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A Balloon Trip with my Mother. That was the best experience gift I ever gave. It was a beautiful morning – the ride was spectacular […]
Learn More about the Resilience Initiative – We help you discover your WHY! This Episode of #Resilience explores the WHY of Challenge with Veronica Kirin. […]
In life, we have one shot. Using his background as an entrepreneur and coach, Craig Shulze has developed a personal brand, content and trainings designed […]
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve all heard talk of the vaccine. Should I get it? Should I not get it? What information […]
In honor of the release of “Resilience: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Made Us Wiser and Stronger,” I hosted three events on Tuesday, June 8. The […]
In honor of the release of “Resilience: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Made Us Wiser and Stronger,” I hosted three events on Tuesday, June 8. The […]
In honor of the release of “Resilience: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Made Us Wiser and Stronger,” I hosted three events on Tuesday, June 8. The […]
Allen Brasington is the president of Asheville Rotary Club and had about a 10-day notice before COVID-19 halted the club’s meetings. His first reaction was […]
Regina Larko is an important part of my community. She is the host of #Impact and I took her podcast course before starting my own […]
Adi Westerman is the owner of Hot Yoga Asheville, which is a vibrant community of yogis never truly went away, even though classes have been […]
Ward Willis is the Director of Training for the Kenzai fitness community. While most fitness communities rely on a physical space to gather, Ward and […]
Janeane Bernstein is a writer, actor, radio host, speaker and author of “Get the Funk Out.” Through all her avenues, she helps people find new […]
When Stacey Copas was 12 years old, an accident left her quadriplegic. After wrestling with a new reality, she learned that resilience can be proactive, […]
Menaca Pothalingam is an author, founder and talk show host. From a young age, Menaca has had resilience in her life, and she says that who […]
This podcast is a check-in — How are you doing? How are you building resilience in your life? This week, I was thinking about Narcissus […]
Donna Volpitta has used the characters in her Pathways to Empower program for over 10 years. Characters like the ant, grasshopper, glowworm and dragonfly have […]
Dr. Corrine Devin – One of these things is not like the other. Orthodontist. Naval commander. Beauty queen. One of these things is not like […]
17 years ago I got a phone message from my friend Ray Quesnel. Ray and I worked together at Asheville school and he’d been a […]
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today – Malcolm X Many uncertain forces (geopolitics, economic cycles, a global pandemic) can have substantial […]
The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials ~ Confucius Avoiding adversity is taking away one of the opportunities to experience your […]
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” – Dr Seuss When we […]
In some sense, a crisis is natural process of maturation. Each time you run or exercise, you put yourself through a degree of stress, but […]
There is no worse call than the one telling you that someone you love has been hurt, has gone. Mortality is not an opt-in experience. […]
Recently, I sat presenting in a luxe boardroom to some of the richest tycoons in Hong Kong. The hotel chain was owned by one of […]
The year 2020 showed business owners, CEOs and boards across the world the value of the business continuity plans that were dusted off and put […]
The world of work is changing and I believe the greatest resilience an organization can have is in the way it marshals the resources of […]
100 Things White People Can Do Learn …about your part to play in the struggle against racism …about white privilege …about the history of the […]
When I think about resilience, I consider historic figures, family members, and contemporary mentors who model this quality. Alongside this key quality, these folks also […]
When you consider the current environment— political and social polarization, the pandemic, economic recession, global tensions— resilience must be a preeminent quality in our organizations […]
An organization’s financial health is tied inextricably to the community’s overall health and resilience and vice versa. And, both require a laser like focus on […]
John Gardner, HEW Secretary in LBJ’S cabinet and founder of COMMON CAUSE AND INDEPENDENT SECTOR, was fond of saying that a problem is “just a […]
Why POWER? Because Julie is about POWER! Specifically – Empowering you to grab your POWER and create a life you will love. Welcome to #Resilience […]
Individuals and organizations become and remain resilient with a strong sense of purpose, clear values and an adaptive approach. A number of years ago, I […]
It feels important to begin to answer this question by noting that I have never been a staff member or board member who watches the […]
At the end of a long summer afternoon, a sparrow flies low across a patch of purple lupine. To my surprise, it lands, bending the […]
This is our Trailer episode – a quick preview of The Resilience Initiative’s podcast mission #RESILINCE
Episode one explores the Story behind the podcast. After our son William died – we rebuilt our lives. I recounted this in my book Mine, […]
Larry died today. I am sad. Put my head on the desk and cry sad. There is a game called the boat. It is a […]
At the annual The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) conference in Boston earlier in the month, we had the opportunity to hear Richard Weissbourd, of […]
In my second post for the Resilience Initiative Executive Series entitled, “Resilience Needs the Equilibrium of Both/And,” I wrote about the importance of creating and […]
Like so many things, institutional resilience deepens when it is a BOTH/AND.
[For me, the definition of resilience is the ability to reveal one’s strengths clearly in the face of adversity. Resilience doesn’t exist externally to us, […]
Would you invest two million dollars to get $50,000 a year in return? I hope not! Would you invest a weeks’ time to save […]
It is difficult—close to impossible—to navigate the subway system in Tokyo if you cannot read Japanese. No matter how smart you are, you need to […]
Stay on the Beam! That is what pilots did to stay on course. It was a radio beam…when they were on the beam it was […]
Each year as summer begins many people talk about how lucky school people are to have the entire summer off. Unless you work in the […]