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Resilient LeadershipEp 91: Staying Connected When We’re Apart: Resilient Leadership in Hybrid WorkIn this episode, Irvine and Bridgette explore how resilient leaders keep teams connected across distance—showing that in hybrid work, it’s not control but calm, consistent presence that builds trust and belonging.
2025-11-2526 minResilient LeadershipEp 90: The Power of Well Differentiated Leaders, Part 2In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore what it means to be a well differentiated leader and the difference that it makes for people, teams and organizations. They define what this form of leadership looks like, the essential building blocks that are needed to embody it and share practical examples from everyday day work and life
2025-11-1128 minResilient LeadershipEp89: Speaking Truth to PowerIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore what it means to speak truth to power and why it is a critical skill in leadership and life.
2025-10-2832 minResilient LeadershipEp:88 Leading When You Don’t Have All the AnswersLeaders often feel pressured to have all the answers, but real credibility comes from how they show up when the path is unclear. In this episode, we explore how to lead with steadiness, transparency, and courage—even when certainty isn’t possible.
2025-10-1425 minResilient LeadershipEp 87: Can Leaders Cry At Work?In this episode, Irvine and Bridgette explore the stigma around sadness in the workplace. Discover how leaders can respond with compassion and clarity—turning vulnerability into resilience.
2025-09-2326 minResilient LeadershipEp 86: Ask, Don’t Tell: How Questions Unlock PotentialIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore the power of curious questions and how asking them more often can help you to manage better and connect more deeply.
2025-09-0933 minResilient LeadershipEp 85: Leading Through Resistance: Keep Your BalanceIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore the phenomenon of resistance and sabotage - why this is part and parcel of the leadership experience and something to expect rather than to be feared.
2025-08-2624 minResilient LeadershipEp 84: How To Have A Good DayIn this episode Bridgette and Irvine explore what constitutes a “good day” and how me can create more of them
2025-08-1229 minResilient LeadershipEp 83: “The Body Never Lies”: What Leadership Embodiment is and Why it MattersIn this episode Bridgette and Irvine explore what it means to embody our leadership values, principles and intentions and how to align the way we sit, stand and walk through our day with what matters most to us.
2025-06-1724 minResilient LeadershipEp 82: How to Restore Trust When It Has Been BrokenIn this episode Bridgette and Irvine explore the importance of trust in business. But what happens when trust is broken. Can you recover it and if so, who do you do it?
2025-06-0324 minResilient LeadershipEp 81: Avoid The Empathy TrapIn this episode Bridgette and Irvine will explore the benefits and potential pitfalls of empathy for leaders. Tune in to hear how you can avoid the empathy trap and hold others accountable while still connecting powerfully with them.
2025-05-1323 minResilient LeadershipEp 80: The Art of Giving and Receiving Tough FeedbackIn this episode Bridgette and Irvine will discuss the essential ingredients for giving tough feedback that others can hear, and how to receive tough feedback so that we can learn and grow from it.
2025-04-2932 minResilient LeadershipEp. 79 Creativity: The Key to Successful TeamsIn this episode Bridgette and Irvine will explore creativity as the key to successful teams with their guest. Dr. Amy Climer.
2025-04-1535 minResilient LeadershipEp 78: ReFraming – A Tool for Generating New PossibilitiesIn this episode Bridgette and Irvine will explore what reframing is, how it works and what we can do to reframe our own challenges and our team’s challenges, so that we can move forward in new and more productive ways
2025-04-0122 minResilient LeadershipEp 77: Curiosity – The Key To Successful LeadershipIn this episode Bridgette and Irvine will explore curiosity as the key to successful leadership and how leaders can embody curiosity.
2025-03-1823 minResilient LeadershipEp 76: Profiles in CourageIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore the virtue of courage and how it is embodied in three leaders.
2025-03-0422 minResilient LeadershipEp 75: Bursting the Leadership BubbleIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore the why leaders become insulated from feedback and what they can do about it
2025-02-1822 minResilient LeadershipEp 74: Optimism: A Leadership SuperpowerIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore the power of optimism to create a style of leadership that is inspiring and resilient.
2025-02-0527 minResilient LeadershipEp 73: Taming our TriggersIn this episode Bridgette and Irvine explore how we can better manage our responses to the people and situations that trigger us, and gain greater equanimity in our day.
2025-01-2134 minResilient LeadershipEp 72: Leading Through ChangeIN this episode Irvine and Brigette explore how to manage change personally and how to lead others through change.
2024-12-3129 minResilient LeadershipEp 71: The 6 Pitfalls That Derail Good Managers: Part 2In part 1 of this episode Bridgette and Irvine explored the first three pitfalls; In part 2 they explore pitfalls 3-6 and what you can do to avoid them.
2024-12-1730 minResilient LeadershipEp 70: The 6 Pitfalls That Derail Good Managers: Part 1In this episode Bridgette and Irvine explore the first three of six pitfalls that even experienced managers can fall into, and what you can do to avoid them.
2024-11-2629 minResilient LeadershipEp69: How do I Decide? Overcoming Hurdles to Decision Making.In this episode Bridgette and Irvine who we go about making a decision and what gets in the way.
2024-11-1230 minResilient LeadershipEp 68: The Gift Of Sadness: Giving Time for the Inner WorkIn this episode Bridgette and Irvine explore the emotion of sadness. Commonly this is called a negative emotion. In this episode we explore how sadness is call for healing and how we can manging sadness in the workplace.
2024-10-1531 minResilient LeadershipEp. 67: The Power of Well Differentiated LeadershipIn this episode Bridgette and Irvine explore what differentiation means in the context of leadership and why this way of being leads to greater influence, sustainability and success.
2024-10-0131 minResilient LeadershipEp 66: Stop Pleasing Others and Start Being Yourself: An Interview with Kathleen Smith, Part 2In this episode Irvine and Bridgette continue their interview Kathleen Smith author of True to You!
2024-07-3127 minResilient LeadershipEp 65: Stop Pleasing Others and Start Being Yourself: An Interview with Kathleen Smith, Part 1In this episode Irvine and Bridgette interview Kathleen Smith author of True to You!
2024-07-1728 minResilient LeadershipEp 64: Focus on Your Own Functioning: A Systems Perspective on LeadershipIn this episode Bridgette and Irvine explore why focusing on our own functioning is vital to our effectiveness, what gets in the way of doing this and three powerful questions to keep our focus where it should be – on ourselves and how we’re showing up, for better or for worse.
2024-07-0232 minResilient LeadershipEp 63: Three Imperatives For Leading Well In Disruptive TimesIn this episode Bridgette and Irvine explore the three imperatives that go into being a Resilient Leader. Practicing these three things on a daily basis will enable you to stand apart from the emotional pressures of the day and influence others in extraordinary ways.
2024-06-1833 minResilient LeadershipEp 62: The Velvet RutIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore what a Velvet Rut is, how it impacts individuals and companies and what we can do to get ourselves and our teams out if we’ve fallen into one
2024-06-0434 minResilient LeadershipEp 61: The Future World of WorkIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore 4 major trends on the future of work and how it will impact leadership.
2024-05-2125 minResilient LeadershipEp 60: Increasing Resilience Through Appreciative InquiryIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore why what Appreciative Inquiry is, why it is a vital leadership skill and how it can instill hope and optimism, even in the midst of very trying and difficult times.
2024-05-0729 minResilient LeadershipEp 59: Moving Past the Imposter SyndromeIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore why the Imposter Syndrome plaques so many leaders, both new and seasoned, the upside of feeling fraudulent, and what we can do to move past it.
2024-04-2328 minResilient LeadershipEp 58: Making Workplace Conflict More ProductiveIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore how to make the inevitable conflict in the workplace less destructive and more productive.
2024-04-0933 minResilient LeadershipEp. 57: Workplace Politics Played RightIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore what workplace politics are, why they are not inherently bad and how being able to play politics the right way is a key leadership skill.
2024-03-2631 minResilient LeadershipEp. 56: Making Decisions When Everything Is AmbiguousIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore the that despite being ambiguous averse we can learn to make good decisions when everything is ambiguous.
2024-03-1234 minResilient LeadershipEp 55: Making It StickGetting better at anything, including leadership, requires change. But how do we make changes in our lives that are lasting and sustainable? In this episode Bridgette and Irvine unpack the recipe for making changes that stick.
2024-02-2731 minResilient LeadershipEp 54: Making Room For Gen ZIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore the new generation in the workplace Gen Z and the importance of generational empathy to overcome tensions.
2024-02-1329 minResilient LeadershipEp 53: The Art and Science of Failing ForwardIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore why failure is inextricable linked to leadership, how our mindset around failing shapes our experience of it, and what “failing intelligently” looks like in action.
2024-01-3033 minResilient LeadershipEp 52: How Well Do You Know Your Emotions?In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore our emotions and the invitation to get to know them better so we are enabled to have more powerful interactions.
2024-01-1731 minResilient LeadershipEp 51: 3 Practices for Being a More Potent CommunicatorIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine share three simple yet impactful ways you can become an even more effective communicator.
2024-01-0228 minResilient LeadershipEp 50: Loneliness – A Leadership EpidemicIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore how the rise of loneliness is reaching alarming proportions and what we can do to combat it.
2023-12-1929 minResilient LeadershipEp 49: What is Your Superpower?In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine define what a superpower is, how you identify your own superpower and ways you can harness it more fully.
2023-11-2824 minResilient LeadershipEp. 48: Gratitude – A Leadership GapIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore how a practice of gratitude can change your brain and the way the lead.
2023-11-1430 minResilient LeadershipEp 47: How Smart is Your Team?In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine provide listeners with a way to assess how smart their team is and the one thing they can practice to get better at facing adaptive challenges more nimbly.
2023-10-3125 minResilient LeadershipEp 46: Full Bodied LeadershipIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore how important it is to connect with our bodies and integrate its wisdom into our leadership actions.
2023-10-1728 minResilient LeadershipEp 45: Laughing Your Way To LeadershipIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore how important humor can be in making a leader more effective.
2023-10-0325 minResilient LeadershipEp 44: Stop Chasing Employee Happiness; Start Focusing on Employee Engagement InsteadIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explain why focusing on employee happiness is a losing proposition for leaders, while focusing on employee engagement boosts performance, productivity and retention.
2023-09-1924 minResilient LeadershipEp 43: Building Resilient TeamsIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explain the four stages of team development and what is most required from a leader at each stage.
2023-09-0528 minResilient LeadershipEp 42: Managing UpIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine focus on the critical skill of managing upwards. They discuss why it is essential to our career success and share strategies for improving our relationships with those above us in the organizational chart, whether that is a boss, a board or anyone else whom we might report to or be accountable to.
2023-08-2227 minResilient LeadershipEp 41: Mind Your LanguageIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explain the importance of distinguishing between an assertion and an assumption and the power it hold for making better decisions.
2023-08-0827 minResilient LeadershipEp 40: Brand YouIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore what a leadership brand is, why it matters and how it connects with being a well-differentiated leader.
2023-07-2521 minResilient LeadershipEp 39: Be A Step-Down TransformerIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explain that leaders have more power than they think to influence their highly anxious organization by being a step-down transformer.
2023-07-1129 minResilient LeadershipEp 38: Influence Vs Authority: Where Does Your Real Power Reside?In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore the difference between influence and authority, and discuss how we can positively influence our relationship systems for the better, regardless of our title or position.
2023-06-2726 minResilient LeadershipEp 37: How To Turn Around Under-PerformersIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore how we as leaders can inadvertently contribute to or compound underperformance and what steps you can take to turn it around.
2023-06-1334 minResilient LeadershipEp 36: Stop Counting The MinutesIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine discuss that it is more important to measure your energy than count minutes if you want to improve your performance and become more resilient.
2023-05-3037 minResilient LeadershipEp 35: The Ghost Ride To Better LeadershipIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore how previous generations of our family influence us in our daily lives both at work and at home.
2023-05-1639 minResilient LeadershipEp 34: Learning to Tolerate the Discomfort of OthersAs leaders, we sometimes have to take actions that create discomfort in our followers. Making others feel uncomfortable can create anxiety and discomfort in us, leading to what Ed Friedman called “A Failure of Nerve.” In this episode Bridgette and Irvine explore why this muscle matters, what it makes possible for us, and how we can strengthen it in ourselves.
2023-05-0234 minResilient LeadershipEp 33: Living In A World Of ChangeIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore why most of us resist change and how learning to embrace it can transform our leadership and life.
2023-04-1130 minResilient LeadershipEp 32: The Goldilocks Principle: Creating a Resilient Organization That’s Just RightIs your workplace too soft, too challenging or just right? Resilient organizations, like effective leaders, strike a purposeful balance between connection and accountability, and between comfort and challenge. Join Bridgette and Irvine to hear more about the characteristics of resilient workplaces and how you can contribute to creating one for your team.Here is the link for the free assessment we mention at the end of the podcast.
2023-03-2832 minResilient LeadershipEp 31: The Upside of UncertaintyIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore why most of us resist uncertainty and how learning to embrace it can transform our leadership and life
2023-03-0726 minResilient LeadershipEp 30: Death By Overload: How To Resuscitate YourselfIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore information overload and its impact in how we function at work and home. How can we restore sanity back to the never-ending flow of information.
2023-02-2128 minResilient LeadershipEp 29:Becoming More ResilientIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore how to become more resilient in your life and become better able to manage the anxiety in the relationship systems in your life.
2023-02-0732 minResilient LeadershipEp 28: Self AdvocacyIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore what it means to be an effective advocate for yourself at work and in life.
2023-01-2532 minResilient LeadershipEp 27: Stepping Into Your PowerIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore the intersection of leadership and power and how important our body language is in activating a felt sense of power.
2023-01-1032 minResilient LeadershipEp 26: Courageous ConversationsIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore three conversations that leaders often struggle with and share some strategies for facing into them with courage and conviction.
2022-12-2740 minResilient LeadershipEp 25: Courage: The Key To Successful LeadershipIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore the virtue of courage and how it drives behaviors that are at the core of successful leadership in today’s business environment.
2022-12-1330 minResilient LeadershipEp 24: Are You Stuck In A Toxic Triangle?In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore the phenomenon of triangles – what they are, how healthy triangles differ from toxic ones and why leaders are the most triangled people in any organization.
2022-11-2933 minResilient LeadershipEp 23: Resistance and Sabotage: Signs You Might Be Doing Something Right!In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore the phenomenon of resistance and sabotage -- why this is part and parcel of the leadership experience and something to expect rather than to be feared.
2022-11-1533 minResilient LeadershipEp 22: Who Are You, A Leader, Manager or Both?In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore the distinction between being a leader and a manager. Is there really is such a sharp difference between them?
2022-11-0128 minResilient LeadershipEp 21: Creating Rewarding WorkplacesIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore how we can reverse engineer more rewarding workplaces and in turn increase employee retention.
2022-10-1834 minResilient LeadershipEp 20: The Upside of AnxietyIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore the benefits of anxiety and discuss how to make this powerful physiological state work for us rather than against us.
2022-10-0428 minResilient LeadershipEp 19: The Right Kind of OptimismOptimism is an essential ingredient of leadership, however not all forms of optimism are created equal. In this episode Bridgette and Irvine explore how to get optimism right.
2022-09-2029 minResilient LeadershipEp 18: The Power Of Music To Sooth Our AnxietyIn this episode Bridgette and Irvine explore the power of music and it ability to evoke different emotions and pull us out of anxious moods.
2022-09-0628 minResilient LeadershipEp 17: Spirituality and Leadership: Finding Meaning at WorkIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore the intersection of leadership and spirituality. People are expressing more than ever a desire to find meaning in their work lives. What does it mean to be spiritual, and how does it show up behaviorally? How can we grow our spirituality?
2022-08-2331 minResilient LeadershipEp 16: The Art of Letting Go: An Essential Skill for Leadership and LifeIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore what makes letting go so challenging for leaders, why it is important to their success and sustainability, and what we can do to develop this underutilized yet vital muscle.
2022-08-0931 minResilient LeadershipEp 15: The Gift Of Anger: Rehabilitating A Misunderstood EmotionIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore the emotion of anger. Commonly it is called a negative and dangerous emotion. However, anger is a gift that can propel us to defend our values, make lasting change, and uncover solutions.
2022-07-2633 minResilient LeadershipEp 14: The Missing Conversations of the New NormalIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore what missing conversations are, how to spot them and why identifying and engaging in them is critical to a successful transition to the post-COVID world of work.Please send your questions and ideas for future episodes to resilientleadershippodcast@gmail.com
2022-07-1232 minResilient LeadershipEp 13: Once Upon A Time – Are The Stories You Are Telling Yourself Really True?In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore the power of story in our lives. However, our stories when not well-formed can get us into trouble with poor decisions and regrettable actions. Powerful questions lie at the heart of helping us develop more accurate stories and more grounded assumptions.
2022-06-2829 minResilient LeadershipEp 12: Navigating Leadership AnxietyIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore the nature of leadership anxiety. All leaders have some anxiety, whether they know it consciously or not. The problem isn’t the anxiety itself, but what we do with it that counts. Tune in to learn more about where leadership anxiety originates, how it impacts your behavior on the job and what you can do to better manage its impact on you and others.
2022-06-1436 minResilient LeadershipEp 11: Setting Healthy Boundaries - How to know where I end, and you begin.In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore the importance of setting healthy boundaries. They focus on the art of finding a balance between not being too close and enmeshed with another person while not being too distant from them.
2022-05-3126 minResilient LeadershipEp 10: Finding Your Leadership VoiceIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore some of the reasons why our leadership voice can become muted, and what we can do to turn up the volume and speak from a place of greater confidence and conviction.
2022-05-1729 minResilient LeadershipEp 9: Broken Trust: How To Put The Pieces Back Together AgainTrust enables connection and is essential. But what happens when trust is broken? Can you recover it, and if so, how do you do it?
2022-05-0326 minResilient LeadershipEp 8: Busting the Charisma MythIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine debunk the assumption that charisma is essential to effective leadership and explore two other characteristics that are far more important to a leader’s success.
2022-04-1922 minResilient LeadershipEp 7: The Secret Sauce of Resilient Leaders: Three Ingredients of Leading Well During Disruptive ChangeIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore the three ingredients that go into being a Resilient Leader. Whether you are a CEO, a manager, or a frontline supervisor, practicing these three things on a daily basis will enable you to stand apart from the emotional pressures of the day and influence others in extraordinary ways.
2022-04-0528 minResilient LeadershipEp 6: The Power Of Curiosity: How This Superpower Can Transform Your Leadership and LifeIn this episode, Bridgette and Irvine will explore curiosity a superpower we all had as children but many lose as we grow older. Tune in to hear how curiosity can make you a better leader and assess if you are asking curious questions.
2022-03-2227 minResilient LeadershipEp 5: Are You Doing Empathy Wrong?In this episode, Bridgette and Irvine will explore the benefits and potential pitfalls of empathy for leaders. Tune in to hear how you can avoid the empathy trap and hold others accountable while still connecting powerfully with them.
2022-03-0826 minResilient LeadershipEp 4: Emotional Contagion: How To Not Get Stuck With A Bad Mood - Yours Or Someone Else’s!It's invisible and highly contagious and odds are you will catch it. This episode is not about coronavirus rather it is about something much more contagious, our emotions! Tune in to hear about how easily we catch the emotions of others and why as a leader, your emotions are the most contagious of all.
2022-02-2227 minResilient LeadershipEp 3: The Great Resignation: What’s Behind Our Discontent And What We Can Do About It.Hardly a day goes by without an article appearing about “The Great Resignation.” In today’s episode, Bridgette and Irvine explore this phenomenon that is re-shaping the workplace and discuss what we can do to address discontent – either in ourselves or in our workplace.
2022-02-0821 minResilient LeadershipEp 2: Banishing Burnout: How To Rebalance Your Life And Connect To Your Purpose.Burnout is a common concern these days and many leaders are experiencing it, either in themselves or in their organizations. This week Bridgette and Irvine shine a spotlight on the three main causes of burnout and what we can do to address them.
2022-01-2533 minResilient LeadershipEp 1: A New Take On Resilience: Navigating Through Anxious TimesIn the first episode of their podcast, Bridgette and Irvine introduce a unique way we can build greater resilience at home, at work, and within our organizations. Tune in to hear how you can become a different observer of yourself and navigate your relationship systems with greater equanimity and ease.
2022-01-2534 minResilient LeadershipResilient Leadership Podcast TrailerThe Resilient Leadership Podcast will help you lead with a greater sense of calm, clarity, and conviction even in anxious times.Your hosts Irvine Nugent and Bridgette Theurer will release a brand-new episode every other Tuesday focusing on a topic that we guarantee will offer you insights found nowhere else so that you can better understand these uncertain times, we live in. Each episode will also provide you with a practical exercise aimed at helping you grow your leadership resilience.For more information on Resilient Leadership, head to our website www.resilientleadershippodcast.com...
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