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46. Strengths-Based Parenting: Easing Transitions and Building Strong Family Bonds

• Christina Kohl

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Unlock the secrets to enhancing your parenting skills through the unique lens of StrengthsFinder, as we welcome back the insightful Chani Kohn. You'll discover practical ways to identify and harness your strengths within the four key domains: executing, influencing, relationship building, and strategic thinking. Reflect on the pivotal role of strengths like responsibility and achiever during transitional periods such as the back-to-school season, and learn how these qualities can ease the chaos and bring order to your family's routine.

Join us for a heartwarming conversation on maintaining family connections during life's inevitable transitions. From the emotional journey of sending kids off to college to organizing homework routines, we discuss strategies rooted in empathy and understanding. Chani shares light-hearted tips and delves into the concept of strengths mapping to create harmonious co-parenting dynamics. With a wealth of personal anecdotes and actionable advice, this episode is your guide to navigating parenting with confidence and clarity.

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Christina Kohl:

Hi and welcome to Her Next Chapter's podcast. I'm your host, hristina Cole. I'm a mom of three and soon to be an empty nester. I'm also a certified HR pro who restarted my career after being a stay-at-home mom for over a decade. I created this podcast to connect with moms who have an empty nest on the horizon and are wanting to redefine their identity outside of motherhood, which might include a job search. On this show, we'll have raw conversations about our ever-changing roles as moms. We'll hear from women who restarted their careers and share tips for a job search after a career break. So if that's you, you're in the right place. Friend, let's get started.

Christina Kohl:

All right, everyone, welcome to this week's episode of Her Next Chapter's podcast. I am so excited to welcome back our guest, Chani Krohn. So Hani was actually a guest earlier this year on the podcast talking about StrengthsFinders, so you can find those episodes at episodes 16 and 17. Finders so you can find those episodes at episodes 16 and 17. And I've invited her back today to talk about parenting and your strengths and really want to dive deep into that, because we're parents and there are so many ways that we can use our strengths in our everyday lives with our kids, and Hani is an expert at this. So thank you so much for joining us again, hani, and welcome.

Chani Kohn:

Yeah, thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be back.

Christina Kohl:

Absolutely. I just so enjoyed our conversation before and I have to admit I had to find my strengths because I kind of let them sit off to the side. And it's great to kind of revisit this, particularly in this context of parenting, and I was wondering if maybe we should just kind of start. Not only are there the 34 strengths, but there's four domains that those strengths live in. So it might be good to kind of revisit those and be able to talk about that in the context of parenting as well. So if you can be our teacher and share with that, share those with us, that'd be great.

Chani Kohn:

Yeah, of course.

Chani Kohn:

So um StrengthsFinder um is created by Gallup, um, they call it Clifton StrengthsFinder from the founder, Don Clifton, and, as Christina mentioned, there are 34 themes.

Chani Kohn:

Um, that they're, that they have, and um, we call them strengths.

Chani Kohn:

So themes and strengths, and they put these 34 strengths into four buckets or four domains, which are called executing, influencing, relationship building and strategic thinking. So if you maybe you're familiar with it and you've taken the assessments, and or if you aren't and you look into it, you'll notice that each of the strengths have a different color associated with it. There's four colors, colors associated with each domain. So if you get a report, you'll see a few different colors, you'll see how they each fall into these buckets and these domains and the purpose of it is it really helps us organize the information, because it would be really overwhelming to get something of just like these 34 and not understanding how they fit. And they're actually really helpful because for someone even like me, for example, I lead with relationship building as my domain and the way I know that is from how many of my top 10 strengths fall into a certain domain. So it's really helpful for conversations and how you can, how you can also look at your report and understand where your natural strengths are.

Christina Kohl:

All right, thank you for that. I'm looking at my report going so mine says that I lead with strategic thinking, which makes sense, and I think, if I remember mine also, my top 10 are spread across all four domains, which I believe you had said was kind of rare. That most, and I'm feeling like I'm scattered. You're like no, no, no, it's a gift.

Chani Kohn:

Yeah, no, I, and it was actually, if I remember, yeah and I have yours. I jotted yours down also. So, yes, you have in each of the buckets, which is awesome, and yeah, you have, most of yours are in strategic thinking. Does that like resonate with you? Does that make sense to you?

Christina Kohl:

Yeah, absolutely Absolutely. That's just kind of how I approach everything. It's like, okay, what makes the to you? Yeah, absolutely Absolutely. That's just kind of how I approach everything. It's like, okay, what makes the most sense, and um, and just I'm a thinker, Um, and I think that's as I'm saying the word think um, but yes, it does resonate with me. But, as you said, relationship building like well, but that resonates with me too and it makes sense because my strengths are across the domains that I can kind of connect with each of them, um, and I would think that probably relationship building and strategic thinking are the two that I identify with the most, because you're also very high on executing um.

Chani Kohn:

You have, like, your number one is achiever and number four is responsibility, right, yep, yeah, so it's fine because I would say, like your relationship building, your developer and empathy are number eight and nine, so you're higher on the executing ones, um, but it's funny, you're gravitating towards, like, the relationship building yeah, well, and maybe too, I know what we're talking about in the context of parenting might be from the forefront of my mind too, which is I'm executing good parenting by relationship building.

Chani Kohn:

It's true, it's true. But having the higher I mean talk about parenting the higher responsibility. I'm sure that must show up a lot.

Christina Kohl:

Yeah, yeah, I mean like right now. Well, I'm sure that must show up a lot. Yeah, yeah, I mean like right now. Well, I'm not sure if we I know we talked we wanted to talk about different transitions. I'll just start.

Christina Kohl:

So that's back to school season. We're recording in July, but we're going to be publishing this in August, which is when, for me, back to school is taking my youngest child to college and moving him into the dorm. So it's a very different back to school environment for us and he's not the first child I've taken to college, but he's the last, which means I don't have the traditional. We've been in the same school district for over 20 years and this will be the first year. So talk about our transition of saying goodbye. This will be the first year that we don't have a student in our local school district. We've lived in the same home, lived, you know, come through the whole thing with here and so that's a transition of saying goodbye and now a transition of sending sending him off to college because, yeah, that is a really big deal.

Chani Kohn:

It's a certain chapter closing and that transition is a really big deal. I would be curious to hear from you of like I gravitate when I look towards your strengths. I feel like in your strategic thinking bucket, like futuristic is something that can really help you through that, because you're thinking about the future, you're excited about what could be and the future, versus looking at it as like the door is shut. You're looking at it as wow, what has this opened?

Christina Kohl:

Right, right, yeah, and it's good to remember that because I do go back and forth. I will say the responsibility and I'm just looking at the words because I don't know and understand these to the anywhere near the depth that you do. So I might be misunderstanding just based on the one word. But the responsibility, like we haven't done all the dorm shopping stuff yet. Part of it is because we have dorm supplies down in our basement from his brother and sister that we can just kind of pick through those. Um, but I'm like, well, we need to like be planning, we need to get this stuff going.

Christina Kohl:

And he's like, yeah, okay, and so you know, that's where I'm struggling. It's like where does where, how the parenting shifts from me to him. I mean not the parent, the responsibility shifting because he doesn't. You know, like with my daughter, everything was, she had shopping list and everything's all planned out and and here's the color themes and whatever. And he's like, yeah, can I get some toiletries? So there's a definitely responsibility feel and and the the achieving, like I want, I want to be able to check it off the list and let's write it all down.

Chani Kohn:

Well, I feel like it's harder when you, especially with responsibility, it's like that. One is like when you say you're going to do something, you take ownership of it. Like you like, come hell or high water, like you said you're going to do it, you are going to do it. And it's that's interesting, like where you mentioned like how does that shift? Like over to to him. But at the same time, you're probably thinking like I don't know if, like, if I do shift it over, will he do it? Will he have everything he needs? So you're still going to be so. Maybe it's more of like, what areas of responsibility can you delegate to him and what do you still need to do? That Like you can set those goals and get started on that Like, which is, you know, different.

Chani Kohn:

Like my kids are going into fifth grade and first grade. So, like I saw Target was having a really good sale and I got a ping on my app that they're having a really good sale on school supplies. It's July 15th. I don't want to be thinking about school supplies, but I was like, how could I not? So the like arranger and achiever in me was like I am going to do this order, I am going to take care of it, um, especially cause I know my kids start school after labor day and I have to be like I'm flying on that. Uh, sunday I have a wedding and I was like I need to be organized, I need to get through this, like, um, but the difference is, like I'm the one, it's on me, like my fifth grader is not like, well, he would love to go like school supply shopping and spend on God knows what we're like.

Chani Kohn:

I'm like, yes, 25 cent crayons, yay, like it's all on me. So I think like that, that's a different sense of responsibility. Where, for you, it's like how can you still feel like you are helping in this transition and doing what you need to do with? Also, because you've been through it twice before. You know what needs to get done and by when. So it might be like you might have to force a little bit more of that Like, instead of asking the questions, it might have to be like well, here's what we need to do. Like what do you want? Do you want to decide between X or Y? And like it might have to be like asking those types of questions, because then that will help you feel like you're doing your part.

Christina Kohl:

Yeah, and actually just I talked to him yesterday. I'm like when is a good time for you and I together to go downstairs and to the basement where all this stuff is and sort through it together, because I'm feeling like it's not happening. And so he threw out Tuesday, so tomorrow, so that way we can do it together and we can kind of, and we'll have a better idea of what we have, because we have a refrigerator, we have a microwave, we have some bedding and what we need, you know, and of course he's going to have some of his own things. He doesn't get everything that's a hand-me-down by any means. I mean he's, he's thinking of posters, that's what he thinks he needs, which is awesome, and you also need, like you know, the mattress roll and that. So I will feel more confident once we've done that assessment and I don't know if that's the right word, but once we've. Once we've gone through that and we have a list of, okay, here's what we do have, here's what we still need, and okay, then the plan of how do we go in. And it's still giving him both ownership and responsibility.

Christina Kohl:

Yeah, but yet, calming my brain down, like okay, now I know when I don't have to like, keep bugging him about it, we haven't. We have something planned, yeah, because, yeah, I don't want it to be like the day before, just a couple days before he goes, is my birthday. I don't want to be spending my birthday stressed, like you know, figure out all his stuff. So we're doing it. We're doing it now, during this transition time. Any other ideas that you see from my top five, which let's just run through, those real quick Achiever, ideation, maximizer, responsibility and input, which I also think of as research. Any of those other ones that you can see from an outsider's perspective you don't know my family dynamic and all that, but you know, with this whole transition of going away to college, of him going away to college, any other ways that you see, just based on that list of strengths, ways that I can help make this transition easier.

Chani Kohn:

Yeah, I think that like Maximizer is an interesting one, and that's one where I would say be be aware of your audience, because I think like Maximizer is where you want to take something you always want to take something from good to great. Like you can look at something and you maybe you have like your, you have the fridge, you have the microwave, you have some other thing. But it's like you might look at it and be like, okay, well, how can we make this an even better experience for him? How can this be? Like I don't want him to have all hand-me-downs, so like what can we do? That's even better and how can I?

Chani Kohn:

But I would just be cautious that he might not even want that Like. You might then be adding more to yourself than you even need to be. So I think it's like asking him of you know whatever that you know topic is or whatever it pertains to, of you know whatever that you know topic is or whatever it pertains to, of you know, like is this good for you? Or you know I have, like your ideation would be good here too. Like I have some ideas of what we could do to make this even better, but like if you're good with how this is, then you can just move on.

Christina Kohl:

Yeah, that makes sense and I've been trying to do that and I even asked him.

Christina Kohl:

I let him know that I'm going to want to keep in touch but I don't want to smother. I said but just know that I'm coming from a place of love. And so I threw out an idea of and I'm not on Snapchat, that's not my platform, but I'm like what if we were just even to Snapchat and have a streak? And for me it's proof of life, just even to Snapchat and have a streak, and for me it's proof of life, just to know he's okay, right, but it's also just kind of a fun way to keep in touch without putting pressure on him, like, okay, we're going to have a phone call and I've got 20 questions for you, but it's just kind of a simple little thing that hopefully he's already doing in his regular life. So that was an idea as far as ideation, and he like, yeah, that sounds. I mean, he was excited about it. I don't know, excited might be a little strong of a word. He was open to it yeah, but that sounds perfect.

Chani Kohn:

It's like that's for sure, like your ideation, 100%, and I think it's your. It's also like your, your empathy, like your, your understanding. That's number, it's also like your, your empathy, like your, your understanding. And that's number nine it's not in your top five but still like it's still present. That I think that you're feeling and feeding off of, like what you're sensing from him, like you're understanding what this is like You've you know you've sent two other kids to college, so you know what on their end what it feels like going onto a new transition, wanting some of that space. Like you're trying to understand, like how he might be feeling and and trying to put yourself in his shoes and like how can I do something? Like I still want to keep in touch, but like how can I do it in a way that feels good to you? It's like that is your empathy, a hundred percent.

Christina Kohl:

Yeah, yeah, we actually went out to lunch, just him and my husband and I, so the three of us and and the poor kids getting questions thrown at him. You know, are you excited? What are you most excited about? What are you going to do about that? You know what are all these questions? And when my husband left to use the restroom, I just asked him like are you most looking forward to not being asked 20 questions at a time last year's? Like yeah, because it's hard when you're the focus of attention and yeah. So, yeah, that's definitely the empathy part and trying to to scale back, hold myself back a little bit. Yeah, so what about you with your kiddos? I mean, this is a transition too, because kindergarten is kindergarten half day.

Chani Kohn:

No, kindergarten was a full day.

Christina Kohl:

But there's still big changes and expectations as you move up a grade from fifth grade and not fifth grade and is fifth grade the end of elementary school in your district.

Chani Kohn:

It's the end of, like, lower school and then sixth grade will be middle school. So I'm still taking like a breath that grade will be middle school, middle school. So I'm still taking like a breath that I'm not middle school yet. Um, but my daughter will start having homework this year where, like it's because when my son first had homework, like in first grade, it was like a big deal and like as a parent, like he's my oldest, so I didn't know what I was doing and now with her, I'm like, oh, like I got, like it will still be a big deal and I want to help set structure for her and those types of things and it will definitely be a transition. But I feel more confident because I've been through it before. But I think, like for me during these transitions, what I a big piece I really lean on is my top two strengths. So my number one is arranger, which is in the executing domain. So I'm really looking at like how do I organize all the pieces of what's happening in my world to make sense and to be efficient? So whether it's like how I'm going to set up their work like last year, for example, and I had some of my school supplies I bought was to replenish this. I bought like this caddy organizer thing on Amazon. That's like a like a lazy Susan type of one, and I filled each caddy with different supplies. They would need so markers and crayons and color pencils and erasers and sharpeners and glue and sharpened pencils and whatever scissors and anything they might need for homework. And like I now will have, I put it in the middle of the table and like they'll do their homework, but like they have all the supplies. So it's not me running around, but like that for me was how do I arrange the space in a helpful way so we're not spending five minutes looking for the yellow marker? And we find the yellow marker and now it's dried up. So like how do we? And then we have to look for the highlighter to like replace the yellow marker, to come up to my office to get the yellow highlighter, so so like that's where my arranger will come in of. Like how can I create the right like environment and how do I help organize the time? Like that I've created a structure. Like when my kids come home, they know they have a snack, then we do homework right away, um, and like only one, then they can you know, go play and and and like we'll get. Oh, they get their bags ready. They put their water bottles from their day away. We pick out snacks for the next day, so like arranging all of that.

Chani Kohn:

But then my second strength really comes in I know it will come in a lot this year is individualization. So that's where I look at like I see each person as their own unique individual, their own each person, and I want to help develop them and support them in the best way that is for them. So I think that will really come true with my kids when it comes to, like, homework time, because they're both not the same, they're both going to be. Like the way that my son does homework and that I know I need to help support him is going to be different than my daughter, and I've never experienced it yet with my daughter.

Chani Kohn:

So this will be the really interesting year for me where, like, even my learner is number 10. So, like, I love learning new things and seeing new things, and so it'll be really interesting for me to see how, what type of learner she is. Like I already can see she has more patience to like if she gets frustrated. She has more patience to sit and figure it out than my son does. So it's just an interesting way of like. How do I like? I don't want him to feel that I'm celebrating that in her, but it's more of like how do I tailor myself to help each of them to be their best Right?

Christina Kohl:

right and using your strengths, leaning into your strengths, to be able to do that. Hey everyone, I want to take this opportunity to tell you about this exciting challenge that I am hosting. It's on the secrets to landing your dream job, even with a career break. So I'm putting this together for people that are starting their job searches or maybe you've been in a job search for a while and just aren't getting a lot of traction and really it's some of the fundamentals, some of the foundational things that you need to be successful in your job search. So it's a three-day challenge some of the foundational things that you need to be successful in your job search. So it's a three-day challenge. On the first day, we're going to focus on career clarity and life design. So, really, what is the right role for you at this current stage and season of life? And then on day two, we're going to jump into your network how to activate the network you already have as well as expanding your network. I don't know about you, but networking the whole idea of it just sounds kind of icky and uncomfortable and awkward, and I really want to show you and teach you the natural networking method for how to network with ease and build genuine relationships without feeling awkward or forced. On day three, the focus is going to be how to talk about yourself in these networking conversations, whether it's in a job interview or just you run into someone at the grocery store and I've talked about this stuff on the podcast before, so if you've been listening for a while, you might have an idea of what we're talking about here. But really it's your elevator pitch and we're going to be focusing on that on day three on how to take your expertise and package it into a compelling and memorable elevator pitch. So, putting all three of those together, it's really foundational to anyone's job search. And, of course, the lens the focus will be on those of us that have had a career gap. So I invite you to join. It is completely free. It is my gift to you in this community.

Christina Kohl:

I'm just really excited to be able to present this in this format. So it's going to be on Zoom, it's going to be virtual calls and it'll be September 3rd, 4th and 5th. There'll be a link to sign up in the show notes and you can also find information about it on LinkedIn. If you go to my profile, you'll see it there. And, yeah, please join. We're going to have a Facebook group and we're going to have activities and know that you'll be part of the community. You won't be alone in this. There'll be others there and, yeah, I'm just really excited to be able to offer this. So sign up and I can't wait to see you.

Christina Kohl:

All right With that? We're going to switch back to the episode, and we talked offline before this about when kids can start to get evaluated for their strikes through this process, and I think your kids are too young. I'm sure mine are probably plenty old enough, but when is that and at what point would you recommend that? And maybe what would it be? How would I use that information now that my kids are older?

Chani Kohn:

Yeah, so your kids for sure, I believe, can. I actually had, and I have to like double check it. I had seen somewhere that I think over 10, there is an assessment they can take that might be different than the one like your kids might take For young adults. Yeah, so I would have to look because I was like, oh, I totally want to have. My son is 10. I would want him to take this, but I feel like there's a part of me is like would he be too young? Of like working through the assessment. But I'm not as familiar with that assessment. I'm assuming that it's different types of questions or like change appropriate, right, exactly, but it's been on my mind that I want him to do it. I just haven't had that time of like let me sit and explain it to him, let me have him take it. But yeah, I mean, and then once you get the results, like what I would love to do, at least like with my family, is and I would like I would say the same for you is, when I work with teams, um, I'll work with a leader and I'll work with teams.

Chani Kohn:

What I do is I create like a strengths map, like a grid, um, that has, and I can actually show you. I have like an example right here. I'm working on one. Oh, wow, cool. So it has here like the four.

Chani Kohn:

Obviously no one can see this except you. It has just to describe it. It has each of the four domains and then I have each of the people on the team listed and then it plots out their strengths, from one through 34. And there's some different color coding that shows you the top five are one color, that then the remaining to the 10 are a different color and then the 30, 30 through 34 are shaded a different color. So so visually you can see it.

Chani Kohn:

But what I find so powerful about it is that you can really see, like for this unit, this team as a whole, where what domain do they lead with and where are there maybe some outliers, or where are there people you can leverage or where are there, where is there a little bit of a gap to be aware of?

Chani Kohn:

So, like I would love, like my husband has taken StrengthsFinder and like if I have my son do it, I would love to like plot it out and geek out on that and be like oh, like now I get like this, this, and that my daughter is. Definitely she's only six, so she's definitely too young to take it is definitely she's only six, so she's definitely too young to take it. But I think that could be a really interesting exercise with a family unit to see, especially, as you know, kids are like they're not even kids anymore, like your kids are more young adults and like they're going, they're having plenty of transitions within their lives themselves and like, what does that mean with? Like how can you help them along those ways? But also it's it's helping and also letting them be on their own.

Christina Kohl:

Right, right, definitely a challenge. And what I was, as you were talking about the, the, the team it made me think about. Well, my husband and we were both. We were co-parents, right, we parent together. And to know each other's how helpful it would have been. And we, I mean we're both, we're co-parents, right, we parent together. And to know each other's how helpful it would have been.

Christina Kohl:

And we, you know you kind of know intuitively, I guess, but this is a great tool, though, to know here's your strengths. Like he's, he's better at the planning of, like our vacations and partially just for various reasons, but that's kind of a role that he's taken on, whereas I'm more like nurturing the kids, like attuned into their emotions and recognizing that someone that someone needs to be tuned into and I'll tap him on the shoulder and let him know, type of thing. So he's, you know. So we just we have different strengths and different weaknesses. Like you said, even the bottom ones are highlighted too in that chart that you showed, because that also shows. Okay, this is where how, as I understand it, with StrengthsFinders, you're not necessarily shoring up the weaknesses, you're capitalizing on your strengths, but also, I think, recognizing that those weaknesses are there and where your other strengths are present, filling in I'm not sure the right words. Anyway, I just see that there'd be a lot of value for a parenting team to lean into their individual strengths for the good of the whole team.

Chani Kohn:

Yeah, totally and it could be interesting to see, like maybe are you both really high responsibility or are you both high on something together that it's like okay, we know this is something that's great that we're both strong in this, but we also need to tame it at times, um, because there is the whole concept around, like balconies and basements, of strains, of like overusing a strength, um, or under utilizing a strength. So it's like I know for myself, especially like you mentioned, like you know your husband does, like plant is a planner, like I'm, I'm the planner and like I also know my like my husband is the calm counterpart to me, um, and like I look to him of like when I need that like reality check, or it's like okay, like not, we can't plan everything, we can't. You know it's okay and you know, like he's, he's my more, when I need that like go with the flow pulse check.

Christina Kohl:

Yeah.

Chani Kohn:

Yeah, he's that person, um, but it's interesting, like when you look at like a, like a couple, to see where the strengths are and then how you can utilize them and and like how like certain things get under like people's buttons. Like I remember when I gave my husband my strengths report to read, he was like laughing. So he's like yes, this makes so much sense, but it's really really powerful in in parenting and I think what's you know, especially with transitions, like change is hard. It's, even if it's change that, like I know, is coming.

Chani Kohn:

It happens every year back to school, but it's a new grade and it's, you know, new feelings and new and you're back to routine again where the summer can be a little bit more flexible and change is just hard and it's hard to approach it. But I find for myself what really helps is because I have a deep understanding of my strengths and I'll lean on my strengths in those hard moments. Like it helps me feel prepared and that like change is inevitable. So I'm either going to get on the bus or off the bus. So if I'm on the bus, then I at least can be feel prepared, that like I have what I need in my backpack to like be able to take it like the whole way.

Christina Kohl:

Yeah, I remember even the leaving school. So the start of summer is a big change. And just the other day I was looking out my window having a flashback, a memory of first day of summer, and I've got three young kids probably your kids ages and okay, we're gonna get rocks, I'm gonna paint them, and all the supplies so we could paint pet rocks and keep them busy, and that lasted for maybe a whole hour and then what? Like, oh my God, we have all so long. So it's a transition of slowing the pace and, you know, in not having that tight schedule to go to at least for me, because I was a stay-at-home mom during that time and so that's a transition.

Christina Kohl:

Honey, this has been great. You've given me a lot of insights and a lot of ideas and I think I'm on the right track with things. But it also is just reminding me to lean into my strengths as I'm facing this transition of my youngest way off to college. And, of course, you've given examples about your kiddos, things you're going to be doing when school starts in the fall. I'm wondering if people listening are like, oh, I want to know this, I want to know my strengths, I want to know my partner's strengths so I can lean into those as a better parent. What resources do you have available for someone who's curious about that?

Chani Kohn:

Yeah. So two things come to mind. So one, if someone is interested to, first first step would be to take the assessment. First step would be to take the assessment. So you can reach out to me at my email address is khani, it's C-H-A-N-I, at C-K-O-N, it's K-O-H-N, consultingcom, or you can also find me on LinkedIn and I can administer the assessment to you. And what I highly recommend so that's one thing you can just take the assessment and say I'm going to read the results and that's it.

Chani Kohn:

Or what I really recommend, what I think brings it to life, is having a one-on-one session to really understand your strengths and how they play together and, as I was mentioning, even like the balconies and the basements of it, to know when are you overextending yourself or under utilizing and when to lean in. And, being a certified strengths coach, that's where I can tap in and really help understand that and getting to know you. So you know, specifically in the parenting realm, I think it's so interesting how you're going to see right away like wow, like I knew that I was like this, but I didn't have a name for what that was, and that will be really helpful. So I, you know, I do either you know half hour sessions or it could be a 60 minute session, but just to reach out to me and I'm happy to set that up.

Christina Kohl:

Great, that would be great. And then, Chani, I have had so much fun and I've learned so much in our conversation today and I was wondering if I can invite you back and have extend the conversation around transitions, but more about in the workplace. So transitions like how to lean into our strengths when we are transitioning back to work. Maybe we've been, you know, out of the workforce for a while, being a full-time caregiver, and that's a huge transition. I know, I've lived through it and you know. So there's a return to work, maybe just a new job in general, or it's so many employers, like you and I were talking, so many employers are not offering 100% remote anymore, so it's a hybrid or back full-time in the office. These are all transitions that, like you said, change is inevitable and it will be lovely if we can have a conversation kind of around that side of things, the career side of things, and how to lean into our strengths in those types of transitions.

Chani Kohn:

Yeah, I'd be honored. I'd love to.

Christina Kohl:

Okay, wonderful. Well, everyone, stay tuned. We'll get Chani back on and we'll go deep dive into careers and transitions and strengths. All right, well, thank you so much for joining us, hany. I really appreciate it, of course. Thanks for having me. Oh, absolutely, and everyone we will. That's it for this episode. We'll talk to you next week. Thank you so much for listening today. I hope this episode hit home for you and, if you haven't already, be sure to connect with me on LinkedIn and say hello so I can personally thank you for listening. Until next time, remember your story is uniquely your own, and your next chapters are ready to begin.