Episode #36 - Sarah Williams (Tough Girl Challenges)

Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis

Steve Adams

Wilderness, Sports

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2017

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Williams is a true force of nature. Her goal is to inspire women and girls to think beyond the boundaries of their previously limited lives, and she has earned her recognition as a true leader in her community. To challenge herself further, she is attempting a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail from June 2017 and hoping to complete that challenge in 100 days. Her defiant self-belief and powerful determination lead her to challenge others to test themselves. Sarah quit her well-paid City of London job to pursue her dreams and spent 18 months traveling the world, climbing Kilimanjaro in Africa and hiking around South America among her many adventures. She can be contacted in many ways and through many platforms, all of which will appear at the bottom of these notes, after her second photograph. Jessa / Attie has come to something of a crossroads in her hike. We met at Trail Days and she seemed to have made up her mind that perhaps a thru-hike wasn't for her. A couple of days later, she was back hiking, relishing the trail once more and happy with her decision. She'll make the final decision on Memorial Day. Before that happens, though, we got the chance of a picture together for the first time. By the way, I mention my bear sighting in the show. Here is the YouTube link as promised. Back to Sarah and the many ways to contact her. Twitter - https://twitter.com/_tough_girl Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/toughgirlchallenges/ Blog/Website - https://www.toughgirlchallenges.com/ FaceBook - https://www.facebook.com/ToughGirlChallenges/ TRIBE - https://www.facebook.com/groups/ToughGirlTribe/ Tumblr - http://toughgirlchallenges.tumblr.com Pinterest - https://uk.pinterest.com/Tough101/ Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/ToughGirlPodcast?ty=h You can listen to the Tough Girl Podcast on the go via iTunes, Soundcloud & Stitcher! If you can't get hold of Sarah through all those choices, you're not really trying!! Thanks so much to everybody for their continued support for the show. Please tell your friends and share the links that you see on Facebook with your own network.

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0:00.0	Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, joined Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine.
0:26.2	Hi again and welcome to episode number 36 of the show, as well as chapter 5 in my second
0:31.7	book. If you want to hear the first book, you'll have to go all the way back to the pilot
0:35.7	podcast episode and catch up that
0:37.7	way. This week my guest is Sarah Williams, an incredibly driven fellow Brit. So I'm afraid
0:45.4	the show comes with something of a language warning. I'm afraid we can't add subtitles,
0:49.9	so you may need to concentrate a little harder than normal. Sarah speaks more clearly than I do
0:54.6	so it shouldn't be too bad. When I say that she's incredibly driven, I am really not kidding,
1:01.7	Sarah has put together a major online presence with a tough girl challenges brand,
1:06.5	inspiring women and girls to take on challenges that they might otherwise shy away from.
1:11.3	She puts out a daily podcast and engages her audience in a smart and positive way.
1:16.1	You'll be so impressed with Sarah.
1:17.7	Oh, and by the way, in case you're wondering what this British superwoman has to do with hiking on the Applacian Trail,
1:23.7	she's attempting a 100-day through hike of the AT from June 1st this year.
1:28.9	Now that is putting your money where your mouth is.
1:31.6	She'll be on soon.
1:33.3	I drove up to trial days in Damascus last week in order to interview a variety of people from this annual hiker fest.
1:40.2	Apart from the fact that a 740 mile journey in a single day with a single old driver is a daft thing to do, I can tell you that I found the whole experience to be at eye-opening.
1:51.0	I didn't do trail days when I was hiking in 2014, so it was entirely new to me.
1:56.5	I think I was expecting to be disappointed by the change in hikers' attitudes because I've read so much negativity this year in social media.
2:04.0	For that reason, I'm delighted to say that I think that it's the social media that has the problem,
2:09.2	not the class of 2017.
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