The Bend Like Bamboo Blog.
Join me as I have the pleasure to meet and share stories of resilience with some of the countries most loved and respected people. My Resilience Show shares some surprising and inspiring stories of resilience.
I believe that flexibility builds resilience. A flexible mindset impacts everything that matters, each month I also blog about actionable tools that can help you to de-stress, master change, and reimagine what can be possible in your mind, body, and life.
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The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Featuring Sana Turnock, Courage Mindset Coach, and Speaker.
As the founder of the Courage Unravelled podcast, Sana Turnock believes that courage and resilience are muscles we can strengthen to thrive in life’s toughest moments.
Her story is a powerful reminder of the transformative impact of letting go. After facing a series of health challenges—including seizures, panic attacks, and physical fatigue—she embarked on a path of self-discovery and healing.
The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Featuring Craig Harper, Exercise Scientist and high performance presenter, specialising in corporate change and human behaviour.
The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Featuring Tamara Paterson, feminine healer, Yoga and meditation teacher and founder of My Seven Blessings
In this episode, Tamara opens up about leaving a toxic relationship and how a shift in perspective changed everything. By choosing to see it as happening for her, not to her, she began to transform her life.
The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Featuring Fiona Goldsmith, stretch and yoga specialist and founder of Flexxd.
Fiona believes that flexibility in the body can be transformative, and that resilience is the ability to recover.
The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Featuring Nina Hargrave, horticulturist, landscape architect, meditation teacher, and founder of Serene Body Health.
Rosie knows first-hand the juggle of family, small business and physical and mental wellbeing, and is passionate about promoting positive body image through her brands. This stems from having overcome a long-held eating disorder from her teens to early twenties and wanting to help women to embrace themselves as they are, through every stage of the journey.
The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Featuring Steve Carey, former news director for 7 Network, media commentator and trainer.
With over 35 years in the media industry, Steve’s journey spans roles such as TV News presenter, foreign correspondent, and Director of News at 7 Melbourne.
Steve talks about the resilience it took to keep moving forward during the mental isolation of the 2020 lockdown and how the experience reshaped his values.
The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Featuring Simone Landes, founder of The Lifestyle Suite.
Simone felt lost initially when she left her corporate career. She had put so much effort into her career, so this move was scary but she decided she had to give it a shot. She was ‘living to work’ instead of ‘working to live’. She did not have enough family time as a consequence, which led to a lack of a sense of fulfillment.
The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Featuring Terri Vinson, founder of Synergie Skin.
Terri Vinson is an Australian skin scientist, cosmetic chemist, entrepreneur, keynote speaker and author. She is dedicated to helping people feel empowered, informed and confident when it comes to their skincare choices through multilevel education and by creating her cosmeceutical skincare range, Synergie Skin.
The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Featuring Laura Bennetto founder of Sea Studio.
Pilates instructor and sea studio founder Laura Bennetto has a background in psychology and social work with extensive experience working in the field of mental and sexual health, addiction and disability. It is through this lens that she has created a studio where the mind and body come together.
The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Featuring Mark Truelson, Speaker and disruption specialist.
Mark Truelson is not your everyday speaker. He leads from the heart and brings love and emotion to the normally sterile world of Corporate Australia.
He provides the tools to employees that can ignite the passion and overcome dormancy in the workplace - the very dormancy that fuels doubt, dismay, and even personal crisis.
The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Featuring Toni Dingle founder of That Gut Feeling, a mother arming parents with tools to heal the gut.
Toni Dingle is the founder of That Gut Feeling and a health coach to help our babies reach their full potential in life. Toni is obsessed with arming women with the tools they need to dominate motherhood, both pre and post pregnancy. By taking a holistic approach to gut health, Toni helps women to look after themselves first and foremost, so that they're better equipped to do what they do best... look after everyone else.
The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Featuring Louise Carrigg Director of Barry Plant Heathmont & Ringwood.
As the Director of Barry Plant Heathmont & Ringwood, Louise's vision is to deliver the ultimate in customer service, with a trustworthy and friendly approach, Louise leaving both vendors and buyers surprised that their real estate experience can be positive and happy.
The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Featuring Lisa Sweeney CEO of Business in heels.
In this week’s interview, Lisa shares her incredible story of surviving a knife attack when a burglar invaded her home and took off with her dog.
Lisa knew in her heart that there was a choice, she could live in fear, or she could stop letting the incident impact her and stop giving the attacker any more power.
The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Featuring Mark Heggart CEO of The Myubi Foundation.
Mark is an experienced leader with a demonstrated history of successfully creating profitable businesses, helping others to achieve their dreams and visions. He is a media commentator for Blockchain and Philanthropic solutions, Investor, Speaker, and Futurist. CEO and visionary for The Myubi Foundation, a private not for profit delivering a cryptocurrency daily basic income to the world’s poor. A skilled trainer in Leadership Development Mark is a keen advocate of Hypnosis and Mesmerism. With a background in music and production, Mark also has a passion for Global Audio Distribution Solutions, Event Management, Metadata, Production, ringtones, and online content creation.
The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Featuring Shannah Kennedy Life Coach and author of The Life Plan.
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.
The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Featuring Deborra-lee Furness.
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.
The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Featuring Donna Campisi, Author, Speaker and stroke survivor.
Donna Campisi is a passionate woman, inspiring people around the world to turn their dreams into reality by hosting a podcast called Ready! Set! Goal! She is a Keynote Speaker, Author, Coach, Mentor and Adventurer.
Donna inspired many people with her stroke to marathon challenge; from only being able to run 30 tentative steps in 2012 (after a childhood stroke and diabetes) to completing her marathon goal in 2013, while encouraging many along the way that there’s no such thing as can’t… AND raising funds for the RCH Foundation.
The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Show: Featuring Phil Hadfield founder of A Chronic Comeback Podcast.
For the last 10 years, Phil has been navigating the complex journey of chronic health and all of the mental challenges that come with it.
Despite not having recovered, he believes he is closer than he's ever been and although Phil still faces extreme physical symptoms on a daily basis, he is mentally, much stronger, and resilient as a result of what he has had to go through.