Rowing the Atlantic Ocean Alone with Stephen Shanly - [The Ikonns, EP.7]

The Ikonns

Alex & Mimi Ikonn

Self-help, Health & Fitness, Dreamlife, Selfimprovement, Education, Inspiring, Mimiikonn, Goals, Influencers, Alexikonn

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode Alex & Mimi are talking to their good friend Stephen Shanly, who believes that pushing your limits and trying new things are the key to seeing the world through a different lens.

Alex met Stephen a few years ago while competing in the Big Change Strive Challenge. Stephen’s level of endurance is off the charts.

He’s truly inspirational and it’s why we had to interview him!

Not many people would purposely choose to be stranded alone, in a one-man row boat, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. HE DID! And he climbed Mount Matterhorn with little previous climbing experience, along with paragliding down Mont Blanc whilst suffering a fear of heights.

“People will want to jump in your boat and go along for the ride, if they know you’re going to paddle like crazy to get where you’re going” - Stephen Shanly

We’ll hear Stephen’s story of how his failed App business lead him to crossing the Atlantic Ocean alone, in a small boat, setting a record crossing time of 41 days while risking his life. Currently his next challenge is to write a children’s book, even though he is dyslexic.

In this podcast, we explore what can drive a person to take on these remarkable challenges. What makes Stephen push so hard to achieve things, that seem almost impossible. After working to achieve his goals by the age of 30 and shouldering the disappointment of solely focusing on his career and material things. He realised a need to refocus his life.

He tells us that his main drivers are the new things he has never tried before. He is pushing himself over his limit by focusing on the very next steps in front of him. This mental direction helps him to win his challenges, continue and go further.

“Its amazing how much more you can do if you just re-calibrate or just say go again. There is almost no limit what we can achieve mentally.” – Steven Shelley

You’ll also learn

Where to find inspiration and how to focus on positive things
How focusing on the next step helps to reach your goal
Stephen’s climbing story of Matterhorn without previous experience
How is it to jump from Mont Blanc
Crossing the Atlantic ocean with a limited water supply and a broken seat.
How Stephen survived in the middle of ocean
How trying different things shape you as a person

Find Books and resources mentioned here:

Big Magic - Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
Eeyore The Donkey - Winnie The Pooh Bear - Walt Disney characters

Follow Stephen Shanly on Instagram and Twitter

https://www.ikonns.com/podcast/episode8

Produced by Jason Sanderson - Podcast Tech

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello my beautiful friends and welcome to the icon experience.
0:06.3	Today we have a very special guest on the show that we're really excited to share his story
0:12.4	and the guest is our friend Stephen Shanley. Hi Stephen.
0:16.0	Hello.
0:17.0	And I actually met Stephen probably. It's been about four or five years now.
0:23.7	Yeah. Four years, six months and eight days.
0:26.0	Oh wow.
0:28.0	All right, that was intense, but that's a joke. I mean, they're there in a roughly.
0:33.5	I met Stephen through Alex and you guys did this really intense.
0:37.8	Well, you did the intense part. It was called the strive challenge.
0:41.3	They still do them to this day. It's something that they do annually and it's with Virgin Group.
0:46.6	And the amazing part about the strive challenge is that you get to do things with your body
0:51.8	that most people would never even think would be possible in a short amount of time.
0:56.1	So when I met you, Alex just said, Hey, this guy's coming over for dinner and I said,
1:01.0	OK, whatever. And then you came over for dinner.
1:03.3	And like my first impression of you is like this positive, positive energy and so much enthusiasm
1:10.6	and just so much light. No, genuinely and honestly, like I remember that evening after you left,
1:16.1	I just felt like really inspired by your energy.
1:18.1	And again, I'm usually considered to be a very positive person myself.
1:22.0	So it's amazing to see other people who are even more positive and more energetic.
1:26.4	Like you have this energy by you. I don't know if you're aware, but it's just always constant and always positive.
1:32.0	I think so. Let's just like, I'll start off with that.
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