This episode covers:

• spousal loss
• child loss
• parental loss
• grief support
• music as therapy and motivator
• building resilience
• common traits of resilient people
• a quote from Bruce Springsteen
• my night at the Boyz II Men concert
• my theme song, Day Ones, by Kyler Slater
• RESILIENT tshirts

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RESILIENT PEOPLE is a podcast and digital space created by Janet Fanaki. She is a public speaker, patient and care partner engagement consultant and podcaster.

Having grieved the care and passing of her husband Adam to glioblastoma, her mom and dad to declining health and most recently the sudden death of her 25 year old daughter, Janet has embraced living life in the “in-between moments”.

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Tara MacIntosh had just discovered that she was pregnant with twins when, only hours later, her husband was diagnosed with Stage 4 Esophageal Cancer.

It was during the pandemic and a very stressful time to be a patient or caregiver receiving any medical intervention.

As her belly grew, Tara supported Gregor for all of his needs and was learning on the fly how to be a caregiver. She quickly learned the toughness that it takes to care for a loved one as well as the comfort that was missing for many who are in this role.

Gregor passed away in December 2021. To give herself something positive to focus on she created Gregor's Gift to help the caregivers in her community of London, Ontario. The charity has provided them with comfort kits while at St. Joseph's Hospice and Dr. Bob Kemp Hospice as well as respite treatments like facials.

We spoke about:

• her husband's Esophageal cancer journey
• the challenges of caregiving
• the importance of caring for caregivers
• building resilience and finding purpose
• the purpose she found in creating Gregor's Gift
• her passions including writing
• finding gratitude during tough times
• positive choices to start and end the day (bookending)

Nathan and Dana Schmidt of the Mountain Seed Foundation are my guests on this episode of the RESILIENT PEOPLE podcast.

Mountain Seed Foundation helps build resilience in children and families impacted by war with some of their biggest work being done in Ukraine.

Nathan is a former Marine who completed three tours in the Iraq war. He and Dana met there when she went as part of the Foreign Service.

Both are very open about the effects that war has on individuals and their families. Nathan spoke about openly about his post-traumatic stress disorder and his transparency on needing to talk about it with others and get help.

Dana honestly spoke about the challenges it presented to their marriage and the tools - as well as people - that helped them.

Mountain Seed Foundation offers children impacted by war the opportunity to learn climbing to help overcome their fears while also offering the mothers of these children therapy in various forms and the opportunity to build a peer-to-peer community.

Learning to climb helped Nathan to battle the demons he lived with after Iraq and he instinctively knew that it could do the same for others impacted by war.

We spoke about:

• helping those suffering from PTSD
• finding love in unlikely places
• the Russian invasion on Ukraine
• mental health awareness
• the value of professional therapy
• finding simple joys in life
• mountain climbing for building a resilient mindset

To learn more about Mountain Seed Foundation, visit this link.

If you consider yourself to be resilient, or know someone who you admire for their resilience, please share your story with me. Go to the RESILIENT PEOPLE contact page

For more information on Janet Fanaki and RESILIENT PEOPLE, go to www.resilientpeople.ca

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The RESILIENT PEOPLE podcast is produced and hosted by Janet Fanaki. It features conversations with regular people from around the world who are admired for their resilience. They have experienced a major life challenge, found a purpose from it and now help others to be resilient too.

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RESILIENT PEOPLE profiles regular people from around the world who are admired for their resilience. They have experienced a major life challenge, found a purpose from it and now help others to be resilient too.

To learn more about Janet Fanaki and RESILIENT PEOPLE visit www.resilientpeople.ca

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For this episode of RESILIENT PEOPLE, Janet Fanaki speaks with Wellness Coach Sharon Summerfield. She is the founder of The Nourished Executive and counsels clients on dealing with burnout, stress management and building healthy daily rituals.

Sharon was once a busy executive assistant and project manager for various engineering firms. She made a pivot to create the Nourished Executive by identifying a need and what was working for her in her own personal wellness journey.

After suffering debilitating pain from two accidents, Sharon created ‘Project Me’ and built her own team of experts who helped her to get on the right track. She encourages others to follow the same course.

She also credits daily practices like meditation, journaling, incorporating joyful activities and micro changes as ways to build resilience.

As she said during our conversation, "We forget how far we've come" as a way to reward ourselves for our small self improvements.

Our conversation touches on: burnout, stress management, wellness practices, self-care, support from community and building resilience.

I want to thank Tara Pyfrom for speaking with me, sharing her story of surviving Hurricane Dorian and the purpose she found in writing for self care and to create a book about her experience.

This episode covers:

• surviving Hurricane Dorian and the next steps to rebuilding
• the benefits of therapy
• the power of community
• problem solving in tough times
• building resilience
• writing for therapy and purpose

To learn more about her, visit www.tarapyfrom.com or her Instagram page.

The RESILIENT PEOPLE podcast is hosted by Janet Fanaki. It's my conversations with regular people from around the world who are admired for their resilience. They have experienced a major life challenge, found a purpose from it and now help others to be resilient too.

To hear more RESILIENT PEOPLE episodes, learn more about Janet Fanaki, order a RESILIENT tshirt and book her for a speaking engagement visit www.resilientpeople.ca

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