Broken Oars, Episode 16: Sally Kettle - Atlantic Rower, Adventuress! Part One. - a podcast by brokenoarspodcast
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Broken Oars Podcast returns!
(Did you ever doubt that we would? How dare you!)
We are delighted to be joined by the ocean-rower, adventuress, author, motivational speaker, Active Pregnancy Charity Founder and all-round force of nature that is Sally Kettle:
https://www.activepregnancyfoundation.org/
Cramming more into her life so far than most of us would in ten, Sally was the first woman to row across the Atlantic twice from East to West, once with her Mum, before going on to compete in elite sailing races in her quest for life-changing adventures. Going on to be an author, a storied presenter for institutions and audiences as diverse as BBC Radio Four and TED, Sally is also the founder of the Active Pregnancy Foundation and a Trustee of the London Sports Trust and Chair and Ambassador of the Girl Guiding London and South East England region.
We were honoured to have a wide-ranging chat with Sally, to the point where we didn't want to cut it at all, meaning this will be our first ever two-hander.
In this episode, we touch on such topics as:
- The Atlantic rows and why following the impulse to radically change your life rather than putting it off until 'the time is right' can have startling consequences and results.
- Why it is the challenges we face, address and overcome in going for our goals that often teach us more than attaining them, even if it might not seem like it at the time.
- How the modern world has taken away rites of passage and a graded approach to risk-taking that has disenfranchised and disengaged children, teenagers and young adults, leaving them with a smaller toolkit for dealing with the challenges that all lives inevitably face.
- The ways in which society disempowers girls and young women from consistent screen bombardments that promote mental health, self-worth, self-esteem and body issues to cultural mores that disengage the same groups from developing a healthy relationship with themselves and physical activity.
- Why if your boat is attacked by a shark mid-ocean, you rarely stop to check which type is eating your rudder.
- The importance of institutions and programmes like the Girl Guides in providing 'shaping' experiences that help develop resilience, a thicker 'bark' and a more complete toolkit.
- Why kindness is more important than winning - even if it doesn't seem like it at the time.
Oh, and that's just in Part One.
Your amiable hosts at Broken Oars Podcast are no strangers to inflationary language and repetitive hyperbole, even if we pretend that we don't actually know what either of those two terms mean. In this instance, however, they'll have to make some new adjectives to describe the incredible individual that is Sally Kettle. Truly inspirational and truly inspiring.
Stern Four? A shark is eating bow pair. Leave it. We don't need them anyway.
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