Breaking Through The 'I Can't Do It' and How to Start Chasing our Dreams
Get Your Glow Back
Madeleine Shaw
4.8 • 553 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Bonita Norris, the youngest British woman to climb Everest, adventurer, author, motivational speaker and amazing mumma goes from climbing mountains to motherhood. Today we chat about preparing for birth, home birthing, adjusting from having free time to no time and her amazing life experiences so far. Bonita has pushed her limits in the most extreme environments on earth so I hope she inspires you as much as she did me.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Get Your Globe at podcast. This is episode 18 with Benita Norris. Benita is an adventurer, author and motivational speaker. Benita has broken mountaineering records and in 2012 she became third British woman to climb the world's fourth highest peak. |
| 0:21.9 | Not only that she is the author of The Girl Who Climed Everest, Podcast Host, She Moose Mountains and a proud new mama. |
| 0:30.8 | In today's episode, we talked through how in just over a year she went from uni student to mountaineer. |
| 0:36.1 | We talk a lot about her training regime |
| 0:38.2 | and mind techniques for getting to the top of Everest. She's also a brand new mum and we talk a lot |
| 0:45.4 | about her birth story and how she's finding motherhood. She is an incredibly inspiring woman. I |
| 0:50.6 | really, really enjoyed sitting down with her. I definitely feel like I need to start |
| 0:55.4 | getting back on my climbing. And I do share a story about my trekking career and the time I got |
| 0:59.9 | trench foot. So look out for that bit. For everything we chat about today, you can find all the |
| 1:04.7 | details in the show notes, which are at madelendshore.com forward slash episode 18. |
| 1:11.7 | Welcome Bond to the podcast. |
| 1:13.8 | Thank you. Thank you. I'm so honored to be here. |
| 1:16.5 | No, I'm honored to have you. We've got Lily joining us as well. |
| 1:20.1 | Yeah, she started to talk just as we've started to record. |
| 1:25.2 | Lily is 16 weeks old. |
| 1:26.9 | Yeah, today. And she just had one of her jabs this morning, so she's a little bit more. Lily is 16 weeks old Yeah today |
| 1:27.7 | And she just had one of her jabs this morning |
| 1:29.9 | So she's a little bit more |
| 1:31.6 | It's so horrible the jabs |
| 1:34.2 | Like honestly I actually made my boyfriend do all of them |
| 1:37.4 | Oh really? |
| 1:38.9 | I just couldn't |
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