Resilience is often the x-factor that differentiates between mild and wild success. The stories of most of the wildly successful folks in our community have exhibit an extreme degree of resilience and we’ve come to believe that if our goal is to help our community achieve great outcomes we have to help build resources and knowledge around how one can become more resilient.
Dr. Andrena Phillips
My resilience comes from lived experience, faith, and an unshakable decision to keep going. Life has tested me in ways that forced me to grow beyond who I thought I was. I didn’t always feel strong, but I stayed committed. I learned early that resilience isn’t loud. Read More>>
Tonya Mitchell
From enduring a lot in life and definitely my children. I must keep being the best I can be. I have to keep going. Read More>>
Diana Montano
My resilience comes from my daughter. She has always given me the strength to face fears and given me the drive to take leaps of faith. Read More>>
Robert Royer
My resilience is a combination of two primary components: First of all, it’s an acquired trait from my mother. My mother became a widow of five young children when I was four years old, when my father passed. Read More>>
Ashley Hurst
Being diagnosed with Ulcerative colitis has given me a lot of resilience! Going through all the ups and downs with it in the last 15 years especially. Read More>>
Celeste Salanon
We get our resilience from the mission and the people behind Youth Impact Texas. We began as a small group of high school students running a school club, and over time, we’ve grown into a full-fledged nonprofit with members from various schools and a variety of service opportunities. Read More>>
Ryan Reed
My resilience comes from not being afraid to fail. I embrace the lessons in every setback and genuinely enjoy the process of growing on the way to my goals. Read More>>
LunaverSol
I get my resilience and drive from Creator. Whenever I start to get off track, I look toward my future and imagine where my habits might be leading me. If I don’t like the outcome, that alone is enough to help me realign. Read More>>
Amelia English
Resilience, for me, isn’t about toughness. It’s about perspective, presence, and knowing what’s worth your energy—and what isn’t. My resilience comes from a mix of lived loss and early perspective. When I was thirty, I lost my husband suddenly with two very young children. That kind of loss recalibrates everything. It taught me, in the worst possible way, what actually matters. Read More>>
DAMIEN BARTLETT
My resilience comes from building myself in stages — long before I had any training, connections, or a clear path — and choosing to start anyway. My first exposure to creativity happened in 1996, when I studied Media Design and Communication in the UK. It was mostly photography and entertainment theory with a little filming mixed in. Read More>>
Dr. Kylie Victoria McBride
I believe resilience is forged in the presence of resistance and opposition. Like many, I’ve faced adversity throughout my life. The painful experience of childhood sexual abuse shaped my worldview, my relationships, my habits, and the thought patterns that became my default. Confronting the negative patterns born from trauma demanded deep, deliberate work. Read More>>
Ramathillai Chockalingam
Resilience is a huge part of who I am. When I look back at my life, almost everything I’m proud of exists because I chose to pull through rather than give up. Read More>>
Kimberly Aquino
I get my resilience from challenges thrown my way. They keep me going to get better. Read More>>
Greg Marlow
I found out through a terminal cancer diagnosis that the only choice you have is to meet it head on and never give in, no matter how bad the news gets. You really find out what true faith is when there isn’t a plan B. My resilience comes from my faith coupled with a never back down attitude. Read More>>
Dr. Edward Bell
I draw my resilience from purpose, perspective, and people. Purpose anchors me; knowing why I show up turns obstacles into challenges rather than stop signs. Perspective reminds me that setbacks are moments, not definitions, and that struggle often carries instruction if I’m willing to learn from it. And people—those who persist despite being underestimated—continually reinforce my resolve. My resilience isn’t about being unbreakable. Read More>>
Mahnoor Nasir Khan
I, Mahnoor Nasir Khan, trace my resilience to the years I spent navigating the gap between who I was expected to be and who I felt called to become. Growing up between cultures, I learned early on that my voice and my vision would not always be understood — especially as a Pakistani woman pursuing a creative life in a field where representation was limited. Read More>>
Mayra G.
In Mexico we say, ‘lloras tantito y sigues adelante’ — have a little cry and keep going. The truth is you don’t have to be unbreakable, you just have to keep moving. But beyond that, my resilience comes from not giving myself a plan B. For me, having a backup plan would only take my focus away from my goals. Read More>>
Claudio E. Aymat
Resilience is something I learned from my father. He worked extremely hard for everything we ever had. When I was 7 years old, he moved our family of 6 from Puerto Rico to Florida. We struggled, but he worked multiple jobs for years to make our lives as comfortable as possible. Read More>>
Abi Aba Linus
From friends and mentors whose stories have inspired me. The progress of their journey has been a great boost for my resilience Read More>>
Lia Rodriguez
My resilience comes from becoming a mother and realizing there was no option but to keep going, even on the days I felt exhausted, uncertain, or deeply out of my comfort zone. Postpartum changed me in ways I didn’t expect. Read More>>
Amber Portis
My resilience comes from God, for real. Once you know and realize who you are and who God has called you to be, there’s no other option but to be resilient. There are days where it’s just me and Him when my community is not available. He is always with me, ALWAYS. Read More>>
Amber Goodall
My resilience comes from the life I’ve lived — from becoming a mother, from starting over more than once, and from learning how to build something meaningful even when the path wasn’t clear. I didn’t follow a traditional or linear career journey, and there were many moments where I had to trust myself before I had proof it would work. Read More>>
Milanz
I think I get my resilience from my stubbornness to wanting to be great, happy and at peace. In what’s fair for me or anyone. I’ve been picked on for most of my upbringing, by high school bullies, strangers in the street, family too sometimes and it really wasn’t always easy navigating those experiences at young age and alone. Read More>>
Garima Gupta
My resilience comes from watching my father build everything from scratch. Growing up, I saw firsthand what it looks like to create a life with your own two hands. My dad didn’t shy away from any task—whether it was small, tedious, or monumental. Read More>>
