Notes on Resilience

Notes on Resilience explores how human experience, including adversity, shapes leadership, innovation, and culture. Host Manya Chylinski talks with people whose work, research, or lived experience reveal how we adapt, care, and create after challenge—what these stories show about the systems we build, and what must evolve. These conversations are rooted in a simple idea: the goal isn’t resilience for its own sake, the goal is well-being. Resilience is what makes recovery and growth possible. The show serves as field research on how people and systems recover, rebuild, and move forward.

Notes on Resilience is a society podcast hosted by Manya Chylinski, with 189 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Manya Chylinski hosts Notes on Resilience, a society show with 189 episodes published.

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  Episode #33

  190: Rewiring Limiting Beliefs, with Judy Kane

  Aug 19, 202623 minS4

  Send us Fan Mail Your life can look fine on paper while your body and brain keep pulling you into the same loops: avoiding risks, overthinking every move, shrinking your boundaries, or feeling stress that doesn’t match the moment. We get into why that happens and how resilience is often less about willpower and more about the beliefs you learned early and never chose on purpose. We’re joined by Judy Kane, speaker, coach, and author of Your4Truths: How Beliefs Impact Your Life . Judy shares a story that reshaped how she wanted to lead, then explains what subconscious beliefs are, how they’re built (often by age seven), and why they can drive so much of our behavior when we’re not consciously steering. We also talk about how these beliefs shape self-esteem, how we read other people’s intentions, and why stress can spike when we secretly doubt we can handle the consequences. From there, we get practical. We walk through ways to spot limiting beliefs by looking for patterns in outcomes, self-talk, and boundaries. We connect resilience to risk tolerance and the experiment mindset some of us were taught, then share a simple at-home exercise: get clear on what you want to be true, imagine it going right in vivid detail, and notice any resistance that shows up. Those uncomfortable emotions aren’t proof you should stop, they’re data pointing to what needs attention. What belief are you ready to question next? Judy Kane is the author of Your4Truths: How Beliefs Impact Your Life, is dedicated to helping individuals get past barriers that are keeping them stuck or causing them discomfort. She helps people identify and change the limiting, subconscious beliefs that are holding them back. Through speaking engagements, workshops, and individual client work, Judy empowers others to achieve their goals. Judy Kane, author of Your4Truths: How Beliefs Impact Your Life , is dedicated to helping individuals overcome barriers that keep them stuck or cause them discomfort. She helps people identify and change the limiting subconscious beliefs that hold them back. Through speaking engagements, workshops, and individual client work, Judy empowers others to achieve their goals. Website: https://www.alignedconsciousness.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/judykanepsychk/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alignedconsciousness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alignedconsciousness/ Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREE Support the show __________ Producer / Editor: Neel Panji Invite Manya to inspire and empower your teams and position your organization as a forward-thinking leader in well-being, resilience, and trauma sensitivity. Learn more: www.manyachylinski.com/services Subscribe to the newsletter: manyachylinski.com/notes Please subscribe, rate, and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts or your listening platform of choice. It really helps others find us. #trauma #resilience #compassion #MentalHealth #CompassionateLeadership #leadership #survivor

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  Episode #32

  189: The EQ Advantage, with Rich Hua

  Aug 12, 202629 minS4

  Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever watched a brilliant, high-IQ leader stall out, you’ve seen the real bottleneck: the way they relate to people. I sit down with Rich Hua, founder of the Epic Leadership Group and former chief EQ evangelist at Amazon, to talk about emotional intelligence as a practical leadership skill that improves trust, influence, resilience, and business results. Rich shares his own journey from socially awkward, achievement-driven nerd to someone who had to learn empathy, vulnerability, and connection the hard way through marriage, parenting, and leading large teams. We dig into what EQ actually is, why so many corporate cultures over-index on IQ, and how that becomes a ceiling at senior levels. Rich also breaks down how he made EQ feel relevant inside a highly data-driven environment, including the moment an internal talk unexpectedly sparked massive demand and helped grow an EQ community across Amazon. The takeaway is clear: emotional intelligence is not a personality trait you either have or don’t have. It’s a learnable set of skills, and believing otherwise is one of the most costly limiting beliefs in leadership. Then we connect EQ to one of the biggest workplace pressures right now: AI transformation. Rich explains why most AI initiatives fail for human reasons like fear, mistrust, and weak communication, and why executives often misread how employees actually feel. We also talk about stress and decision-making, including how unmanaged pressure can shrink clear thinking, and what EPIQ leadership looks like when EQ and IQ work together. If you want to lead change, keep your people engaged, and make smarter calls under pressure, this conversation will give you language, tools, and a path forward. Rich Hua is a keynote speaker and the founder of the EPIQ Leadership Group, which helps executives and organizations build adaptable, resilient, and innovative cultures that are both high-performing and highly human. Website: https://www.richardhua.co/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richhua/ Email: richhua@gmail.com Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREE Support the show __________ Producer / Editor: Neel Panji Invite Manya to inspire and empower your teams and position your organization as a forward-thinking leader in well-being, resilience, and trauma sensitivity. Learn more: www.manyachylinski.com/services Subscribe to the newsletter: manyachylinski.com/notes Please subscribe, rate, and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts or your listening platform of choice. It really helps others find us. #trauma #resilience #compassion #MentalHealth #CompassionateLeadership #leadership #survivor

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  Episode #31

  188: Name It To Heal It

  Aug 5, 202615 minS4

  Send us Fan Mail “I’m fine” might be the most dangerous sentence in a workplace after a crisis. When teams experience a traumatic event, leaders can do everything the checklist recommends and still miss what matters most: whether people feel safe enough to tell the truth about how they’re doing. We sit with that uncomfortable gap between business continuity plans and the lived human reality of fear, grief, and exhaustion, and we explain why ignoring it can undermine recovery. I share what I’m learning from conversations with organizational resilience and crisis management professionals, including senior practitioners, and why the same pattern keeps showing up across industries. The operational side is often strong. The human side is where leaders freeze, default to silence, or accept “fine” as a real status update. We unpack how culture and psychological safety shape everything that happens next, from trust and performance to retention, presenteeism, and absenteeism. Most importantly, we return to a principle that sounds simple but is hard in practice: you can’t address something you haven’t named, and you can’t support people through something you’re pretending isn’t happening. We also preview a new long-form scripted audio series that goes beyond the usual format, following people who survived something catastrophic and built something meaningful from it. Does survivorship create knowledge that our institutions need, and do we even know how to ask for it? If you want practical, trauma-informed leadership insights and a more honest way to think about resilience at work, subscribe, share this with a colleague, and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREE Support the show __________ Producer / Editor: Neel Panji Invite Manya to inspire and empower your teams and position your organization as a forward-thinking leader in well-being, resilience, and trauma sensitivity. Learn more: www.manyachylinski.com/services Subscribe to the newsletter: manyachylinski.com/notes Please subscribe, rate, and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts or your listening platform of choice. It really helps others find us. #trauma #resilience #compassion #MentalHealth #CompassionateLeadership #leadership #survivor

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  Notes on Resilience

  187: You Can Lose Your Old Life And Still Be Alive

  Jul 29, 202632 min

  Send us Fan Mail A bomb goes off, you make it home without a scratch, and everyone assumes you’re fine. In this episode swap, Manya is a guest on Grieve Then Achieve with host Kate Nudds . They talk about the invisible aftermath of surviving the Boston Marathon bombing: PTSD symptoms that hijack sleep and focus, the raw-nerve feeling of living in fight-or-flight, and the isolation that can follow when the world only recognizes physical injuries. Manya shares the frightening, disorienting thoughts that showed up early, and why taking them seriously was part of staying safe and getting support. We also dig into the grief that can live inside trauma--grief for the life you had before, the innocence of believing “this doesn’t happen to people like me,” and the future that suddenly feels uncertain. We talk stigma, why self-reported mental health wounds are often doubted, and how that doubt shapes recovery for disaster survivors who don’t look injured. Then we get practical about resilience and trauma recovery: therapy and trauma-specific counseling, mindfulness and meditation to calm the nervous system, movement through yoga and walking, and the surprising power of channeling anger into advocacy and meaningful action. If you’ve ever felt dismissed because your pain didn’t show up on the outside, you’ll hear language for what’s happening and options for what to do next. Subscribe, share this with someone who needs it, and leave a review with the biggest takeaway you’re bringing into your own healing. Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREE Support the show __________ Producer / Editor: Neel Panji Invite Manya to inspire and empower your teams and position your organization as a forward-thinking leader in well-being, resilience, and trauma sensitivity. Learn more: www.manyachylinski.com/services Subscribe to the newsletter: manyachylinski.com/notes Please subscribe, rate, and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts or your listening platform of choice. It really helps others find us. #trauma #resilience #compassion #MentalHealth #CompassionateLeadership #leadership #survivor

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  Notes on Resilience

  186: The Best Training Has No Measurable ROI, with Carré Le Page

  Jul 22, 202630 min

  Send us Fan Mail Work doesn’t slow down just because we’re overwhelmed. Expectations climb, messages hit us from every direction, and the do-more-with-less mindset turns into burnout, stress, and that form of exhaustion where people show up but aren’t really there. We sit down with resilience expert and Resilient Minds founder Carré Le Page to get practical about what resilience actually is and how to build it without turning it into another performance demand. We start with a simple definition that changes everything: resilience means keep moving forward. Carré explains why the water metaphor works so well for modern life and modern leadership. Water doesn’t only push through; it adapts. Sometimes it pivots, slows down, or pauses, but it still finds a way. From there, we get into workplace resilience, why leaders can’t shrug and say "it’s just busy,” and how boundaries and clear conversations help people focus on what they can control. We also talk real-world change management, from COVID-era uncertainty to the moment ChatGPT made half a team excited and the other half genuinely scared. Carré shares why “clear is kind” is a resilience tool, how a reverse brief can save hours of rework, and why asking should we? matters as much as can we ? If you’ve ever wondered how to measure the ROI of resilience training, he offers a metaphor you won’t forget. Carré Le Page is a speaker, coach, resilience expert, mental wellness advocate, storyteller, and founder of Resilient Minds . With 20 years of global marketing and leadership experience, he has led creative teams across five continents and seen firsthand how pressure, change, and burnout affect performance. His message is simple: resilience may be called a soft skill, but it is one of the sharpest tools we have for modern work. Email: carre@resilientmindsco.com Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/carre-le-page/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/carrelepage/ Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREE Support the show __________ Producer / Editor: Neel Panji Invite Manya to inspire and empower your teams and position your organization as a forward-thinking leader in well-being, resilience, and trauma sensitivity. Learn more: www.manyachylinski.com/services Subscribe to the newsletter: manyachylinski.com/notes Please subscribe, rate, and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts or your listening platform of choice. It really helps others find us. #trauma #resilience #compassion #MentalHealth #CompassionateLeadership #leadership #survivor

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