This month we focus on personal growth and development: what does it take and what is it like to overcome our own internal dialogue that sabotages us and holds us back from our highest potential?  Eri is an athletic instructor certified in Spin and Yoga who I met at our local SPEGNA.  If you don’t know what SPENGA is you are missing out!  It is a new way of exercising that keeps it fresh and keeps you from plateauing.  It was started by women and our Broomfield, CO gym is run by a handful of amazing ladies who kick our asses everyday.  Eri has had an amazing transformation in her life that led her to SPENGA and today she is on the show to share that story with our listeners.

www.spenga.com

You can follow Eri on Instagram: @flowwitheri

This month we talk about mountaineering and what it takes to face such a huge mental and physical challenge.  Today’s guest is Sammy Bassett… an amateur mountaineer, skydiver, professional scuba diver and entrepreneur who was mentored by our last guest, Dianette Wells.  Sammy is here with us to talk about how the courage of  women has influenced his life in significant ways and how he passes those lessons onto his community.

This month we talk about mountaineering and what it takes to face such a huge mental and physical challenge.  Today’s guest is Sammy Bassett… an amateur mountaineer, skydiver, professional scuba diver and entrepreneur who was mentored by our last guest, Dianette Wells.  Sammy is here with us to talk about how the courage of  women has influenced his life in significant ways and how he passes those lessons onto his community.

This month we talk about mountaineering and what it takes to face such a huge mental and physical challenge.  Today’s guest is Sammy Bassett… an amateur mountaineer, skydiver, professional scuba diver and entrepreneur who was mentored by our last guest, Dianette Wells.  Sammy is here with us to talk about how the courage of  women has influenced his life in significant ways and how he passes those lessons onto his community.

What is your mountain?  Dianette Wells shares how she became hooked on adventure sports through mountaineering, but how it's not the sport that makes the woman, it's the challenge.  She says "Everyone has their mountain to climb....what they inspire to, it doesn't matter what the person next to you is doing...its....what is YOUR mountain?"  What moves and inspires YOU to grow bigger?

Resources mentioned in order in this episode include:

Mt. Whitney

Eco Challenge - Amazon Prime

Mt. Kilimanjaro

Alpine Ascents International

Adventure Base Camps

Racing the Planet

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Hi this is Grace, your host of What it Takes to be Wild

I created what it takes to be wild to support women in becoming who they really want to be.  To overcome life challenges and to create challenges that stretch them.  But this is just the beginning.  Being able to be resilient in the face of hardships and able to craft a future you love is simply the foundation for something bigger.

We are living in an age of deception, bullying, power hunger, and the ruling law of money. It is not that we lack compassion or desire to create peace for the collective good.  The issue is that it is simply not our primary culture.  Instead, we allow fear, money and political capital to control us and therefore limit what we can do as a human race.  When we truly care about each other, when we connect instead of isolate, when we support rather than compete, we have an opportunity to create the world in a whole new way.  A way that allows everyone to live a free, fulfilled and happy life.   I believe the only reason we do not have this is as a whole we do not DEMAND something different.  We are complacent.  We are silent.

It is time that women start standing for what we want to see in the world and doing so in a way that is contagious and inspiring.  I believe that all women hold these values of compassion, care, contribution and peace for the collective good and are the best at demonstrating and teaching them. Too many years we have been held back and discouraged from speaking our truth.  Too many years we have been trained to be silent.  Well.  Our time is up.  It’s now or never ladies.  Let’s start brushing off the hatred and narcissism that keeps love down.  Let’s start shining, each with our own superpower.

When we find ourselves, live authentic lives and demand only the best from people, we inspire others to do the same. With enough participation this change can be viral and turn into a mass transformation of societies and therefore world cultural values.  In a time of global warming and planetary destruction, we cannot risk being silent and separate anymore.  It will take us getting over ourselves, thinking bigger and being WILD in the face of complacency and the status quo.

In the What it Takes to be Wild podcast, we support women in overcoming their self-deprecating internal dialog and to start believing that they can become who they never thought they could be and make a real difference and contribution to the world.  Please join the movement, subscribe to our podcast on your favorite podcasting station, follow us on facebook and instagram, but more importantly, share YOUR story.  Leave us a message or email us with a short summary of your story, where you have been stuck and what you have overcome.  We may play it on the air or ask you to be on the show.  Today is the day ladies, let’s make it count.