Our hosts, Erik and Jeff, sit down with our first No Barriers Podcast guest of 2020, Anne Lorimor. Erik and Jeff had just both returned from their own adventures in Nepal and were fighting jet lag and the come down of an epic trip but as Jeff puts it: Anne was the cup of coffee they needed.

Anne is a goal setting achiever at heart. She holds numerous degrees, including an RN, "as a backup career choice," and never stops pushing her limits to achieve what others see as impossible. 

Anne keeps up her fitness with hiking around her hometown and around the world; all with the goal of not just aging gracefully but to break records. At age 85, she broke the record for being the oldest woman to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest free-standing mountain in the world.  Her record was soon broken, so at age 89, she returned to the mountain to reclaim the record.  In July of 2019, she became the oldest person to summit Mount Kilimanjaro, giving her a place in the 2020 Guinness Book of World Records.  

But Anne doesn't just shatter records for her own ego. She comes from a childhood of poverty and homelessness, and because of her background she has motivation to give back to children who are in similar circumstances. With her deep desire to  give youth the tools to reach their full potential and encourage them to pay it forward, she founded Lorimor Child Empowerment Foundation dba Creating Exciting Futures in 2016. Her charity works to provide opportunities for education and better options for children in underserved areas. 

During their conversation, Jeff and Erik, discover how Anne's purpose to help others drives her forward, but also about the rope team, the educators and mentors, she credits for helping her in her youth to overcome her barriers. 

Listen to learn more about Anne and Creating Exciting Futures at  her website.

See Anne being interviewed on ABC News.

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