Finding Your True North with Emily Miller

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🗓️ 7 October 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Have you ever felt lost — literally or metaphorically? There’s an event that happens every year, created by former rally and off-road racer Emily Miller, designed to help women have a better sense of direction on the road and in life. The Rebelle Rally is the first women’s off-road navigational rally in the United States. Emily Miller created this unique event as a platform to build skills and confidence for women and they come away wiht much more than driving and navigation skills.

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0:00.0	I'm a big fan of being able to find your way around your own true north, literally and metaphorically.
0:17.0	So today I'm talking to someone who encourages people to do just that with her annual event that takes place in varied terrain between Nevada and
0:25.2	California. If you're a fan of road trips, rally racing, off-roading, motor sports, or
0:32.0	you just want to know a little bit about finding your own way in life?
0:36.0	You're in for a wild ride on this one.
0:40.0	I'm Shelby Stanger and this is wild ideas worth living.
0:44.4	There's an event that happens every year
0:51.4	where you not only need a good sense of direction, but you also
0:54.8	need perseverance, intelligence, the ability to work as a team, and a little grit.
1:00.7	In the event you can't use a GPS or a cell phone to get from point A to B.
1:05.0	You get to rely only on old school topographic maps, a protractor, a compass,
1:11.0	in your off-road vehicle. Starting in Lake Tahoe area you go really far
1:15.4	over varied terrain for seven days almost all the way to Mexico and you'll see some
1:19.7	amazing sites you might never have seen on regular roads.
1:23.0	Every night when you make it back to the final checkpoint,
1:25.0	you'll come home to a meal prepared by a Michelin star-rated chef,
1:29.0	the camaraderie of other participants,
1:30.0	and you get to camp under the stars.
1:32.0	Then you get to camp under the stars.
1:32.7	Then you get to get up the next day at the crack of dawn,
1:35.4	take down your tent, fill up on coffee and breakfast,
1:38.5	get your map, and figure out with your teammate
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