RISING RESILIENT
with Grit, Grace & Growth
A Coaching Handbook Inspired by Successful Entrepreneurs Navigating Challenge, Crisis & Change
Published November 2025
When ambition, identity, and burnout collide, this is the book that helps you rise whole.
You’ve built something impressive — a business, a career, a reputation.
But lately, it feels like success is costing more than it should.
It’s 9:47 PM on a Sunday.
You’re staring at tomorrow’s calendar, already exhausted before the week begins.
From the outside, everything looks great.
On the inside, you’re holding it together with grit… and maybe a bit of hope.
Rising Resilient is the handbook for this exact moment —
the reckoning, the turning point, the quiet truth that something needs to change.
Drawing on intimate conversations with twenty extraordinary women entrepreneurs, founders, and leaders, this book reveals what resilience actually looks like now — in a world shaped by constant uncertainty, rapid change, and rising expectations.
This is not about pushing harder.
This is about rising wiser.
What Makes Rising Resilient Different
We’ve been taught that resilience means powering through, staying strong, and never showing the cracks.
But the women whose voices shape this book know better.
They’ve lived through burnout, grief, identity shifts, reinvention, trauma, uncertainty, and spectacular growth.
They’ve rebuilt businesses and rebuilt themselves.
And they’ve discovered a more human, grounded, sustainable path to thriving.
Inside Rising Resilient, you’ll explore a new, multidimensional framework for resilience that integrates the emotional, physical, practical, and spiritual layers of leadership and entrepreneurship.
You’ll learn why:
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Burnout is the symptom
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Ambition is the driver
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Self-abandonment is the pattern
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Misalignment is the ache
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Agency is the turning point
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Resilience is the practice
(From Chapter 1: The Foundations of Resilience)
This book offers not just insight, but a way forward.
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What Readers Are Saying
“Rising Resilient invites us to rethink what resilience really means… Jay weaves these stories into a mirror for reflection and a map for action — grounded, purposeful, alive.”
— Chris L. Johnson, PsyD, Coach & Author
“Such a refreshing take on resilience… It doesn’t preach or sugar-coat, and that’s what makes it powerful.”
— Lily Woi, Culture Catalyst and Executive Coach
“This book opened up a new pathway for healing and empowered leadership. I loved it.”
— Samia Kornweibel, Executive Coach & Certified Resilience Specialist
These endorsements come directly from the book’s early readers and contributors.
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Who This Book Is For
Rising Resilient is written for women who…
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Are high-achieving, high-capacity leaders
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Love their work, but feel stretched or stuck
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Want success that feels aligned — not draining
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Are navigating transition, reinvention, or uncertainty
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Are tired of carrying everything alone
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Want a deeper blueprint for sustainable growth
It’s also a powerful resource for coaches, mentors, and facilitators who support clients through change, burnout recovery, identity development, and leadership evolution.
What You’ll Learn Inside
Through story-rich chapters, reflective prompts, and embodied coaching tools, you’ll learn how to:
✔ Build resilience from the inside out
Develop emotional regulation, self-compassion, and supportive inner dialogue (Chapter 2).
✔ Recognise and disrupt the burnout cycle
Understand the hidden patterns that push ambitious women into collapse — and how to break them (Chapter 3).
✔ Listen to the body’s wisdom
Use somatic awareness to spot early signals, restore energy, and prevent overload (Chapter 4).
✔ Navigate uncertainty with grounded confidence
Shift from reaction to conscious choice, even during crisis or transition.
✔ Build relational and strategic resilience
Learn why community, mentorship, and structure are the true backbone of sustainable leadership (Foreword & Chapter 1).
✔ Design a business that doesn’t depend on overwork
Create systems, boundaries, rhythms, and strategies that protect your wellbeing as much as your vision (Chapter 10).
✔ Rise resilient — without losing yourself in the process
This is not a story of toughness. It’s a story of return — to self, to purpose, to wholeness.
Available in hardcover, paperback and Kindle formats – and audiobook edition coming soon!
DOWNLOAD REFLECTIVE COACHING PROMPTS FROM THE BOOK
A Glimpse Inside the Journey
Part I — Foundations
The psychology and physiology of resilience, personal practices, and the four dimensions of resilient leadership.
Part II — The Inner Work
Mindset, emotional intelligence, somatic awareness, self-compassion, and identity evolution.
Part III — The Outer Work
Boundaries, courage, strategic resilience, sustainability, and redesigning your work-life ecosystem.
Part IV — Rising Together
Why connection, community, and leadership containers are essential for lasting transformation.
Plus:
Contributor Spotlights, showing each woman’s expertise, story, and powerful insights…
Annex: Discussion Prompts & Activities for coaches, book clubs, peer circles, and masterminds.
(Full structure drawn from manuscript table of contents.)
Why This Book Matters Now
We are living in a world that is:
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faster than our nervous systems
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louder than our intuition
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more demanding than our capacity
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shaped by uncertainty and accelerated by AI
As Danny Iny writes in the foreword, resilience today isn’t about endurance. It’s about designing better systems for how we live, work, and lead.
Entrepreneurs — especially women — cannot afford to build success on depletion.
This book shows a different way.
Available in hardcover, paperback and Kindle formats – and audiobook edition coming soon!
Ready to Rise Resilient?
Choose your edition:
Paperback – A beautiful, reflective edition you can write in
Hardback – A premium keepsake for your desk or coaching space
Kindle eBook – Instant access, perfect for highlighting
Audiobook – Coming soon… narrated with depth and warmth
For Coaches, Organisations & Book Clubs
Bulk purchase options and companion workshop materials are available for:
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Leadership teams
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Coaching programmes
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Entrepreneurial cohorts
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Retreats and masterminds
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Women’s networks and ERGs
Contact Jay directly for group rates and resources.
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About the Author
Dr. Jay Allyson is a business strategist, leadership coach, author, and host of The Leveraged Business Podcast. She specialises in helping entrepreneurs and organisations work smarter, build sustainable business ecosystems, and lead without burnout.
Her work blends neuroscience, emotional intelligence, entrepreneurial psychology, and strategic design. Rising Resilient is her third bestselling book and her most personal — a synthesis of lived experience, coaching expertise, and the collective wisdom of the remarkable women she has supported.
Available in hardcover, paperback and Kindle formats – and audiobook edition coming soon!
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