean by superpower? Is this some kind of superhero book or can we all have a superpower?

Is it a superhero book? I'm going to say yes, but, but not in the way that you think, I guess.

Yeah, we all have and not a superpower. I think we could all wish that we had some sort of superpower. Maybe, you know, we could turn water into gasoline or something.

You know, that would be great. But no, we have many superpowers. And the beauty of it is that our superpowers are what come together and make us who we are.

And that is a theme throughout the book is, you know, where we are alike, we come together to relate, which is so important.

But if we were all alike, just think of what this world would be. I'll be very boring. We wouldn't innovate. We wouldn't move forward.

So it's important to find ways that we're alike, but where we're different, where we are unique, where we have different life experiences and different thoughts and personalities.

And that is where we personally add value. And those are the things that make up our superpowers.

So you're saying what makes me different? Are my differences and those differences and being different is a superpower?

Absolutely. I think so many times, you know, we're told that we need to fit in. We have the pressure to fit in. And so what we do is we kind of hide or minimize the ways that were different.

And what that does is it keeps us from contributing the things that we were meant to contribute. We start to see the things that make us different as flaws.

And I think that can cause, it can cause a lot of tension between people when we're trying to hide the way that we're different.

It can cause a lot of tension in the fact that we don't feel open to share our differences and learn each other's viewpoints, because we're too busy trying to find out, well, where can we at least get along.

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