Bite Size #128: Bonnie Hancock - Mental Skills in Action, Teamwork & Tenacity from the Fastest Person to Paddle around Australia
Jul 17, 2024
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Bonnie Hancock shares her experiences paddling around Australia, facing sharks, snakes, and crocodiles. She discusses finding beauty in challenges and the importance of perseverance. The podcast explores mental skills, teamwork, and staying composed in high-pressure situations.
Desensitizing training for encounters with dangerous animals can optimize responses and prevent panic.
Performance Intelligence focuses on empowering individuals and organizations through coaching, events, and partnerships for enhanced productivity and leadership skills.
Deep dives
Survival Training and Facing Fears
Preparing for encounters with dangerous animals, such as sharks and crocodiles, through desensitizing training can help individuals optimize their response and avoid panic. Personal experiences of being in close proximity to wildlife, like encountering a juvenile white pointer shark during a swim, highlight the importance of remaining calm in potentially dangerous situations. Overcoming fears through mental preparation, expecting encounters with wildlife, and staying composed when faced with unexpected challenges can be crucial for survival.
Performance Intelligence and Empowering Individuals
Performance Intelligence, a new business venture by Angela Poon and Andrew May, aims to combine their expertise in coaching, consulting, and event management to empower individuals and organizations to reach their full potential. Offering Engaging Events like keynotes, workshops, and webinars, as well as the Performance Intelligence Academy with online courses and coaching tools, the focus is on enhancing wellbeing, productivity, and leadership skills. Strategic partnerships with organizations like the Australian Defence Office demonstrate the impact of their programs on performance improvement.
Health Benefits of Lumo Coffee and Managing Fear
Promoting Lumo Coffee for its health benefits, including tripled antioxidants and improved mental and physical performance, showcases a strategic use of caffeine for energy boosts. Stories of overcoming fears in challenging environments, such as handling fear triggers when encountering wildlife, emphasize the importance of mental preparation and staying calm under pressure. The significance of expecting challenges, managing reactions to fear triggers, and maintaining composure in unpredictable situations can lead to successful outcomes and personal growth.
In this Bite Size from episode #92 Bonnie Hancock shares some of the most incredible and dangerous situations she found herself in when paddling a surf ski around Australia. From sharks, snakes, crocodiles and currents Bonnie has seen it all and overcome the challenges.
Bonnie talks about how although there was a lot of fear in those situations it also shined a light on the beauty she would see during her trip and no matter how much she wanted to give up she knew the best part was always just around the corner.
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