MINDSETU

I'm Lisa Tamati, and as a professional adventure athlete, best-selling author, documentary producer, motivational speaker and coach, I know a thing or two about what it takes to achieve big scary audacious goals.

Over the past 25 years, I've competed in some of the toughest endurance events on the planet, including racing 217km through Death Valley, the hottest desert on earth, twice and La Ultra, a 222km race over the two highest motorable passes in the world or running a 222km race across one of the poorest and most dangerous countries on earth through Niger, or crossing the Libyan desert without outside help, plus over 140 other ultramarathons and expeditions.

I've faced many challenges throughout my journey. I battled sever asthma since early childhood.

Then, at the age of 21 an accident on a flying fox while cycling through the South Island of New Zealand I broke two vertebrae and compressed two discs.

Doctors told me I would never be able to run again. Over 70,000km later, I've shown what determination and focus can achieve.

It's this determination that has seen me also become a successful business woman, as a director and founder of five companies, as well as being named Maori Sportswoman of the year in 2008.

I am often called upon to speak in the media on sports and talk shows on both radio and TV and I am the author of two best selling books, Running Hot and Running to Extremes.

Most recently I have spent over 2 years helping my mother who suffered a debilitating aneurysm (bleed in the brain) and who was left with massive brain damage at the age of 74.

After surviving the initial incident and waking out of the coma she had hardly any higher function, no ability to speak, to control any body functions, she had virtually no memory, no focus, no balance or spatial awareness at all and was unable even to chew or to sit properly and again the doctors told me I had to put her in a hospital level care rest home facility and that she would likely never do much of anything ever again.

I absolutely refused to believe that and scoured the world for therapies, studied endlessly and pushed every boundary I could in my attempt to bring her back from the brink. Now 2 and a 1/2 years later she is my little miracle, she is reading, writing, walking, talking, back to her old intelligent self again and fully into life. Recently she even got her full drivers licence again and bought her own car now has her own power of attorney back.

I am currently writing a book on her one in a million comeback story and what we did to get her there. The biggest piece of the puzzle? The absolute belief that I could and a willingness to do whatever it took to get her back.

None of these achievements would have been possible without the right mindset towards achieving goals.

I know what it takes to push my mind and body with a winning mindset, and now I want to share my real-life learnings with you, so you can achieve things in your life, professional, personal or sporting - that you never thought possible.

I've already had the privilege of helping plenty of others achieve their own version of success and now I want to help you.