Resilience Unravelled

Keywords Resilience – Leadership – Poetry – Control - AI In this episode of Resilience Unravelled Aneace Haddad, an executive coach and author based in Singapore who talks about his background as a former tech entrepreneur turned leadership coach and writer. He talks about his recently published book, "The Eagle That Drank Hummingbird Nectar," which explores the concept of lyrical leadership throu...

Keywords - Resilience - Storytelling - Narrative - Journaling In this episode of Resilience Unravelled Molly Sider,  a storytelling coach, shares her journey to discovering the power of personal narratives and how telling our stories can create connections with others. She encourages people to get vulnerable and share their stories in whatever way feels comfortable for them, whether it be wit...

Keywords: Resilience – Leadership – Empathy – Entertainment Industry – Executive Coaching In this episode of Resilience Unravelled, Dawn Kohler a writer and executive coach in the entertainment industry discusses how media and entertainment are going through cataclysmic change right now due to streaming services like Netflix and Amazon. This has kept her busy coaching leaders who struggle to devel...

Keywords: Rewiring the Brain - Resilience - Mental Health - Repairing the Brain In this episode of Resilience  Unravelled, Scott Warwick, an attorney and human resources professional for over 41 years, talks about his interest in mental health which stems from his son's Asperger's autism diagnosis. Scott has conducted subsequent research that revealed western medicine has a limited understand...

Keywords: Resilience - Addiction - Running - Therapy – Psychosocial - Grief In this episode of Resilience Unravelled, Jess Keefe, a writer and advocate for mental health and substance use disorders, discusses her personal experience with the issue after losing her younger brother to addiction. She highlights the need for science-based addiction treatment and challenges the stigma surrounding it. T...

Failure and success can be defined in many ways and, because we are all constantly evolving, failure can be part of the journey. People often don't even know what success looks like for them because it is different for everyone. There is more than one indicator of success and Andrew defines it as finding a way to join yourself with your calling, by identifying and using your talents to their highe...

Some people never have an actual sense of awakening but if you’re not happy to get out of bed and face your life then it can be a sign you’re stuck. People can throw themselves into their professional life because they’re not happy in their personal life whilst others seem externally happy but know something is missing or not quite right. You might not realise it but if you’re on the wrong path so...

Family businesses are the backbone of the global economy but one of the biggest challenges they face is the relationship between different aspects of the business, the corporate role/personal relationship or the owner/employee. Although their share in the company may be small, people may want to to put their ownership hat on when really they need to be wearing their employee hat. There is also the...

The sense of the collective and feelings of emptiness when the focus is solely on the self comes from recognising that we are part of the greater fabric of humanity. We are the behaviours we engage in; in how we think and in the actions we take. When somebody engages in their own leadership journey and comes to this awareness, there is more conversation as people move up the hierarchy of basic nee...

Nick wanted to know if he was the only one suffering from the feelings of isolation so he sent out a survey to other senior executives to find out how lonely they were in their roles. His first finding in 2019 was before the pandemic and showed that 30% of the senior executives he surveyed actually admitted they were suffering from loneliness in the workplace. He went back to the same group in 202...

Grief is a big emotion. It’s challenging and there's no right or wrong way to grieve. There is also no right or wrong way to deal with different types of grief. There can be a sudden loss or longer-term illness, the death of a child or a suicide. No matter how prepared you are for someone to die there is always an element of shock even if you've been grieving for a while. When it comes specificall...

Any time we define anything in our external world we use ourselves as the foundational context. Who you are affects how you define something. We start with the mind and a simple question is who am I or what have I become. Everything starts with how we think. Narrative is the foundational understanding of who I am. The more we learn about our own narrative the more we can recognise the narrative of...

Under the surface of our awareness, our body, mind and spirit are constantly communicating using energy. This communication is a language that we can learn to participate in and speak. It influences our health and wellbeing and, to a certain extent, what happens around us. Energy medicine helps to shift the dynamic of energy. Our culture helps us believe that if we have a headache we can get rid o...

Cindy Benezra is an author, inspirational speaker, entrepreneur, sexual abuse advocate and founder of CindyTalksTM, a platform where she discusses healing tools and stories of hope for other trauma survivors.  Cindy grew up in a family in middle America but her Father was a pedophile and she has gone through a long process of healing to help her deal with the sexual, physical and mental abuse...

Nowadays the way you promote yourself, the way you get your message out and market your business is through online means. You need to figure out how to communicate what you do to the right audience, to message it properly, to engage people and show a different side of your personality. We are all living in a social age where having a public persona is no longer a choice and the question is how do...

For many people their resilience comes from their ability to believe and having a path laid out for them. Lorna feels her angels have given her the courage and resilience she needed to overcome the obstacles and ridicule she has faced. If you are secure in yourself it doesn't matter what other people think about you. It doesn't matter what the source of your security is, whether it's a rational, c...

There is so much resilience required in writing a book because you are being judged and critiqued about what you've written very personally. Even if it's a non-fiction book that critique is about something you generated yourself. It’s very hard to separate ourselves from the words we’ve written and the content we’ve delivered. If you remember a time in your life where your examination was being gr...

Brian started asking why did he experience post-traumatic growth rather than post-traumatic stress? He looked at his peers and although they had had the same stimulus, they had different results. Brian felt he had grown from his experiences and that they had increased his resilience and ability to see things as opportunities rather than obstacles or things that would drag him down. Other guys on t...

Following her own personal infertility experience, which included seven miscarriages and two rounds of IVF, Amy Beckley used her PhD in Pharmacology to create Proov, an at-home progesterone test. This helps to provide women with more information on why their bodies may be miscarrying.  As well as sharing, her personal story with fertility, Amy has made it her mission to empower and change the...

There is also a feeling that as we skill leaders up somehow their rational skills diminish - as we improve one, the other falls away.  In the past this meant technical staff didn't want to take on a leadership role because they thought their technical skills would become obsolete or because it was somehow seen as a lessor role. This is perhaps because the skills needed to be a good leader are...

There are a lot of ways we can improve the remote experiences, but we need to learn the signs that our needs aren’t being met in our virtual interactions, for example why Zoom calls are physically exhausting, why what we intend to say gets lost and distorted in virtual settings and why being part of a remote team can increase stress. To understand what is missing from these remote interactions, we...

Buddhists approach grief and loss in a different way. The traditional westernised view is that it’s something that's not talked about, something that’s slightly embarrassing and that if we talk about it, it might happen sooner. Buddhism seems to integrate ‘passing on’ in a more obvious way so people are less ashamed to talk about it, can remind themselves that life is brief and that our words and...

Originally from Democratic Republic of Congo, at the age of two, Desange Kuenihira and her six siblings moved to a refugee camp in Uganda. She was told repeatedly that she was meaningless and that her only potential worth was the dowry a much older man. Desange lived in Uganda for twelve years as a refugee before moving to the U.S. and building her life in Utah where she gained a Bachelor of Scien...

At the moment we are in a unique position. The average lifespan of a white woman in the early 1900’s was 51. Although there were people who lived to their 80s or 90s this was not as a cohort or large sector of the population. Now is the first time that there is a large number or high concentration of people in this space. The Baby Boomers, the Gen X’s and now even the older Millenials are all ente...

One of the messages for families dealing with addiction has been that if a loved one is struggling, you need to step away and take care of yourself. The tough love idea that you have to let someone hit rock bottom before they will change. This has nothing to do with evidence or effectiveness and is an approach that is heartbreaking for families who are scared, concerned and asking for help. The ap...