Don’t Waste Your Hardest Lessons: Julia Lashay’s 5 Principles of Unshakable Resilience

The ONE Thing

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Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Content Warning: This episode includes discussion of the loss of a child and experiences of grief. It may be distressing for some listeners. Please listen with care and take the space you need. Resilience isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you build—often in the moments you’d never choose. In this episode, Jay sits down with Julia Lashay to explore how adversity shapes leadership. From losing everything financially during the Great Recession to the unimaginable loss of her son, Julia shares how she found a way forward when life felt impossible. Instead of pushing past pain, she learned to work through it—starting small, giving herself grace, and using simple tools like the 411 to regain momentum. Along the way, she discovered that purpose isn’t fixed. It evolves. And when you reconnect with it, it becomes the fuel that carries you through even the hardest seasons. They also unpack the role of failure, why feedback accelerates growth, and how the people around you can either lift you higher or hold you back. If you’ve ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward, this conversation offers a path—one step at a time. Challenge of the Week: Start defining your personal mission statement. If that feels overwhelming, begin with your core values. Clarity around what matters most will help guide everything else. *** To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: the1thing.com/pods. We talk about: [00:00] Julia Lashay's Introduction [03:14] Losing Everything and Navigating Personal Tragedy [10:16] The First Steps to Rebuilding Life [15:38] Embracing Learning Lessons [22:46] Surrounding Yourself with the Right People [29:57] The ONE Thing Weekly Challenge Links & Tools from This Episode: The ONE Thing Operating System Julia Lashay (speaker, coaching, resources) Free Resources Want to be a guest or share feedback? Email podcast@the1thing.com Produced by NOVA

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0:00.0	Hey gang, this week I'm talking to my good friend Julia Lachet Israel. I got to work with her for several
0:04.9	years when she served at Keller Williams as our director of inclusion and got to see her
0:10.5	navigate some really tough times and she's got an amazing leadership. Today she's written a book.
0:16.5	She is a keynote speaker and one of her big focuses is on resilience. She's been through some incredibly tough times. And trigger warning, she is a keynote speaker and one of her big focuses is on resilience. She's been through some
0:22.0	incredibly tough times and trigger warning she is going to talk about the loss of a child in this
0:27.2	episode. But she's also going to talk about the tools that she's learned on how to be a more
0:32.4	resilient leader and how to show what better and how she's teaching that all across the country.
0:37.7	I think there's great stuff in this episode.
0:39.8	I hope that you'll take away at least one thing on how you can be a more resilient leader,
0:43.7	a more resilient person in your life.
0:46.0	I'm Jay Papazan, and this is the One Thing,
0:48.5	your weekly guide to the simple steps that lead to extraordinary results.
1:04.0	Thank you. steps that lead to extraordinary results. Julia, welcome to the show. Jay, thank you for having me. I'm so excited. I've never been
1:08.7	on the One Thing podcast. Longtime listener. I know. And we've been like podcast podcast partners. I'm so excited. I've never been on the One Thing podcast, long time listener,
1:11.1	first time visitor. And we've been like podcast partners. Like I was working with your team and
1:16.0	y'all were building out y'all's podcast, The Color of Money. And we got to work together for how
1:20.8	many years? It's been a while. It's been a while. It's probably six years. I think six years.
1:25.6	Yeah. So I'm super excited to explore some of your wisdom. Lately, you've been speaking and talking a lot about resilience. And I love that topic for our audience. We've got a lot of business owners. And business ownership, that's easy, right? No done any resilience for that. I mean, it's hard. Like stuff happens,
1:45.5	people leave. Competitors show up we don't expect. And so resilience is something that we need to be
1:52.4	focused on so that we can get through the tough times to get to the rewards. What started you done this
1:57.0	journey? Well, many things. I think I've been an entrepreneur my entire adult life,
2:05.0	and I seen a lot of things, and I've experienced a lot of things, and I learned that most people, entrepreneurs don't fail because of lack of opportunities. They just don't have a foundation
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