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Is there a set of tools that can help us all manage the emotional ups and downs of this business and of this creative life we've chosen? You guessed it - there is! In this special event for ISA members, the #1 International Resilience, Mental Health, & Wellbeing Expert, Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal joins the ISA's Director of Education and development professional, Max Timm, in a conversation discussing the principles in her Wall Street Journal #1 bestselling book, "The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People: Why Some Flourish When Others Fold."

The creative industry is in a constant state of flux. In many ways, you could argue that the only constant within the entertainment business is change. From emotional highs to emotional lows, acceptance to rejection, a thousand no's with a few gratifying yes's, the life of a creative individual can feel much like a rollercoaster...in a windstorm. If there ever was a topic an aspiring and/or professional artist needs to digest, it's this one. So join your fellow ISA members and let's dig into an interview that will surely be inspiring. With Dr. Taryn Marie Stejskal and the ISA's Director of Education and Development Professional Max Timm

Time Stamps:
0:00 – Introductions
2:19 — Dr. Taryn Marie’s Bio/ Getting to Know her
3:34 — Bringing on Taryn
4:52 — Fitting Optimism into the Film Industry
7:48 — A Need To Be Patient
13:32 – What Got You Into Resilience?
16:45 — Being the Author of your own Success
18:30 – Chronos and Kairos
20:20 – How Resilience Breaks us out of our Vulnerability Cage
24:03 — Navigating a Moment of Challenge
26:25 — We All Get Told No
28:53 — The 5 Practices of Highly Resilient People
29:26 — One Way to Define Resilience
32:19 —- Bouncing Back is For Tupperware
33:57 — Responding to a Moment of Rejection
38:14 —- What is the Feedback You’ll Respond to?
40:59 – The Word Silience
42:01 — Resilience is the Essence of Being Human
43:15 — The Importance of Doing Our Own Work
48:12 — There Will Always be a Risk and Opportunity
49:04 – Steven Spielberg’s Story of Success
50:35 — Writer’s Tapping Into Skills for Success
57:08 – We’ve All Imagined Our Oscar Acceptance Speech
58:22 – Every Year Someone’s Gotta Win it… why not You?
59:14 – It’s Either This or Something Better
1:05:21 – A Favorite of the 5 Practices
1:06:12 – Success is not a Straight Line
1:09:57 — A Higher Calling (The Importance of A Mindset)
1:11:40 – The Universe Always Says Yes
1:14:04 – Justifying a Longer Path
1:18:57 – Becoming an Inconvenient Truth
1:22:06 – You Don’t Owe an Explanation
1:23:58 — Trusting Your Gut (Get Really Quiet)
1:27:26 – Closing Remarks