334. The Practice of Vulnerability + How to Build Your Resilience - Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal

Taryn Marie Stejskal, Ph.D., We Are For Good Podcast

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Overview

Meet Dr. Taryn Marie. This resiliency expert believes there’s a lot of info on building a resilient mindset, but that the world knows very little about resilient doing. This convo is about how vulnerability enhances and creates resiliency. Tune in and discover tools/resources that promote resilience when we inevitably face challenge, change and complexity.

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The practice of vulnerability

5️⃣ Practices of Highly Resilient People
Defining vulnerability biases
Activation, tools & resources to help

Today’s Guest

Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal, International Keynote Speaker and Author

“Resilience is the essence of what it means to be human.”

— Taryn Marie Stejskal, Ph.D.

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Episode Highlights

Dr. Taryn’s story and journey to where she is today (3:00)
Defining resilience and misconceptions around it (6:45)
The practice of vulnerability (10:45)
Vulnerability comes alive in community (18:45)
Further exploring the 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People (27:55)
How to lean into vulnerability and build resiliency (37:30)
A powerful moment of philanthropy in Dr. Taryn’s life (47:00)
Dr. Taryn’s One Good Thing: The power of simple pleasures and presence. (50:00)

Powerful quotes

“Resilience is the essence of what it means to be human.” -Taryn

“When we get to take that power of resilience back and say, this is something that fundamentally exists within me as an essence of what it means to be human, then we start to have a different conversation, because the conversation then begins from a place of abundance. It begins from a place of wholeness. It begins from a place of having, rather than from a place of scarcity, where we have to go out and get something or cultivate it.” -Taryn

“The bigger the gap between the inside self and the outside self, the more energy we're going to burn. Because we're essentially running two versions of ourselves. We're running two operating systems simultaneously.” -Taryn

“We have this belief that if we get vulnerable with people, if we allow our inside self to match the outside self that we share with the world, that somehow that's going to be a turnoff for people or somehow that's going to discredit us.” -Taryn

“Vulnerability is the precursor to authenticity, and empathy. We can't be authentic or empathetic without connecting with something vulnerable within ourselves.” -Taryn

“When we face diminishing returns, it's okay to change course or even stop doing something. “Quitting” has such a bad name. It's okay to quit if we find that things aren't working.” -Taryn

“We actually don't want to engineer challenge, change and complexity out of our lives.” -Taryn

“Failure is an answer. Success is an answer. Not trying is a lifetime of not knowing.” -Taryn

“Disempowerment, discrediting ourselves or being self-deprecating is not vulnerable.” -Taryn