Deborah Grayson Riegel: How to bounce forward from failure

Deborah Grayson Riegel: How to bounce forward from failure

May 27, 2026 · 41 min

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In this episode, David Lancefield speaks with Deborah Grayson Riegel about how women experience failure differently than men and offers practical tools for overcoming setbacks.

What if failure hits differently depending on your gender? In this episode I speak with Deborah Grayson Riegel, an executive coach and author whose research across 1,100 women in 60 countries reveals why women experience setbacks more intensely than men, and what to do about it. We dig into why women tend to ruminate longer, and see failure as identity rather than event, and where those patterns come from. We explore the practical tools that can shift all of that: how to reframe failure, ask ...

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