Daniela Lopez and Samantha Rosser, RISE Marketing Student Employees, take a seat at the RISE Roundtable and reflect on a challenge they took upon themselves over the summer dedicated to enhancing their resilience skills: The RISE Up Challenge. This 75-day challenge encouraged students to set 6 goals for themselves based on the dimensions of resilience: social, physical, cognitive, life skills, service, and spiritual.

We also hear from three Pepperdine community members, who each share about a goal they have set to strengthen their resilience.

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In this episode, we discuss the following:

• 1:28 Introducing Sam, Daniela, and the “RISE Up” Summer Challenge

• 3:04 Sam and Daniela’s SMART Goals based on the dimensions of resilience

• 6:13 Week 1 of the RISE Up Challenge, adjusting goals as needed

• 8:10 Working through unhelpful thoughts and other roadblocks

• 10:30 Their Life Skills goal: Limiting screen time

• 13:20 Reflecting on their physical dimension goal and how it changed their mindset

• 16:01 Reflecting on their cognitive dimension goal, increasing mindfulness

• 18:15 Reflecting on their social dimension goal

• 22:02 Tips for success