START: Grow with Courage
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WELCOME TO GROW YOURSELF
Build the leadership skills and personal strength to become an even better leader, parent, and human. Here, you’ll discover science-backed tools and exercises to unlock your potential, overcome hidden barriers, and lead with impact. Whether you’re guiding a team or nurturing a family, personal growth starts with courage. Let’s get started.
Why it matters
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Why it matters *
Have you ever wished your team would step up, or that your kids (or parnter) would behave differently, only to feel frustrated when things don’t change?
Here’s a powerful truth: if we want others to show up differently, we can start by asking ourself, ‘What am I doing?’ As a leader or parent, we often underestimate the immense power we have in our relationships to influence those around us. Like the saying goes, ‘monkey see, monkey do’ - our actions set the tone more than we might realize… and the best thing: working on ourselves IS in our control.
Science backs this up: small, intentional shifts in how we understand and manage ourself can create ripple effects in how others respond. In Grow Yourself, we’ve crafted science-backed tools and exercises to help you unlock your potential, break through hidden barriers, and lead with greater impact - one courageous step at a time.
Grow Yourself Framework
Navigating personal growth can feel overwhelming, but the Grow Yourself Framework is your roadmap to transformation. We’ve organized our science-backed content into three essential steps, each building on the last, to guide you with clarity and courage:
Ground (Foundation & Courageous Purpose): Start by grounding yourself in emotional clarity, your values and purpose, finding the solid foundation to begin your growth journey with authentic courage.
Adapt (Skills for External Influence): Build skills to adapt to external challenges, mastering how you respond under stress and to your blind spots.
Endure (Sustainment & Resilient Recovery): Anchor your progress with lasting habits, energy protection, and the resilience to recover stronger, ensuring your growth endures.
Rooted in insights from thought leaders like Brené Brown, Andrew Huberman, and Wendy Wood, this framework mirrors the natural progression of growth - from finding your ground to adapting with strength to enduring with impact.
How to Get Started? Your Growth Path
Follow this path through the Grow Yourself Framework to build leadership skills and personal strength. Each step includes exercises and insights to guide you, aligned with our content to maximize your journey. Start small, reflect often, and watch your impact grow.
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Begin by grounding yourself in who you are and what drives you. Establish a courageous foundation with these resources:
Grounded Confidence & Vulnerability: Spot your defensive armor and name emotions precisely to build authentic confidence.
Lead with Courage and Purpose: Shift to courageous choices and build daily purpose to anchor your growth.
Reflection Prompt: What’s one value or emotion that can ground you today as you start this journey? -
Develop skills to adapt to life’s pressures and perspectives. Build resilience with these tools:
Stay Calm Under Pressure: Reset in 90 seconds and reframe stress as a challenge to stay effective.
Close Your Self-Awareness Gap: Overcome blind spots with feedback to see yourself as others do.
Reflection Prompt: What’s one external challenge or perspective you can adapt to with a new skill this week?
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Anchor your growth with consistency and resilience. Ensure lasting change with these practices:
Protect Your Time and Energy: Set boundaries and redesign your focus to sustain your resources.
Build Habits That Stick: Create low-friction, identity-aligned routines for consistency.
Bounce Back & Repair Stronger: Turn setbacks into comebacks and repair relationships for enduring confidence.
Reflection Prompt: What’s one habit or recovery lesson that can help you endure and grow long-term?
Why this Works - The Science of Growth
We hope the Grow Yourself Framework isn an inspiration and resonates with you as it is also backed by science.
Grounding yourself (Ground) builds emotional clarity with tools that reduce intensity by 40% (neuroscience research).
Adapting to challenges (Adapt) rewires thinking for mastery (Carol Dweck’s growth mindset).
Enduring with impact (Endure) automates growth through habits with 3x more impact than willpower (Wendy Wood).
Each step challenges ‘normal’ assumptions - like thinking willpower alone works - and offers proven strategies to grow with courage. One step at a time, you are not just changing, but become the leader or parent you wish you’d had.