772: How to Build Resilience to Thrive in Uncertainty with Gemma Leigh Roberts
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 2 June 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Gemma Leigh Roberts shares recent science behind resilience and how to bounce back from whatever the world throws at you.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why you shouldn’t confuse grit with resilience
2) The challenges worth seeking out to build your resilience
3) How to build resilience into daily routines
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— ABOUT GEMMA —
Gemma Roberts is a chartered psychologist who has spent most of her working life teaching, writing, and speaking about what it takes to navigate challenges successfully, build resilience in the face of adversity, and create environments where each individual can thrive and perform at their peak, in their unique way.
Her book, Mindset Matters: Developing Mental Agility and Resilience to Thrive in Uncertainty, which will be released in May 2022, came from her Mindset Matters newsletter on LinkedIn, which now has 500,000 subscribers.
She is also a LinkedIn Learning instructor, with her courses garnering over 3 million learners. She also hosts the We Got This: Work+Life audio series on LinkedIn.
• Book: Mindset Matters: Developing Mental Agility and Resilience to Thrive in Uncertainty
• LinkedIn Newsletter: Mindset Matters
• Website: GemmaLeighRoberts.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: The Chimp Paradox: The Mind Management Program to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence, and Happiness by Dr. Steve Peters
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.5 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.1 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.1 | With your host, Pete LeCaites. |
| 0:16.6 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 772 with Gemma Lee Roberts. |
| 0:24.3 | Gemma does a fantastic job of understanding and unpacking the latest science on resilience |
| 0:30.5 | and how we can use it to bounce back and enjoy life and work all the more as you'll learn |
| 0:36.2 | one, why you shouldn't confuse grit with resilience to the challenges worth seeking out |
| 0:41.8 | to build your resilience and three, how to build resilience into your daily routine. |
| 0:46.2 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to bits that |
| 0:49.4 | you mentioned here, please drop on by awesome at your job.com slash EP772 and explore some |
| 0:55.7 | of our goodies that are awesome at your job.com from the full text transcripts that are all |
| 1:00.3 | searchable to the gold nugget email summaries, a lot of goodies at awesome at your job.com. |
| 1:05.4 | Now here's Gemma's story, Gemma Roberts is a chartered psychologist who has spent most |
| 1:09.7 | of her working life teaching, writing, and speaking about what it takes to navigate |
| 1:13.7 | challenges successfully. |
| 1:15.4 | Build resilience in the face of adversity and create environments where each individual |
| 1:18.7 | can thrive and perform at their peak in their unique way. |
| 1:21.9 | Her book Mindset Matters, developing mental agility and resilience to thrive in uncertainty, |
| 1:26.6 | just released recently, and it came from her Mindset Matters newsletter on LinkedIn, |
| 1:31.6 | which has over half a million subscribers. |
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