Standing Up Strong

“There's so much more to us and to the world than just what's broken.” - Dr. Lindsey Godwin  How do we find joy when the world feels overwhelming?   In this episode of Standing Up Strong , guest host Dr. Jillian Coppley sits down with Dr. Lindsey Godwin to talk about resilience, hope, and the power of paying attention to what’s good. Lindsey says joy isn’t about ignoring life’s challenge...

“I'm used to helping other people get through their darkest days, and suddenly, here I am, the grieving mum, wondering if anything that I've ever learned is going to be relevant and helpful to me now” - Dr. Lucy Hone  After the sudden loss of her 12-year-old daughter, Dr. Lucy Hone was forced to put her life’s work on resilience to the ultimate test.  In this episode of Standing Up Stron...

Your relationships might be the most important thing you’re not training.   "We should invest our relationships, like our health and well-being depends on it, because it does." - Suzie Pileggi Pawelski  In this episode, Suzie and Dr. James Pawelski—the husband and wife who co-authored the book Happy Together —explore how thriving relationships aren’t all about finding the perfect match,...

The most successful people aren’t the ones who manage to avoid failure. Entrepreneur and author Fiona Macaulay says they’re the ones who learn how to fail forward. “When we have a failure, it doesn’t make you a failure—it’s simply having a failure. The real question is: what strategic intelligence can you learn from it?” -  Fiona Macaulay In this episode of Standing Up Strong , Dr. Jillian Coppley...

What does it really mean to thrive—especially in a world full of complexity, pressure, and constant change?   “The way we define thriving is to be internally well-resourced to meet your complexities and demands with a sense of vitality, with a sense of competence, and with a sense of growth. And for us, this is absolutely not about chasing perpetual happiness, because that's not real life.”  ...

“One of the most beautiful, sort of promising - and also tragic - statements that I heard very, very early on, when I started this work, nearly what 17-18, years ago was the girls would say, ‘Nobody ever told us we had strengths.’”  - Steve Leventhal, CEO of WorldBeing In this episode of Standing Up Strong, Steve Leventhal joins Dr. Jillian Coppley to talk about why wellbeing isn’t something we ea...

True resilience and success don’t start with striving harder—they begin by standing firmly in who you are at your best.  “Happiness precedes success.” - Caroline Adams Miller In this episode of Standing Up Strong, Dr. Jillian Coppley speaks with positive psychology pioneer and author Caroline Adams Miller about the science of flourishing, goal setting, and meaningful achievement. Caroline challeng...

“When we can start to reach for and engage and develop our strengths, those things we're good at and enjoy doing, then it is going to not just energize us a bit more in the face of all those challenges but give us more confidence to try to muddle our way through and get to the other side.”  - Dr. Michelle McQuaid  Feeling stretched thin by all the change around you? In this uplifting episode...