Jill Wheatley | Embracing Impermanence
The Freetrail Podcast with Dylan Bowman
Dylan Bowman
5 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2021
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Jill Wheatley is a Canadian mountaineer who spends much of her time climbing in the Himalaya. Jill and I met in 2019 and have developed a friendship and mutual respect. I have grown to admire Jill deeply for the person she is and the lessons she's learned and shared from a life changing injury she incurred in 2014. While teaching a physical education class in Bavaria, Jill suffered a traumatic brain injury that left her 70% blind and in the hospital for months. Jill has never regained her vision, but has returned to the life of her dreams, climbing, skiing, trail running, and generally living a life of purpose and passion. This is the story of how we can use the lowest moments of our lives to launch into periods of deep inspiration and growth.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, fam, welcome back to the free trail podcast. I'm your host, Dylan Bowman, and today I have a very special |
| 0:22.1 | episode for you all. It is, of course, the holiday season in the end of the year, a time when we all |
| 0:29.6 | find ourselves reflecting and looking forward and setting goals and course correcting if we feel |
| 0:37.2 | like we're on the wrong path. And it is also a |
| 0:40.2 | time to be grateful for what we have and spend time with those we love. And in that spirit, today I am |
| 0:47.8 | happy to share a conversation with my good friend Jill Wheatley. Jill is likely not a familiar name to most of you, |
| 0:57.7 | but she is one of the most inspiring people I have ever encountered. Jill is a Canadian |
| 1:03.9 | mountaineer, an outdoor athlete who spends much of her time climbing and exploring in Nepal and in the Himalaya. |
| 1:13.4 | But Jill and I met back in 2019, and we have since developed a great friendship. |
| 1:19.0 | I've grown to admire Jill deeply for the person she is and the lessons that she has learned |
| 1:25.5 | and shared from a life-changing injury that she incurred back in |
| 1:29.8 | 2014. While she was teaching a physical education class living in Germany at the time, |
| 1:37.2 | Jill suffered a traumatic brain injury that left her 70% blind and in the hospital for several months. I won't spoil some of the details from our |
| 1:48.0 | conversation, but Jill has some really profound perspective and lessons to share about how we can |
| 1:55.7 | use the lowest moments of our lives to learn and transform and to launch ourselves into periods of |
| 2:05.1 | deep inspiration and personal growth. I also want to say here on the front end that we talk |
| 2:11.9 | at the end of this episode about Jill's upcoming project, which he is calling Vision 8,000, an amazing name, awesome name. |
| 2:21.0 | And it is her goal with Vision 8,000 to climb all 14 of the world's 8,000 meter peaks to inspire |
| 2:31.4 | others who have suffered traumatic brain injuries or who are visually impaired as she is. |
| 2:37.5 | We've set up a go fund me for Jill to make this dream a reality. |
| 2:41.8 | We here at Free Trail made the first donation to that campaign, and it is my hope that we, |
| 2:48.6 | the loving, compassionate and supportive people in the trail running community |
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