Aug 30, 2021
I'm excited to introduce this week's guest, Lois Wagner. In this episode, we talk about how her outdoor adventures have taught her resilience—and how they helped her to overcome adversity and challenges in other areas of her life.
Lois is a keen hiker, scuba diver, and camper. Her life has been full of both adventures and misadventures—all of which have taught her resilience. She was washed out to sea while scuba diving and was rescued by a fishing trawler. She fell and cut her head open while hiking. She drifted 5 km off the parachute drop zone. She rolled a snowmobile. She fell off a dog sled.
Did any of this stop her? No. She continued her outdoor adventures and solo travel around the world. In this episode, we talk about what your outdoor adventures can teach you about resilience—and how they can help you to grow your “resilience muscle.”
About Lois Wagner
Lois Wagner is your friend for forgiveness and freedom. Helping you move from victim to survivor to thriver and beyond to freedom, after facing a life or business challenge or adversity.
Lois lost a business and went bankrupt, she was attacked, raped, and left for dead, she was forced into retirement, and experienced many other challenges. These include many mishaps and accidents on her travels and during her outdoor adventures. Her work is based on these personal major adversities and life experiences. Lois learned to forgive (she forgave the rapist and the business partner who betrayed her) and to move on to a more rewarding and fulfilling life)
Lois guides you to build your resilience and grit, to develop a growth mindset, to energise your mojo, and learn to forgive. This is achieved via one-on-one coaching, group masterminds, and keynote presentations.
Lois’s book – Walking Without Skin: A Journey of Healing – From Fear to Forgiveness to Freedom is part memoir and part self-help guide and she has a TEDx talk on the topic. She has developed a programme for boys and men (and girls and women) – B.R.A.V.E. designed to stop toxic behaviours and eradicate gender-based and domestic violence.
Lois is a South African businesswoman with extensive local and international speaking, human resource, training, business management, project management, marketing, consulting, and leadership coaching experience.
Learn more about Lois here.
Listen To This Episode
What You'll Learn
- How to be more of a risk-taker in adventures and in life
- What Lois's misadventures have taught her about resilience
- How to learn from difficult situations
- What her adventures taught her about how to overcome adversity and challenges in life
- How outdoor adventures can help us to heal from trauma
- Lois's fantastic tip for forgiveness (I love this idea!)
Things We Discussed
Related Episodes
- 414 Rebecca Walsh ~ Solo Hiking for Women
- 305 Joanna Hennon + Holly: How to Forgive, Even When You Don’t Want To (now with downloadable transcript!)
- BMP220 Jo + Holly ~ Why You Need Resilience in Your Business (now with downloadable transcript!)
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