Fixable How to strengthen your stress response (w/ Master Fixer Kelly McGonigal)
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May 4, 2026 
Kelly McGonigal, a Stanford health psychologist who studies stress, willpower, and the benefits of movement and joy. She explores reframing stress as usable biology. She outlines how high-stress people act, recognize personal stress habits, and lead teams. She shares nine meaning-centered coping strategies and argues micro-joys boost resilience and performance.
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Multiple Coping Strengths Define Skillful Stress
- People who thrive under stress use multiple coping strengths like action, social support, flexibility, and meaning-making.
- Kelly McGonigal links these strengths to the biology of the stress response and choosing how situations shape you.
Model A Challenge Mindset To Calm Your Team
- Lead with a challenge mindset and bigger-than-self framing to regulate team stress and contagiously shift others' physiological responses.
- Model composure; your perspective makes teammates more likely to see situations as workable.
Allow Emotions To Be Expressed On Teams
- Allow teammates to express difficult emotions without immediately trying to shut them down; emotions can be functional and informative.
- Resisting micromanaging others' coping reveals more information and supports healthier collaboration.