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Peak Performance in College: Dr. Joel Ingersoll on Building Resilient, High-Achieving Students

December 22, 2025 • Season 3 • Episode 28

Dr. Joel Ingersoll is one of the most recognized advisers to college students and their parents in the Mid-Atlantic. He is a licensed psychologist, renowned impact performance coach and founder of school readiness programs. Joel is the creator of the BounceBack Accelerator Program, podcast host of Mental Health University and author of the brand new book Fix-It Fatigue: How Gen-X Parents Can Stop Fixing Everything and Start Raising Adults Who Can Handle Anything.

Show Notes

Fix-It Fatigue: How Gen-X Parents Can Stop Fixing Everything and Start Raising Adults Who Can Handle Anything - Dr. Joel Ingersoll's NEW BOOK!!

Lehigh University - Underrated university in north eastern Pennsylvania.

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness - Jonathan Haidt

Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell

The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Health Self - Michael Easter

Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More than IQ - Daniel Goleman

Grown & Flown - Great Facebook group and resources for parents of college students

https://www.youtube.com/channel/motivatecounseling
https://motivatecounseling.com/

https://motivatecounseling.com