437: Building the Resources for Resilience with Dr. Michael Ungar

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How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 10 May 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Dr. Michael Ungar shares insights from his decades-long research into resilience to reveal that it’s not about your ruggedness, but rather your resources. You'll Learn: The true key to resilience A master checklist for upgrading your resilience How to change your mood by changing your environment About Michael: Dr. Ungar is a Family Therapist and Professor of Social Work at Dalhousie University where he holds a national Research Chair in Child, Family and Community Resilience. Dr. Ungar has published over 180 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on the subject of resilience and is the author of 15 books for mental health professionals, researchers, employers and parents. These include Change Your World: The Science of Resilience and the True Path to Success, a book for adults experiencing stress at work and at home. View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep400 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.
0:14.0	With your host, Pete McKitis.
0:16.0	Hello, and thanks for joining us here for episode 437 with Dr Michael Unger.
0:23.7	Michael has a wealth of information, insight, good research
0:28.2	into resilience, what builds it up and how you can build up yours.
0:31.6	You'll learn, one, the true key to resilience,
0:34.3	two, a master checklist for upgrading your resilience,
0:37.5	and three, how to change your mood
0:39.6	by changing your environment.
0:40.9	So if you want to check out the show notes,
0:42.1	the transcript, or the links to Islands we've referenced, you'll find that on over. your Dr Unger is a family therapist and professor of social work at Dalhousie University where he holds a national research chair in child, family, and community resilience.
0:58.5	Dr Unger has published over 180 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on the subject of resilience and is the author of 15 books for mental health professionals, researchers, employers, and parents.
1:09.0	These include Change Your World, The Science of Resilience, and the True Path of Success, a book for adults experiencing stress at work and at home.
1:17.0	So thanks to Michael for spending some time with us and thanks to our sponsors. Check them out.
1:26.8	Here is Michael. Michael thanks for joining us here on the How to Be Awesome at your Job Podcast. My real pleasure Pete. Nice to be here.
1:30.3	Well I learned that you have built three houses and raised five children but you said
1:36.2	that building the houses was easier. Can you talk about that? Yeah for sure. Let's just say that
1:42.1	houses it's kind of like children. They change your life.
1:45.0	They improve the quality of your life and your experience in the world and they make you calm or they make you happy and
1:50.2	all those kinds of other things. But they also stay put, right? They don't sort of like change or
1:54.9	they're not supposed to unless it's a flood or something. And kids are a little different. Having raised five,
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