#543 – Building a Resilient Life You Can Love with Valorie Burton
The Sister Circle Podcast
Chrystal Evans Hurst
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
I’m joined by my friend Valorie Burton, best-selling author and coach, to talk about her new book Rules of Resilience. We unpack what resilience really means—beyond pushing through—and how to bounce back with strength and faith.
Valorie shares her 3 pillars of resilience, how to know when to grit or quit, and why authenticity and community matter for thriving in tough seasons.
If you’ve faced setbacks or stress, this episode will give you practical tools to grow through what you go through.
Highlights from Today’s Episode
- Releasing what you can’t control
- Building strength through authenticity
- Knowing when to let go
Related Resources
- Connect with Valorie Burton on her website, Instagram, or YouTube.
- Grab Valorie’s book: Rules of Resilience: 10 Ways Successful People Get Better, Wiser, and Stronger
- Learn more about the Coaching and Positive Psychology Institute (CaPP Institute)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. Thanks for listening to the Sister Circle podcast. My name is Crystal Evans-Hurst, |
| 0:09.6 | and I'm your host. Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the podcast that's designed to help you |
| 0:15.8 | live your life well and to make it a life you love. Listen, you get to choose. |
| 0:21.7 | Okay, everybody, you should know who Valerie Burton is. And if you don't know who Valerie Burton is, well, it's my pleasure to introduce you to her today. |
| 0:42.8 | She is no stranger to me or to the Sister Circle podcast. |
| 0:46.9 | And I get the opportunity to have her with me today because we're talking about a very important topic. |
| 0:53.5 | Valerie, welcome. and thanks for joining me |
| 0:55.9 | again. Hey, Crystal, it's always good to be with you, so thanks for having me on again. |
| 1:03.3 | Well, you are a prolific author. I see your book still all the time at the airport, and it's always amazing when you choose to take a topic that we need to talk about |
| 1:16.4 | and to put it in a framework that we can use. |
| 1:21.9 | And my favorite thing about how you coach us is that you help us to coach ourselves. So your books are not just |
| 1:31.5 | read along with me and do what I say. It is get engaged, get involved, do the work. And so |
| 1:38.5 | you've done that again in your new book. Rules of Resilience, which, you know, you on the cover, so super cute. You |
| 1:45.8 | are talking about resilience, which I know that there has been a few years of resilience. |
| 1:52.4 | You know, Brunee Brown made us all enter or reenter that back into our vocabulary. And there's |
| 1:58.0 | been lots of conversation. But I think new seasons call for new levels |
| 2:03.6 | of work that we need to do to engage with what's happening in our worlds. And so I'm curious, |
| 2:09.4 | why resilience for you and the 10 rules right now? What bubbled this up for you as the next |
| 2:16.0 | thing that you needed to dive deep in helping us to coach ourselves on? |
| 2:21.0 | Well, this is the subject I've been talking about more than any other for about 17 years. |
| 2:26.5 | So when I went back to grad school, back in 07, 08, I finished in 08. |
| 2:33.2 | In positive psychology, |
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