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The Resilience Mindset

How Adversity Can Strengthen Individuals, Teams, and Leaders

Published by ECW Press
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

About The Book

For business professionals seeking success and purpose, cancer survivors, individuals with disabilities who feel marginalized, or anyone facing life’s challenges and wanting stronger coping skills, The Resilience Mindset offers an actionable framework to overcome adversity and create a more fulfilling life.

Everyone, every day, is fighting a hard battle. By its very nature, adversity delivers a blow to our well-being — emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual — eroding our self-confidence and self-esteem. But the human spirit is strong, and it is practical and wise not to underestimate ourselves. In telling his personal story of adversity, Terry Healey provides insight into life events that rock our world and shows how he found purpose, renewed confidence, and success.

Having experienced a harrowing ordeal with a life-threatening cancer that left him with a permanent facial difference at the age of 21, Healey found a way to harness daily inspirations into key turning points that enabled him to create a framework of four key principles to not only manage adversity whenever confronted with it but to learn how to create a better, more fulfilling life — whether personal or professional — because of it. Healey’s four principles are invaluable to individuals and to anyone leading teams within organizations.

Coping with adversity is one thing, but thriving is another. To thrive, we must find happiness, success, and purpose by developing ways to build resilience, strengthen our resolve, and rebuild self-confidence so that we become unstoppable.

In addition to telling Healey’s own harrowing story, The Resilience Mindset offers evidence-backed research and stories from others who overcame seemingly insurmountable odds, providing more than just inspiration: It equips readers with the tools to take on obstacles, big and small, leading to a more fulfilling life at home and at work.

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Product Details

  • Publisher: ECW Press (September 9, 2025)
  • Length: 208 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781770418561

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Raves and Reviews

“With The Resilience Mindset, Healey offers the tools for engineering what a lot of us in Hollywood could use these days — a good comeback story.” — Bill Pruitt, five-time Emmy Award–winning executive producer of The Amazing Race, The Apprentice, and Deadliest Catch

“Resilience is a critical skill for all of us, for our careers but even more so for life. This is a must-buy book as Terry teaches how to build resilience, gain confidence, and embrace change.” — Tracey Newell, board member, past president of Informatica; author of Hers for the Taking: Your Path to the C-Suite and Beyond

“Terry teaches individuals and teams how to build resilience, gain confidence, and embrace change. This is a powerful book!” — Peter Alexander, chief marketing officer, Barracuda Networks, Inc.

“Too many people have excuses. Terry could have had the best one. Now he has taken learnings from his personal transformation, and success as a business leader, and written an exceptional book to help others adopt more efficient approaches to success and happiness.” — Peter Jackson, chairman, Pakked; former CEO of Bluescape, Intraware and Dataflex

“Terry writes and speaks about his life-changing adversity with great courage and honesty. By sharing his proven methodology to improve self-confidence and build resilience, Terry has created a practical approach that can apply to any of life’s challenges.” — Luanne Tierney, chief marketing officer, Mission Cloud; board director of Crimson Wine Group

“Finally, a book that provides practical guidance for business professionals and everyday people to find greater success and purpose despite daily challenges. This is an important book to read, and Terry is an important speaker to hear.” — Grant Riggs, CEO, Riggs Distributing

“Terry Healey gives a powerful account of the obstacles he has faced in his own life. His positivity is contagious, and the guidebook he provides for readers is spot on. What a fantastic tool kit others can use to help them through their own life challenges and find renewed optimism and purpose.”— Lauren Ventura, head of global partner marketing, Check Point Software Technologies

“This is a must-read for nurses, MDs, and patients. It’s inspiring, and the tools and practical exercises contained throughout will help medical professionals deal with the stressors of our occupation and impart great guidance for our patients to better handle recovery.” — Michael Mann, MD, professor of surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery; director, Cardiothoracic Translational Research Laboratory, UCSF

“Terry Healey demonstrates how his devastating cancer diagnosis as a young man turned into a gift and provided him with insights to create a framework and set of principles for other people facing adversity. With a thoughtful blend of personal reflection and compelling case studies, he offers a practical, actionable roadmap for anyone striving to overcome adversity and live a more fulfilling life. This book is an essential read for those seeking strength, clarity, and purpose in the face of hardship.” — Rob Tufel, MSW, MPH, strategic planning director, Cancer Support Community SF Bay Area

“Inspiring and practical, The Resilience Mindset is part memoir, part self-improvement, and weaves the author’s incredible life experience into a guidebook for others to prepare and improve their lives to achieve greater happiness and purpose. This is a must-read for anyone looking to move their life forward.” — Joseph Puthussery, vice president of marketing, Databricks

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