Laura Bingham is an English adventurer best known for completing a cross-continent cycle of South America in July 2016. - a podcast by Sarah Williams

from 2017-06-13T07:00

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Show notes

  • Being a free spirit
  • Growing up with 3 older sisters
  • Being a spoiled brat while growing up
  • Leaving home at 18 to travel
  • Hopping around for 4 years, changing countries and jobs
  • Dealing with anxiety at college
  • Living on her own, working on her own and doing it all on her own
  • Every step took her further and further away from home
  • Dealing with a broken heart and trying to fill the empty void
  • Arriving in Mexico - sorting out a job and a place to live within 3 days
  • Doing Jaguar conservation work
  • Leaving Mexico after 4 months
  • Duolingo for learning languages
  • Deciding to sail home across the Atlantic
  • Crewbay.com 
  • The cow scull
  • Trying to get to the boat with no money 
  • Sailing to England 
  • Surviving on four hour sleeps
  • Having an argument and not being able to get out 
  • Sailing to Ireland and not England!
  • Getting itch feet and wanting to get travelling again
  • Cycling Ecuador to Argentina with no money
  • Operation South America
  • Getting her plans in place and dealing with the negativity
  • Why you should smile at strangers
  • The mental and emotional challenges of her trip
  • Asking for help, asking for food
  • How she coped when her fiancé was in an accident
  • Having Ness Knight come out to join the trip
  • What she learn’t from the South American cycle
  • Being emotional once she was back at home
  • What’s on her bucket list
  • Her message that she advocates - “follow your dreams”
  • Why you’ll learn from failure

 

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