Janet Fanaki - Backgrounder

photo cred: Maggie Knaus

• Lives in Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
• Founder of RESILIENT PEOPLE
• Former public relations specialist
• Launched website in 2018 and podcast in November 2020
• Interviews with regular people around the world admired for their resilience
• They have overcome major challenges and created something to help others be resilient too
• Has interviewed guests across Canada, US, England and Australia
• Started out as a goal 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
• Janet's husband Adam was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a terminal brain cancer, in 2016. 
• Adam Fanaki passed away in February 2020
• To help in their grief, she and her children started The Adam Fanaki Brain Fund
• Raised over $114,000 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 (18) and Isobel (21) and a mini poodle named Ella

www.resilientpeople.ca