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Lorca Smetana: Choosing Love in the Midst of Grief and Loss

October 22, 2024 • Episode 189

My guest today is Lorca Smetana.

Lorca is a resilience expert, teacher, and speaker with a deep passion for helping individuals and communities rise from trauma and challenges. Lorca’s unique approach combines her personal experience surviving disaster and loss at the young age of 16, with years of teaching and coaching, focusing on resilience, grief, and the emotional landscapes of leadership. With a background that spans wilderness survival, emergency response, and personal coaching, Lorca offers insight and tools that empower people to transform their toughest moments into profound growth.

I’m thrilled to have Lorca on the podcast today to share her story, expertise, and the ways she’s helping people not only survive but thrive through life’s most difficult challenges.

Lorca and I were connected through the kind introduction of Kim Brundage – thank you Kim!

Lorca lives in Bozeman, Montana, and alongside the beautiful work of resilience training that she does, she also has a sustainable farm where she and her husband raise two free-range children, homing pigeons, dogs, Icelandic sheep, and a diversity of other birds and creatures for sustenance, humility and delight.

Lorca, thank you for this inspiring conversation. Thank you for sharing these pieces of your story. Thank you for sharing the journey of grief, choosing love, choosing life. You embody the tools that you lovingly teach others in a beautiful way!

To learn more about Lorca and her work, please see the links below:

Lorca's Website: https://www.lorcasmetana.com/
Lorca's Blogs: https://www.lorcasmetana.com/blog
Lorca's TEDx Talk: https://youtu.be/bA4s-0D9AK8?si=UbFa0RQPEI27TS0L

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