The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Featuring Deborra-lee Furness.
Welcome to The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show. Each week, I interview amazing people, who share their inspiring stories of resilience. Enjoy our dive deep into educational and amazing insights as I explore their stories, and how they have overcome adversity in their lives.
In each session, together we can learn actionable tools that can help us elevate our mindset, seeing our setbacks as an opportunity to grow to the next stage of our lives. No matter what we are going through, we can overcome it, and discover what we are made of.
To Bend Like Bamboo is to be flexible in our mindset, and when we can transform our ‘story’ we can also change our minds about what can be possible in our minds, bodies, and lives.
Introducing
Deborra-lee Furness
Deborra-lee needs no introduction, but let me remind you all how amazing this woman actually is. Deborra-lee Furness is an internationally acclaimed actress as well as a passionate supporter of children and defender of their human rights across the globe. Her humanitarian work for children is a driving force in her life. It is her passion that children all over the world be given every chance to live a fulfilled life and achieve their full potential. As the founder of National Adoption Awareness Month (NAAM) and Adopt Change in Australia, Deborra-lee has been a driving force for improving adoption programs, procedures and legislation, and raising awareness and understanding of the issues of vulnerable children.
Deborra-lee is Patron of the Lighthouse Foundation for displaced children in Melbourne Australia; World Vision Ambassador, Patron of the Bone Marrow Donor Institute for children with leukemia; Patron of International Adoptive Families of Queensland; she sits on the board of World Wide Orphans Australia and is on the board of the UN Women for Peace Association in New York. Deborra-lee has been honored extensively both in Australia and internationally for her work to improve the wellbeing of vulnerable children.
For her advocacy work she has been honored by World Wide Orphans in New York, The Joint Council USA and in 2013 was given the prestigious award of Angel in Adoption by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption in Washington DC.
Harlem Village Academies honored Deborra-lee and her husband Hugh Jackman for their philanthropy work in 2012. She was presented with the 2014 International Humanitarian Award in Utah by Mentors International. She was named NSW Australian of the Year 2015 and in 2015, Deborra-lee was honored in Washington as Advocate of the Year by Kidsave.
Deborra-lee is the co-founder of the Hopeland organisation which is a US-based platform driving awareness around the issue of vulnerable children. The mission of Hopeland is to ensure children belong in loving families. Hopeland is about family strengthening and community empowerment and driving creative solutions for vulnerable and abandoned children globally.
You can also listen to the interview on the Bend Like Bamboo podcast
You don’t want to miss this engaging, hilarious, and deepest dive into Deborra-lee’s world. We spoke about Deborra-lee’s daily rituals that keep her mindset optimised, including cleaning the dishes, a sacred time that Deborra-lee transforms into a mindfulness exercise. Resilience is to overcome, a motto that Deborra-lee lives by and is known for, she loves to put her self out there and to be thrown into the deep end, it energises her, and it strengthens her.
We have all been in a global pandemic that will go down in history, we all have had hurdles to overcome. Deborra-lee believes that 2020 has helped remind us all what we are made of.
How does Deborra-lee stay happy and healthy? She embraces creativity in her film work, screenplay writing and directing, cooking, and painting. How Deborra-lee starts her day is important to her and her husband Hugh Jackman, they eat, move, and spend time together. They read in the morning, and have a gorgeous morning ritual they embrace together.
I was lucky to meet Deborra-lee 6 years ago, her energy is authentic and she makes you feel at home in her presence. I am so grateful that she agreed to join me on the show, it was such a powerful chat.
There were some golden nuggets that were really beautiful in this interview here are some that stood out:
Be in the moment as much as you can, our emotional state is key
Eat well, move your body and surround yourself with people that you love that truly support you
When you put yourself out there you can make magic happen for yourself
Embrace failure - if you are not willing to fail you won’t have the freedom to fly
You do not want to miss this week’s divine interview with the beautiful and authentic Deborra-lee Furness.
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