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Hey, welcome to the KnolShare with Dr. Dave podcast. I am Dr. Dave Cornelius, your host. As we continue with the Resiliently You podcast series, my guest today is Lisa Jones. Lisa is a multi-award winning, science-driven, fact-based therapist, coach, and passionate trainer, who believes that prevention is better than intervention. Lisa works in both the corporate and education sector teaching others the importance of brain health, resilience, stress management, and emotional wellbeing, as well as running a business. Private practice. A busy, I would say, private practice. So, Lisa, welcome to the KnolShare with Dr. Dave podcast. So, do us a favor and provide us with an elevator pitch about your journey as a mental health consultant, psychotherapist, coach, and trainer.

Lisa Jones:

Okay. Well, first of all, thank you so much for having me. I'm really, really excited to be here. And I was thinking to try and keep this brief. I'm terrible for going off on tangents. Growing up, I was always interested in people, and I found I was always that person that people came to advice or want them to be the voice for them if they felt they were unable to speak up about things. So I've always had kind of quite a sense of justice, wanting to help people.

Now, my first love was actually performing arts, but unfortunately I became quite unwell in my teens and kind of struggled with various chronic illnesses. So, knowing that I wasn't able to pursue my musical theater dreams, I decided to do my degree in counseling and psychotherapy. So that's kind of where it all started. And over the years I was able to fully recover from my health issues, just before I was 30, so a little while ago. And that kind of happened really after a lot of work, a lot of investing in various therapies really, and really understanding the brain/mind/body connection.

So that was the key moment for me, where I thought, "There's something here and I really want to help other people with this." So kind of got the passion really even more in wanting to help people understand how we can manage stress, how we can build resilience and do all of those things. So, over the years, I trained in various other modalities, including coaching NLP, which is "neuro-linguistic programming" for people who aren't aware, and applied neuroscience.

So my passion is the brain. That's why I talk a lot about brain health. And as time went on, I was working in my private practice and that was getting busier, but I wanted to help more people. So that's why I set up HeadStrong Training as a vehicle to be able to do that. And as you said in the intro, I'm really passionate about teaching prevention over intervention. So, that's my journey really; and now I work with senior leaders in both business and schools and teach those essential life skills, really, so people feel confident to manage those stressors in life.

Dr. Dave:

That's beautiful. And I noticed that in the introduction, we talked about resilience as one of the things that you try to tease out of people or bring out of individuals.

Lisa Jones:

Yes.

Dr. Dave:

So, how would you define resilience?

Lisa Jones:

So, for me... In fact, I've kind of taken this quote, really. There's a lady called Dr. Carol Penton who's done amazing research in resilience,