This week on the show, my guest is Tatiana Straathof. She's a former professional circus artist, a graduate of the world-renowned, Ecole Nationale de Cirque, and founder of Creating your Sun shinene" which helps seniors improve their balance maintain their independence and live each day with better health and greater joy. She also goes to schools, organizations, sports teams and corporate settings to share her story with an added twist in how she engages with her audience.

I met Tatiana a few years ago before the pandemic and when we met and she told me her story and some of the things that she's been through it wasn't just inspiring to hear but I had a lot of questions because I was trying to understand where she was getting this mental strength and internal joy from.

One moment she was about to finally accomplish a dream of her's that she's had since a young girl and the next she was in the hospital and diagnosed with a rare bone disease mixed with another illness that left her bedridden for the next 6 years trying to figure out what was going on inside, and how do we get better from it.

in this episode, we get into:

-Setting down in Calgary Alberta
-How watching a Cirque du Soleil event inspired her to want to be a part of it
-Self-teaching the basics of movement and balance
-How she blocks out negative voices
-The audition process to get into Ecole Nationale de Cirque
-moving to a new city and learning a new language
-why it was tough for her to balance it all
-How she handled the doubts and fears of failure
-The diagnoses that would detour her dream
-the impact of a rare bone disease that she healed from and but another condition was revealed that left her bedridden for years
-How she stayed encouraged through it all
-Why she chose to turn her hardships into discovering a new perspective and bigger dream

and so much more.

All Things Tatiana:

Website: https://www.tatianastraathof.com/
Bookings & Workshops: https://www.tatianastraathof.com/
Contact: tatiana@creatingyoursunshine.com

Watch the episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UnscriptedWithAkeemHaynes/videos