RESILIENT PEOPLE Backgrounder

photo cred: Maggie Knaus

• Janet Fanaki is the Host of the RESILIENT PEOPLE podcast and lead content creator for the RESILIENT PEOPLE website
  
• She lives in Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
• A self-described 'Resilience Explorer'
• Former public relations specialist
• Launched website in 2018 and podcast in November 2020
• Interviews with regular people around the world admired for their resilience
• The guests of RESILIENT PEOPLE have overcome major challenges and made a purpose from these experiences to help others be resilient too
• Interviews have been done with guests around the world including: Canada, US, England and Australia
• The goal of RESILIENT PEOPLE is to inspire those who say that they "can't do it"
• You are stronger than you think and no one knows what they capable of doing until they need to do it
• In 2016 Janet's husband Adam was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a terminal brain cancer, and passed away at 51 years old in February 2020
• To help in their grief, she and her children started The Adam Fanaki Brain Fund
• Having a purpose is one of the ways in which to build resilience - by focussing on something bigger than yourself
• Raised over $145,000 this year to help brain tumour patients and caregivers at Sunnybrook's Odette Cancer Centre, St. Michael's Hospital and the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada
• Janet has two children Sam (19) and Isobel (21) and a mini poodle named Ella

www.resilientpeople.ca