Notes on Resilience

About Notes on Resilience

Notes on Resilience explores how human experience, including adversity, shapes leadership, innovation, and culture. Host Manya Chylinski talks with people whose work, research, or lived experience reveal how we adapt, care, and create after challenge—what these stories show about the systems we build, and what must evolve. These conversations are rooted in a simple idea: the goal isn’t resilience for its own sake, the goal is well-being. Resilience is what makes recovery and growth possible. The show serves as field research on how people and systems recover, rebuild, and move forward.

Publisher

Manya Chylinski

Category

business · health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Jan 2023

Latest episode

28 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

200 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Oct 2026

   200: When the HR Leader Is the One Grieving, with Anastasia Bergmann

   Send us Fan Mail The phrase “Let the s#*% go” can sound like a throwaway line until you hear the story behind it. I’m joined by HR leader Anastasia Bergmann, who shares a deeply personal loss during COVID and what it took to rebuild her life as a single parent with two children while carrying grief that didn’t fit neatly into a return-to-normal timeline. It’s candid, heartbreaking, and ultimately full of hard-won clarity about what resilience really looks like. We talk about why resili...

2. 

   21 Oct 2026

   199: What Survivors Know

   Send us Fan Mail Survivors don’t just get through it. Many come out the other side with hard-won knowledge about what recovery actually takes, what it costs, and what it never fully repairs. We’re chasing that question from the inside out: what survivors know that people who haven’t lived through trauma often misunderstand, oversimplify, or romanticize. We’re also pulling back the curtain on how we’re building a five-part narrative series for Notes on Resilience. We talk about why we’r...

3. 

   14 Oct 2026

   198: Trauma-Informed Is For Everyone

   Send us Fan Mail The word trauma can make people shut down before the real conversation even starts. In this episode, we slow it down and make it usable. Trauma-informed care is most often discussed in healthcare, but we argue it’s bigger than that: it’s a baseline skill for working with humans. If you lead a team, run a classroom, manage a household, serve customers, or make policy decisions, you are already interacting with people who carry trauma, whether you can see it or not. We a...

Who has been a guest on Notes on Resilience

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Sandro Galea
• Barry Moline
• Judy Kane
• Rich Hua
• Manya

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 63 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

99

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

68

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