Embrace Your Strengths

Chloe's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are:  Input, Strategic, Responsibility, Discipline and Restorative  Chloe Larson has been teaching Latin in the School of Rhetoric at Veritas Academy in Austin, Texas, for the past five years, where she also serves as the Dean of Student Life for 5th-12th grade. A grateful alumna of Regents School of Austin (Class of 2015), Chloe went on to earn her B.A. in Integrate...

Caleb's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are: Competition, Arranger, Significance, Command and Achiever Caleb currently lives with his  family in Sumter, SC, and I flies F-16s at Shaw AFB. He  enjoys travel, outdoor adventures, and working out.  You can follow Caleb on Instagram here Find out your strengths by taking the CliftonStrengths Top 5 Assessment   Workshops and Coaching with Barbara Culwell Subscri...

Todd's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are:  Positivity, Woo, Communication, Belief and Arranger Collyn's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are: Intellection, Context, Harmony, Responsibility and Belief    Todd has served for 25 years with Generous Giving.  Collynn has served for 10 years as a personal assistant to a wonderful local philanthropist.  We  have  raised their  five children in Orlando, FL and have gained...

Jennifer's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are:  Communication, Activator, Woo, Belief & Connectedness  Jennifer Carson is  wife to Bob for almost 30 years, mom to John and Ian and mother in law to the wonderful, Scarlett. Jennifer has been involved in ministry since college serving on staff with Cru for close to 20 years, then Gateway church in Austin. She has put down roots in their hippy dippy Brent...

Erin's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are: Empathy, Developer, Harmony, Belief and Includer  Erin Rodrigues is a Texas girl serving with Cru in Queens, NY with her family. She gained a heart for the world on an overseas summer mission as a college student, and, in a surprising twist to everyone around her, was won over by the vision of the gospel advancing throughout NYC. Eight years, a lot of coffee with...

Holly's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are:  Developer, Connectedness, Relator, Achiever and Adaptability  Holly first visited Pader, Uganda in 2013. when she felt an immediate connection and a call from God to help the women restart their lives after a 20-year war in Northern Uganda. She founded the Non Profit The Women Of Pader Uganda to help provide a variety of programs and projects  with goals of bri...

BJ's top 5 CliftonStrengths are: Woo, Communication, Maximizer, Input and Competition BJ  met Jesus on a very hungover walk across campus his freshman year at the University of Florida (Go Gators!). He graduated with a history degree and a lifelong conviction: God is always faithful to His promises. Through college ministry, he met his wife Rachel, and nearly eight years later, they’re raising 3.2...

Sal's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are:  Empathy, Belief, Connecteness, Adaptability and Woo  Sal lives in Fort Worth, TX.  and is  a licensed therapist. She feels strongly Jesus has set her apart for this work and continually feels  honored to walk with so many women on their healing journey. When she is  not counseling women, she  enjoy keeping up with Texas Tech sports, solo dates at local coffee sho...

Suzanne's Top 5 Clifton Strengths are: Harmony, Empathy, Arranger, Connectedness & Activator. Suzanne Fox Trotter is an Associate Professor and the Director of Student Affairs at the Tufts University Doctor of Physical Therapy Program in Seattle. A proud Auburn Tiger, she began her academic journey in Public Relations but felt a powerful calling to physical therapy—and she’s never looked back....

Beth's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are: Ideation, Input, Connectedness, Learner & Intellection  Mother of four, grandmother of 1, Beth English has learned the refining power of waiting years to be a mother and grandmother. If there are encouragement cheerleaders in heaven, Beth wants to be one. She delights in small group discussions like the ones she has had mentoring women for over 50 years with...

Patti's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are: Relator, Learner, Focus, Achiever & Maximizer  Patti  has experienced Austin’s transformation since arriving at The University of Texas. With a degree in civil engineering, she spent the early part of her career collaborating with developers and planners to design subdivisions in Austin in the 1980s. During this time, she also began investing in Austin real...

Brittany's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are: Relator, Positivity, Developer, Communication & Adaptability  Brittany  is a wife, adoptive mom, former foster mom, and the Executive Director of Radiance Women’s Center—a life-affirming pregnancy resource center serving women and families facing unplanned pregnancies. With a heart for the vulnerable and a passion for walking with others through hard seas...

Faye's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are:,Responsibility, Consistency, Harmony, Belief and Restorative  Faye has been on Cru Staff for 41 years and currently serves as the  Cru City  Director of  Oneness and Diversity .  She believes God has called His people to be bridge builders in our polarized world and seeks to live out that reality through her life and ministry.  Faye has been married to John for 4...

Kari's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are:  Woo, Activator, Communication, Connectedness & Developer  In 1998, at her first Cru Winter Conference, Kari stood to her feet as Bill Bright laid out a challenge inviting students to fully surrender their lives to Christ. Though she had no idea what that meant at the time, it launched her toward a life of connecting others to Jesus. Kari spent 15 years with...

Grace's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are:  Consistency, Empathy, Relator, Harmony &  Belief Dr. Grace English is an Internal Medicine Physician and founder of CARE (Christ-centered Abortion Recovery & Education) and of Deep in the Heart Ministries. She is the host of “Getting Real to Heal with Dr. Grace” podcast that launched in 2024. She loves to find testimonies from people who have experi...

Sarah's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are: Deliberative, Restorative, Input, Consistency and Learner  Sarah lives in Aguja, Nigeria snd works with Student Life Movement,  an arm of the Great Commission Movement of Nigeria (GCMN), also known as Campus Crusade for Christ International (Cru).  For 17 years  in her work she has  been actively engaged in discipleship, mentoring, and student outreach She began...

David's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are: Woo, Communication, Positivity, Strategic & Developer  Christie's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are:  Connectedness, Empathy, Responsibility, Positivity & Developer  David and Christie live in Austin, Texas and have been married for 30 years.  They have three adult children and one grandchild with another on the way!   David works part-time for The Bible Projec...

Warren's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are: Harmony, Belief, Communication, Intellection and Analytical  Barbara's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are: Harmony, Adaptability, Empathy, Connectedness & Maximizer  Warren and Barbara live in Austin, Texas and have been married 43 years.   They both enjoy  mentoring men and women and  loving and caring for folks in their home with warm hospitality.  Their two daug...

Dan's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are :Context, Activator, Maximizer, Futuristic & Learner Julie's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are: Activator, Relator, Belief, Responsibility & Connectedness  Dan and julie were married in 1983 and have enjoyed a lifetime of ministry opportunities. 17 years with CRU working with College students and the past 25 years in church ministry. They currently live in Grand I...

Amy's Top 5 Strengths are: Belief, Developer, Empathy, Context and Harmony  Amy  is a grief and trauma-informed coach who helps individuals find hope, healing, and purpose after experiencing deep loss. Having lost her own son to heart disease, Amy truly understands the weight of grief and the struggle of holding on to faith in the midst of suffering. Through her writing, speaking, and coaching, sh...

Shelby's Top 5 Clifton Strengths are: Responsibility, Discipline, Activator, Relator & Futuristic Shelby is a technology program manager living in Austin, TX. She credits her first job producing and booking concerts with her now-career of managing and influencing people to get things done. She's an avid traveler who now has to balance her inability to say no to an adventure with being a new ho...

Every episode in 2024 was such a joy to chat with each person as we talked about how their top 5 CliftonStrengths are showing up in their work, life and relationships. Here is a quick flyover of a some of them you might like to listen to or share with a friend!  # 149 Sisters Celebrating Strengths as Moms with Claire Culwell and Rachel Buchanan #143 Connecting with My Big Brother: Exploring Streng...

Davey's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are:  Achiever, Learner, Intellection, Focus & Maximizer  In November 2015 Davey’s wife of 7 years, Amanda Grace, was tragically murdered in a home invasion. Davey was left to pastor their church as a single dad of their 15 month old son, Weston. 2 years later Davey remarried and God’s redemption story began to unfold. Davey and his new wife, Kristi, have devoted...

Racheal's top 5 CliftonStrengths are:  Activator, Communication, Strategic, Ideation & Futuristic  Rachael Mwale is a single lady serving as a missionary with Campus Crusade for Christ in Zambia for 11years bringing hope and transformation to univeristy students. She is deeply passionate about raising and developing Christian leaders on High schools and university campuses, empowering students...

Laura's Top 5 CliftonStrengths are: Maximizer, Positiivity, Empathy, Belief & Woo  Laura is the founder of Sacred Story Ministry which was started 13 years ago, She has a background in working with a missions organization for 20 years, reaching out to college students and business professionals. She graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary (Master of Biblical Studies), author of Capture My H...