How to Remain Resilient in Life and Business with Bianca Olthoff

<p><em>“I’m having a Bianca on hurdles day.”<br/></em><br/></p><p>I’ll text my sister this whenever it feels like nothing in life or business is going as planned.</p><p><br/></p><p><em>Let me explain.</em></p><p><br/></p><p>When we were in high school, Bianca, my twin sister, decided she was going to run the 300-meter dash with hurdles. After clearing the first three hurdles with ease, Bianca broke the number one rule from Coach Julia which was looking over at her opponents. Bianca then lost her cadence and fell over hurdles 4-10 in front of hundreds of people, but she got back up and still limped to the finish line with bloody shins.</p><p><br/></p><p>I met her there to tell her how proud of her I was for not quitting… <em>oh, and her response, you ask?</em></p><p><br/></p><p>She looked at me, stopped crying, and said, “Wait a minute, I could have quit?”</p><p><br/></p><p>She didn’t know that quitting was an option… so she didn’t quit. <em>(Think about that for a moment.)</em></p><p><br/></p><p>Even though Bianca and I aren’t technically identical, our upbringings were pretty darn close.</p><p><br/></p><p>And one thing that we definitely share is our desire to help others remain resilient. </p><p><br/></p><p>We believe resilience is a choice that we make every single day (sometimes multiple times a day!), and <em>you’d better BELIEVE</em> we have stories to prove it. </p><p><br/></p><p>I invited Bianca to come on this episode to share some of the lessons that we learned growing up together (in fact, we learned so many that she just released a <em>brand new</em> book about them: <em>“</em><a href='https://www.amazon.com/Grit-Dont-Quit-Developing-Resilience/dp/140033621X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1688609200&amp;sr=8-1'><em>Grit Don’t Quit</em></a><em>”)</em>.</p><p><br/></p><p>Click play to hear all of this and…</p><p><em>[00:03:45]</em> The origins of our (Bianca and my) resilience and grit, and how it shaped our lives.</p><p><em>[00:08:15]</em> Our experiences running track in high school, incl