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Zaheen Nanji is a resilience champion and an entrepreneur. She teaches people and organizations how to embrace change effortlessly and create resilient leaders and tenacious employees. Zaheen owns Shanti Wellness and Laser Centre in Alberta and is the author of four books of which two are co-authored. People who don't know Zaheen's background sometimes assume that achieving success was easy for her. That couldn't be further from the truth. She grew up in Kenya, East Africa, where good-quality higher education was not available and there was very little opportunity for economic advancement at the time. When she was 15, her parents bought her and her 17-year-old sister passage to Canada so they could pursue their dreams of knowledge and success.
Zaheen stuttered up until her twenties, but she learned how to embrace fear. For many people who stutter, simply being able to stop stuttering is a dream come true. But Zaheen has run with the dream and is now a sought-after motivational speaker. She transformed her life by overcoming her speech impediment, overcoming her struggles with weight and creating opportunities for her life in Canada. She was recently nominated for RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur 2014, and has completed her fourth book,The Resilience Reflex.
Reviewed by Kim Anisi for Readers' Favorite
If you enjoy self-help books with a personal note, then The Resilience Reflex: 8 Keys to Transforming Barriers into Success in Life and Business by Zaheen Nanji might be just the next one you should put on your to-read list. In this book you will learn about the journey Zaheen went through herself, and how she turned her life around. The insights she took from her challenges and from other people's actions and words are the essence and soul of this book. If you have problems in your life - you feel burned out, think your problems are impossible to solve, you are not happy, or are not taking care of yourself enough - then this would be a good book to pick up.
While The Resilience Reflex: 8 Keys to Transforming Barriers into Success in Life and Business by Zaheen Nanji read a lot more like an autobiography in the first parts, I did enjoy reading it a lot. Even though it was not quite what I expected it to be (i.e. a more impersonal self-help book) or maybe because it wasn't what I expected it to be, I found myself turning page after page. It was very interesting to learn about Zaheen's journey and the challenges she had to overcome. Learning about her life makes it more believable that the points she makes in the self-help sections truly work; after all, the author is a living example of how you can turn your life around. I would definitely recommend this book for people who not only want advice, but who also want to see an example of how that advice can make a real difference in a person's life.
