Brilliantly Resilient

Episode 210: How to "Be Better" in 2025, with Mary Fran Bontempo

Dec 31, 2024

I came down to those two words. Be better. I think if we can boil it down to something, 'Be better' might be the most that we should be asking of ourselves.

~ Mary Fran Bontempo, Author 'From Broken to Brilliant: How to Live a Brilliantly Resilient Life'

It's 2025. How are you feeling about that?

I find the time...

Episode 209: Mindfulness and Honoring the Pause with Shawnta Hooks

Dec 18, 2024

"I needed to embark on a journey to reclaim my connection, both personally and professionally."

Shawnta Hooks ~ Leading Belonging and Mindfulness Speaker.

Shawnta Hooks was never a believer in meditation or mindfulness. Working in accounting and corporate compliance during her 20 year corporate career, Shawnta...

Episode 208: New Book! From Broken to Brilliant: How to Live a Brilliantly Resilient Life, with Mary Fran Bontempo

Dec 4, 2024

You have everything in you already to live a Brilliantly Resilient life. You have Resilience and you have your own personal Brilliance. It's already there. You were born with both of those things.

~ Mary Fran Bontempo, Author,

From Broken to Brilliant: How to Live a Brilliantly Resilient Life

Have you uncovered...

Episode 207: Finding the Brilliance and Resilience in Generational Relationships with "Gentelligence" Author, Dr. Megan Gerhardt

Oct 22, 2024

Let's have smarter intergenerational conversations. Let's be OK and not threatened by the fact that you see this differently than me. Let's figure out why and how that could actually be helpful and beneficial.

Dr. Megan Gerhardt

Author of Gentelligence: The Revolutionary Approach to Leading an Intergenerational...

Episode 206: How to Mourn the Loss of a Sibling with Annie Orenstein, Author of Always a Sibling: The Forgotten Mourners Guide to Grief

Oct 8, 2024

No one checks in on them, right? They often delay their own grief, put off their own mourning in order to support their parents and step up. But then? They remain there and they never really get a turn to express their own grief, or to be the mourner in the room.

Annie Orenstein ~ Author of Always a Sibling: The...