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E026: Dancing Her Way Through Cancer and Life with Sally Wolf
Whether you’re dealing with a physical condition, a mental health issue, or a job lay-off, having the ability to develop resilience is key to overcoming whatever obstacle comes your way. In today’s episode, Sally Wolf shares her story of inspiration as she walks us through her journey of how she danced her way through cancer, her career, and her life.
As the creator of LightWorks, Sally has combined her 20 years of corporate experience with her love for mentoring and nurturing to create innovative professional development programs designed to enable people to find more meaning in both their jobs and their lives.
In addition to leading these customized workshops, Sally coaches 1:1 both within companies and in her private practice, helping clients to envision and build their best lives. Sally also offers inspirational keynotes, joins powerful panel conversations, and publishes personal reflections about a myriad of subjects aligned with being our authentic selves and bringing our full selves to everything we do.
Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:
Episode Highlights:
Transferable Skills and Transferable Resilience
One can talk oneself out of something when they feel they have a choice. But when you're dealing with something serious – whether it’s a health diagnosis, an unexpected layoff, or living through a pandemic, it can be tough. We're all living through the same pandemic in our unique ways. But we all have a lot of transferable skills and transferable resilience. For instance, your executive skills are going to come in handy and you can apply those in other ways because they’re life skills as well.
Finding Your Silver Lining of Opportunities
Sally realized that there is an opportunity that cancer gave her which she thought she missed out on earlier in life – and that's the opportunity to be human. But it was her passion for dancing that she was able to dance her way through life.
Sally danced her way through cancer and everything was aligned with that. She chose chemo on Wednesday so she could dance every Monday. She had lost her breasts and all her hair and having a safe space to reconnect with a body that had literally been reconstructed wasn’t not only a physical transformation for her but also a spiritual reinvention.
The Growth Mindset for Reinvention
Look at something as an opportunity, even when it's also an obstacle. Learn how you can practice more gratitude and how to prime ourselves for positivity when there is an innate negativity bias in all of us as humans because we are evolutionarily wired for it.
Finally, be willing to take that risk because having that head-heart alignment is what reinvention is all about. In fact, it’s not always a reinvention because it's just about coming back to true selves.
Resources Mentioned:
www.sallywolf.com
www.TheReinventionExchange.com - BOOK: RE:INVENT YOUR LIFE! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
www.SharpeAlliance.com
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Whether you’re dealing with a physical condition, a mental health issue, or a job lay-off, having the ability to develop resilience is key to overcoming whatever obstacle comes your way. In today’s episode, Sally Wolf shares her story of inspiration as she walks us through her journey of how she danced her way through cancer, her career, and her life.
As the creator of LightWorks, Sally has combined her 20 years of corporate experience with her love for mentoring and nurturing to create innovative professional development programs designed to enable people to find more meaning in both their jobs and their lives.
In addition to leading these customized workshops, Sally coaches 1:1 both within companies and in her private practice, helping clients to envision and build their best lives. Sally also offers inspirational keynotes, joins powerful panel conversations, and publishes personal reflections about a myriad of subjects aligned with being our authentic selves and bringing our full selves to everything we do.
Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:
Episode Highlights:
Transferable Skills and Transferable Resilience
One can talk oneself out of something when they feel they have a choice. But when you're dealing with something serious – whether it’s a health diagnosis, an unexpected layoff, or living through a pandemic, it can be tough. We're all living through the same pandemic in our unique ways. But we all have a lot of transferable skills and transferable resilience. For instance, your executive skills are going to come in handy and you can apply those in other ways because they’re life skills as well.
Finding Your Silver Lining of Opportunities
Sally realized that there is an opportunity that cancer gave her which she thought she missed out on earlier in life – and that's the opportunity to be human. But it was her passion for dancing that she was able to dance her way through life.
Sally danced her way through cancer and everything was aligned with that. She chose chemo on Wednesday so she could dance every Monday. She had lost her breasts and all her hair and having a safe space to reconnect with a body that had literally been reconstructed wasn’t not only a physical transformation for her but also a spiritual reinvention.
The Growth Mindset for Reinvention
Look at something as an opportunity, even when it's also an obstacle. Learn how you can practice more gratitude and how to prime ourselves for positivity when there is an innate negativity bias in all of us as humans because we are evolutionarily wired for it.
Finally, be willing to take that risk because having that head-heart alignment is what reinvention is all about. In fact, it’s not always a reinvention because it's just about coming back to true selves.
Resources Mentioned:
www.sallywolf.com
www.TheReinventionExchange.com - BOOK: RE:INVENT YOUR LIFE! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
www.SharpeAlliance.com