When we're young, we have an amazing, positive outlook about how great life is going to be,

but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling.

Join Up Dots features amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams.

This is your blueprint for greatness.

So here's your host, live from the back of his garden in the UK, David

Ralph. Yes, hello everybody. Yes, it's a 23rd of December. So you've only got a couple of days

until a big fat man comes down your chimney and drinks your beer and leaves your presents and all

that kind of stuff. So you really got sort of crack on.

I don't think Amazon will deliver this far near the big day. But it's a lady today who's already

up to her neck in wrapping paper because it's her birthday as well. She gets them both in about three

days. Bit of a drawback on that one. But it's an absolute delight to have her on the show because

we almost recorded a few weeks ago and she was so ill and coughing and spluttering.

Unlike the tough man I normally am, I allowed her off.

And I said, you go and get yourself well and she wrapped herself up and she's come back good and strong.

Hopefully she is because she is an amazing lady who has pushed herself to achieve true greatness in her life.

Yes, I've never seen this,

but I bet many of you will have had this question appear on trivial pursuit at one time or another.

Who was the first woman to row three oceans, the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian single-handedly?

Well, today's guest is the answer that you'll be looking for, holding four world records for ocean rowing,

including first woman to row three oceans whilst rowing over 15,000 miles, taken around 5 million oarstrokes

and spent cumulatively over 500 days of her life at sea in a 23 foot rowboat. She uses her ocean

rowing adventures to inspire action on the top environmental challenges

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