Motivational Speaker
Motivate Your Team
Steve is highly motivated to succeed in a variety of endeavours, and has studied and tested how to turn this motivation into winning reality, giving him the knowledge to be a natural motivational speaker.
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Combine this background with his eagerness to share his knowledge and his true-to-life honesty, mixed with loads of integrity, and you get a highly enthusiastic, entertaining, and motivational speaker.
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- Using winning adventure sport concepts to thrive in business.
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- Turning stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
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"Steve was inspirational, a real catalyst for positive change throughout our team. We look forward to him coming back next year."
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High Adventure
Inspirational Stories
The primary aim of Steve Gurney's adventures is the fun and excitement of pushing boundaries. They also have a second benefit: they create incredible stories to share!
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A Few Popular Adventures
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Crossing the Sahara - Mad Way South
World Records: 1st team to cross the Sahara Desert by wind power alone + Longest Kite Buggy Journey (2100 km)
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A Most Ambitious Journey - Harper Pass
The original Coast to Coast & other historical vs modern gear re-enactments of kiwi journeys.
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Malaysia & The Bat out of Hell
How Steve fought his way back to health, after nearly dieing in Malaysia, so successfully he won seven Coast to Coast races in a row afterwards!
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Resilience & Change
Mental Strength
Life is full of obstacles & opportunities.
The important thing is to appreciate that the obstacles themselves are commonly opportunities when viewed from a positive angle.
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During the Raid Guloises Adventure Race in Borneo, Steve was infected with Leptosporosis by bat dung as his team raced through the Mulu caves.
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Steve suffered circulatory collapse and pulmonary oedema followed by renal failure while being dragged through intensive care wards in Malaysia and Singapore. He came very close to death.
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Read more of this story in Lucky Legs, and on kidney researcher John Pickering's blogs.
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It is Steve's fight back to winning form (winning 7 Coast to Coast races in a row afterwards) in just 2 years, in the face of medical professionals' skepticism and doubt that spawned many requests for speaking engagements.
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Learn how he turned this, and many other of his life's large obstacles into a winning opportunity.
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Favourite obstacle / opportunity topics:
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Getting out of the comfort zone, and into the growth zone by embracing risk & failure as part of the adventure
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Hey! I'm not dead yet!
How to stage a come-back.
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Turning stumbling blocks
into stepping stones
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Resilience Seminars
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Email steve@stevegurney.co.nz
"The voice of considerable experience and knowledge, delivered with inspiration. Brilliant & invaluable!!"
- Roger Twiname
Senior Structural Engineer & Director
Mental Health
Depression & Anxiety
Even top athletes fall victim to poor mental health...
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Steve has had many close calls with death, but none closer than his Leptospirosis infection from bats in the Mulu Caves.
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Following this lepto episode Steve had two years of suicidal depression, (and this tendency is still ongoing btw).
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He candidly and constructively shares his research, philosophy and strategies for cultivating healthy mental states of mind and habits.
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"Steve was fantastic – a very engaging and enthusiastic speaker, and person in general."
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- Scott Mai
Director/Business Manager Chester Grey Chartered Accountants New Zealand
CONTACT
Brainstorm Ideas
Are you working on a documentary, have an upcoming grand adventure, organising a TV show, planning an event or anything else that could use some Gurney input?
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Give me a call, or send me an email and we can talk through your ideas and work towards making your dream a reality.
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Phone 021-GURNEY ( 021 487 639 )
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Email steve@stevegurney.co.nz
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Connect with Steve
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