What Do You Do? podcast
Dr Lizzy Bernthal | Coach, Speaker, Author | Release Your Potential
Resilience is often misunderstood, but crucially important. It’s the skill that helps us to endure and overcome the most difficult challenges we face in our lives. But as Lizzy explains, we show resilience everyday, even when we get out of bed when we don’t want to.
“Resilience is not just for strong people. When facing adversity, you don’t feel resilient, but you are.“
Key Takeaways
- Resilience is about bouncing forward, not just bouncing back. We’re never the same after enduring challenges, so we should see it as an opportunity for personal development.
- Resilience is about trusting yourself to overcome adversity. Courage is when you have no guarantee of the outcome, but you carry on.
- There’s always one story that every single person has that redefines their lives until they unpick it.
The Role of Resilience Explained
Understanding Resilience: What It Is and Why It Matters
What is it that makes us carry on when we don’t want to? Or on the flipside, what it is that pushes us forward to face new challenges (and leave our familiar zone, as Lizzy explains)? Resilience. Resilience is not about being invulnerable or impervious – it’s about being able to recover from difficult personal and professional challenges. It’s about being able to face a challenge when the outcome is not guaranteed.
Resilience doesn’t stop there. It’s also about using those challenges as an opportunity for personal growth. Resilience is often characterised as ‘bouncing back’, but instead Lizzy says that instead we ‘bounce forward’, as we are never the same after facing and overcoming a challenge. Lizzy also makes the point that we are already far more capable than we give ourselves credit for. We all have the tools we need already, we just need to appreciate it. Resilience is not an inherent skill – it can (and should) be learned.
About Dr. Lizzy Bernthal
Dr. Lizzy Bernthal is a renowned resilience specialist, coach, speaker and author with a unique background in leadership. With experiences leading teams in extreme conditions in 18 countries around the world, including Afghanistan. After serving under toxic leadership in the army she made it her mission to end workplace toxicity, and uses her military experience and academic research to help individuals and organisations build resilience.
Resilience has been a theme throughout her life, from deciding to get a university education when told she wasn’t able to, to leading an initiative to find out about the resilience of partners staying at home whilst their partners were deployed.
Lizzy is all about confident leadership – supporting leaders and their teams to show up authentically, and having the courage to be themselves. A big part of that is resilience.
What Do We Do?
We founded the What Do You Do? podcast to hear from people like Lizzy, whose unique approach is making people’s lives better, one client and company at a time. Hearing about all of the adversity that she overcame is an inspiration to anyone who isn’t as confident in their own abilities. As Lizzy says, we all have the skills that we need already.
Videos, like the one above, are a great way to inspire people – find out how we can do it here.
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