These four women: Alyssa Norwood, Keri Pommerenk, Ericka Primeau and Alice Toth aka the VESL Vixens, for different reasons, decided to take on a very big, bold, and audacious challenge; to individually paddle 30 miles across the ocean as part of the Ben Carlson Foundation’s annual fundraising paddle, the Ben Did Go 9.0. And they rocked it, together.

However there were two big, key factors: none had ever paddled a prone paddleboard before, and they only gave themselves about 5 months to train.

They tell their “whys,” their “how’s” and they share the stories created along the way. It’s a powerful and fun interview that shines a light on doing hard things, doing it for a purpose, doing it together and realizing that it’s never too late to do something epic.