In today's Her Story episode, Dr. Christine Jehu is back on the podcast to share her experience with doing 29029 Everesting, which is a hiking endurance challenge where you climb the elevation equivalent of Mount Everest. Going into the challenge, Christine had her sights set on getting the red bib & hat, which indicates that you finished all 13 climbs (with over 2,000 feet of elevation each climb) in 36 hours. Even though she felt mentally & physically ready for the challenge, nothing went according to plan or how she envisioned it. 
 
As ambitious women, this is such a difficult headspace and situation to navigate; it's so easy to make it mean that we suck or that we're not enough. Sure, Christine didn't achieve all 13 ascents of the challenge, but... she did do 10 AND even more importantly, she gained so much MORE than she ever could've imagined in the attempt. The entire experience was 100% the opposite of a failure for her because she went to the mountain/into the challenge feeling caged and left feeling freer than she has in 8 years.  
 
This is such a beautiful conversation that reminds all of us to embrace the lessons of the experience even if it doesn't go according to plan because it might not be what you want, but it's absolutely what you need. 
 
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• Christine's previous episode on the podcast
• Christine's episodes on her podcast about her 29029 experience: Part 1 & Part 2