Anne’s got a great interview on Thrive Global!
An excerpt is below but to read the whole article head on over to ThriveGlobal.com
All you can do is all you can do. I was a single mother raising a child that literally abused me. At the same time, I owned my own business, and I was exhausted. I needed a few mantras, and this was one of them.
I had the pleasure of interviewing resilience expert Anne Grady. Anne is an internationally recognized speaker and author. Anne shares humor, humility, refreshing honesty, and practical strategies anyone can use to triumph over adversity and master change. She is the author of “Strong Enough: Choosing Courage, Resilience, and Triumph,” and “52 Strategies for Life, Love & Work.”
Thank you so much for doing this with us! What is your “backstory”?
I have been a professional trainer/speaker for the last 20 years. When I began my career as a corporate trainer, I quickly learned that I’m not made out for a corporate 9–5 job. I decided to start consulting and shortly after that, I found out I was pregnant. I had no money, no sales experience, and my husband left. My son Evan, now 16, is severely mentally ill and autistic, which I cover in more detail in my TEDx talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ-bCUXZaEI). He tried to kill me when he was three. By the age of 4 he was on his first anti-psychotic. His first psychiatric hospitalization was when he was 7. I later remarried and my new husband and I lived in the Ronald McDonald House for two months while he received treatment. In 2014, after hospitalizing my son for a second time, I was diagnosed with a tumor in my salivary gland that resulted in facial paralysis, eye surgery, 6 weeks of radiation, and a broken foot. Throw in hubby’s motorcycle accident and a horrible fall off a ladder, and you have my backstory. I have a master’s degree in organizational communication and was already training and speaking on communication and leadership, but my life has necessitated the need for resilience. I’ve learned some things along the way about practical ways we can build resilience and grit, and I love helping people proactively build the tools they need to have resilience when they need it the most.
Can you share the interesting story that happened to you since you started your career?
All you can do is all you can do. I was a single mother raising a child that literally abused me. At the same time, I owned my own business, and I was exhausted. I needed a few mantras, and this was one of them.
I had the pleasure of interviewing resilience expert Anne Grady. Anne is an internationally recognized speaker and author. Anne shares humor, humility, refreshing honesty, and practical strategies anyone can use to triumph over adversity and master change. She is the author of “Strong Enough: Choosing Courage, Resilience, and Triumph,” and “52 Strategies for Life, Love & Work.”
Thank you so much for doing this with us! What is your “backstory”?
I have been a professional trainer/speaker for the last 20 years. When I began my career as a corporate trainer, I quickly learned that I’m not made out for a corporate 9–5 job. I decided to start consulting and shortly after that, I found out I was pregnant. I had no money, no sales experience, and my husband left. My son Evan, now 16, is severely mentally ill and autistic, which I cover in more detail in my TEDx talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ-bCUXZaEI). He tried to kill me when he was three. By the age of 4 he was on his first anti-psychotic. His first psychiatric hospitalization was when he was 7. I later remarried and my new husband and I lived in the Ronald McDonald House for two months while he received treatment. In 2014, after hospitalizing my son for a second time, I was diagnosed with a tumor in my salivary gland that resulted in facial paralysis, eye surgery, 6 weeks of radiation, and a broken foot. Throw in hubby’s motorcycle accident and a horrible fall off a ladder, and you have my backstory. I have a master’s degree in organizational communication and was already training and speaking on communication and leadership, but my life has necessitated the need for resilience. I’ve learned some things along the way about practical ways we can build resilience and grit, and I love helping people proactively build the tools they need to have resilience when they need it the most.
Can you share the interesting story that happened to you since you started your career?
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