Persevering through Failure with Melissa Arnot Reid
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2018
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
Melissa Arnot Reid is a mountain guide, speaker, and founder of the nonprofit organization, The Juniper Fund. She was the first American woman to summit and descent Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen and also holds the record for summiting the tallest peak in the world more times than any other western woman with a total of 6 ascents. She’s a certifiable bone crushing badass with a lot of life experience to share from her years of sacrificing for her passions.
In this episode, you’ll learn that it wasn’t the final, most strenuous 250 feet of summiting Everest that got Melissa to be the first female to summit and descent the highest peak in the world without supplemental oxygen. It was every single step since the first mountain she had ever stepped on that got her there. The key to summiting Everest is taking small steps towards your bigger goals. If you liked that metaphor, brace yourself for another 942 of them that will help you be bold, find what calls you, and dig deep to make it all happen.
In this episode,
* You don’t have to see the summit to make the first step. You don’t even have to know what the summit looks like.
* If you’re asking yourself if what you’re doing is your passion, then it isn’t.
* Let yourself grow and change as a person as you have new experiences and learn more about yourself. Failure is a good thing and it makes life exciting!
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, what's up? It's Chase. Welcome to another episode of the show. That's right. You're here on Chase Dreyfus Live show on Creative Live, and I am very excited you're here. Happy to be in your ears, and today's show is a barnstorm. And I don't think I've ever used that word before. Not just because it's a complicated, strange word, but because I truly mean it, this episode |
| 0:24.9 | is a powerful one with none other than Melissa Arnaud Reid. |
| 0:30.2 | Now, if you do not know that name, it's because you are not in the outdoor action sports |
| 0:34.5 | or mountain climbing communities. |
| 0:36.1 | And if you are in those communities, you know that she is one of the most badass mountain climbers of all time. As in, she, as a woman |
| 0:44.1 | in the Western world, has more Everest summits than anyone else. And she's the first American |
| 0:49.9 | woman to summit Everest and return to base without supplemental oxygen. An absolutely insane feat. |
| 0:58.6 | And she's a certifiable badass in so many ways. And there's obvious connections between |
| 1:03.7 | climbing mountains and doing hard shit in life. And Melissa is so wise around concept like fear, like leadership, like risk, |
| 1:14.7 | and even so far as life and death. That is the reality that she has had in the mountains |
| 1:20.1 | is you're around abundance and joy and doing things that have literally never been done before. |
| 1:25.5 | And also, it's a place where the risks are so high that people lose their lives. |
| 1:31.1 | It's just an amazing episode. |
| 1:32.4 | We traverse a ton of ground. |
| 1:34.0 | She has wisdom in all these areas. |
| 1:35.6 | She's an amazing public speaker, author, but her ability to focus on chasing the things |
| 1:42.0 | you want, the things that no one thought was possible, literally |
| 1:44.9 | no one in the world thought was possible at some point to best those things and then to be |
| 1:50.2 | able to come back, reflect on how you did it, why, and share those tales. Also through story, |
| 1:55.4 | it's just it's a beautiful episode and she's so well spoken. And we have the benefit of being friends. I have had the good |
| 2:02.6 | fortune of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, the tallest peak of Africa under Melissa's guide. And she's just |
| 2:11.0 | an incredible leader and you are going to get a ton out of this show. So I'm going to get the heck out of |
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