Brilliantly Resilient

Brilliantly Resilient

What's your train wreck? Everyone has one–past, present, or future. Why do some people come through stronger while others never recover? Hang on for the ride as Kristin and Mary Fran teach you to move beyond crisis to discover your brilliance and resilience. You'll face challenges with strategies to come through brilliant, not broken, for personal and professional fulfillment and success!

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May 28, 2024 36 mins
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 Aansen, a Certified...

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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 Br...

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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 calendar...

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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 is profound. Any...

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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 through his spinal co...

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Brilliantly Resilient is back!! After some much needed time off, B.R. is back with new episodes, amazing guests, and more inspiration for you to live a Brilliantly Resilient life. Let us know what you think and reach out at howdy@brilliantlyresilient.net. Be sure to check out www.brilliantlyresilient.net for more! And now, on with the show!

Who is to say my day is worth nothing? Take your power back and say "I get to choose...
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Storytelling is a Trojan horse, with our activism inside. It’s a much gentler approach to guide someone to a wider lens of understanding, compassion and empathy.

~ Kristen McGuiness

Have you ever felt “changed” by a book? Those who love to read–and write–know what it’s like to become lost in a story, feeling along with characters and experiencing their trials and triumphs along with them.

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Building community both in your business and with your customer community is essential. I see community as “common unity.” Everyone in a community has something they care about and we want to be part of that. It’s good for employees and good for customers.

 ~ Kevin Nolan

By their nature, entrepreneurs often start their businesses alone, taking on many roles as they try to build their companies into sustainable, vi...

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Gratitude is a tool that connects us to our happiness, success and power. 

~ Kristin Smedley & Mary Fran Bontempo

NOTE** This episode was previously aired, but it's fun, has a great message and deserves to be run again! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

Has it ever occurred to you that gratitude can help you tap into your power? We don't often think of thankfulness as a powerful thing. In fact, some of us feel that b...

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I don’t subscribe to the idea that women, as we get older, we just fall apart. This may sound crazy, but I believe menopause is empowering…after so many years of caring for so many people, this is our time.

~ Julie Gordon White

Have you experienced “the pause?” As women, we are all destined to experience menopause, should we reach the age. If we believe the media, that’s when we go from S...

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Normally, because of how I was raised, I would steer clear of anything that was confrontational because I wanted to keep the peace. But I started to wonder, whose peace was I keeping?

~ Donna Marie Hayes

How many times have you avoided confrontation to “keep the peace?” How many times have you explained away red flags in relationships or situations because you couldn’t or wouldn’t face yo...

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By making best friends with denial and distraction, I was refusing to see what "could be" going on in my life, which was that my son had been struggling for a very long time with substance abuse issues. I kept holding onto what I thought my life and my son "should be," instead of facing and dealing with the truth.

~ Mary Fran Bontempo

Have you ever known that a crisis was barrelling down on you but you refused to ...

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We live stories and beliefs that we've inherited. It can be so difficult to get rid of the trash in our heads that weighs us down. But the truth is that we are all "Women That Influence," we just have to believe that.

~ Sara Canuso

 

Do you recognize your power to influence? It's not always easy to see how we can impact those in our lives and the world at large, especially when life's minutiae can so quickly weigh...

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The most important foundational pillar of being Brilliantly Resilient for me is perception. It is how you are seeing your challenges. Are you looking at your life the way it "should be," or are you seeing what "could be?" 
~Kristin Smedley

How do you see your challenges? No one looks at challenges as a blessing, at least not at first. But many people report feeling as though their challenges change...

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Let’s wake up every day and let’s be on fire about a contribution that we’re making to a broader audience.
~ Aleta Norris

What’s your purpose? Yes, it’s a heavy question–one most of us grapple with often. But we can start to find our purpose once we look beyond ourselves.

Aleta Norris, best-selling author of Women Who Spark and Women Who Spark After 50, joins the Brilliant...

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We are always looking for signs of domestic violence, but we hear them more often than we see them. Domestic violence doesn’t always look like broken bones and bruises. I was living in domestic abuse and I didn’t even know it.
~ Dr. Jennifer Gardella

Do you know anyone who is experiencing domestic abuse? Are you sure?

As Dr. Jennifer Gardella aptly notes, domestic abuse is...

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Some people think of marketing as flash. I was Facebook rich and client poor for 5 years. Stop friending your peers, they aren’t your clients.
~ Tai Goodwin

Are you an entrepreneur? If you own or promote a business, how much time do you spend posting on social media? Better yet, how much time do you spend posting on social media and assume that you are marketing your business? 

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Getting sucker-punched is part of everyone's journey. Sometimes the most successful people had more worst moments to share with the audience. But it always came back to them being resilient, getting up again, swinging that bat and eventually connecting and hitting that single, double, home run or sometimes grand slam.
~ John Lee Dumas, EOFire

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For several seasons we've been bringing you all of the stories about how if we can do it, you can do it. Then it was with our guests, if they can do it, you can do it. But people were asking okay, "But how? How do you do it?" 
~ Kristin Smedley

We're back!! Welcome back to a New Season of Brilliantly Resilient Live! As former teachers and moms, September is our New Year. We get excited about new be...

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Doubt can go two ways: One direction leads to fear, the other to hope.

~ Dr. Lee Warren: H...

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