Episode 30: Just doing it and living the dream with Jo Moseley
A return visit from the amazing Jo Moseley. Since I last spoke to her in Season 1 at the beginning of 2019, Jo has completed a North of England coast-to-coast stand-up paddleboard challenge, becoming the only woman ever to have done this at the tender age of 54. Part 1 of Jo on the podcast is Episode 3. I’m so inspired by this woman and I know you’ll love catching up with her adventures.
We talk about:
- How Jo doesn’t consider herself a sporty person but loves to move
- How she set herself the challenge of stand-up paddle-boarding from Liverpool to Goole, 162 miles across the country
- How she ended up paddle-boarding at the Chelsea Flower Show and the fun she had there
- The importance of not taking yourself too seriously
- Being open to possibility
- Feeling the fear and doing it anyway
- Living a simple but brave life
- Envisaging a future version of ourselves and wondering what they would do or say
- How Jo trained for such a big challenge
- How she used visualization and self talk to inspire herself to keep going
- The importance of believing in yourself
- How telling everyone what she was going to do helped her actually do it
- How adrenaline carried her through the atrocious weather
- Picking up litter as she paddle-boarded
- Making friends online
- Finding help in unexpected places
- Inter-generational understanding and friendship- millenials and midlifers
- The gift of learning from younger people
- Moving beyond being fearful of life
- The importance of making the very most of life
- How the death of friends focuses the mind on how short and precious life is
- Being grateful for having the chance to try these big challenges
- Moving on from a time when just getting out of bed was hard
- Being recognized having been on the telly
- Wanting to share her story to help other women feel better
And more!
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