Real strength isn’t about standing alone; it’s about building relationships that can hold weight when the pressure comes. In this episode, we explore how to form strategic friendships that sharpen your vision, reveal blind spots, and sustain you through hardship. You’ll learn three core practices that deepen connection: being visionary and validating, sharing mission and energy, and going first in vulnerability. These are the friendships that last—and the ones every leader needs.

WEEKLY REFLECTION:

• What is the hidden struggle you need encouraged? What is their hidden struggle?
• Who energizes you right now?
• Where can you “go first” in vulnerability?

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