Hey everyone, this is Women Who Travel, a podcast from Kynast Traveler. I'm Meredith Carey, and with me as my co-host, Lolly, Ericoglu.

Hello. Lolle's just back from a road trip along the PCH, which you can hear all about on last week's

episode of Travelog, the other podcast that we have going on here at Traveler. This week, Lolli and I are so pumped because we're joined by someone who's seen a side of our world that most of us,

honestly, don't dare to dip a toe into.

Jamie Monaghan is an ultra-marathon and cold water swimmer from right here in New York City.

And later this month, she'll attempt to become the fastest person to swim six marathon swims on six continents within 16 days.

Sounds like a real tongue twister.

By the time you hear this, she'll actually have already started on this journey here in New York on August 11th.

Thank you for joining us.

Oh, my pleasure. Thank you.

So can you just kind of explain how you even got started in this cold water open

water swimming because i feel like that's something that most people are not doing on their day-to-day

adventures probably not um the way i get started i've actually been a swimmer all my life um

was a pool swimmer throughout grade school and university and then kind of stepped away from it

because I was working on Wall Street for many years after college.

After a bit, I started to get back into running and triathlons and then some open water

swimming, which was really unique.

And just really on a whim, we were planning a trip, my boyfriend and I, to see the

Northern Lights in Finland. And we were going up to a place called Kekslouten, where they have

these amazing glass igloos up there, great viewing potential for the Northern Lights. And we were also

going to see Friends in Helsinki. And then kind of just out of the blue, an email popped up on my English Channel

Swimmers chat group about the World Winter Swimming Championships in Rovanyemi, Finland,

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