Vicki Anstey - How to Never Reach Your Limits and What It Took to Row Across the Pacific Ocean

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🗓️ 30 July 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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For the next few weeks, we'll be coming to you with conversations I had at one of my favorite cafes, Farm Girl in South Kensington, London. This week's guest is Vicki Anstey, an almost overwhelmingly inspiring woman. Vicki is a world record holder, adventurer, award-winning entrepreneur, speaker, coach, and athlete. After 20 years in a relationship that limited and stifled her and a successful career as an advertising professional, Vicki became a fitness pioneer and later one of the first eve...

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0:00.0	I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps
0:16.3	some nuggets of wisdom along the way.
0:20.3	This is your invitation to slow down with us.
0:25.7	Welcome to Slo-Mow. Hello welcome back to Slowmo. I am so delighted to do this thing. So since
0:40.5	we've decided that this was going to be our quest for wisdom and coffee,
0:45.0	I am now traveling the world and getting you nuggets of wisdom and inspiration from everywhere.
0:52.0	I am back in my favorite place in London so far the farm girl in South Kensington and what I have today is a typical latte honestly.
1:03.2	Oat Milk latte, which I know I've told you before,
1:06.8	is something that is not as easy as you think it is,
1:10.2	because frosting this milk to this perfection is really not as easy as
1:14.8	frosting normal milk. In any case I'm so grateful the team here has always been
1:20.0	kind to me Adele and Dominica and others so thank you for that. Thank you Rose for
1:25.2	hosting me once again and I am here to talk to you about a story of fear a story of inspiration a story of fear, of inspiration, a story of vulnerability. I am with Vicky Ansti who is honestly makes me look like a wuss, I just have to say that openly. If you read her profile, her bio,
1:46.3	she says that when she was 40, she decided to face her fears and change her life.
1:54.0	She looks 28, so one more lie.
1:57.0	She decided, at 40, she said, to address all of the ongoing fears that went into her life and go on a journey that sort of tests how far her limits are and if she can address those limits and confront them, she, I'm going to read so that I don't miss
2:15.3	any of them. She is one of the first women ever to participate in the SAS who
2:21.2	there's wins on channel four. If you look at the clip I promise you it
2:26.0	stopped my heart when she's in the middle of cold water in ice temperature trying
2:32.2	to breathe normally and act as if nothing's happening.
2:35.4	As if this is not enough, she then decided to be the record-holding winner of the world record of rowing across the Pacific Ocean.
2:45.3	At 60 plus days, more than two months. We're going to talk about that in detail.
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