And actually that analogy completely ties in with it. I had, I was an all-rounder sports wise. I was never in the A or B or even C teams at school. I dabbled in a bit of military stuff at university, but didn't do anything properly.

I wasn't the dream of polar exploration at all, so none of that, I didn't have any of that kind of planning for the polar bit itself. But what I did have was that open door mentality. And quite literally I was standing on the tube in London, commuting to work in my mid-20s.

I was happy, didn't have any reason to feel as if I wanted to leave my job or anything. And I saw an advert in the newspaper, little small article, and it said women wanted to walk to the North Pole, no experience needed.

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Hello visionaries, creators, entrepreneurs, leaders and growth seekers of all types. I am John Miles and welcome to the Passion Struck podcast.

I'm going to start today's episode out with a quote from famous explorer and expeditionary Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, an Anglo Irish expeditionary who led three British explorations to the Arctic.

And he is famously quoted as saying difficulties are just things to overcome after all. And to perform an effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

And lastly, loneliness is the penalty of leadership. But the man who has to make the decisions is assisted greatly if he feels there's no uncertainty in the men who follow him and that his orders will be carried out confidently and in expectation of success.

And I picked those three quotes specifically because today we have on really amazing guests Victoria Humphries who herself is a polar explorer.

And in today's episode you're going to hear so much about her life starting with the failure that started early in her life.

That propelled her look at life completely differently from that point forward. Why should decided to tackle this polar exploration?

The events leading up to it will go into what happened in her life after that. And how at some point she changed from having an I can't attitude when I can't.

But more importantly, how she realized it made changes and the lessons she learned to get herself out of it. And finally we will talk about her current challenge of doing 50 at 50 challenges and the results that that's achieved for her and so much more.

But now let me tell you a little bit more about Victoria Humphries.

Victoria Humphries is a polar adventure three time Guinness Book World Record holder, mountain climber, marathon runner, author, business woman and just a normal person.

She prides herself in being an average person but one who believes that anything is possible as long as you put your mind to it.

Life is full of challenges and we always have a choice whether you step forward or run away, it's up to you.

You can become overcome by the enormity of it or as she likes to say you can just take one step.

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