The Interesting People Podcast
A podcast where interesting people talk about fascinating things
Many thanks to host Philippa Willitts, for asking the insightful questions and allowing me to share more of my story.
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Show notes
Introducing myself
Getting to 32 and deciding to change my life
Leaving my job in March 2013
The challenge of leaving my job and not having a purpose for my life
Having the chance to think about what I wanted to do
Spending more time planning my holidays than my life
Climbing Kilimanjaro and what I learned from the experience
The power of choice
Reaching the summit and why it wasn’t what I expected
Not taking the time to celebrate and appreciate what I’ve achieved
How Tough Girl Challenges came about by sitting on buses in South America
Why I started the Tough Girl Podcast
Why I needed to take action
What I’ve been learning from the women I’ve interviewed
The positive consequences of doing challenges
How you can build your own self confidence
“If she can do, maybe I can to”
The ripple effect
Why we need to change stereotypes and people perceived perceptions of what women can do
Am I making a living from Tough Girl Challenges?
Building a brand from scratch
Using Patreon to support the podcast
Why 2017 will be the year it takes off
Being 35 and living at home with my parents
The Tough Girl Podcast, Tough Girl Extra, 7 Women - 7 Challenges, Tough Girl Daily Podcast
Putting my patrons name on my website, having a closed FB group, thank you cards, shout outs on twitter etc
Thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail - 2,190 miles in 100 days
Having to pre-load 3 months of podcasts
“If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you”
Going for an 8 mile training walk with a 20 lb backpack
Trying to be flexible with hiking, waiting for my trail legs to kick in
Doing 52 miles in a day at the Marathon des Sables
Why I went for a website based business with my goal of being able to run my business from anywhere in the world
Vlogging on the trail and sharing the content on YouTube
Loving life - being passionate about what I do, having the freedom to focus on what I want to do
Working for myself and being so much happier in myself
Being me
Work/life balance and why it’s easy to be extreme
Knowing it would be hard work and what I’m surprised by in this industry
Why I started the daily podcast and why I wanted to share what goes on behind the scenes
Why you just need to start
Are you interesting? Contact Philippa to be featured on her podcast!