Thoughts That Rock

S4/Ep 122 - Robyn Benincasa | You're Defined by Your Comeback (Not Your Setback)


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In this episode, we talk with Robyn Benincasa, who is a Top Leadership and Teamwork Motivational Speaker, Full-time Firefighter, Adventure Racing World Champion, CNN Hero, and Bestselling Author.

 

THOUGHT #1 - You’re Never Defined by Your Setback, You’re Defined by Your Comeback.

THOUGHT #2 - In Three Words, I Can Sum Up Everything I’ve Learned about Life: It Goes On. – Robert Frost


CONNECT:

  • Website: WorldClassTeams.com
  • Book: How Winning Works: 8 Essential Leadership Lessons from the Toughest Teams on Earth
  • Instagram: RobynBenincasa
  • Linkedin: Robyn Benincasa

  • RESOURCES:

    • Scottish Highland Games - wikipedia.org
    • CNN Heroes - CNN.com
    • Encyclopedia Brittanica - brittanica.com
    • Guinness Book of World Records - GuinnessWorldRecords.com
    • NT Times - NYTimes.com
    • Harvard Business Review - hbr.org
    • Judo - wikipedia.org
    • Arthritis - arthritis.org
    • Bowflex - bowflex.com
    • Chuck Norris - wikipedia.org
    • Project Athena - RobynBenincasa.com
    • Ironman Triathlon - ironman.com
    • Alison Levine - AlisonLevine.com
    • Mount Everest - NationalGeographic.org
    • Bethany Hamilton - BethanyHamilton.com
    • Robert Downy Jr. - wikipedia.org
    • Robert Frost - wikipedia.org
    • Night to Shine - TimTebowFoundation.org 
    • Tim Tebow - TimTebow.com
    • Autism - autismspeaks.org
    • Tuberculosis - wikipedia.org
    • Tom Peters - TomPeters.com
    • Mount Kilimanjaro - NationalGeographic.org
    • Hard Rock International – HardRock.com

    • ROBYN BENINCASA'S BIO:

      Robyn Benincasa is a top motivational keynote speaker on leadership, Adventure Racing World Champion, CNN Hero, founder of Project Athena, and bestselling author. Robyn won two World Adventure Races and holds three Guinness World Records for long-distance kayaking. Her book on teamwork and leadership, How Winning Works, is a New York Times bestseller. Her entertaining keynotes show audiences the foundations of inspired leadership and how to win as a team.

      Robyn Benincasa is the founder of World Class Teams, an adventure racing world champion, a CNN Hero, former corporate sales expert and a full-time firefighter who advises organizations on building World Class Teams of their own. 

      One of the highest-rated, female motivational speakers who regularly shares the stage with world leaders and business icons, her customers include many Fortune companies like Starbucks, Deloitte, Aflac, Fast Company, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, ARAMARK, Siemens, 3M, Coldwell Banker, Ameriprise, Microsoft, AT&T. 

      With a background in marketing, she was previously in corporate sales with Baxter and Allergan and is currently a full-time firefighter who was on America’s first all female fire crew. Eco-Challenge World Champion, CNN Hero, Founder of the Project Athena Foundation (Survivors to Athletes!), 3x Guinness World Record Distance Paddler and proud owner of 2 metal ‘bionic hips’, Robyn definitely knows a thing or two about creating Human Synergy.

      Her New York Times bestselling book, How Winning Works, published by Harlequin has been reviewed as “an excellent resource for all business owners on approaching challenges with a team mentality.”

      Most recently, Robyn was named one of the Top 10 Speakers Featured by the Harvard Business Review and one of the Top 10 New York Times Bestselling Authors Who Can Better Your Company and Your Life in 2018. She has also been named a Top 5 Business Speaker for five years by Speaking.com and one of the 10 Highest Rated Inspirational Speakers for Business by Derek Sweeney. 

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