An Unlikely Champion
Finding the Path to Fulfillment and Winning in Life
A new book by Ironman Champion Lisa Bentley
An Unlikely Champion redefines winning. It will show you how to adopt a champion’s mindset, carve out your unique excellence and achieve success in any endeavor.
Ironman champion Lisa Bentley chronicles her path from “no-talent” high school runner to champion triathlete and her transition from hiding her cystic fibrosis to seeing it as a gift that enables her to bring hope to others and meaning to her own career greater than any found on a racecourse.
But An Unlikely Champion is not about winning races. It’s not about cystic fibrosis. It’s about winning in life, about being the best you can be with the cards you’ve been dealt. It is about finding a path to fulfillment even when every path looks impassable. It is about having the courage to get out of your comfort zone, to never stop learning and to turn seemingly inevitable failure into victory.
An Unlikely Champion demonstrates how everyone can harness their inner fire to find their true purpose, achieve their goals and become world class, no matter what the field.
In her 20-year career, Lisa Bentley won 11 Ironman races and represented Canada at the world championships and Pan-Am Games. She now shares her love of sport through motivational speaking and coaching. She was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at age 20 but continues to live a full, healthy life, providing a beacon of hope to families with children diagnosed with CF.
What Others Say About An Unlikely Champion
An Unlikely Champion is the perfect book for anyone who is looking for inspiration, motivation and advice about being the very best they can be, not only in sport but in life. Lisa’s unique and uplifting story makes you realize what the human body and mind are capable of, and I have no doubt that the words in her book will make you realize that you too can achieve more than you ever thought possible
An Unlikely Champion is a remarkable book…Everyone who reads it will come away empowered to improve their life.
Not since Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking has a book packed so much wisdom and hope between its covers. Lisa Bentley’s An Unlikely Champion offers readers a deeply original, profoundly inspiring and accessible roadmap for mastering family, business and life itself – a classic in the making.
I have no doubt that in Lisa’s book, An Unlikely Champion, you will find the inspiration to step things up in your own life, set the bar a little higher and reach for more. Lisa shares her blueprint and life lessons for being the best we can be and always finishing what we start.”