Entrepreneurship can be a wild ride and over the past twelve years, I have been learning lessons the hard way so you don’t have to. The ability to be an entrepreneur is in all of us and it can be hard to resist the pull to be one if it’s an idea that you have been exploring.
Blair Kaplan Venables is a British Columbia-based grief and resilience expert, motivational speaker and the Founder of The Global Resilience Project. Her expertise has been featured in media outlets, including Forbes, CBC Radio, Entrepreneur, and Thrive Global. She is named the Top Grief and Resilience Expert of the Year 2024 by IAOTP. USA Today listed Blair as one of the top 10 conscious female leaders to watch and she empowers others to be resilient from stages around the world. ‘MyStory,’ which is a television show available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+ and Google Play, showcases Blair’s life story. She is the host of the Radical Resilience podcast, a motivational speaker and bestselling author. She specializes in helping people strengthen their resilience muscle using scientifically proven methods and guides grieving high performers with her Navigating Grief Framework. The Global Resilience Project’s award-winning books are international bestsellers, and her fourth book, RESILIENT A.F.: Stories of Resilience Vol 2, will be published in January 2025 . In her free time, you can find Blair writing, travelling the world and helping people through their most challenging moments.
Blair started The Global Resilience Project in 2019 as a way to help people move through life’s challenges. The Project gathers stories of resilience to be shared online, on social media, on a podcast, at events, in the media and in books to inspire others, while helping to provide strength and healing.
