What's Happening in August 2026
This is your home page for anything happening in The Coaching Circle this month. Â
Attend the Live MasterclassÂ
Join us for Stop Letting Your Emotions Get in the Way of What You Want on August 11 @2pm EST and learn how to identify the invisible rules behind your emotions, build emotional resilience, and stop letting temporary discomfort determine the direction of your life.
Attend the Monthly Group Coaching Call
Join us on August 26 at 1:00 PM ET for a live coaching call and Q&A where you'll receive personalized support applying the emotional resilience framework to your own life.Â
Chat in The Coaching Circle Group Thread
Bring your thoughts, questions, or real-life examples here as you start to look at your week through a new lens — this is a space to talk it through together.
This Month's Skill:Â Emotional Resilience
Most women don't struggle because they don't know what to do, they struggle because every meaningful choice creates emotional friction. Setting a boundary creates guilt. Delegating requires letting go of control. Speaking up risks judgment. Asking for help can feel vulnerable. Rather than moving through those emotions, we instinctively organize our lives around avoiding them. Over time, it's not our circumstances that limit us—it's the emotions we've become unwilling to experience.
Emotional resilience is the ability to move through those emotions instead of letting them make your decisions. It's recognizing that every meaningful choice comes with emotional friction and building the capacity to tolerate temporary discomfort in exchange for the life you actually want.
This skill shows up everywhere - in the boundaries you set, the help you ask for, the opportunities you pursue, the conversations you have, and the risks you're willing to take. It determines whether your choices are driven by your values or by the feelings you're trying to avoid.
In this 90-minute session, you'll:
- identify the emotions that most influence your decisions
- uncover the invisible rules driving those emotions
- learn how to challenge beliefs that no longer serve you
- build the emotional resilience to move through discomfort instead of avoiding it
- leave with a practical framework for making decisions based on what matters most, not what feels easiest
Throughout the month, we'll help you strengthen this skill through reflection, coaching, and real-life application so emotional discomfort no longer keeps you from creating the life you want.
Helpful Reminders
- Download the Brilliant Balance App for iPhone or Android.
- Turn on notifications in your phone system settings and the Brilliant Balance App to receive group chat/founder message notifications.
- When adding to the group chat, be sure to include @everyone so that your peers are notified of your post.
- Add the masterclass and coaching call to your calendar.
- Bookmark this page for easy access.
