Shane Boyd, Resilience Coach, and Entrepreneur, Ep 38, How to swing from fear to faith The Bend Like Bamboo Resilience Podcast

Shane Boyd, resilience coach, and business owner believes that resilience is the ability to have physical, mental, and spiritual resilience - which is our ability to switch from fear into faith, within ourselves, in the universe, and with others.
It is our ability to pause and create space before we react and make a decision. “I call it the next organic step, not pushing too hard in one direction that is often led by the analytical mind, instead of drawing from our gut and intuition as well. Our ability to create this space is what resilience means to me,” says Shane.
Shane believes that resilience is our ability to enable young people to have a voice and to build their inner resilience to be able to say no. To understand that it is ok to make a mistake, and to be kinder to ourselves.
Learn more about Shane’s amazing story, and his business in the podcast and live video on YouTube below.
Shane Boyd has been a resilience coach and entrepreneur for 25 years, having built, bought, and sold numerous businesses in this time.
Shane has been a Coach for the last 14 years, he studied at the Coaching Institute Melbourne. Shane’s experience has come from being open to opportunities and taking risks.
As a keynote speaker, Shane enjoys speaking to teenagers at Melbourne’s most elite High Schools. In this forum, he explains the importance of decision making particularly, around drugs alcohol, and sexual health.
Shane’s own journey with addiction has given rise to his ability to speak candidly on these topics. Navigating his own personal journey of coming out as a gay man, Shane has relied upon his close community for support, and on his own journey has had to answer the basic questions of ‘Am I good enough’ ‘Do I belong” and “Am I loved’?
“Do not judge me by my success, judge me on how many times I fell down and got back up” NELSON MANDALA
Shane describes himself as a shy introvert who as a child, moved to many schools, leading to beliefs that he didn’t fit in and that he didn’t belong. Coming out as a guy man, initially gave Shane a sense of relief, but he quickly realised that he also had to be patient as he began to learn how to become a new version of himself, that believed in himself more.
15 years ago, at age 35 Shane was diagnosed as HIV positive, which was a huge wake-up call for him to look after his well-being and he began to take the steps to take more responsibility for himself. while healing from this, he turned lemons into lemonade by wanting to give back to the community to help others who had also gone through an HIV diagnosis, and what he had gone through growing up.
This is what led Shane to build a career in speaking at schools to kids, about sexual health, drugs, alcohol, and how we make our decisions. Shane also found a not-for-profit community Living Positive Victoria that provided him with education and inspiration to live a healthy and positive life with his diagnosis. Shane has had to learn to flip his circumstances, seeing them with a fresh perspective, which is not always easy to do. But when he shares his story with his clients, hearing their feedback and making a difference in their perspective, and in their lives, also helps Shane to see his world through loving and kind lenses.
At Shane’s lowest point, he was with a GP who asked him to google HIV to figure out how it was going to impact him. When instead, he was in search of a personalised approach and understanding of how the disease was going to impact his health and life. “When we google any topic, we will find hundreds of different opinions and advice, and I found this approach overwhelming so I had to learn what self-care essentially meant to me as an individual,” says Shane. “We need to know what works for us, and this is different for everybody. Having Kinesiology with Amanda was another great tool that has helped me to dive deeper into self-care, as layers of emotional blocks and energy were shifted and remov