Russell Harvey

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The Personal Success Podcast with Ryan Watts

#119 - Springing Forward with Learning Part 1: Redefining Resilience with Russell Harvey

November 21, 2025

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In Part 1 of this conversation, Ryan sits down with UK based resilience coach and facilitator, Russell Harvey, whose mission has been to positively affect one hundred thousand people through his work on resilience, leadership and business as a force for good. In July twenty twenty five, he hit that number and is now exploring his next chapter of purpose.

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Russell shares the story behind becoming The Resilience Coach... from teaching English in Hong Kong and feeling the magic of other peoples light bulb moments, to being made redundant six times and finally deciding to build a practice that centers human behavior, learning and leadership. He and Ryan explore why resilience is not just about pushing through hard times, but about springing forward with learning so that challenges actually change how we live and lead.

They dig into Russell s Resilience Wheel and strengths based coaching, unpacking why your homework is not to fix your weaknesses but to spend more time in the work that energizes you. Along the way, Russell draws a sharp line between genuine resilience and the toxic version that just tells people to keep going and stay positive.

• Why Russell set a goal to positively affect one hundred thousand people and what it looked like to actually reach it • How a year of traveling and teaching in Hong Kong revealed his love for creating light bulb moments in others • The career journey from learning and development into launching The Resilience Coach after repeated redundancies • Why strengths based work matters and why your lowest scoring strength is rarely where you should spend most of your time • How to think about being “good enough” at some tasks so you can spend more time in your natural strengths • Russell s definition of resilience as springing forward with learning, not just bouncing back to who you were before a challenge • A tour of the Resilience Wheel... attitude, purpose, confidence, adaptability and agility, support network, self talk and energy • Why most people only think about resilience once something unpleasant happens and what it looks like to build resilience before that point • The early signs of toxic resilience at work... “you just need to be resilient and positive”... and why that message is so dangerous