How to turn your biggest challenges into your biggest opportunities | Brent Seal | TEDxSFU

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. After being diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2007, Brent sought to change the stigma around mental health and turning what was his biggest challenge into his biggest opportunity.

Brent Seal is founder of Seal Wellness, a social enterprise that helps students, entrepreneurs and young professionals overcome challenges and become high performers through consulting, coaching and speaking and his Signature training program ‘High Performance Wellness’. Brent was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2007 and since then has graduated from his 2010 SFU Business class as Valedictorian, shared his story across Canada and gotten heavy into adventures, having run a number of ultramarathons and taken part in mountaineering objectives around North America.

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