Podcast Show Notes:
Title: Resilience Strength Training: How to Strengthen Your Resilience Muscle
Host: Kathryn Regganie
Guest: Danielle Detiege: Blair Kaplan Vendables
Episode Summary: In this inspiring episode, Kathryn Regganie is joined by Blair Kaplan Venables, founder of The Global Resilience Project, resilience thought leader, and expert in storytelling for healing. Together, they explore practical tools for building resilience and navigating personal challenges.
Key Discussion Points:
· Gratitude as a Tool for Resilience: Setting gratitude alarms and becoming aware of the importance of gratitude, especially in tough moments.
· The Power of Storytelling: Blair shares the science behind storytelling and how it can help you process challenges and heal. Storytelling also fosters connection through mirror neurons, helping others feel less isolated.
· Mental Health Support: Whether through therapy, grief coaches, or journaling, Blair emphasizes the importance of sharing your story in order to heal.
· Feel to Heal: Blair discusses her personal journey of choosing sobriety, going through trauma healing, and embarking on a spiritual awakening. She highlights how reducing or eliminating alcohol can help you navigate challenges more effectively.
· Strengthening Your Resilience Muscle: Blair introduces her free workbook, which contains five proven strategies to strengthen resilience. It also includes a tracker to help you stay accountable.
Speaker Bio:
Blair Kaplan Venables is a British Columbia-based grief and resilience expert, motivational speaker, and the Founder of The Global Resilience Project.
Her expertise has been featured in media outlets, including Forbes, CBC Radio, Entrepreneur, and Thrive Global. She is named the Top Grief and Resilience Expert of the Year 2024 by IAOTP. USA Today listed Blair as one of the top 10 conscious female leaders to watch and she empowers others to be resilient from stages around the world.
'MyStory,’ which is a television show available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, and Google Play, showcases Blair's life story.
She is the host of the Radical Resilience podcast, a motivational speaker and a bestselling author. She specializes in helping people strengthen their resilience muscle using scientifically proven methods and guides grieving high performers with her Navigating Grief Framework.
The Global Resilience Project’s award-winning books are international bestsellers, and her third book, RESILIENT A.F.: Stories of Resilience, was released on March 1. In her free time, you can find Blair writing, traveling the world, and helping people through their most challenging moments.
In her down-to-earth keynotes and presentations, Danielle shows audiences how to create ease and a profitable business that will allow time freedom, and the ability to go from “booked and busy,” to “paid and well-rested.”
Connect with Coach Blair Kaplan Vendables:
· https://www.blairkaplan.ca/
· https://theglobalresilienceproject.com/blair@blairkaplan.ca
· https://www.linkedin.com/in/blairdkaplan
· https://www.facebook.com/blair.kaplan
· https://www.facebook.com/BlairKaplanCommunications
· https://www.instagram.com/globalresiliencecommunity
· https://www.instagram.com/blairfromblairland/
· https://www.facebook.com/globalresiliencecommunity
· https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-global-resilience-project
Download The Global Resilience Project’s Resilience Muscle Guide (free gift); https://blairkaplan.kartra.com/page/resiliencemuscle
Connect with Kathryn Regganie:
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