AIRED: October 26, 2020
SPECIAL GUEST: Gina Gardner
Gina Gardner believes that disability can be a metaphor for life. Our limiting beliefs: I’m not worthy, not clever enough, I’m too old, too poor, not beautiful enough, etc. keep us stuck. I may have challenges with my mobility but I have the capacity to wheel away (usually at high speed) in my wheelchair.
I have learned that it is not the challenges that define us but what we do with them. Focusing on what I can do, rather than what I can’t and challenging any beliefs which have the capacity to limit me have made a tremendous difference to the quality of my life.
Over the years it has become very clear when working with individuals, couples, teams or whole organizations that the vast majority of challenges or issues to their being happy, staying happy and be capable of spreading happiness, fall into one of five categories: beliefs, particularly self-belief, love, and relationships, achieving and sustaining success, managing change and transition and finding a sense of purpose and fulfillment.
This is why Gina has created the five secret pathways in the Thriving Not Surviving Programme, and also detail them in her latest, and supporting, book, ‘Thriving Not Surviving – The Five Secret Pathways To Happiness, Success and Fulfilment.’ In the book, she shares the principles and lots of practical strategies which have helped Gina and her clients achieve greater happiness, success and fulfilment. These act as a SAT NAV to help people navigate the challenges of life.
ABOUT GINA GARDNER
Our guest today, Gina Gardner, had a serious ski accident in February 1983 when she fell between 150 and 200 feet down a black run, when the mogul she was sitting on gave way. After series of dramatic events involving bouts of paralysis and recovery, her mobility deteriorated and was forced me to use a wheelchair around the school where she served as Acting principal/head master. A violent sneeze late in the Summer Term of 1996 resulted in a ruptured disc. This surgery resulted in Failed Back Surgery Syndrome, and Gina found herself unable to put her left foot to the floor without fainting because of the pain.
Using her wheelchair around school meant she was unable to access the inside to most of the classrooms. She had to find a different way to ensure excellence for my pupils and staff. Necessity is the mother of invention, she creation of a very different approach to empowering people and developing leadership. This facilitated a unique and highly effective leadership program, based on mutual respect and people taking ownership of their actions and words.
Yes, Gina did recover her ability to walk again and has dedicated her life to teaching her highly effective mindset techniques that encapsulates her 30+ years of coaching, training, and teaching. Her transformational strategies and techniques enable her clients to become leaders in their field of endeavor and most of all, to get happy, stay happy, and spread happiness throughout your life.
She is the author of “Chariots on Fire” and the Thrive to Survive Programme, and book by the same name.
