{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"#113: Resilience Is Not Toughing It Out","description":"In Episode #113 of The Executive Commute, Jayson Krause is joined by Level 52 coach and facilitator Lara Koretsky for an honest exploration of resilience, adversity, and growth.   Resilience is often described as the ability to bounce back or keep pushing when life becomes difficult. Lara challenges that definition. True resilience is not about returning to who you were before adversity or ignoring the toll it has taken. It is the ability to learn, adapt, recover, and create something stronger from the experience.   Drawing from profound personal loss, family challenges, burnout, career transitions, and years of developing leaders, Lara explains why resilience is not a fixed personality trait. It is a capacity that can be strengthened.   Jayson and Lara explore the five pillars of resilience, the difference between grit and grind, why workplaces often reward the wrong behaviours, and how perseverance can become toxic when it causes people to tolerate the intolerable.   They also examine an important leadership tension: how do you challenge people to grow without rescuing them, overwhelming them, or carrying their backpack for them?   Episode timestamps:   00:00 What resilience really is 00:40 Lara\u2019s experience with adversity 01:51 Resilience is a muscle 02:23 Lessons from Lara\u2019s father 03:24 Medical assistance in dying 04:21 Creativity through grief 06:21 Lara\u2019s career journey 08:58 Feeling least resilient 10:10 Learning from rejected feedback 11:19 The kintsugi metaphor 13:35 Moving beyond \u201cbouncing back\u201d 15:19 Owning your role in adversity 16:35 Defining resilience 16:45 Why grinding through is not resilience 17:31 Choosing where to persist 19:30 Recovery creates growth 20:13 Myths about resilience 21:09 When organizations reward burnout 23:28 Why leaders wait until it is too late 25:22 Building resilience proactively 25:31 The five pillars of resilience 29:09 Humour versus avoidance 30:29 Stealing opportunities for growth 31:38 Do not carry someone else\u2019s backpack 34:04 Choosing hope 35:22 Choice within resilience 35:57 The downside of resilience 37:47 Can resilience prevent growth? 40:58 Toxic perseverance 42:18 Grit versus grind 43:11 Knowing when to keep going 44:24 Strategic quitting 45:22 Organizational responsibility for resilience 46:08 Expanding people\u2019s capacity 47:50 Workload and real priorities 49:03 Why recovery is essential 49:29 Resilience and stress exposure 50:58 Training adaptability 51:50 How organizations create fragility 53:37 Hiring for resilience 54:48 Where leaders should begin 56:29 The worst resilience advice 56:45 The key lesson 57:09 Writing your resilience story 59:03 Stepping into the real work 60:00 Closing reflections Follow Jayson Krause YouTube: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC3Voc2qOmcqGKfqy6CDiZOw LinkedIn: https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jayson-krause\/ ","author_name":"Executive Commute With Jayson Krause","author_url":"https:\/\/jaysonkrause.libsyn.com\/","html":"