Is Resilience something you are born with?

Mal Winnie knows a thing or two about resilience.

He would best be described as an Adventreprenuer, in that he combines his love of the outdoor adventure with his passion for business and professional development.

Mal has spent half his adult adventuring around the world both professionally and personally. He has rock-climbed, canyoneered, mountaineered, kayaked and hiked through NZ, Australia, Asia, Europe and the USA and continues to do so. He has been in some of the most remote and wilderness environments in the world and it is in these places that he says he has learnt the most about himself.

Resilience can be tested.

Mal's resilience has been tested a number of times as he has overcome some considerable physical and mental setbacks along the way and has used these to further inspire him and to work on and develop his own levels of resiliency including breaking his back twice and his neck once. In total he has broken his spine in 5 different places.

Mal is also the founder and managing director of Stand-Out Leadership Ltd, a leadership development business that works with individuals and organisations across NZ and Australia to help grow their leadership capability and employee engagement levels. He also works one on one as a leadership and transformational coach.

Mal is highly regarded by his clients as being insightful, inspiring and practical in his approach and style.

He has undertaken tertiary and non-tertiary based studies in multiple areas such as Psychology, Sport and Recreation, Positive Psychology, Neuro-Science, NLP and Coaching and includes these aspects of science and research in the development of practical applications people can use to enhance their lives and careers. He is an mBIT Coach and Trainer as well as an NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer.

Mal has worked in people development and teaching resilience for 23 years now in many different industries and sectors and has worked across New Zealand, Australia, Europe and the United Kingdom with in excess of 20,000 people.

For more visit http://www.stand-out.co.nz (http://www.stand-out.co.nz)

Highlights:

01:27 Introduction

03:43 Adventurepreneur

11:30 Past injuries

17:45 Feeling angry

24:31 A powerful experience

35:45 Neuroplasticity

44:16 Pushing the limits

52:38 Resilience

Transcription:

Intro 0:04

You're listening to The mBraining Show, a show about the new field of mBIT, where you'll get a blend of neuroscience based research with practical applications for wise living. And now, here's your host, Bill Gasiamis.

Bill 0:19

know the reason the mBIT coaching model is so unique is because in mBIT we coach not only to the client's head brain, but also to their heart and gut brain. It's not just the brain and community that calls the Heart and gut brains.

Bill 0:34

Many doctors and researchers around the world are doing the same. Recently research in the field of neuro cardiology, and euro gastroenterology have shown that the heart is not just a pump pushing blood around our body, it has up to 120,000 neurons, which is the same amount as a lobster's brain. And the guide is not just some stinky plumbing, removing all that we do not need.

Bill 0:58

It has approximately 500 million neurons and that's the same amount as a cat's brain. In the past, you will have noticed how you and many of your friends say things like follow your heart, or listen to your gut. And that's because there is a level of intelligence there that ancient wisdom traditions have been talking about for two and a half 1000 years now.

Bill 1:20

And which is now being validated by modern science. So when you engage an mBIT coach, you are getting someone that is skilled in helping you unlock the wisdom in those intelligences and discover what your heart desires, and what you truly value.

Bill 1:38

The action you need to take and how to listen to your gut to take gutsy action,