Ty Richardson: Leading With Your Strengths, Learning From Failure, and Making an Impact

And based off of everything you've worked on, I mean, with the coaching and finance and all of that, I'd love to hear maybe some advice you've learned throughout your life and business that you could share with our listeners.

So I wouldn't be a good coach if I didn't expose the principles that I believe in, right? And so the thing that I learned throughout my journey was that you have to know what your strengths are.

As a strengths-based coach, it's important for us to discover what our strengths are.

And we've been taught in school, you know, when you're doing really well in math and really bad in English, your parents can tell you you have to do better in English.

So all your attention and energy gets focused on English and then you start wavering in math.

And the reality is, as an adult in business, in your career, corporate or otherwise, if you identify what your strengths are and you lean into those strengths and you know you should be aware of your weaknesses and leverage them.

And when I say leverage them, I mean understand how you're going to compensate for them.

Is it technology? Is it outsourcing? Is it somebody else, a partner? Who's going to help you with the areas you're not strong in? so that you can focus on the areas you are.

If you can do that well, you will thrive in business.

So first understanding your strengths and then making sure that you're focusing on them while somebody else is handling the weaknesses that you have.

That's number one, the biggest lesson that I've learned and the thing that I teach people over and over again.

I know what my strengths are and because I know what my strengths are, I'm also aware of when my strengths are getting out of control, when people are misinterpreting it, when I need to disclose what they are so people aren't put off by a behavior pattern that they don't understand.

And so making sure that you're keenly and intimately connected to your strengths and you're sharing that with the world and you're living in that.

That's number one.

Number two is that concept of persistence.

So many times, and I was guilty of this, and not even so long ago I was guilty of this, but so many times we get caught into this world of instant gratification that we want to try something, whether it's in business or in your career.

And you don't give it enough time to mature.

You don't give it enough time to really yield a result or an outcome.

You're like, oh, it's been three months.

It's not working.

Time to pivot.

These short pivot cycles do not help you build a strong foundation.

They don't help you build a business.

They don't help you build a brand.

You have to go through the tough parts of building, which sometimes it falls down.