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Brilliantly Resilient

Mary Fran Bontempo

What"s your train wreck? Everyone has one–past, present, or future. But why do some people come through stronger while others never recover?Hang on for the ride as Mary Fran teaches 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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Episode 117: How to Navigate Life-long Anxiety, with...

Brilliantly Resilient ·

2022/06/07

There was always a component of courage, but not the absence of fear. ~ Dr. Robyn Graham Have you ever felt anxious? Hands up, everyone! No one escapes anxiety. But why does it cripple some of us while others seem to escape its grasp? This week’s guest on the Brilliantly Resilient podcast, Dr. Robyn Graham, confesses that she’s experienced anxiety since she can remember, and it’s held her back on more than one occasion. Yet, by realizing that she had a choice about letting anxiety run her life,

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Episode 116: How to Embrace Your Work and Love Your...

Brilliantly Resilient ·

2022/05/30

Look at your calendar from the last few months and see what put a smile on your face. What about those experiences can you do more of? ~ Fran Hauser Finding our Brilliance. It’s not always easy. Our Brilliance and the things that light us up don’t always jump out and say, “Here I am! This is what you’re supposed to be doing!” But our friend, Fran Hauser, author, angel investor and the queen of kindness in the workplace, offers a simple strategy to determine where our Brilliance may lie and how we

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Episode 115: How to Be Sure Your Values are Connected...

Brilliantly Resilient ·

2022/05/23

Everything is situational. We constantly have values competing, all of the time. That’s where you make the hardest decisions. What is at your core? ~ Ken Meeker Decisions, decisions. Wouldn’t it be great if they were all easy? Many are. For example, what would you choose, a paid vacation, or an extra 40 hours at work with no compensation? (Choose the vacation!) But what about those decisions that have you considering the “on the other hand” option over and over and over again? Ken Meeker knows that

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Episode 114: How to Make Your Choices Change...

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2022/05/16

When you’re by yourself and having a meltdown, it takes a few moments to realize no one is coming to rescue you, to get you up. That’s when you have to make a choice. No one controls my happiness, my destiny, my goals, and my dreams but me. It is no one else’s choice. It is my choice. ~ Cheryl Ecton Have you ever found yourself in a position where you thought, “I can’t do this. I’ll never be able to get out of this mess alone.”? It’s not unusual to want someone to come in and make all of the ugly

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Episode 113: How to Change Your Belief System to Rise...

Brilliantly Resilient ·

2022/05/09

We have 60,000 to 70,000 thoughts each day. Ninety percent of those are the thoughts that we had yesterday. We are constantly living in the past. ~ Stanley Dietrich How often do you find yourself on the hamster wheel of chasing the same thoughts over and over in your mind? When something is challenging or concerning us, it may feel like the same thoughts never leave–we dwell on them day after day, often with little or no resolution. This week’s guest on the Brilliantly Resilient podcast is Stanley

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Episode 112: How to Overcome Trauma and Be Your Own...

Brilliantly Resilient ·

2022/05/02

Victim is an identity. Mindset is what you think. What you think is what you speak. What you speak is what you act. What you act becomes your reality. ~ Michael Unbroken Life is not for the faint of heart. And many of us have experienced trauma–some more profound than others. Yet, trauma does not have to define us, or be the overriding factor in our lives. Our Brilliantly Resilient guest this week, Michael Unbroken, teaches trauma survivors how to move beyond trauma and its devastating impact to

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Episode 111: Reminders to Learn, Laugh and Love, with...

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2022/04/24

I learned so much from the people in my life. I wanted to share that and to remind others to cherish and honor those who raised and influenced them. ~ Jane Jenkins Herlong Every life is touched by so many others. But how often do we think back and acknowledge the lessons–whether good or bad–that we learn from those who have come into our lives? Our Brilliantly Resilient guest this week, Jane Jenkins Herlong, knows the power of the women and men who raised her and taught her life lessons, whether

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Episode 110: How to Use Your Transferable Skills,...

Brilliantly Resilient ·

2022/04/18

What are my transferable skills? I’m a big believer in using all of the skills I’ve gathered along the way. ~ Gail Robertson Have you ever spent time doing something and thought, “Well, that was pointless”? We tend to put value on things that are only immediately useful, discarding those that don’t prove their worth right away. Yet, have you ever been in a situation where those skills–the ones you thought were pointless–have come back to serve you? Most of us have. This week’s guest, Gail

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Episode 109: Magical Bridge Playgrounds Build...

Brilliantly Resilient ·

2022/04/12

We have different play needs at different times of life. We never outgrow the need to play. ~ Jill Asher, Magical Bridge Foundation Have you ever passed by a playground and simply listened to the shouts of joy from children playing? Better yet, do you remember the joy you felt as you ran, jumped, and played as a child? The world is a serious place–one that can make play seem frivolous and unnecessary in the midst of so much crisis. But our guest this week, Jill Asher of the Magical Bridge

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Episode 108: Finding the Resilience to Show Up, with...

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2022/04/05

It is about finding that Resilience and strength to say, “Okay, I’m gonna show up another day. I’m just gonna show up another day." And then the next day and the next day. ~ Maria Johnson, a.k.a. Girl Gone Blind How often in a crisis do you think to yourself, “I just can’t do this anymore”? When a challenge hits us with a sucker punch, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and defeated. Crisis changes life in an instant, taking away, sometimes permanently, what we knew or believed to be true. Being

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Episode 107: How to Turn Your Inner Critic into a Coach

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2022/03/28

The critic is the voice of fear; the coach is the voice of love. Talk to yourself like you want yourself to win. ~ Kristin & Mary Fran Here at Brilliantly Resilient, we can really be mean. To ourselves, that is. It’s hard to imagine, but statistics show that we talk to ourselves thousands of times a day, and it’s often 80% negative. And not only does that negative thinking apply to our circumstances (the person paying by check in the express checkout lane–Grrrrrr!!!),it also affects the way we

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Episode 106: Choosing Leadership with a Brilliantly...

Brilliantly Resilient ·

2022/03/21

We’re our own best case study. We’ve had to dig in, find our resilience, find the Brilliance within that challenge and then create some really cool stuff. We lived the Brilliantly Resilient process. ~ Kristin & Mary Fran Did you ever hear the expression “Do what I say, not what I do?” Well, here at Brilliantly Resilient, we don’t believe in telling anyone to do anything unless we’ve tried it ourselves. That’s why, every time we offer a Brilliance Bit or some strategy to help you live with a

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Episode 105: How to Fail Your Way to Success with...

Brilliantly Resilient ·

2022/03/14

Being Resilient and Rising are about failing your way to success. ~ Beate Chelette Failure. The word alone can feel like an anvil on your head. But it wasn’t always that way. No one remembers learning to walk, but talk about failing spectacularly. Babies fall an average of 17 times an hour while learning to walk! When they do, they don’t cry, they don’t blame the rest of the world because they can’t do it, they simply get up, over and over again, until they walk. As children, we realize that failure

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Episode 104: How to Let Go of Resentment and Take...

Brilliantly Resilient ·

2022/03/07

Take imperfect action. ~ Kate Erickson: EOFire How many times have you refrained from taking action on a problem because of the what-ifs? The thought process goes like this: Well, I can do xyz, but what if (insert new problem) happens? Then what do I do? I just don’t know how to proceed…. Before you know it, you’re paralyzed and you’ve talked yourself out of doing anything. This week’s guest, Kate Erickson of EOFire, knows how it feels to be stuck and frustrated. Often, Kate felt like her life was

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Episode 103: How to Control Your Triggers, with Eric...

Brilliantly Resilient ·

2022/02/28

However much anger you have will affect your future outcome. Conversely, the more love and faith, the better the future. ~ Eric Edmeades Have you been angry lately? Yikes. Perhaps a better question would be, who hasn’t been angry lately? These days, the world is a pretty angry place. Everyone has an opinion, everyone’s opinion is right (???), people feel they deserve whatever they want, and if they don’t get it, they take it–or get really angry and spew venom all over the dang place in frustration

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Episode 102: How to Create Silver Linings with Dr....

Brilliantly Resilient ·

2022/02/21

Create a silver lining—Do something, build something, create something. ~ Dr. David Fajgenbaum Have you ever heard the expression: Find the silver lining? It’s about looking for something positive in a lousy situation. That sounds great, but what if things appear so bleak that you can’t find a silver lining? What then? To hear Dr. David Fajgenbaum’s story, it’s easy to see why it was nearly impossible to find a silver lining. Diagnosed with Castleman’s Disease as a young medical student, David

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Episode 101: How to Own Your Brilliance, with the...

Brilliantly Resilient ·

2022/02/15

It’s about discovering and remaining in your zone of genius as much as possible. Discover it and own it. Lean into the brilliance that you have and do it unapologetically. ~ Chris Ducker Have you ever had someone compliment your Brilliance and instead of responding “Yes!! Thank you; I am Brilliant!”, you muttered something like, “Well, it was no big deal; I didn’t do much.”? Come on, you know you have. We have a tendency to downplay our gifts and Brilliance, when we should be shouting it from the

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Episode 100: Finding Hope After Despair with Naval...

Brilliantly Resilient ·

2022/02/07

I didn’t know how to live anymore. ~ Taylor Grieger You chase everything you can in this world because you’re alive in it. ~ Taylor Grieger Hope and despair. While most of us have experienced great sadness or heartache, fortunately, not everyone experiences despair. But we all know hope, which can lift us from the depths, if we can only find it. This episode of the Brilliantly Resilient podcast marks our 100th show, and we couldn’t think of a better way to offer hope and share Brilliance and

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Episode 099: How to “Be Tougher” Than Your Sucker...

Brilliantly Resilient ·

2022/01/31

**Some audio in this episode is less than perfect, but the content is AWESOME!!** Growth is found in the valleys; it’s not found on the mountains. But being on the mountain allows us to see the beauty so when we have to go back to the valley, we can handle it. ~ Melanie Bradshaw Have you ever experienced a sucker punch and thought, Why me? Melanie Bradshaw did. In fact, in 2021, our Brilliantly Resilient guest this week was treating Covid patients in the E.R. where she worked, lost her father to

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Episode 098: How to Change the World (and Get Kids...

Brilliantly Resilient ·

2022/01/24

If you really want to be kind, you need to be grounded in action and rooted in justice. ~ Kaitlin Johnstone, Founder of Kind Cotton How often have you heard the word “kindness” lately? There’s no doubt that encouraging kindness makes for a gentler, more humane world. But as this week’s guest reminds us, without action and a sense of justice, kindness can devolve into mere pleasantries–when it can be so much more. As a kindergarten teacher, Kaitlin Johnstone realized that many of her students had

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