Episode 45: Resilience with Blair Kaplan Venables

About this episode

Brooke Carlock interviews Blair Kaplan Venables about resilience and her Navigating Grief Framework.

This week on The Mourning Coffee Podcast, I’m joined by Blair Kaplan Venables. Blair is a grief and resilience expert, motivational speaker, and the founder of The Global Resilience Project. After experiencing multiple losses in a short period of time, including a miscarriage and the deaths of both of her parents, Blair developed what she calls the Navigating Grief Framework to help people learn how to live with loss while rebuilding a meaningful life. Her work has been featured in outlets such as Forbes, CBC Radio, Entrepreneur, and Thrive Global, and she is the author of the bestselling Resilient A.F. book series. We’re talking about resilience, her Navigating Grief Framework, and her newest book, Resilient A.F.: Stories of Resilience Volume 3. To find out more about Blair, visit https://blairkaplan.ca/ This week on The Mourning Coffee Podcast, I’m joined by Blair Kaplan Venables. Blair is a grief and resilience expert, motivational speaker, and the founder of The Global Resilience Project. After experiencing multiple losses in a short period of time, including a miscarriage and the deaths of both of her parents, Blair developed what she calls the Navigating Grief Framework to…

People in this episode

Host: Brooke Carlock

Guest: Blair Kaplan Venables

Topics covered

• resilience
• grief
• mental health
• self-improvement
• motivation

Keywords

• resilience
• grief
• Navigating Grief Framework
• mental health
• motivation
• loss
• self-improvement

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Global Resilience Project, Forbes, CBC Radio, Entrepreneur, Thrive Global

Books & works: Resilient A.F., Resilient A.F.: Stories of Resilience Volume 3

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