Resilience and Career Success

CareerCast - Life-long Career Development

Linda GrahamHave you ever faced an obstacle in your career and life? Of course you have. Yet a setback doesn’t need to stop you, and you can even use it as a springboard to something even better if you have resilience. Linda Graham, MFT, experienced psychotherapist and author of Resilience and also Bouncing Back, believes that resilience is something that can be taught. In this CareerCast, Linda guides us on how to increase our resilience capacity from her experience in modern neuroscience, mindfulness practices, and relational psychology for greater success in career and life.

Aired November 16, 2018

Linda Graham, MFT, is an experienced psychotherapist who integrates modern neuroscience, mindfulness practices, and relational psychology in her international trainings on resilience and well-being. She is the author of Resilience and also Bouncing Back, the winner of a 2013 Books for a Better Life Award. Visit her online at www.lindagraham-mft.net.

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Win at Losing: How Our Biggest Setbacks Can Lead to Our Greatest by Sam Weinman (2016)

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The Resilience Breakthrough: 27 Tools for Turning Adversity into Action by Christian Moore (2014)

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Bounce Back: Overcoming Setbacks to Succeed in Business and in Life by John Calipari (2010)

Comebacks: Powerful Lessons from Leaders Who Endured Setbacks and Recaptured Success on Their Terms by Andrea Redmond and Patricia Crisafulli (2010)

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Resilience by Linda Graham

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