The Resilient Entrepreneur: From Crisis to Enlightenment with Dr. Rachel Doern

About this episode

In this episode, Dr. Rachel Doern discusses resilience strategies for entrepreneurs facing crises.

Episode Summary: Entrepreneurs face crises that test their limits but can they build resilience to thrive? In this episode of The Cashflow Show, host Clayton M. Coke interviews Dr Rachel Doern, author of The Resilient Entrepreneur and Associate Professor at Goldsmiths, University of London. Drawing on her research from the 2011 London riots and COVID-19, and research on crises and resilience from different parts of the world Dr Rachel unpacks resilience as a dynamic process, sharing strategies to strengthen it and pitfalls to avoid. Learn practical tools like distraction, positive reappraisal, and expectation management to navigate business setbacks and boost personal wellbeing. Listen now to discover how to fortify your resilience and grab The Resilient Entrepreneur at Bristol University Press or Amazon! Key Discussion Points Defining Resilience: Resilience is a learnable process, not just a trait, involving adjustments to attention, thinking, and resources to recover from crises (02:16–03:13). Book Overview: The Resilient Entrepreneur uses the 2011 London riots to explore how entrepreneurs build resilience through strategies and avoid vulnerabilities (01:47–02:46). London Riots…

People in this episode

Host: Clayton M. Coke

Guest: Dr. Rachel Doern

Topics covered

• resilience
• entrepreneurship
• crisis management
• personal wellbeing
• business strategies

Keywords

• resilience
• entrepreneur
• crisis
• wellbeing
• business setbacks
• strategies
• London riots

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Goldsmiths, University of London, Bristol University Press, Amazon

Books & works: The Resilient Entrepreneur

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