NICOLE WILKE | How to Make Our Kids Resilient (Ep. 740)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome Nicole Wilke to the show. She is a child welfare researcher, missionary, author, and marriage and family therapist. She currently serves as Director of the Center on Applied Research for Vulnerable Children and Families, bridging research and practice to improve faith-based care for vulnerable children and families around the globe. Nicole currently resides with her family in Peru where they work to improve the nationwide system for children in alternative care. In this interview, we discuss her early life experiences that led her to her current line of work and ministry, why we should focus on making our kids resilient as opposed to strong, the correct definition of resilience, how to delineate “trauma” from “normal stress”, why being a “snowplow parent” will cause your kids long-term issues, how we can infuse adversity into the lives of our kids, why successful people typically had rough upbringings, how the right kinds of relationships help us build resilience, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE. Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is undaunted Life a Man's podcast.
0:24.0	I'm your host, Kyle Thompson.
0:25.6	Let's get into it.
0:26.8	All right, guys, we got a special guest on the podcast today.
0:28.8	Her name is Nicole Wilkie.
0:30.3	So she is a child welfare researcher, missionary, author, and marriage and family therapists.
0:34.8	And she currently serves as the director of the Center of Applied
0:38.2	Research for Vulnerable Children and Families, bridging research and practice to improve faith-based
0:42.9	care for vulnerable children and families around the globe. So her and her family currently reside in
0:47.6	Peru, where her and her husband do a lot of different ministry work there. And they are really
0:51.7	overall just trying to improve the nationwide system for children
0:55.0	in alternative care. And so I'm really, really excited to bring this conversation to you today
1:00.2	because every now and then I'll get a pitch for a book or for someone to come on the show. And I can't even
1:05.6	remember why I originally wanted to have them on the show. But there is a single word that was in
1:10.7	the subtitle of her book, which here's her book right here, guys, you can check it them on the show, but there is a single word that was in the subtitle of
1:11.7	her book, which here's her book right here, guys, you can check it out in the show notes.
1:15.2	The book is called Overcoming.
1:16.9	Okay, great.
1:17.6	I like overcoming, overcomers.
1:19.2	But here's the subtitle, what scripture and science say about resilience.
1:24.3	And if you know anything about me, anything about this ministry, anything about the show, you know, I talk about resilience all the time. We're here to equipment to push back darkness.
1:32.1	How do we do that? By helping you forge spiritual, mental, physical, resilience, right?
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