Building a Resilience Coach with AI, on Mr. Maeda's Cozy AI Kitchen

In this episode, we explore how to build a personalized AI coach designed to help you become more resilient in the face of change. From understanding the Kubler-Ross curve to deploying your own agent in code, this walkthrough blends psychology, AI engineering, and practical demos to help you thrive through adversity. We’ll show you how to: - Recognize emotional responses to change - Use AI to build a resilience coach - Apply psychological models like Duckworth’s Grit and Seligman’s positive psychology - Engineer context for better agent performance - Deploy your agent using VS Code and Python Whether you're facing a tough week or just curious about AI coaching, this episode gives you the tools to build mental strength and adaptability. Chapters: 00:01 – Responding to Change: First Reactions 00:11 – Introducing the Resilience Coach on Cozy AI Kitchen 00:22 – Resilience vs. Resistance to Change 00:35 – Understanding the Kubler-Ross Curve 01:08 – The Power of Inversion: Adversity to Resilience 02:00 – Building a Resilience Coaching Agent 02:43 – Enhancing the Agent with Expert Knowledge 03:30 – Context Engineering for Personalized Coaching 04:40 – Deploying the Agent in VS Code 05:58 – Running the Agent and Real-Time Coaching 06:23 – Final Thoughts: Get Resilient with AI What You'll Learn - How to respond logically to change using AI tools - The psychology behind resilience and emotional adaptation - How to build and customize an AI coach using Cozy AI Kitchen - Techniques for context engineering to improve agent responses - How to deploy your agent in code using VS Code and Python 🎙 Speakers John Maeda https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnmaeda/ https://x.com/johnmaeda 🔗 Links & Resources Demo Repo: https://aka.ms/CAIK-ResilienceCoach 🍽 All Cozy AI Kitchen episodes: https://aka.ms/CAIK-YTPlaylist 🔔 Subscribe for more episodes: / @microsoftdeveloper 🏷️ Hashtags #AICoach #Resilience #CozyAIKitchen #AzureOpenAI #MentalStrength #KublerRoss #AngelaDuckwor