The Hard Skills From Surviving to Thriving Using Micro-Adjustments, with Julie Fischer
When everything feels like it's falling apart—restructures, burnout, losses you can't quite name—most advice tells you to push harder or rest more. But what if the answer lies in between? In this episode, you'll learn about micro-adjustments: small, evidence-based shifts that help you lead through chaos without losing yourself. We're getting into ambiguous grief, organizational betrayal, and what kind of resilience mechanisms can help versus harm.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
Most leaders right now are in survival mode and don't even realize it. What does it look like when you're no longer thriving but rather just enduring? What's the difference between resilience that sustains you and resilience that just helps you tolerate more damage? In this episode, we'll unpack what positive psychology offers leaders dealing with organizational upheaval, chronic stress, and betrayal. We'll discuss how to evaluate where you are on the surviving-to-thriving continuum, why micro-adjustments aren't about minimizing broken systems, and what actually sustains people versus what just delays their breaking point.
This conversation is for anyone who's been running on empty and wondering if there's another way. If you're barely holding it together and don't have time to fix it, start here. You'll walk away with one thing you can do tomorrow that won't add to your load.
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ABOUT OUR GUEST:
Julie Fischer is a transformation coach, well-being consultant, and host of Nine to Thrive: The Well-Being Podcast. With 25+ years of corporate and nonprofit experience in sales, marketing, and fundraising, Julie's career took a dramatic turn when a family crisis forced her to rebuild her life from the ground up. That transformation ignited her coaching practice, where she now helps individuals, teams, and organizations move from survival to sustainable thriving through evidence-based tools rooted in applied positive psychology. She specializes in uncovering the unconscious narratives and limiting beliefs that keep high-performers stuck, then creating clarity and actionable strategies for lasting change.
Certified as an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and in Applied Positive Psychology through The Flourishing Center, Julie works with leaders navigating burnout, career transitions, work-life integration, and building resilience under pressure. She delivers corporate workshops, one-on-one coaching, group facilitation, and speaking engagements focused on well-being science, mindset shifts, leadership presence, and creating meaningful connection in work and life. Through her coaching and her podcast, Julie is on a mission to address what she calls the "un-well-being crisis"—helping people harness agency, shift from merely surviving to truly thriving, and meet their most audacious goals without losing themselves in the process.
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FIND OUR GUEST HERE:
www.linkedin.com/in/julie-fischer-pcc/
FREE Wheel of Life Inventory: www.juliefischercoaching.com/wheel-of-life
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