The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Featuring Shannah Kennedy Life Coach and author of The Life Plan.

Welcome to The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show. Each week, I get to interview amazing people, who will share their inspiring stories of resilience. I dive deep into wonderful DNM’s with my very special guests, exploring their stories of how they have overcome adversity in their lives, professionally and personally.

Get ready to be inspired by their stories, golden nuggets, and actionable tools that can help us all to elevate our mindset, and be bigger than our setbacks. Within every adversity is an equal or greater opportunity. My intention for these sessions is to remind us that no matter what we are going through, we can overcome it, and discover what we are made of.

It is important to feel motivated and hopeful about the future. When we are positive we can be more creative, and innovative. Seeing our obstacles as opportunities, rising above the turbulence we can feel more ready to rebuild our mind, body, and lives after what has been a massive adjustment to 2020.

Introducing Shannah Kennedy

Clarity, direction, purpose. Those are the words Shannah Kennedy stands by. She had an incredible career in sports management and sponsorship working with over 100 Olympic and elite athletes until she hit burnout and was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and depression. She hired a life coach for herself to shift out of the darkness, review, reset, and refocus her life. In 2000 she studied to be one of Melbourne’s first life coaches, focusing on coaching athletes into retirement after seeing so much destruction in their lives outside of sport.

Shannah Kennedy is now a leading business and life coach and master strategist, trusted by her clients across the spectrum of business, sport, and entertainment. She challenges people to rethink their relationships to work, wellbeing, and life. “We work to discover who you really are without the title.”

Shannah is currently working with a mix of C-suite executives, clients in transition (and/or suffering from burn out), business owners, and high-potential staff. She closes the gap between where you are today and where you aspire to be in the future. She also supports people who feel exhausted and “need a new map”.

Her bestselling book ‘The Life Plan’ is the basis of her transformative approach, developed over 20 years working with people seeking more meaningful lives. She is recognised as one of Australia’s most influential life coaches featured in the Australian Financial Review, Huffington Post, The Sydney Morning Herald, and Thrive Global. She has co-authored 4 other books with a global presence, Chaos to Calm, Restore, Shine and Ignite.

As a keynote speaker and workshop facilitator both on stage, in the boardroom, and virtually via webinar and live Q & As, Shannah delivers highly engaging, interactive, and educational workshops designed to have an immediate impact and empower participants to simplify, take action and build their road map to success. She delivers essential life and wellness skills to transform the way you live and work, create clarity, purpose, and direction with a light shone on the value of self-care, self-management, and self- leadership.

She lives in Bayside Melbourne with her husband Michael and teenage children Jack and Mia and is an ambassador for Asia’s best health retreat, Kamalaya, Koh Samui. She loves adventure and exploring the world as a family.

I loved this interview, Shannah is the real deal. Shannah believes that career and money come and goes. Our career is not who we are it is what we do, so when she was coaching retiring athletes that did not have a plan B, she saw how they had to reinvent their identity and self-worth in this process. Shannah also speaks about her own self-discovery of needing to reinvent how she approached her fast-paced life and career, into one that is now more aligned with a happier and healthier life. When Shannah was young she had a belief that slowing down = lazy and had a motto ingrained in her that she would not get anywhere if she did not work really hard. Keeping up to this expectation led to a condition that fatigued Shannah’s mind and body, and she had no choice but to stop and reset.

Shannah’s story is inspiring, and you can see why she is so passionate about helping others to discover their life plan. Shannah believes that we must invest in ourselves, and she taught me some mindset tools that she uses to be kinder and softer with herself. Her values are all about self-care, daily health choices, and showing up for her family. In her book, she teaches you how to build a real deal life plan ahead of time. How to check-in with yourself, and let go of old learned beliefs that are not making you successful but are in fact killing you.

Check out Shannah’s book The Life Plan and she has many other books she has for sale here

You can also listen to the interview on the Bend Like Bamboo Resilience podcast

Shannah’s tips:

Shannah believes that resilience is all about keeping your cup full.

When life gets tough she reminds herself that this too shall pass.

Her turning point was realising that making a decision to choose a better way was a gift.

Transform blame into taking responsibility.

When you look in the mirror see your own best friend.

Don’t have expectations of others.

Make good decisions and action them.

Find gratitude everyday.

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