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Episode 135: Obstacles Can Be the Key to Building Resilience and Self Love

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It's not unusual to have a "Series of Unfortunate Events" in our lives, those multiple years of trauma, grief, and struggle, that can either make us bitter, or help us develop resilience in a positive way, to become even more compassionate toward others.

Kerrian Fournier went through two of those phases, once in her early career, and again years later.

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106: Resilience and Persistence are Two Different Things - We Need Both to Thrive

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Russ Johns’ life changed dramatically after falling three stories to shatter his wrist and break his arm. He was a professional musician - a drummer - but that was no longer an option after two years of surgeries and physical therapy. He was lucky to have any use of his arm… he was lucky to be alive.

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Episode 80: Some Stories Take Time to Make Sense

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If you know him now, you'd describe him as a quintessential hippy artist; but Chip Clawsen was six when he connected deeply with the story his mother read to him, The Sands of Iwo Jima. It was at that tender young age that he decided he'd one day be a marine - a hero.

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Episode 72: Persistence, Curiosity, and Following Instincts Create Career Resilience

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When Bob Musial failed his role-playing test in his first sales job, he was humiliated. He was the only new hire out of seven to fail that session, and that made him even more motivated to prove to himself and others that he would be successful in that job.