Rising Resilient with Grit, Grace & Growth: A Coaching Handbook Inspired by the Collective Wisdom of Successful Entrepreneurs Navigating Challenge, Crisis & Change

When ambition, identity, and burnout collide, this is the book that helps you rise whole. It’s 9:47 PM on a Sunday. You’re staring at tomorrow’s calendar, hearing yourself rehearse everything that needs doing. Your tea’s gone cold. You’ve already worked a full week, and it hasn’t even started yet. From the outside, you're successful – the credentials, the clients, the calendar full of momentum. Maybe even the income is there. But inside, you’re running on empty. You’re secretly depleted, questioning your path, craving deeper fulfilment. You’re exhausted not just from doing too much, but from it no longer feeling aligned. And that once-quiet voice keeps getting louder: “Is this really it?” Rising Resilient is for you if you’ve built something strong – a business, a career, a reputation – and now find yourself wrestling with the cost of holding it all together. It’s for the coach, consultant, or entrepreneur who guides others through transformation while realising your own life may need re-imagining. Drawn from deep conversations with women business owners, this book weaves together practical insights, soulful reflections, and personal philosophies that go far beyond surface-level success strategies. You’ll meet resilience coaches, communication specialists, health leaders, and business mentors who share how they’ve grown through adversity, burnout, self-doubt, crisis, and reinvention – using each as a catalyst for profound transformation. This isn’t a book about pushing through. It’s about recognising when to pause – when ambition becomes misalignment and burnout turns into quiet self-abandonment. It’s about that reckoning moment when you realise the real crisis isn’t exhaustion, it’s the slow erosion of clarity, purpose, and peace. And it’s about what happens next: how you return to your true calling, rebuild your rhythm, and remember what matters. Inside, you’ll discover: • Grounded frameworks for navigating uncertainty with clarity and self-compassion • Energy and mindset practices that start with the nervous system, not your to-do list • Rituals for recovering from burnout and building new life rhythms • Strategies for making aligned decisions at a crossroads • Soulful insights on identity shifts, boundaries, and purpose realignment Whether you’re guiding others through challenge or navigating your own, Rising Resilient offers something rare: honesty without sugar-coating, support without platitudes, and wisdom that works in the modern world. About the Author Dr Jacqueline Allyson Dempster brings a rare blend of scientific expertise, real-world insight, and practical experience to helping entrepreneurs build businesses that balance ambition with wellbeing. With a PhD in biosciences and a background in education, enterprise, and improving how organisations function and thrive, she offers a clear, grounded perspective on what supports sustainable success. As Director of Mirasee’s ACES Business Acceleration program, and as an author, podcast host, consultant-coach, and educator, Jay is both the architect of practical pathways and the co-pilot who supports entrepreneurs through challenge, complexity, and growth. About the Contributors This book is rooted in the collective wisdom of twenty remarkable women entrepreneurs from diverse fields including business, leadership, psychology, healthcare, spirituality, and technology. Each shares her own journey and resiliency superpower in navigating change, challenge, and reinvention – offering readers a rich tapestry of support, strategy, and soul. Contributors include: Barbara Walsh, Berry Kruijning, Carmen Morrison, Chris Johnson, Christina Becker, Irma Jennings, Jo Hafey, Laura Hess, Leah Grant, Lily Woi, Linda Lalicata, Margo Mansfield, Melanie Hussell, Mia Sindolic, Sophie Lechner, Stephanie Slocum, Susan Schramm, Suzanne Magee. View Less