Episode 1431: The Resilience Mindset with Terry Healey

Derek Champagne talks with Terry Healey, author of The Resilience Mindset: How Adversity Can Strengthen, Individuals, Teams, & Leaders.

A survivor of a permanent facial difference and life-threatening cancer, Terry Healey is an
author, keynote speaker, and business strategist. Healey challenges audiences to face their
adversities and apply his framework of four key principles to gain confidence, build resilience,
and find joy in their personal and professional lives.

Having endured more than thirty surgical procedures to reconstruct his face while in his early
twenties, Healey discovered tools that could help him transform his changed life. He shares
ways to take control, overcome challenges, build trust and teams, embrace change, and learn
the value of acceptance and tolerance. He views the lessons he learned as gifts, and believes
his greatest reward is being able to teach others how to overcome any kind of adversity and
celebrate life.

His experience led him to a successful thirty-five-year career as a high-tech sales and marketing
executive, including being on the founding team of a company that had a successful initial
public offering. His popular programs are presented to healthcare organizations, corporations,
educational institutions, associations, and nonprofits nationwide. They include Cisco Systems,
Inc., Charles Schwab, the University of California Berkeley football team, Santa Clara University,
Ligand Pharmaceuticals, Genomic Health, Perkin Elmer, Stanford University, UC San Francisco,
Kaiser Permanente, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Greater Baltimore Medical Center,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and many others.

A graduate of UC Berkeley, Healey is the author of The Resilience Mindset: How Adversity Can
Strengthen Individuals, Teams, and Leaders [September 2025], and his previous title, At Face
Value: My Triumph over a Disfiguring Cancer, and is a contributing author to Open My Eyes,
Open My Soul: Celebrating Our Common Humanity; Make Your Own Miracle: Surviving
Cancer, an Anthology; and Reading Lips and Other Ways to Overcome a Disability.

His work has appeared in Psychology Today, Metro UK, The San Francisco Chronicle,
Guideposts, NurseWeek, U.S. News and World Report, Sales and Marketing Magazine, Coping
and CURE Today. He has appeared on dozens of national and local TV networks and has been
interviewed on more than seventy-five radio stations across the U.S. and Canada.

Order a copy of The Resiliance Mindset here: https://terryhealey.com/product/the-resilience-mindset/

Business Leadership Series Intro and Outro music provided by Just Off Turner: https://music.apple.com/za/album/the-long-walk-back/268386576