Brilliantly Resilient

"My work directly acknowledges that anxiety (around AI) and talks about what actions we can take to take care of ourselves, our families, our communities, during a time that's high opportunity but also really high volatility." ~Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek AI Expert and Author of: Your AI Roadmap: Actions to Expand Your Career, Money and Joy" Are you afraid of AI?  Artificial Intelligence has long be...

"The hardest thing you've ever done is the hardest thing you've ever done. And it is no easier or harder than the hardest thing I've ever done.... Hard is hard." ~ Ash Beckham , Everyday Leadership Coach, Inclusion Activist, TEDx Speaker and Author of  Step Up: How to Live with Courage and Become an Everyday Leader   Ash Beckham believes that the hardest thing you've ever done is valid simply beca...

"Lasting resilience begins with acceptance. For me, acceptance is an every day prayer."  ~ Jay Armstrong Author of A Good Calamity: Useful Essays and Poems on Living with a Disability   Are you struggling to accept something hard in your life? Are you even thinking about acceptance, or are you still fighting the hard truth? Jay Armstrong was diagnosed with ataxia (a degenerative disease of the bra...

"It doesn't mean all the snacks in the break room are the greatest. It means that you work in a place that recognizes the dignity of you as a person, recognizes the value of your contributions, and recognizes that you're a human being with things to do." ~ Meg Gluth, Owner & CEO, Catalynt Solutions, Inc.    Meg Gluth knows about the "critical importance of compassion, empathy, and resilience"...

"Be involved in both your business and personal finances. 80% of women will die single. At some point in your life you are going to have to manage your finances. A man is not a financial plan." ~ Audrey Faust: Author of She Grows Rich; Expert CFO and Money Mindset Authority Are you in financial survival mode? Many women are. It's a mindset trap that many women, especially female entrepreneurs, can...

"Acute and chronic pain are processed in different parts of the brain. If you aren't healing and are still in pain, it's possible that your brain has established learned neural pathways that can continue to cause pain, which becomes chronic." Patty Tashiro ~ Natural Brain Solutions Is your brain keeping you in pain? The emotional responses we have to trauma--which often stay with us--can trigger t...

"There is diversity within diversity itself. Even people with shared disabilities have different experiences. We are all diverse. Diversity includes everyone." ~ Toby Mildon, Author of Inclusive Growth: Future-proof Your Business by Creating a Diverse Workspace, and Building Inclusivity: Making Your Workplace Equitable, Diverse and Inclusive   How many people in the world are exactly like you? EXA...

The Maasai tribe of Africa greets one another by saying "How are the children?" We have to recognize that all the children in our community are our children. Christina Sorenson Attorney and Advocate for Foster Children at TeamChild   Christina Sorenson was in 15 different foster care homes from ages five to fifteen. Separated from her sister and eventually adopted at age fifteen, Christina has mad...

"Be where you are on the way to where you want to be going." ~ Christine Eberle, Author: Finding God Along the Way "Be where you are on the way to where you want to be going." Um...huh? The above sounds like a riddle, doesn't it? Then again, isn't life a kind of riddle we try to figure out every day? Christine Eberle, author of Finding God Along the Way , decided to seek clarity in answering life'...

I came down to those two words. Be better. I think if we can boil it down to something, 'Be better' might be the most that we should be asking of ourselves. ~ Mary Fran Bontempo, Author 'From Broken to Brilliant: How to Live a Brilliantly Resilient Life'    It's 2025. How are you feeling about that? I find the time right after Christmas to be a bit challenging. After a month of being jolly buying,...

"I needed to embark on a journey to reclaim my connection, both personally and professionally." Shawnta Hooks ~ Leading Belonging and Mindfulness Speaker. Shawnta Hooks was never a believer in meditation or mindfulness. Working in accounting and corporate compliance during her 20 year corporate career, Shawnta found herself in a toxic work environment after a company reorganization, feeling comple...

You have everything in you already to live a Brilliantly Resilient life. You have Resilience and you have your own personal Brilliance. It's already there. You were born with both of those things. ~ Mary Fran Bontempo, Author, From Broken to Brilliant: How to Live a Brilliantly Resilient Life Have you uncovered your Resilience yet? Since Covid, we've been reminded constantly about the need for res...

Let's have smarter intergenerational conversations. Let's be OK and not threatened by the fact that you see this differently than me. Let's figure out why and how that could actually be helpful and beneficial.  Dr. Megan Gerhardt Author of Gentelligence: The Revolutionary Approach to Leading an Intergenerational Workforce Do you work with people of different generations? Do you live with people of...

No one checks in on them, right? They often delay their own grief, put off their own mourning in order to support their parents and step up. But then? They remain there and they never really get a turn to express their own grief, or to be the mourner in the room. Annie Orenstein ~ Author of  Always a Sibling: The Forgotten Mourner's Guide to Grief     Do you have a sibling? Most of us do. And acco...

"I'm trying to open stutter more. Because I I've reached a level of of acceptance that I'm proud of, but I'm nowhere near where I need to be. I interview people on podcasts who openly stutter, and I'm so proud of them because they do it without shame and that's the real issue. The real issue is shame, every day, when you stutter." Brian Nolan President and Co-founder, Nolan Stuttering Foundation  ...

"Here's the myth I want to break: that self-love is selfish. The more we love ourselves, the less attention we have on ourselves and the more generous we become in a very natural, easy, relaxed way." ~ Rachel Madorsky How to Love Yourself in Less Than a Week and Also for the Rest of Your LIfe   Do you love yourself? Does even reading the question make you uncomfortable? And if it does, why? If you...

I led an independent study on making adaptive clothing for autistic children in partnership with a preschool….I couldn't get a job during Covid so I started working in special education and trying to figure out how to turn the study into a brand. I could see how these kids were really struggling with things and how we could add sensory tools to clothing to help these kids throughout their days.  ~...

I'm a gold star chaser…. If you just give the right answer, everybody's happy. I started this pattern of doing what my parents and the world wanted. It took me a long time to figure out there's another way…. The gold stars make it really easy to ignore your gut. Sarah Gormley Author of The Order of Things   Have you ever done something not because you wanted to, but because you thought you were "s...

Food insecurity relates to choices that people have to make economically. The choice between a prescription drug or buying food; the choice between buying gas or buying food, the choice between buying school supplies and buying food. We serve over 3,000 local families a year--a definitive need that lies below the surface. Mike Cerino: Executive Director, Warminster Food Bank When was the last time...

Everyone needs food. Everyone should be concerned about how it's being grown. Anne and David Darling ~ The Farm at Catawissa Creek How many times a day do you eat? How many times a day do you think about what and when you're going to eat? (My husband says he can always tell when I'm talking to my mother because we're talking about food!) Now, how many times a day do you think about where that food...

I'd like for parents going into parenthood to have a slightly more open expectation that when you have a child you don't necessarily know what their educational needs might be.... Maybe normalize awareness of learning differences. Perhaps we can then change how we expect our children to be.  Cole Aansen Do you know anyone who is dyslexic? Whether you're aware of it or not, you probably do. Cole Aa...

People are the magic in every company. People are the center of wellness and risk management…We have to stop trivializing burnout and chronic stress and address corporate wellness. ~ Princess Castleberry Does your business have a company wellness plan?  Sometimes words like "wellness" begin to sound like static–annoying and with little meaning. But this week's guest on the Brilliantly Resilient po...

People need to trust that you're the one saying what you're saying. ~ Dr. Jennifer Gardella, PhD. Do you struggle to create written content and social media posts for your business? How would you feel if hou had a program that could write all of your social media, articles and marketing copy with just a few simple prompts from you, allowing you to create enough content to fill an editorial calenda...

When you're incarcerated, how you do your time is up to you. I doubled down and concentrated on my physical and mental health and reading so I'd be prepared when I got out to do whatever it takes to make my family whole and be a plus to society. ~ Jonathan Greene, a.k.a. DaVon and Greene "How you do your time is up to you." Although Jonathan Greene was referencing his time in prison, the statement...

The important thing is to talk and to educate. The cure for ignorance is education. We don'tknow what's going on with other people--we can't assume.  ~ Hisham Mohammed In 2006, at age 8 Hisham Mohammed became paralyzed from the neck down by a bomb that went off just outside of his home in Iraq. In a moment, young Hisham became a victim of a war he never chose to be part of, as shrapnel ripped thro...