5 ways to strengthen your resilience muscle | Blair Kaplan Venables | TEDxEdmonds College

Resilience isn’t about bouncing back—it’s about bouncing forward. Blair Kaplan Venables shares five secrets to building a stronger resilience muscle. Through personal stories and actionable strategies, she explores how we can grow through challenges, adapt to change, and emerge stronger than ever.
Blair Kaplan Venables is a British Columbia-based grief and resilience expert 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. In 2024, a new show that will be airing on Apple TV+ called 'MyStory' will showcase 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 book became an international bestseller, and her third book, RESILIENT A.F.: Stories of Resilience, was released on March 1. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx