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🗓️ 27 June 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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0:00.0 | This conversation is with rock climbing superstar Beth Rodden. |
0:04.0 | Welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living, |
0:08.0 | an adventure podcast presented by REI Co-op, |
0:11.0 | the brand who helps get you outside through gear, classes, and adventures. |
0:16.0 | We talk to experts who have taken a wild idea and made it a reality so you can too. |
0:20.9 | From people who have climbed the tallest peaks, started thriving businesses, and even broken records, |
0:26.2 | some of the wildest ideas can lead to the most rewarding adventures. |
0:30.3 | I'm your host, Shelby Stanger, and I hope you enjoy this show. |
0:39.6 | Today we're talking about breaking the perfectionist cycle and being an overachiever. |
0:44.2 | And today's guest, Beth Rodden is a recovering overachiever, and I say that lightly because |
0:48.9 | she still achieves so much today. |
0:51.6 | Beth got her start at climbing gyms in California when she was 14 and quickly started winning national |
0:56.6 | competitions. |
0:58.0 | Then she began climbing outside and all over the world setting tons of records. |
1:02.2 | She became famous for free climbing the nose on El Capitan, |
1:04.9 | among completing many other first descents, like free climbing the meltdown, which is an incredibly |
1:09.3 | difficult route in Yosemite, where she showed the world women can climb as good as the men. |
1:14.6 | Then in 2000 she was involved in a really challenging experience. |
1:18.4 | When she was on a climbing trip with her then boyfriend Tommy Caldwell who she married, two other rock climbers they were in |
1:24.7 | Kirkistan when they were captured by IMU fighters which is a militant group linked to |
1:29.4 | Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. They went six days in the mountains of being held by their captors with only a |
1:34.4 | power bar each, no tent, no gear, just the clothes on their backs. On the sixth day, Beth |
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