The 3 Most Important Lessons I Learned From Surviving Stage 4 Cancer
Barbara Vercruysse
October 04, 2021
There was a growing urge to bring more love and compassion into this world after having almost lost my life.
Monday, April 7, 2003 at 9 a.m. I’m in the office of my construction business. Jean-Baptiste is with me ― he is 10 weeks old, and I am still breastfeeding him. My two girls ― Heloïse, who is almost 4, and Eugenie, who is 2.5 ― are in kindergarten. I get a phone call from the surgeon who cut away a little black spot on my knee the week before. At first I don’t remember who he is. I only saw him for 15 minutes.
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Self-Care Can Never Be Overestimated
Thrive Global
December 16, 2019
How Surviving a Stage 4 Skin Cancer Taught Me All About Self-Care, About the Preciousness of Life and The Courage To Be Me.
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5 Signs of Personal Growth
LinkedIn
October 24, 2019
Since the recovery of my skin cancer, I decided to take this second chance that life gave me with both hands. I was determined to live my life at its fullest and share my gifts with the world. I had (and still have) many coaches and learned from numerous mentors. The expansion and growth within myself is something that I treasure enormously.
I realize at a very deep level that the only premise to change your life, to live freely and create the life you have always dreamed of, is to change your own beliefs, to change your mindset and to raise your awareness.
These are the signs which are the most prominent for me when a person starts to grow
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3 Simple Steps to Experience Bliss
McGill Media
July 18, 2018
Some people have it, most people don’t.
And let me tell you straight away, it doesn’t come from the big house and the big car. There is no happiness or greatness to be found in material things of themselves.
Some people radiate happiness and fulfillment no matter what their outside circumstances look like, they experience a well-being and a peace of mind in a natural way. How do they do that?
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4 life-saving tips on how to deal with huge setbacks and build your resilience for difficult times.
LinkedIn
August 23, 2017
On April 7th, 2003 I was told that I had a stage-4 skin cancer and would probably not survive the end of that year. My youngest son, Jean-Baptiste, was 8 weeks old at that moment, my daughters Heloïse and Eugenie were 3 and 2 years old. I had been running my construction business for 5 years.
Besides disbelief, I didn’t feel sick at that time, the cancer was discovered through a little black (bleeding) spot on my knee, the sky fell down and rational thinking was far away those first days.
And we all get to hear this kind of news sooner or later in our lives, maybe you woke up one day and your spouse told you she was going to leave you or maybe you had to save your company from bankruptcy.
As entrepreneurs we are by definition more resilient than most other people, we get to deal with little and big fires every day, we are used to it and the vision we hold for our company is always stronger than the obstacles we meet on our way. But sometimes we are confronted with news that shakes our entire existence.
As an expert in dealing with setbacks and difficult circumstances throughout my life, I found that these 4 steps were hugely important in finding the courage to go on and re-invent myself during the moments that my world seemed like falling apart.
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https://www.startthelifeofyourdreams.com/the-meaning-of-suffering/
Start The Life of Your Dreams
July 01, 2017
I am reading this wonderful book ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ from Viktor Frankl (a dear friend of mine recommended it), and I really wanted to share some insights with you.
Viktor Frankl is an Austrian psychiatrist and in this book he shares his stay in several concentration camps during the second World War. His view is unique because of his education, he was particularly interested on the effect of these extreme circumstances on the human being.
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When someone criticizes you…
Start The Life Of Your Dreams
June 15, 2017
A reminder that when someone criticizes you, it ALWAYS tells you more about them, it tells nothing about you.
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The 3 Most Important Lessons I Learned From Surviving Stage 4 Cancer
Huff Post
August 26, 2016
In this article published in The Huffington Post, I share how surviving a stage-4 cancer changed mylife and which lessons I learned and how I can see the gift in those challenging times now.
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Barbara's School of Wisdom
Barbara's School of Wisdom
August 01, 2019
It has always been Barbara's dream to empower others, to teach them to make conscious and powerful choices in life, that's why she created this Online School of Wisdom.
Here you can dive deeper into her teachings and experience the same transformation as her personal coaching clients. Re-connect with the with the joy, the passion and the inspiration within you to thrive and go through life fulfilled, alive and thriving!! Your outer circumstances in life can only fully change if you let your spirit unfold and let go of doubt, pain, guilt and any form of stress.
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Barbara's Empire of Love
Barbara's Empire of Love
July 01, 2019
Barbara's online shop where you can find the finest selection of products, courses and services personally designed by Barbara to increase your wellbeing and fulfilment in life.
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Barbara Vercruysse - Coaching Services - Start The Life of Your Dreams
Start The Life of Your Dreams
January 01, 2014
MY MISSION:
Helping individuals to find deeper meaning and purpose, gain deeper insights, overcome personal limitations, achieve new goals and create a fulfilled life with grace and ease
As a personal coach, I guide entrepreneurs and corporate leaders to find peace of mind, calm and inner strength in a busy life. I guide them through a deep transformation. I support leaders around the world in leading a fulfilled life, creating impact and success.
My biggest strength is to empower my clients and learn them to lead with grace and ease, to stay focused, calm and centred midst of the hectic of an extremely busy life and most of all find deep fulfilment in what they do.
I believe in leading by example only, having faced many challenges, I have built an extraordinary resilience and have grown through all my setbacks.
ARE YOU READY TO WORK WITH ME?
Working with a personal coach, a health coach, a career coach is often the first step for people to obtain more balance in life, to have support with a career move or to find fulfilment and peace midst of a hectic life.
Making big changes, facing unexpected challenges, dealing with setbacks can be very overwhelming, especially without any support.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Building resilience/Building self-confidence/Finding passion and purpose back in life
WHAT OTHERS SAY:
"One in a trillion understands the depth of the need for love and understanding in our world. Barbara has grasped, through experience and the pure joy in her heart and spirit, that giving out the love you recognise, changes lives, and uplifts others to their full peace and freedom. I learn a new lesson in humanity every time you speak. Proud to know you." - Susaye Greene - The last member of The Supremes, Motown Records.
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Cancer U Thrivers Podcast
Andrea Wilson Woods
October 05, 2021
Welcome to the Cancer U Thrivers Podcast. Join me each week as I interview cancer patients, caregivers, survivors, and providers about their cancer journeys. In this episode Barbara Vercruysse shares her life lessons from surviving a stage 4 cancer at the age of 32
You’re listening to Cancer U Thrivers where real people share true stories.
Cancer U Thrivers is proud to be featured as one of the top 10 Cancer Podcasts You Must Follow in 2021!
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Leading with Powerful Kindness
Business Innovators Radio
August 29, 2021
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Reverence for Life
TNT
August 07, 2021
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Are you Happy with your Legacy? | Barbara Vercruysse | Stories that Inspire | WeTransform | Ep#32
Alok Verma
July 28, 2021
Barbara is a Kindness Advocate ║Coach ║Guide ║ Mendor | Public Speaker
She is on a mission to support individuals around the world in leading a fulfilled life, creating impact and success by living and leading with love. And to bring a message of powerful kindness into organisations and corporations.
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This is a series of candid conversations with those who transformed. We bring inspiring first-person stories of those who faced the change and the challenges that come along with that.
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Podcast | What's On Your Mind?
PS GROW
January 29, 2021
Podcast about personal development, mindset & selling
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How Challenges Help Us Find The Right Direction / Words of Wisdom by a Life Coach
Excellence Talks
January 21, 2021
In this Excellence Talks edition, Dr. Christian Forstner and Murat Aydin welcomed Barbara Vercruysse, a successful Mentor and Personal Growth Coach with 25+ years of business experience, a role model on how to become resilient with grace after overcoming multiple
challenges, surviving a stage 4 cancer being one of them. Happily married for more than 20
years, mom of 3 wonderful young adults, she strongly believes in leading by example.
One of her clients is a group of BMW-dealerships where she operates as a Quality Officer
and Business Coach, she is responsible for screening all business processes and guiding
people to perform optimally in their job. She has been part of the management team for
several years there.
Her personal coaching clients are business owners, entrepreneurs and corporate leaders
who are dynamic, positive, open for change and always looking to grow and expand.
Barbara answered the following questions:
As a Personal Coach she helps entrepreneurs and leaders to create a fulfilled life. How did she develop this unique Personality and Special Mission of her life?
Why does Love have a special role in her Leadership and Coaching life?
She shares very openly that she is a role model on how to become resilient with grace after overcoming multiple challenges, surviving a stage 4 cancer being one of them. How did this challenge impact her personal and business life?
Why Self-Care is so important?
What would be her general advice to all those who are not able to manage a life challenge and suffer?
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Expert Predictions For 2021 From World-Class Business Impact Makers
MSP News Global
December 29, 2020
We have put together this collection of Expert Predictions to share positivity and encourage you as we edge towards a promising 2021.
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Stage 4 Skin Cancer And Financial Loss Barbara Become a Successful Entrepreneur
Adriyana Solutions
December 19, 2020
Today we have a very #special #guest from #Belgium Barbara Vercruysse after facing so many obstacle’s during stage 4 #skin #cancer at the age of 32. And #financial #breakdown, how Barbara become a #successful #Entrepreneur and positive #human. Today Barbara share her story with us.
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#86 - Creating the Life You Want with Barbara Vercruysse; Mindset Coach
Business Talk Library
August 27, 2020
Business Talk Library sits down with Barbara Vercruysse a mindset coach based in Belgium who brings over 25 years of business experience. After starting and building up a successful construction business by age 32 CEO Barbara Vercruysse did not expect to be diagnosed with cancer that doctors said would kill her within 6 months.
Even in this dark time of her life and her family's life Barbara figured out how to keep her mind focused on moving forward and leveraging resources to continue moving her business forward.
Now 13+ years later Barbara has launched a new coaching business that is helping others find the wisdom, strength, and support that they need to successfully navigate the unexpected that comes their way.
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Barbara Vercruysse Episode #61
Mari-Lyn Harris
June 17, 2020
Barbara Vercruysse is a Certified Master Life Coach, Business Coach and recently founded her own online school ‘Barbara’s School of Wisdom’. She was published in the Huffington Post and Thrive Global.
My intention to bring together experts, Entrepreneurs together who will share their experiences in the space of creating a happier and healthier workplace culture. Kindness & Happiness. Workplace Wellness.
Topics are be about productivity, profits, leading with kindness, mental health concerns, & other challenges in the workplace culture. Audience is for Entrepreneurs and Non-Profit Leaders.
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OBL 011 - Forgiveness, Positivity, and Surviving Cancer with Barbara Vercruysse
On Becoming Legend
June 01, 2020
Barbara Vercruysse is a mentor, business coach, thought leader and public speaker.
After facing several challenges in life and surviving a stage 4 skin cancer at the age of 32, she decided to live her second life at the fullest.
After running a 6-figure construction business for 18 years, she NOW dedicates herself to her true passion: guiding people through a deep transformation.
She supports people around the world in leading a fulfilled life, creating impact and success by living and leading with love.
One of her clients is BMW where she operates as a Business Coach, AND is responsible for screening all business processes and guiding people to perform optimally in their job.
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Choosing the Good During Difficulty
Do Good Work Podcast
April 28, 2020
Barbara Vercruysse is a mentor, business coach, thought leader and public speaker. After facing several challenges in life and surviving a stage 4 skin cancer at the age of 32, she decided to live her second life at the fullest.
After running a 6-figure construction business for 18 years, she dedicates herself to her true passion now: guiding people through a deep transformation so they are living up to their full potential. She supports people around the world in leading a fulfilled life, creating impact and success by living and leading with love.
One of her clients is BMW where she operates as a Quality Manager and Business Coach, she is responsible for screening all business processes and guiding people to perform optimally in their job.
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Blessing in Disguise II Podcast Interview Barbara Vercruysse II Bobby Dsouza II
Bobby Dsouza
April 14, 2020
It was such a joy interviewing the ever kind, Barbara Vercruysse
the topic is 'BLESSING IN DISGUISE'
such a timely message from her to build the right mindset during times of lockdown & during uncertain economy situations & possibly extended lockdown
Hope you have fun watching & listening to the wonderful Barbara who is a top Linkedin & Facebook Value creator, One of her clients is BMW where she operates as a Quality Manager and Business Coach, she is a Certified Master Life coach & has been published in the Huffington Post and Thrive Global!
Barbara recommends looking at the whole thing from the perspective of Blessing in Disguise, At 32 barbara was diagnosed with Cancer & had a mid-life crisis, she shares her own journey & rich insights into this topic she has health with
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Stories of Success Podcast - Surviving Cancer
Stories of Success
March 30, 2020
This episode of my podcast was another “cold interview". I enjoy those conversations, where you meet someone for the first time and record the conversation. This one is with Barbara Vercruysse. Apologies for some audio glimpses which are due to connectivity issues.
Barbara is a coach, spiritual mentor, thought leader and public speaker. After facing several challenges in life and survivin stage 4 skin cancer at the age of 32, she decided to live her second life at the fullest. In this episode she shares her story of success. She also wrote a book, founded an online school, gives talks and inspires people to deeply transform their lives.
We are looking at the first life she had prior to cancer and her second life after cancer. She sees her cancer, which she had at 32, as a blessing. A concept some might not understand, but for her it was a eureka moment which made her change her life completely. For her it is all about leaving a legacy, an imprint on someone else’s heart.
It was as if she was living someone else’s life until she started being herself, finding herself due to her experience with cancer. She overcame this and openly speaks about the debts she had; she had to close her company and was ready to give it all up. But she persevered and ended up fighting even harder to get to where she is now! She turned that fear into a confidence in life.
She learned how to say yes, worked hard and took the opportunities and made it a success. Her online school is called ‘Barbara’s School of Wisdom’. She was published in the Huffington Post and wrote the book: '7 Most Powerful Techniques to Release Stress’ https://www.amazon.co.uk/most-powerfu....
We discuss the power we have inside us to make decisions and how we react in any situation. Whilst we touch on spiritual experience, and how we would define this for ourselves, there is also the Peaceprize (peaceprize.org) which she was selected for. It is a Thought Leaders School founded by Bryant McGill.
A complex episode with loads of input and take aways in order to encourage you to live the life you want to live!
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Growing through challenging times with Barbara Vercruysse
Erin Taylor
March 12, 2020
In today's episode, I talk with my friend Barbara Vercruysse who is a life and growth coach about growing through challenging times. Barbara should know, as she survived a stage 4 cancer diagnosis. Barbara will also be speaking at our upcoming Revolutionizing Parenthood conference in April about this very topic. Join us!
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Women in Business Podcast - Episode 259
Women in Business
December 10, 2019
Gayle Carson interviews Barbara Vercruysse, a thought leader, mentor, coach and writer and founder of Barbara's School of Wisdom.
Barbara founded an online school “Barbara’s School of Wisdom” and was published in the Huffington Post and wrote “7 Most Powerful Techniques to Release Stress.” After running a successful 6 figure construction business for 18 years, she now guides people through a deep transformation. She operates as a Quality Manager and Business Coach for BMW.
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Women in Business Podcast
Gayle Carson
December 10, 2019
Gayle Carson interviews Barbara Vercruysse, a thought leader, mentor, coach and writer and founder of Barbara's School of Wisdom.
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Changing Adversity Into a Positive Outcome & How To Achieve Your Dreams with Barbara Vercruysse
Hustle is 4 Life Motivation
September 17, 2018
Our guest this week, Barbara Vercruysse, is a coach, spiritual mentor, thought leader and public speaker. After facing several challenges in life and surviving a stage 4 skin cancer at the age of 32, she decided to live her second life at the fullest.
The 3 main lessons from this conversation are:
. how you can change your adversity into a positive outcome
. why controlling your internal environment is the key to being successful
. how you can chase your big dreams and make them a reality
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Don't Let the Fear of Failure Hold You Back
Start The Life Of Your Dreams
April 05, 2021
Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.
Once you understand that, you will develop a different attitude towards failure. You will see each difficulty as an opportunity to grow stronger.
What is failure anyway?
Failure is having a different outcome than you wanted.
It’s a label you put on an experience.
Most people fear failure because mostly they fear the judgements of other people. Let me say this, as long as other people’s judgements control the direction of your life, you are in a powerless position.
Never let the fear of what others might say, hold you back.
Your biggest strength in life will always come in getting back up after a challenge and there is no challenge that you cannot overcome. You have everything within you to succeed in life.
Remember, life is a series of experiences to let your soul grow through those experiences.
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Indestructible Power Within You
Start The Life Of Your Dreams
October 13, 2020
Every challenge in life is an invitation:
an adversity is an invitation to reveal our creativity
a challenge is an invitation to build our strength
a difficulty is an invitation to build resilience
So welcome adversity, embrace it.
You have an indestructible power within you. There is nothing that you cannot overcome.
So stop focusing on the negativity, stop talking in a negative way to yourself.
You owe it to yourself to make the best of every single day.
You choose each day which energy you will bring into the day.
Let’s keep that in mind during these times.
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Kindness is not weakness
Start The Life Of Your Dreams
September 27, 2020
What to do when people are rude to you, how to deal with unkind people. Try to see beyond their angry words. Aggression and rudeness are an expression of their hurt. Their words are a reflection of their inner state and has nothing to do with you.
So never lower yourself to the rude behaviour of others, stay calm and powerful in your kindness and calmness.
Many masters, Jesus, Buddha, ... taught us the power of kindness and calmness. Never forget that you are a divine being in form and that the world needs your light.
In living a life of excellence and integrity, kindness and compassion have a prominent place.
Even in situations where we have to deal with a rude and unkind person, kindness and compassion are the best response.
Remember that the behaviour of someone towards you, has nothing to do with you; it is an expression of his/her inner state of mind.
Listen in this video how we can choose for a powerful kindness always.
Let me end with this quote:
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
Lao-Tzu
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Are You Letting Negativity Control Your Life?
Start The Life Of Your Dreams
August 16, 2020
Do you allow negativity to run your life?
Raising your awareness on what you allow in your life is crucial in finding peace of mind.
Do you allow negative thoughts run your mind and you are not even conscious that you are digging your own grave with it?
Do you allow negative people around you because you think you are not a good person if you take distance from those people?
Do you allow drama and gossip in your life adding to your stress and overwhelm?
You deserve better…
You deserve a healthy life.
You deserve a fulfilled life.
You deserve a joyful life.
But YOU are the guardian of your space, of your energy and what you allow in your life.
As a stage 4 cancer survivor I realise the preciousness of each breath, the sacredness of each human encounter and most of all of the power within us to live a life full of joy, warmth and fulfilment.
So today, I invite to be aware of who and what you allow in your life; to make sure you do not allow anything or anyone to dim your light.
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Your Current Situation is Not Your Final Destination
Start The Life Of Your Dreams
September 15, 2019
If you’re in a difficult situation right now, always ask yourself these 2 questions:
What’s the lesson here?
What’s the gift?
Is it teaching you Strength, Setting Boundaries, Unconditional Love...
A video full of insights, motivation, encouragement and tips for self-improvement.
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How to be completely fulfilled in life
Start The Life Of Your Dreams
October 08, 2017
Finding your purpose and the happiness within you without being dependent on outer circumstances.
Learn to see how your mind works, how you can change your thoughts to change how you experience your life.
A video full of insights, motivation, encouragement and tips for self-improvement.
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Quality Manager - HR Soft Skills Responsible
The Path of Powerful Kindness
Kindness@Work
Empowering with Kindness
Building Resilience in Uncertain Times.
Feminineship: Women Impacting Women Impacting the World.
TNT Podcast 2.0 - Reverence for life
Create the Ripple Effect - What is within your power to help yourself?
