Resiliency Theory

During episode seventeen, I interviewed my friend Melanie Vargas , Founder | CEO, Leadership Coach, People Consultant at Radical Ignition about values, resiliency, and leadership. She defines her values as balance, belonging, growth, family oriented, and fun-spirited. I really loved Melanie’s resiliency toolkit and her thoughts on how important balance is to building the resiliency muscle.  Join i...

During episode sixteen, I interviewed my friend Martin Gallagher,  CEO at The Clare Foundation about values, resiliency, and leadership. He defines his values as passion, commitment, loyalty, dependability and reliability, self-belief, and integrity. Martin and I met four years ago while wine tasting in the Tuscany, Italy. He and I immediately bonded over our shared rugby connections and spent the...

During episode fifteen, I had the privilege of interviewing Jennifer Brown,  award-winning Entrepreneur, Diversity & Inclusion Consultant, Speaker,  and Author about values, resiliency, and leadership. She defines her values as compassion and curiosity, fairness, justice, love not fear, and equity. I appreciated her coming out story... she said it "awakened a new value," "it awa...

During episode fourteen, I interviewed my friend Lisa Cilento ,  who does Business Development in Clinical Research about values, resiliency, and her journey surviving cancer. She defines her values as having a strong work ethic, an adventurous spirit, and loyalty. Lisa was raw and vulnerable during our conversation graciously sharing her story. She is a true inspiration positively living with can...

During episode thirteen, I interviewed Gina London , former Emmy-winning CNN correspondent and CEO of Language of Leadership about values, resiliency, and leadership. She defines her values as kindness, curiosity, and commitment to growth. I found her approach and suggestions on connecting with others really poignant. Specifically when we talked about connecting with others is as easy as "con...

During episode twelve, I interviewed Michelle Sermon , Vice-President, Global Learning & Organizational Development and DEI at CKE Restaurants, Inc. about values, resiliency, and leadership. She defines her values as integrity, connectedness, and assuming positive intent. I found our conversation around connectedness to be so applicable in our current environments of a global pandemic, remote...

During episode eleven, I interviewed Melissa Grace , Branch Manager at Expeditors about values, resiliency, and leadership. She defines her values as hard work (what you do above and beyond), compassion, excellence (being competitive, pushing harder, and being consistent), and continuous improvement. I appreciate her process oriented mind, her ability to build relationships, lead change, and creat...

During episode ten, I interviewed Kim Bohr , COO of Waldron a consultancy firm focused on career management and career transitions about values, resiliency, and leadership. She defines her values as accountability, transparency, drive, integrity, and curiosity. I loved our conversation and Kim's insights around curiosity and building the curiosity muscle. Join in on the conversation: How curi...

During episode nine, I interviewed Sean Goode , Executive Director of Choose 180 about values, resiliency, and leadership. He defines his values as grace (equally applied or it’s favoritism), conviction of stewardship not ownership, and possibilities over problems. I really appreciated Sean’s concept of reframing problems into possibilities. Our conversation was a very thought provoking conversati...

During episode eight, I interviewed Ryan Schmid , President and CEO of Vera Whole Health , my friend, and one of the most authentic and humble leaders I know. We discussed values, resiliency, and leadership. He defines his values as hard work, problem solving (overcoming obstacles), humility (to be humble – the opposite of entitlement), gratitude, and optimism. Our conversation about self-awarenes...

During episode seven, I interviewed my colleague Hannah Nokes , Co-Founder and Chief Optimist at Magnify Impact on the topics of values, resiliency, and leadership. Magnify Impact powers profit through purpose - incredible mission! Hannah defines her values as optimism (abundance), curiosity, and grit (a girl after my own heart). I was so inspired by our conversation about having an abundance mind...

During episode six, I interviewed my friend Susan Black , Child & Adolescence Psychiatrist on the topics of values, resiliency, and leadership. She defines her values as family, responsibility to family, self-reliance, sense of meaning (purpose), and having inner peace and contentment. I was very curious about her value of self-reliance, as it resonates so close to home for me. I questioned......

During episode five, I interviewed my friend David Traub , President at Topline on the topics of values, resiliency, and leadership. He defines his values as fidelity (integrity & honesty), people are naturally good, and growth mindset. I was intrigued by his perspective on growth mindset and how the resiliency muscle can't be taught in a classroom per se, but through experiences. "I...

During episode 4, I had the pleasure of interviewing Marilyn Gist, PhD , author, speaker, and professor at Seattle University on the topics of values, resiliency, and leadership. She defines her values as humility, integrity, excellence, servant leadership, and personal agency. "Humility is a tendency to feel and display a deep regard for others' dignity." We had an insightful discu...

Episode three is a fun conversation with my friend Kent Thoelke , the Executive Vice President & Chief Scientific Officer at PRA Health Sciences , on the topics of values, resiliency and leadership. Kent defines his values as authenticity, tenacity, fearlessness, and being there for others. During our conversation, we discussed the inflection point that leads to an individual’s resiliency. “I...

Episode two is an inspiring conversation with Louise Chernin , the President and CEO of the GSBA (Greater Seattle Business Association) , on the topics of values, resiliency and leadership. Louise defines her values as equity and equality, honesty and integrity, compassion, collaboration across different communities, and diversity and inclusion.  She’s had a riveting work history focused on themes...

In this episode, I explore with my friend Karen Bryant (KB) the former CEO of Atavus Sports and former President and CEO of the Seattle Storm the topics of values, resiliency and leadership. Karen defines her five values as integrity, ambition and drive, optimism, reliability, and adaptability. We had a very provocative conversation discussing whether values and resiliency correlate, the concept o...