A University of Michigan Ross MBA student described how nonacademic routines—ice-skating lessons and small '1% habit' experiments from a leadership course—translated into improved leadership skills and wellbeing. The student credited a course, Leading a Good Life, and faculty coaching for reframing progress as nonlinear and practice-based. Student stories like this are being used by career centers and leadership programs to argue for integrated co-curricular experiences that support resilience, soft-skill development and student success outcomes.