The Bend Like Bamboo Blog.
Welcome to The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show
We discover that our greatest challenges often become our greatest strengths.
Each month, I sit down with remarkable leaders who've transformed adversity into triumph, sharing their inspiring journeys of resilience and renewal. Together, we explore the mindset shifts, practical strategies, and breakthrough moments that turned their setbacks into comebacks.
What you'll discover:
Real stories of people who've learned to bend without breaking, actionable tools to transform stress into strength, and evidence that when we change our story, we change what's possible for our health, relationships, and future.
Like bamboo, we're designed to be flexible.
When we embrace this truth, we don't just survive life's storms - we use them to grow stronger, wiser, and more resilient than ever before.
Join me as we explore how flexibility builds unshakeable resilience.

The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Shane Boyd, resilience coach, and entrepreneur, Ep 38.
Shane Boyd has been a resilience coach and entrepreneur for 25 years, having built, bought, and sold numerous businesses in this time. He believes that resilience is the ability to have physical, mental, and spiritual resilience - which is our ability to switch from fear into faith, within ourselves, in the universe, and with others.

The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Featuring Matt Lanigan Founder of Lucky Penny and Managing Director of Matt Lanigan Real Estate.
This year, facing change and adversity, Matt used the skills he learned to adjust and foresee what was coming well in advance. Matt explains how the changes we face in life, are making us stronger.
With a positive mindset, supportive people around us and a drive to keep moving forward, Matt reminded me that we can truly achieve anything if we can give ourselves a good environment to succeed.

The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Featuring Dara Shashoua from Byzantine Designs and A Chronic Entrepreneur.
Inspired by her own journey of personal transformation, Dara is an entrepreneur at heart that has a drive that is inspiring. Having faced a challenge of a Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis that led to her on a journey to learn how walk again, in our interview Dara opens up and shares how she navigated her way through that enormous challenge, discovering what she was made of.