My work as a motivational speaker and sports ambassador combines part of my university education, specifically public speaking in Italian and other languages I speak, with my work as a professional freediver. I started as a sports ambassador in 2010 thanks to the encouragement of my dear friend and great mountaineer Daniele Nardi, who tragically passed away during a winter climbing attempt. It is much more than just a job, because for me, being a sports ambassador is also a source of great inspiration, excitement, stimulation, and personal growth. Through this work, I have the opportunity to make the resources and experiences I have gained through freediving available to others, sharing them through online and in-person speeches and showing my most representative and engaging videos.
Here are some examples of the topics I cover most often:
- Knowing how to HANDLE PRESSURE, learning to see pressure not as something that necessarily suffocates us, but as a situation that forces us to bring out the best in ourselves;
- FEAR as our main ally; fear is the intelligence of courage and as such is extremely useful! We must not let fear paralyze us, but learn to see it as a guiding force that eliminates the superfluous and helps us define our priorities;
- SELF-CONTROL, which does not exclude PUTTING YOURSELF OUT THERE, the complex balance between two fundamental aspects of our lives;
- UNEXPECTED EVENTS are an unexpected but omnipresent component of our activities. Thanks to preparation and gradualness, it is possible to manage them in the best possible way;
- LEARNING TO BREATHE: deep or yogic breathing is the gateway to our inner world and to relaxation; knowing how to change the rhythm and intensity of our breathing as needed allows us to actively change our mental and physical state and to make the most of a tool that is always at our disposal, from the first to the last day of our lives;
- Fragility/ANTIFRAGILITY/resilience: what is the truly winning compromise? In a society where you either succumb or remain standing at all costs, antifragility is the best way to react to change through dynamic and intelligent adaptation without ever losing yourself.
- Know your LIMITS and set a strategy to overcome them gradually and respectfully.
- TEAMWORK: knowing how to “play” as a team multiplies our strengths and resources without losing our essence and individuality.
- INTERNAL DIALOGUE is a powerful weapon that we always have at our disposal and that we usually handle in the wrong way, i.e., by pointing it at ourselves! Learning to talk to ourselves in the right way means becoming our own primary motivators.
- The fine line between a GOAL to pursue and OBSESSION: knowing how to recognize when great determination and motivation degenerate into obsession is essential in order not to shatter our own efforts and those of others.
