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Building Resilience with Alani Bankhead
Alani Bankhead – Show Notes
Personal definition of resilience – the ability to bounce back in difficult circumstances.
Ever since she was a little girl she always knew she was born to serve others and protect life. That desire led to a life in the United States military. Ended up as a special agent working for the Air Force. Started her career in Japan working a lot of drug cases. She started a country wide programme to prevent the sexual abuse of children via the Internet. From there she deployed to the Middle East where she worked for Special Forces to chase terrorists. From there she went to the headquarters in Quantico where she over saw counter intelligence. From there she went back to The Middle East doing counter intelligence / counter terrorism work. From there she became a senior bodyguard to a senior government official.
Very stressful, very frequent and long deployments, long days, went from 60 up to 100 hours per week. Always having to be mentally and physical alert.
Resilience has become more of a focus for the US military as the war has continued.
People used to tell them to get more sleep and rest but they used to laugh because the mission had certain demands that required sacrifice the sleep, the exercise the healthy diet. They just did the best they could with what they had.
Faith is very important to who she is – it is very central to her being. She would get automated devotional readings sent to her work inbox. Reading these gave her breathing room and the ability to re-centre. She also found a disused cupboard in the Pentagon where she could go for five minutes to meditate or use a resilience app on her phone.
As a team leader she had to make sure she set an example in terms of taking time to maintain her own resilience.
Virtual Hope Box App.
Yoga and meditation.
Worked for a Non Profit Organisation in preventing human trafficking and slavery.
Just launched a coaching business. Passionate about helping people to devise plans that work best for them so they can live their best most authentic life. When clients tell me they can't get over some barrier I tell them "when have you ever met a 5 foot 3 midget bodyguard?" She ended up viewing her personal appearance as an asset not a weakness.
Personal tools – Virtual Hope Box app, You Tube yoga exercises, the bible
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By Lyn HendersonAlani Bankhead – Show Notes
Personal definition of resilience – the ability to bounce back in difficult circumstances.
Ever since she was a little girl she always knew she was born to serve others and protect life. That desire led to a life in the United States military. Ended up as a special agent working for the Air Force. Started her career in Japan working a lot of drug cases. She started a country wide programme to prevent the sexual abuse of children via the Internet. From there she deployed to the Middle East where she worked for Special Forces to chase terrorists. From there she went to the headquarters in Quantico where she over saw counter intelligence. From there she went back to The Middle East doing counter intelligence / counter terrorism work. From there she became a senior bodyguard to a senior government official.
Very stressful, very frequent and long deployments, long days, went from 60 up to 100 hours per week. Always having to be mentally and physical alert.
Resilience has become more of a focus for the US military as the war has continued.
People used to tell them to get more sleep and rest but they used to laugh because the mission had certain demands that required sacrifice the sleep, the exercise the healthy diet. They just did the best they could with what they had.
Faith is very important to who she is – it is very central to her being. She would get automated devotional readings sent to her work inbox. Reading these gave her breathing room and the ability to re-centre. She also found a disused cupboard in the Pentagon where she could go for five minutes to meditate or use a resilience app on her phone.
As a team leader she had to make sure she set an example in terms of taking time to maintain her own resilience.
Virtual Hope Box App.
Yoga and meditation.
Worked for a Non Profit Organisation in preventing human trafficking and slavery.
Just launched a coaching business. Passionate about helping people to devise plans that work best for them so they can live their best most authentic life. When clients tell me they can't get over some barrier I tell them "when have you ever met a 5 foot 3 midget bodyguard?" She ended up viewing her personal appearance as an asset not a weakness.
Personal tools – Virtual Hope Box app, You Tube yoga exercises, the bible