After last week's episode where Sylvia shared her own story of resilience (I could even write this in plural!), in this episode she gives her view on resilience and especially on burnout, having personally been through two episodes of burnout.

How can we balance work and rest, even when we are so passionate about what we do that it doesn't really feel like work? She gives practical tools to reconnect our body and our mind so they work together and we can show up as the best version of ourselves.

In this episode, you will learn about:

• Introduction to resilience [6:12]
  • Resilience is adaptation: go with the flow, with the ups and downs of life.
  • The play between resistance and resilience: letting go of inner resistance to embrace outer resistance.
  • How do you grow resilience? It starts with trust, especially for leaders.
• The "I am enough" need for validation, that even the most "successful" people struggle with... And how it is just another story we are telling ourselves. "You are not your thoughts. They are coming from somewhere and going to nowhere." Sylvia Jagla [10:33]
• As soon as we grab a thought, then it becomes something, that we can eventually grow into something bigger, and then it becomes our identity. [15:01]
  • Being fine with both ups and downs, and the influence of hormones on our emotions and actions.
• When do you stop when you love what you do? (solopreneur, anyone? ;-) ) How to find balance when you are passionate about what you do, and it doesn't feel like working? Most of the times, exactly when you feel you can't stop, is the moment when you desperately need it![19:03]
  • "When you tend to get overwhelmed, take a step back, remember what is your why, and along the way, ask for help." Sylvia Jagla
• There are millions of routines out there, whatever you do, pick something that works for you. And stay flexible to adapt to the present situation, body and mind. [26:04]
• We forget so much to be kind to ourselves: We enter the cycle of failing to our expectations, beating ourselves for that, and feeling miserable for it, and therefore failing even more to our unrealistic expectations. [31:05]
  • Could we revise our expectations instead, and learn from the process?
• What is burn-out? How to create awareness of when we are going into the direction of burn-out, so we don't have to crash; and instead stop before it's too late and avoid it. [33:46]
• Working for and with women: Sylvia saw women "pushing so much for performance rather than trusting their potential". [40:04]
  • Her advice: "Own you power, go for whatever you want without any regrets, guilt, or excuses." Sylvia Jagla
  • And her wish: Creating support and cooperation rather than competition.

She is a leadership coach, and a women’s burnout & resilience mentor...
Shes helps driven entrepreneurs and professionals who work remotely and kinda feel that they lost their way, to create their own "Having it all".

We all know those moments, when you reached the bottom of your "going down spiral"? The "enough is enough!" reaction, that makes us do things we didn't think we could do. In this episode, we have a few examples of that, and we go in depth about how they help us evolve, and go from pushing through life, to creating your life.

In next week's episode, Sylvia shares more about the work she's doing today, especially on burnout and resilience.

In this episode, you will learn about:

• The shifting moment for Sylvia: When she decided that life was happening for her instead of to her (which for her is the key to shifting from pushing through, to resilience). When we reach the "bottom" and find the rebound. [1:45]
• Sylvia's challenges as a foreign child, and how she overcame being the weirdo & the perfect victim, from isolated to the coolest kid on the block. [4:54]
• It is really easy the weird one. We admire people to show up in their weirdness, and at the same time, why are we then so afraid to be authentic. [9:53]
  • "I never could understand that we beat up people who are living up their truth, and living a life true to themselves, and not to others." Sylvia Jagla
  • "You never know where someone is coming from and what they are going through right now. Yet we all tend to judge people on appearance: No matter what you see, be aware that there is a whole different world behind this." Sylvia Jagla
• When we are OK with our weirdness, we realize everyone is weird, in their own way. When you can own that, you can actually allow other people to own that for them too, and you meet at another level. It is much more vulnerable, but it is much more authentic, too.[14:38]
• The beginning of being adult: Sylvia went to live on her own at the age of sixteen, studying and working on the weekends. And that was only the beginning of a lot of responsibilities for a young women. This time owning totally her "weirdness", and with the firm choice of NOT being a victim of her life. [15:00]
  • "I think I have been a free-spirit for ever; I think there was never ever a different version of myself." Sylvia Jagla
• From getting into depression, while staying "functional" to still keep the flat and be responsible for her brother... To pushing it away and celebrating, with a "happy-face". Isolation and loneliness are very different: "From all my friends, nobody could understand what's going on with me and at some point I couldn't understand myself." Sylvia Jagla [20:11]
• The beginning of a deep healing: "I made the decision, that I go now for what I want in life. The deepest you push me, the highest I am gonna sky-rocket." Sylvia Jagla [25:00]
  • How she got her first job: without graduating, or any time to prepare in any way. Just the unshakable knowing that she needed this. The first step, to going towards the life she though was good for her.
  • "That was my personal realization, that no matter how stupid the situation seems, and how challenging the circumstances seem, focus on the solution and trust that it's gonna be all right." Sylvia Jagla
• The power of the moments of crisis: transforming ourselves into someone we didn't even think we could be. They push us to align everything we are to go forward, because there is no turning back. [30:28]
  • "You have to make a decision and see the big picture for you,

Are you a dreamer with an urge to make that dream a reality for the good of all? Are you a social entrepreneur struggling to get started?

That's what this week's episode is about: People working for social good, with a mission and their aim is all about trying to make the world better. Sounds grandiose? Martyn shows us that it doesn't have to be, and explains the top struggles of world changers.

If you didn't listen to the first episode with Martyn, you might want to do so: it's here.

In this episode, you will learn about:

• What is a world changer?
  • Being a little bit better everyday, consistently, that builds up in something quite meaningful after all, but without all the pressure and grandiosity.
  • "A world changer is [ anyone ] working for social good. Their mission and their aim is all about trying to make the world better." [2:07]
• Perfectionism is often what stops most people from starting: "When we want to do it so perfectly, that is definitely when we get paralyzed by the fear."[4:00]
• The balance between supporting change on an individual level AND on a broader social level, and scaling our impact! [6:14]

The top struggles of World changers: time, energy, money.

• Being OK with earning money while working on social causes. [13:47]
  • Finding work / life balance when you self-entrepreneur and especially when you're passion driven, and working doesn't feel like working. [16:39]
  • The importance of taking care of yourself first: you're the golden goose. [19:23]
• How to navigate the urge to save the world! You need passion and purpose, AND processes: keeping in mind our priorities can be difficult when you're a world changer, as everything is important and urgent. [20:33]
• If I am going to found a social enterprise, should I found an NGO or a "for-profit" company? Money — or should I say, money-mindset — is definitely one of the biggest struggles of world changers! [23:04]
• Martyn's number one advice for world changers: blocking the noise that is claiming your attention and is not supporting your goals, so you find calm and concentrate on what is important. Clarity, impact, and freedom will come naturally from that state. [28:02]
• The process of creating the 6 weeks course "How to change the world", and what it is about. [29:37]

My guest today is just a regular guy... who happens to have a disability called Spinal Muscular Atrophy. This means he cannot walk, lift anything heavier than a book or shower himself.
AND... he is a living proof of "everything is possible", which happens to be the tittle of his book.

He co founded and runs his company Disability Horizons, has a Degree in Economics & a Masters in Marketing, has presented for the BBC. He is also a blogger, and a speaker to bring awareness on disability.
He drives his own adapted car, and loves adventure travels; he has flown a plane, enjoyed skiing & SCUBA diving, flying in a balloon, and he's been on the moon. (OK, not on the moon yet; but I'm sure that by the next time he comes here, that will be done.)

In 2018,