00:00:00Self-Worth Revolution With Alison King
00:04:37Life After a Mountain Rescue
00:16:29Coping With Injury and Finding Purpose
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What happens when life throws you unexpected curveballs, and how can you turn them into opportunities for growth? Discover the transformative story of Alison King, a resilient individual who has redefined her life multiple times. Alison, originally from the UK and now residing in New Zealand, shares her journey of self-discovery and empowerment. From creating a family tree to mastering new languages and developing workbooks to help others find joy, Alison demonstrates that it’s never too late to embrace new passions and live a fulfilling life. Her inspiring tales of turning perceived negative experiences into positive growth will leave you motivated to seize every opportunity that life offers.
Join us as we delve into a personal adventure filled with perseverance and determination. During a long-awaited trek on the stunning Tongariro Crossing, an unexpected ankle injury could have derailed a cherished dream. Instead, it became a testament to resilience and adaptability. This episode highlights the importance of community and volunteering, as seen through the parkrun events, and how embracing new hobbies can bring fulfillment despite physical setbacks. Through these compelling narratives, you'll learn how to transform adversity into strength and find joy in helping others, encapsulating the essence of turning pain into power.
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When things that you perceive as bad happen to you, you can set up that camp in self-pity and wallow in all the things that you've lost.
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But there are also opportunities where you can grow in other areas.
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So I just started doing my family tree, so I spent some time on that.
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I started learning a language for the time that I would normally go out and run.
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I would be learning a language on Duolingo, which is an awesome resource.
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Love it.
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Um, I read a lot.
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I created workbooks for people because, because I had this list of things I wanted to do, I thought I'm going to help other people come up with things that bring them joy so they can explore that aspect of their life and do more things this year for themselves.
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So, even though I couldn't do the things on my list, I was helping other people create theirs and did that fulfill for you, like now you can't do them, but seeing that other people could do and you could guide them through it I'm sure brought you like now you can't do them, but seeing that other people could do and you could guide them through it I'm sure brought you like so much more joy and happiness because you were bringing value to other people.
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You know so, even though you couldn't go on your runs anymore, you found a way to cope with it.
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What were some of the strategies that you would say you used?
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Welcome to the Self-Worth Revolution podcast hosted by Vivian Medrano.
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I am not only a podcaster, but a mother, a nurse, a life coach and a survivor.
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This podcast is about turning your pain into your power, your experiences into your lessons, and to start living a life full of abundance, inner peace and fulfillment.
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My higher purpose are for my listeners to find their self-worth and their value by following their path to greatness.
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We are all deserving of living our best lives.
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It is time to stop identifying with our past.
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Start living in the present for a better future.
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This podcast will have guest speakers that will share their stories of how they transformed their lives and found their worth.
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My mission is to let my listeners know this is your time to shine, to know that you are not alone.
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Healing is empowering.
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It takes courage to be vulnerable, and our voices have power.
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Hold on to your lives, because this will be an incredible ride of self-transformation, self-empowerment and radical change.
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It is time for us to take our power back.
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Hi, welcome to the Self-Worth Revolution.
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I'm here with Alison King all the way from New Zealand, and so she's also a podcaster herself.
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Her podcast name is Women who Podcast and, without further ado, I would like Alison to go ahead and just introduce herself to us.
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Thank you so much.
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Yeah, so my name's Alison.
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I am actually from the UK, but I live in New Zealand.
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I've been here 20 years.
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I'm not sure what my accent is to listeners.
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Some people it's English and some people it's Kiwi.
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I'll let you decide.
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But yeah, I have a podcast Women who Podcast and another one called Scottish at Heart, because I am Scottish at heart.
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But I've done so much, so many things in my life, and when you were talking about self-worth revolution and what do I want to talk about, it's like wow, when I think about it, I've actually lived so many different lives and I'm still only 47.
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And I feel like I've got so many more lives left to live.
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Isn't it amazing that we can do so many things in our life if we really let ourselves be opportunities?
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It is because I'm also 47.
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And it's just amazing how much the world gives to you when you allow it to give it to you.
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It's like when you're open to so much, the world just naturally starts giving you things that you couldn't even imagine, that you were even capable of doing, or like you just dreamed of it, and it's like, oh wait, I just did that, you know so.
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Yes, a lot of people think, because you get older, you stop living Like you need.
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Oh, you're not capable of this, you're not capable of that.
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Oh, you stop living like you need.
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Oh, you're not capable of this, you're not capable of that.
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Oh, you're getting older.
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I'm like, no age is just a number.
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You know, it's how you live your life that matters.
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So what would you say has been one of your?
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You know, in your journey of life, what has brought you somewhere like that you've noticed.
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It's like, oh, my god, this has brought me so much abundance.
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This has been my true awakening in life there's been lots of things along, you know, along the way of my 47 years, but I think one thing that stands out is um January 2022, to think what year we're.
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You know what things there's been so much that's happened since COVID, like you think that things happened only six months ago, but really it was like two years ago.
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But yeah, so in January 2022, I I had I felt like the world was my oyster.
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I had a list of things that I was going to achieve, you know, not just that year but in the years to come, and a lot of them were based on um hiking and, you know, using my body and just to run to explore, to just use that energy.
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And on my list was a hike that's called the Tongariro crossing, which is the best known hike one day hike in New Zealand.
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It goes across.
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Tongariro is a mountain in the central plateau.
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There's Tongariro Narahoe, which people will know as Mount Doom in the Lord of the Rings films.
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So if you can imagine that mountain just not how dark it is, because it doesn't look like- that in real life but that's the shape of it.
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You've got Tongariro, narahoe and Ruapehu and there's this one day hike which is like 20 kilometers.
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So what's that in miles?
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I want to say maybe like 13 miles.
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That's just under 13 miles, because 13 miles is 21k's and it's been been on my list for such a long time.
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I'd actually done it in 2010 with my husband and a couple of friends on Christmas Day and the weather was appalling.
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It was really low cloud and there's this picturesque view that you're supposed to see from the top of these beautiful emerald, bluish, greenish lakes.
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Well, they're just stunning lakes, but we didn't see them because there was so much cloud.
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We were pretty much in the lakes before we saw them.
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So over the years, like I really want to return to that crossing to do that walk again because I really want to see those lakes.
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I just want to see those lakes.
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They're stunning.
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I want to get that.
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You know the Instagram picture.
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I want to get you know the tourism brochure photos that you see and the hike.
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It's only I think it was like a two and a half hour drive from where I live.
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So it's not that far in the grand scheme of things, but you know how life just gets in the way and you put it off and you put it off.
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Well, I decided that 2022, I was not going to put it off anymore and a week before I ended up doing it, a friend of mine was saying you know she was coming over.
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She lives a couple of hours away.
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I'm going to do the Tongariro crossing.
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I was like, awesome, can I come with you?
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Because I really want to do it, but I don't want to do it by myself, I want to do it with people, I know, sure.
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So we arranged to do it and it was a stunning day, you know, like blue skies, not a cloud, to be seen.
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There were quite a few people on the mountain that we were just starting to see, tourists coming back into New Zealand, mostly just Australians, but there were mostly people on the mountain where other people from New Zealand.
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Anyway, it was a glorious day.
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We were having such a good time, got to see the lake and well, there was a few lakes that you can see from the top and it's like, oh, this is the view that I want.
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I've just come to see this.
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I just wanted to see those lakes and probably within five minutes of me seeing those lakes.
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I slipped.
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I was going downhill, just slipped on some loose, just little loose rocks, kind of like um marbles on a dance floor is how I liken that surface.
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So if you can just imagine, you know it's quite a solid surface but there's little pebbly rocks on there that make it slippy.
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And my right foot and my right I only had one walking pole.
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I had that in my right hand.
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They just slept from underneath me and I fell backwards and my left foot didn't leave the ground willingly and as I landed backwards had my little pack on my left leg came up in front of me and I could see my foot was just floppy, just dangling there.
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I'm sure you can imagine that you know, being someone who has seen a lot of, I know, medical mishaps.
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I'm just thinking more so your injury and how you're going to get down this mountain.
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You just can't get down this mountain.
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I was halfway through the walk.
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Oh, my goodness, I can't imagine the pain that you were going through, and I'm also thinking right now that you were probably thinking how in the world am I going to get off this mountain now?
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Yeah, well what were your thoughts at that moment, when this happened?
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well.
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I fell backwards and my leg came up and I saw like, oh, that looks broken.
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I'm my friends, vicky and Stu, were probably about 50 to 100 meters in front of me and just called like Vicky, I think I've broken my ankle.
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Two women which had just they just sat on this rock, you know, quite close to where I was, just to have a breather, and the look on their face and they were just like like they were.
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They were more in shock than I was.
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Because you mentioned pain.
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I actually had no pain at that time.
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I had no pain for it was like two hours before I actually said, hey, I think I could do with some painkillers now.
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Oh my God, I wonder if your body just went into shock and just basically said you know what?
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She cannot concentrate on the pain.
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The pain is not something that we need to worry about right now yeah, and I ended up being the one saying oh, you need to phone for help like call 111, so that's our emergency number in New Zealand, call 111.
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I'm gonna need the helicopter.
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And my friend Vicky had found a nurse who was out for a hike, so so she came up and had a look.
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She goes oh yeah, that's, it's broken.
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Um, and she did some strapping and I didn't even try to move because I thought I'm I was still lying where I fell.
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I was like so kind of in the middle of the track, but I knew that.
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I knew that it had broken and so there was no point in me trying to stand on it because that wasn't going to prove anything.
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I already knew it.
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Um, yeah, so we ended up getting the rescue helicopter and in it was really really good fortune in that it was the perfect day for flying conditions, you know, blue skies, and the helicopter had been really busy like whole.
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So this was about 20 past 10 in the morning.
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By this stage They'd been had a really really busy night.
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But they were back at their base, because there's one helicopter that serves a really big region and they weren't on a call, they were at the head.
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You know, on the helipad.
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The guys had just got some refreshment.
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It was all refueled, so they came straight away.
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So I had to wait.
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It just got some refreshment.
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It was all refueled so they came straight away, so I had to wait.
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It was a 45 minute flight, so I had to wait for them.
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And then they landed by the lake and then came to investigate what was going on and try to figure out how to get me off this mountain, because I was on a stretch apart that was still, you know, like 45 degree angle and I couldn't walk down to the flatbed where the helicopter was.
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So we had to formulate how angle and I couldn't walk down to the flat bit where the helicopter was so we had to formulate how we were going to get me down.
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So they, with a man on either side of me and they'd splintered up my, my leg and the pilot in front, we kind of hopped down to a flatter section and then the helicopter.
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They flew the helicopter in and hovered just resting one of the skids on the side of the mountain, if you can imagine that.
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So the blades are still going.
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I've got these protective eyewear on and I had to kind of just like shuffle myself onto the skid and into the helicopter and then, yeah, lay in the stretcher in the back, and all the while the paramedic was like can I get you some painkillers?
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Can I get you some painkillers?
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I was like no, no, this is all good.
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I don't even think I've broken it.
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I said it's probably just a sprain.
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I'm going to be really embarrassed when we get to the hospital and we find out that I could have walked the rest of the way.
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Oh my goodness.
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No, no, you're definitely broken it.
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Yeah, so that started, I guess, this whole journey of discovering other things that I was capable of, because, I mean, that's the really long story.
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I could probably make it longer, but in a nutshell, yeah, I broke my ankle in two places um the tibia and the fibula um.
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I'd also dislocated it at some, like in the fall, but the nurse who checked me over had apparently relocated it, so it wasn't as bad as when I got to the hospital.
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Um, so I should say that the reason why I was so calm while I was on the mountain was I've worked in newspapers for years and I knew that the from working on the local newspaper that the rescue helicopter got called out to the mountain quite a lot.
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And I'm now working in a hospital in communications and I know from the hospital system that when you break something like an ankle on the mountain, I know which hospital you end up going to, because we I know what our hospital deals with.
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We deal with orthopedic cases but we don't deal with head injuries.
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The head injuries and spinal injuries go somewhere else.
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I was like well, I've broken my ankle.
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I'm not going to go to the nearest hospital to the mountain because they don't do orthopedics, they're just, you know, minor injuries.
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Anyone else then gets transferred to the hospital where I work.
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So I knew I was going.
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I was going home, essentially.
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I thought I was going to say I'm like you're going to your comfort zone.
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Yeah, yeah, I was going to somewhere, where, somewhere where I knew people already and I didn't have to drive the two and a half hours home, which was kind of looking, you know, not looking forward to that drive afterwards.
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So I made sure, before I got taken off, that I think it was as soon as the helicopter had been called, I gave my car keys to my friend, vicky, so that she and Stu could sort out the cars.
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That would have been terrible, wouldn't it?
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going to the hospital with your car keys in your pocket and your car's two and a half hours away.
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Yeah, yep.
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So what transcribed after that?
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Because I know that you're very physically active, you would go out on runs.
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What trans?
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What happened after that, after injuring your ankle?
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How did that hold you back from fulfilling things that you wanted it to fulfill in life?
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Did it hold you back or did you have to do modifications with life?
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it did.
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It did hold me back to some degree and on the day of the accident I'd run or walked at least five kilometers every day for the last three previous three months and I'd been doing a minimum two k's a day for 520 days.
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So I'd been daily active, daily, every day for a year and a half and I was in the emergency department and one of the doctor head of the emergency department came over and I said, oh, when am I going to be able to run again?
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She, she just looked at me and she said she was quite.
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When she told me how bad my injury was, she talked to me as if I was a friend, not a patient.
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There was no holding back with her description of my injury.
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Let's just say so.
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There was a bit of grief, I think, to go go.
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You know, at first I can't do the things that bring me joy and help me relieve some stress, you know, just going out and getting fresh air.
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But instead of using the time that I would go outside to run a walk, I actually started doing other things in that time so that I didn't have that time to wallow.
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You know, I think, if when things that you perceive as bad happen to you.
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You can set up that camp and you know, camp in self-pity and wallow in all the things that you've lost.
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But there are also opportunities where you can grow in other areas.
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So I just started doing my family tree, so I spent some time on that.
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I started learning a language for the time that I would normally go out and run.
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I would be learning a language on Duolingo, which is an awesome resource.
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Love it.
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Um, I read a lot.
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I created workbooks for people because, because I had this list of things I wanted to do, I thought I'm going to help other people come up with things that bring them joy so they can explore that aspect of their life and do more things this year for themselves.
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So, even though I couldn't do the things on my list, I was helping other people create theirs and did that and did that fulfill for you, like now you can't do them, but seeing that other people could do and you could guide them through it, I'm sure brought you, like so much more joy and happiness, because you were bringing value to other people, you know so, even though you couldn't go on your runs anymore, you found a way to cope with it.
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What were some of the strategies that you would say you used?
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Because you know there are people out there who are hikers, who are runners, and sometimes you know when athletes get injured, for them it's very, very difficult to get back on the road and sometimes they fall into depression and sadness because of it, because that's what they're used to doing is being so physically active, and when that's taken away from them, it's really difficult for them to move forward.
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So what would you say were some of the things that you did for yourself that helped you move forward?
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well, one of the things that has been a mainstay of my Saturdays for the last coming up for eight years is something called parkrun, and parkrun is a free, weekly timed 5k run or walk and they're in some 22 countries around the world.
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There are some in the states and Canada and heaps in New Zealand, zealand and australia, and it's something that I'd go to every saturday and, yeah, I mostly would run them or walk them, but I was also really involved as a volunteer, because it's run by volunteers.
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That's why it's free, and so when I was unable to run, I just I had a really good run the day before I broke my ankle, could you believe?
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And I was thinking, yeah, this year is going to be the year where I get my times back down to how they used to be.
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But obviously the universe had other ideas.
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So the first step, today that I was out of the hospital and able to get back to Park Run.
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It was only less than two weeks after I injured myself, I was back to Park Run.
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It was only less than two weeks after I injured myself, I was back at Park Run.
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I was timekeeping.
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So I got picked up from my house, all the gear I had a walking frame because I didn't have a scooter at the time and I was completely non-weight bearing on this cast.
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So they set me up with a chair and had another chair where I could, you know, elevate my my leg and I would time keep.
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So I kept the time, for I think it was eight weeks in a row.
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So I was still part of the parkrun community, was still around all my friends, but I I wasn't running, but the fact that I was still there, that was what brought me the joy.
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And Parkrun came about because the person who developed it, who had the idea in the first place, he was injured and he missed his friends, so he decided to come up with this I'm going to put on a 5k event, so all my friends will be there and then we'll go for coffee afterwards.
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So that's what I did.
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I got picked up by friends who also go to parkrun, went and volunteered, went for coffee afterwards and and that kept me going week to week.
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And I think that that's important to find something that keeps you going from one day to the next, because it's so easy to fall into a state of just sadness or you just start believing that you're not capable now of doing things because that was taken away, when there's just so much other things that you could be doing and still being a part of it it's just me.
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You may not be physically running it, but you physically were cheering on other people who were doing it and that in itself you brought, you know, value to yourself because you were seeing how happy other people were through your participation in it.
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So that's so good and it brings me happiness to see that you know you were able to bring that for yourself, because you could have easily just gone down the rabbit hole and just been sad, thinking to yourself okay, what am I going to do next?
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This was taken away from me.
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Yeah, I'm not going to lie and say that it was all roses.
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I walked my first park run with a crutch.
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Um, it was, I'm trying to think, june, so about maybe three and a half months afterwards, and I really shouldn't have done that.
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I pushed myself too far to because, just because I really wanted to get a, have a, you know, do the park run myself, because I was.
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I was always volunteering, it's like when's it going to be my turn?
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I, I was really impatient and that set me back.
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It took me a week to get over it.
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So I thought, okay, I came back way too soon, but by August so we're talking seven months post fall I was able to walk.
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I was doing like every other week and slowly, and then it became every week I was able to, I was able to walk a bit more.
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You know, during the week I do shorter walks and then I remember I think it was December I would start walking around my neighborhood and I would run.
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Just you know when you're crossing people's driveways, so I would be on the footpath and then I'd get to a driveway and then I would just run on the driveway and then as soon as on the path again.
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So it was really short, like not very long distance at all, but just reminding my body what it felt like to run and that I think a lot of it was more um, because I hadn't been running for such a long time.
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There was that fear that what if my ankle breaks again?
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Is my ankle strong enough, when really it's super strong, it's got loads of metal in it, it's not going to break.
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The ankle is not going to break.
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My leg might break, but my ankle is not going to break.
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My leg might break, but my ankle is not going to break.
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And I started running.
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I did the.
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Have you heard of the Couch to 5K program?
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No, I have not.
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It takes you from the couch to running 5K, which is 3.1 miles or half an hour, over nine or 11 weeks, I forget.
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But I started that program in the January and I remember walking to my office in the hospital and I walked past the surgeon that had been in charge of all my my care and I said, oh, I started running.
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Again he goes.
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I told you it would be a year.
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Yeah, he knew I was so frustrated and impatient, but this is where you really have to trust the experts no, you do, and you have to trust your body too.
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Your body was telling you hey, allison, I don't think you should be doing that, but it's hard for us to listen to our body sometimes.
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Right, we want to do what our body tells us not to do, sometimes and push our limits and so.
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But you finally listen and now you know you're able to do.
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You're getting back on track little by little Now.
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Are you looking forward to doing that hike again?
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I'm never doing that hike again.
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I've seen the lakes.
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That's all I wanted to do was see the lakes.
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So I saw the lakes and that was game over.
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I've done it oh my goodness.
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So you created this podcast, which is amazing, called the Women who Podcast.
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Why did you create this podcast?
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What was your mission behind creating this podcast?
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My background is in journalism and I did a degree in broadcast journalism many years ago when we edited with reel-to-reel tape and a razor blade and sticky tape, you know, to cut the tape and stick it back together.
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So audio has always been something that's been a big part of my life, and I've dabbled in podcasting before and it never really stuck and I think it was because I didn't have the subject or the interest matter that was keeping me going.
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I love listening to podcasts.
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As a journalist, I've loved interviewing people with really interesting stories, but what I have found is that people who've got really interesting stories don't believe that their story is interesting to them.
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It's just, it's just what they do, it's just their life, it's their normal, it's.
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There's nothing amazing to it is how they see it.
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But we can learn so much from hearing other people tell their stories.
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Other people tell their stories, and so my podcast is about women who have got podcasts, because I want to inspire other women to take this up themselves or just learn about other podcasts that are out there and maybe find something that they want to listen to as a result.
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So now.
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It is because, like you just said, for a long time I didn't realize that my story would have an effect on anybody or would make bring change, and so a lot of times I just held the story to myself.
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And not until this year, you know, it came to my awareness that my story mattered and that I needed to use my experience and my story in order to bring awareness to other women and other men.
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Seeing that, you know, through it all, through the trauma, through the darkness, through everything that you've been through, you're capable of so much.
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You know, and we tend to be the ones to hold ourselves back because we don't believe our worth, we don't believe that we're capable, we just don't believe that we're enough, and so we just stay in this comfort zone that we're familiar with, holding ourselves back from like so much things that we could do.
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So I totally believe you when you say like a lot of people hold themselves back because they don't think their story matters, but it does matter and they'd be surprised how their stories can make an influential change in others people's lives.
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You know, and so with you, you know, being being athletic and having that injury, you just showed other people that that didn't hold you back, you just took little steps.
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But now again you are.
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You know running.
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You know, maybe not at the speed you want to run at, but you're back at running.
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You're not going to do the mountain again.
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That's because you already saw the lakes.
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So what's next?
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so what's next?
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Um, I've actually been thinking about doing another marathon.
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I've done 16 in my past and I keep thinking I should do another one, but I'm not sure.
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There are quite a few hikes that are still on my list that I would like to do.
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Um, there's one in Scotland that I really, really want to do, called the West Highland Way.
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That might be a 2025 goal, because I looked up accommodation for when I'm going to be in Scotland in 2024 and it's all fully booked, so there's a 2025 goal.
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It's um 100 miles through the, the West Highlands of Scotland, and it looks absolutely stunning.
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Um, scotland is my ancestral home.
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I guess it's like my spiritual home.
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My dad was scottish, hence why my other podcast is called scottish.
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At heart, it's exploring all things to do with scotland and people who are in any which way.
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Um, so yeah, so other hikes.
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Um, podcasting is next.
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Um, I know there's just so many things that I want to do.
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It's finding the time and and not pressuring myself to try to do everything all at once if you could tell everybody what has been your true awakening in life, where you said this is my moment to shine, what would you say that was?
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Oh, there's been so many.
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But right now, when it comes to podcasting, I'm feeling just in the last couple of months I've been having so many wonderful conversations with people on my show and being interviewed on other people's like yours that I'm feeling this is my time now, where I have this opportunity to spread my message and tell people that they are more than capable of doing all the things that they want to do.
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Just don't try to do everything all at once.
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Don't beat yourself up that you can't do everything.
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There's a season for things.
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So if you want to do like five things which are all going to take up a lot of your energy, just stick them on a calendar for some time in the future.
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It doesn't mean that you're not going to do them.
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You've still given them a time in the future doesn't mean that you're not going to do them.
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You've you've still given them a time.
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You know time in your life to do it.
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So, yeah, this um breaking my ankle when I wasn't able to do much, that was a bit of an awakening um.
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And tell you one other thing was in May I went to Scotland to go and see my one of my favorite bands and I went to the Isle of Skye and just being, as I don't know if you've ever seen pictures of it, but it's absolutely stunning.
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You've got these huge mountains like rugged hills on one side and still lochs on the other, like just flat water, and it was just this feeling of awe that I know, like there's so much beauty out there and we are just one tiny piece of this world, but we all come together to make it something special it's true, we all bring a little part of ourselves, our unique selves, and that's what makes us so beautiful, because we all bring our own little value, you know, and I couldn't imagine us all being the same.
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I feel like there's a reason why there's so much diversity in this world is because through diversity there's just so much more beauty and we all learn from one another, and I wouldn't want to live in a boring world where everybody was the same.
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I love seeing how different everybody is and what they think and what they do and what brings them joy.
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It's, it's so beautiful.
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That's why we are human, because we all bring our own uniqueness to like the world, you know, to life and that's why we've got so many different flavors of ice cream, because it would be so boring if it was just vanilla right.
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I just, I know I always think to myself I was like the world, god, god made us all be so different Because if we wouldn't have been different, there would be a world of boredom, and I don't want to be bored.
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Yes, it's just like everybody's doing the same thing at the same time.
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Yeah, just the thought of that that's boring.
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Yeah.
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I'm here to be different.
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I am too.
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I'm here to be different.
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I am too.
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I love that I'm different.
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I love that, even amongst my friends themselves I am a little different, the way I think it's different and it's funny because we all bring our little selves into our connection and through that connection it's like we bring more joy to one another and through that connection it's like we bring more joy to one another, you know, and it's, and because we all respect who we are as people and that's what's important, you know, respecting each other's values.
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We don't have to be the way you think or the way you are.
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It's like I accept you as you are and that's what's important.
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So, so, yeah, keep being different.
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Yes, Well, I love to connect with you and I thank you for being on this podcast and bringing so much you know value to our listeners.
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And I can't wait to continue listening to your podcast because it is amazing.
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I've listened to a couple episodes myself and it's brought me some moments, so I can't wait to continue listening to your fabulous work that you're bringing out there.
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So, thank you so much, and keep doing what you're doing too, because we need to hear what you have to say.
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Thank you, I will.
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You and everybody else has brought me just so much encouragement, and so that's been helping me along this journey of mine.
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This is a new path for me, so thank you so much.
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Thank you for taking your time and connecting with me on this beautiful journey of life.
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Always remember you matter.
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If nobody has told you today, I am here to tell you that you are enough, you are worthy and you are deserving of the best.
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Every day that you wake up, I want you to take one moment and just look at yourself in the mirror and know that the person staring back at you is so proud of you and loves you beyond measures.
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You are a true warrior.
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Thank you.
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When things that you perceive as bad happen to you, you can set up that camp in self-pity and wallow in all the things that you've lost.
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But there are also opportunities where you can grow in other areas.
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So I just started doing my family tree, so I spent some time on that.
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I started learning a language for the time that I would normally go out and run.
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I would be learning a language on Duolingo, which is an awesome resource.
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Love it.
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Um, I read a lot.
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I created workbooks for people because, because I had this list of things I wanted to do, I thought I'm going to help other people come up with things that bring them joy so they can explore that aspect of their life and do more things this year for themselves.
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So, even though I couldn't do the things on my list, I was helping other people create theirs and did that fulfill for you, like now you can't do them, but seeing that other people could do and you could guide them through it I'm sure brought you like now you can't do them, but seeing that other people could do and you could guide them through it I'm sure brought you like so much more joy and happiness because you were bringing value to other people.
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You know so, even though you couldn't go on your runs anymore, you found a way to cope with it.
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What were some of the strategies that you would say you used?
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Welcome to the Self-Worth Revolution podcast hosted by Vivian Medrano.
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I am not only a podcaster, but a mother, a nurse, a life coach and a survivor.
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This podcast is about turning your pain into your power, your experiences into your lessons, and to start living a life full of abundance, inner peace and fulfillment.
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My higher purpose are for my listeners to find their self-worth and their value by following their path to greatness.
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We are all deserving of living our best lives.
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It is time to stop identifying with our past.
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Start living in the present for a better future.
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This podcast will have guest speakers that will share their stories of how they transformed their lives and found their worth.
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My mission is to let my listeners know this is your time to shine, to know that you are not alone.
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Healing is empowering.
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It takes courage to be vulnerable, and our voices have power.
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Hold on to your lives, because this will be an incredible ride of self-transformation, self-empowerment and radical change.
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It is time for us to take our power back.
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Hi, welcome to the Self-Worth Revolution.
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I'm here with Alison King all the way from New Zealand, and so she's also a podcaster herself.
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Her podcast name is Women who Podcast and, without further ado, I would like Alison to go ahead and just introduce herself to us.
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Thank you so much.
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Yeah, so my name's Alison.
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I am actually from the UK, but I live in New Zealand.
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I've been here 20 years.
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I'm not sure what my accent is to listeners.
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Some people it's English and some people it's Kiwi.
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I'll let you decide.
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But yeah, I have a podcast Women who Podcast and another one called Scottish at Heart, because I am Scottish at heart.
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But I've done so much, so many things in my life, and when you were talking about self-worth revolution and what do I want to talk about, it's like wow, when I think about it, I've actually lived so many different lives and I'm still only 47.
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And I feel like I've got so many more lives left to live.
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Isn't it amazing that we can do so many things in our life if we really let ourselves be opportunities?
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It is because I'm also 47.
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And it's just amazing how much the world gives to you when you allow it to give it to you.
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It's like when you're open to so much, the world just naturally starts giving you things that you couldn't even imagine, that you were even capable of doing, or like you just dreamed of it, and it's like, oh wait, I just did that, you know so.
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Yes, a lot of people think, because you get older, you stop living Like you need.
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Oh, you're not capable of this, you're not capable of that.
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Oh, you stop living like you need.
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Oh, you're not capable of this, you're not capable of that.
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Oh, you're getting older.
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I'm like, no age is just a number.
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You know, it's how you live your life that matters.
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So what would you say has been one of your?
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You know, in your journey of life, what has brought you somewhere like that you've noticed.
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It's like, oh, my god, this has brought me so much abundance.
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This has been my true awakening in life there's been lots of things along, you know, along the way of my 47 years, but I think one thing that stands out is um January 2022, to think what year we're.
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You know what things there's been so much that's happened since COVID, like you think that things happened only six months ago, but really it was like two years ago.
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But yeah, so in January 2022, I I had I felt like the world was my oyster.
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I had a list of things that I was going to achieve, you know, not just that year but in the years to come, and a lot of them were based on um hiking and, you know, using my body and just to run to explore, to just use that energy.
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And on my list was a hike that's called the Tongariro crossing, which is the best known hike one day hike in New Zealand.
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It goes across.
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Tongariro is a mountain in the central plateau.
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There's Tongariro Narahoe, which people will know as Mount Doom in the Lord of the Rings films.
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So if you can imagine that mountain just not how dark it is, because it doesn't look like- that in real life but that's the shape of it.
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You've got Tongariro, narahoe and Ruapehu and there's this one day hike which is like 20 kilometers.
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So what's that in miles?
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I want to say maybe like 13 miles.
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That's just under 13 miles, because 13 miles is 21k's and it's been been on my list for such a long time.
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I'd actually done it in 2010 with my husband and a couple of friends on Christmas Day and the weather was appalling.
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It was really low cloud and there's this picturesque view that you're supposed to see from the top of these beautiful emerald, bluish, greenish lakes.
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Well, they're just stunning lakes, but we didn't see them because there was so much cloud.
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We were pretty much in the lakes before we saw them.
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So over the years, like I really want to return to that crossing to do that walk again because I really want to see those lakes.
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I just want to see those lakes.
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They're stunning.
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I want to get that.
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You know the Instagram picture.
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I want to get you know the tourism brochure photos that you see and the hike.
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It's only I think it was like a two and a half hour drive from where I live.
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So it's not that far in the grand scheme of things, but you know how life just gets in the way and you put it off and you put it off.
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Well, I decided that 2022, I was not going to put it off anymore and a week before I ended up doing it, a friend of mine was saying you know she was coming over.
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She lives a couple of hours away.
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I'm going to do the Tongariro crossing.
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I was like, awesome, can I come with you?
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Because I really want to do it, but I don't want to do it by myself, I want to do it with people, I know, sure.
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So we arranged to do it and it was a stunning day, you know, like blue skies, not a cloud, to be seen.
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There were quite a few people on the mountain that we were just starting to see, tourists coming back into New Zealand, mostly just Australians, but there were mostly people on the mountain where other people from New Zealand.
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Anyway, it was a glorious day.
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We were having such a good time, got to see the lake and well, there was a few lakes that you can see from the top and it's like, oh, this is the view that I want.
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I've just come to see this.
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I just wanted to see those lakes and probably within five minutes of me seeing those lakes.
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I slipped.
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I was going downhill, just slipped on some loose, just little loose rocks, kind of like um marbles on a dance floor is how I liken that surface.
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So if you can just imagine, you know it's quite a solid surface but there's little pebbly rocks on there that make it slippy.
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And my right foot and my right I only had one walking pole.
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I had that in my right hand.
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They just slept from underneath me and I fell backwards and my left foot didn't leave the ground willingly and as I landed backwards had my little pack on my left leg came up in front of me and I could see my foot was just floppy, just dangling there.
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I'm sure you can imagine that you know, being someone who has seen a lot of, I know, medical mishaps.
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I'm just thinking more so your injury and how you're going to get down this mountain.
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You just can't get down this mountain.
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I was halfway through the walk.
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Oh, my goodness, I can't imagine the pain that you were going through, and I'm also thinking right now that you were probably thinking how in the world am I going to get off this mountain now?
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Yeah, well what were your thoughts at that moment, when this happened?
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well.
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I fell backwards and my leg came up and I saw like, oh, that looks broken.
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I'm my friends, vicky and Stu, were probably about 50 to 100 meters in front of me and just called like Vicky, I think I've broken my ankle.
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Two women which had just they just sat on this rock, you know, quite close to where I was, just to have a breather, and the look on their face and they were just like like they were.
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They were more in shock than I was.
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Because you mentioned pain.
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I actually had no pain at that time.
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I had no pain for it was like two hours before I actually said, hey, I think I could do with some painkillers now.
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Oh my God, I wonder if your body just went into shock and just basically said you know what?
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She cannot concentrate on the pain.
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The pain is not something that we need to worry about right now yeah, and I ended up being the one saying oh, you need to phone for help like call 111, so that's our emergency number in New Zealand, call 111.
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I'm gonna need the helicopter.
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And my friend Vicky had found a nurse who was out for a hike, so so she came up and had a look.
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She goes oh yeah, that's, it's broken.
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Um, and she did some strapping and I didn't even try to move because I thought I'm I was still lying where I fell.
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I was like so kind of in the middle of the track, but I knew that.
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I knew that it had broken and so there was no point in me trying to stand on it because that wasn't going to prove anything.
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I already knew it.
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Um, yeah, so we ended up getting the rescue helicopter and in it was really really good fortune in that it was the perfect day for flying conditions, you know, blue skies, and the helicopter had been really busy like whole.
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So this was about 20 past 10 in the morning.
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By this stage They'd been had a really really busy night.
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But they were back at their base, because there's one helicopter that serves a really big region and they weren't on a call, they were at the head.
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You know, on the helipad.
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The guys had just got some refreshment.
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It was all refueled, so they came straight away.
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So I had to wait.
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It just got some refreshment.
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It was all refueled so they came straight away, so I had to wait.
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It was a 45 minute flight, so I had to wait for them.
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And then they landed by the lake and then came to investigate what was going on and try to figure out how to get me off this mountain, because I was on a stretch apart that was still, you know, like 45 degree angle and I couldn't walk down to the flatbed where the helicopter was.
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So we had to formulate how angle and I couldn't walk down to the flat bit where the helicopter was so we had to formulate how we were going to get me down.
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So they, with a man on either side of me and they'd splintered up my, my leg and the pilot in front, we kind of hopped down to a flatter section and then the helicopter.
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They flew the helicopter in and hovered just resting one of the skids on the side of the mountain, if you can imagine that.
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So the blades are still going.
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I've got these protective eyewear on and I had to kind of just like shuffle myself onto the skid and into the helicopter and then, yeah, lay in the stretcher in the back, and all the while the paramedic was like can I get you some painkillers?
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Can I get you some painkillers?
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I was like no, no, this is all good.
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I don't even think I've broken it.
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I said it's probably just a sprain.
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I'm going to be really embarrassed when we get to the hospital and we find out that I could have walked the rest of the way.
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Oh my goodness.
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No, no, you're definitely broken it.
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Yeah, so that started, I guess, this whole journey of discovering other things that I was capable of, because, I mean, that's the really long story.
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I could probably make it longer, but in a nutshell, yeah, I broke my ankle in two places um the tibia and the fibula um.
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I'd also dislocated it at some, like in the fall, but the nurse who checked me over had apparently relocated it, so it wasn't as bad as when I got to the hospital.
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Um, so I should say that the reason why I was so calm while I was on the mountain was I've worked in newspapers for years and I knew that the from working on the local newspaper that the rescue helicopter got called out to the mountain quite a lot.
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And I'm now working in a hospital in communications and I know from the hospital system that when you break something like an ankle on the mountain, I know which hospital you end up going to, because we I know what our hospital deals with.
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We deal with orthopedic cases but we don't deal with head injuries.
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The head injuries and spinal injuries go somewhere else.
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I was like well, I've broken my ankle.
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I'm not going to go to the nearest hospital to the mountain because they don't do orthopedics, they're just, you know, minor injuries.
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Anyone else then gets transferred to the hospital where I work.
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So I knew I was going.
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I was going home, essentially.
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I thought I was going to say I'm like you're going to your comfort zone.
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Yeah, yeah, I was going to somewhere, where, somewhere where I knew people already and I didn't have to drive the two and a half hours home, which was kind of looking, you know, not looking forward to that drive afterwards.
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So I made sure, before I got taken off, that I think it was as soon as the helicopter had been called, I gave my car keys to my friend, vicky, so that she and Stu could sort out the cars.
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That would have been terrible, wouldn't it?
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going to the hospital with your car keys in your pocket and your car's two and a half hours away.
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Yeah, yep.
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So what transcribed after that?
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Because I know that you're very physically active, you would go out on runs.
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What trans?
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What happened after that, after injuring your ankle?
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How did that hold you back from fulfilling things that you wanted it to fulfill in life?
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Did it hold you back or did you have to do modifications with life?
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it did.
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It did hold me back to some degree and on the day of the accident I'd run or walked at least five kilometers every day for the last three previous three months and I'd been doing a minimum two k's a day for 520 days.
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So I'd been daily active, daily, every day for a year and a half and I was in the emergency department and one of the doctor head of the emergency department came over and I said, oh, when am I going to be able to run again?
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She, she just looked at me and she said she was quite.
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When she told me how bad my injury was, she talked to me as if I was a friend, not a patient.
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There was no holding back with her description of my injury.
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Let's just say so.
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There was a bit of grief, I think, to go go.
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You know, at first I can't do the things that bring me joy and help me relieve some stress, you know, just going out and getting fresh air.
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But instead of using the time that I would go outside to run a walk, I actually started doing other things in that time so that I didn't have that time to wallow.
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You know, I think, if when things that you perceive as bad happen to you.
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You can set up that camp and you know, camp in self-pity and wallow in all the things that you've lost.
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But there are also opportunities where you can grow in other areas.
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So I just started doing my family tree, so I spent some time on that.
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I started learning a language for the time that I would normally go out and run.
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I would be learning a language on Duolingo, which is an awesome resource.
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Love it.
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Um, I read a lot.
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I created workbooks for people because, because I had this list of things I wanted to do, I thought I'm going to help other people come up with things that bring them joy so they can explore that aspect of their life and do more things this year for themselves.
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So, even though I couldn't do the things on my list, I was helping other people create theirs and did that and did that fulfill for you, like now you can't do them, but seeing that other people could do and you could guide them through it, I'm sure brought you, like so much more joy and happiness, because you were bringing value to other people, you know so, even though you couldn't go on your runs anymore, you found a way to cope with it.
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What were some of the strategies that you would say you used?
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Because you know there are people out there who are hikers, who are runners, and sometimes you know when athletes get injured, for them it's very, very difficult to get back on the road and sometimes they fall into depression and sadness because of it, because that's what they're used to doing is being so physically active, and when that's taken away from them, it's really difficult for them to move forward.
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So what would you say were some of the things that you did for yourself that helped you move forward?
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well, one of the things that has been a mainstay of my Saturdays for the last coming up for eight years is something called parkrun, and parkrun is a free, weekly timed 5k run or walk and they're in some 22 countries around the world.
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There are some in the states and Canada and heaps in New Zealand, zealand and australia, and it's something that I'd go to every saturday and, yeah, I mostly would run them or walk them, but I was also really involved as a volunteer, because it's run by volunteers.
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That's why it's free, and so when I was unable to run, I just I had a really good run the day before I broke my ankle, could you believe?
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And I was thinking, yeah, this year is going to be the year where I get my times back down to how they used to be.
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But obviously the universe had other ideas.
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So the first step, today that I was out of the hospital and able to get back to Park Run.
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It was only less than two weeks after I injured myself, I was back to Park Run.
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It was only less than two weeks after I injured myself, I was back at Park Run.
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I was timekeeping.
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So I got picked up from my house, all the gear I had a walking frame because I didn't have a scooter at the time and I was completely non-weight bearing on this cast.
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So they set me up with a chair and had another chair where I could, you know, elevate my my leg and I would time keep.
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So I kept the time, for I think it was eight weeks in a row.
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So I was still part of the parkrun community, was still around all my friends, but I I wasn't running, but the fact that I was still there, that was what brought me the joy.
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And Parkrun came about because the person who developed it, who had the idea in the first place, he was injured and he missed his friends, so he decided to come up with this I'm going to put on a 5k event, so all my friends will be there and then we'll go for coffee afterwards.
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So that's what I did.
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I got picked up by friends who also go to parkrun, went and volunteered, went for coffee afterwards and and that kept me going week to week.
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And I think that that's important to find something that keeps you going from one day to the next, because it's so easy to fall into a state of just sadness or you just start believing that you're not capable now of doing things because that was taken away, when there's just so much other things that you could be doing and still being a part of it it's just me.
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You may not be physically running it, but you physically were cheering on other people who were doing it and that in itself you brought, you know, value to yourself because you were seeing how happy other people were through your participation in it.
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So that's so good and it brings me happiness to see that you know you were able to bring that for yourself, because you could have easily just gone down the rabbit hole and just been sad, thinking to yourself okay, what am I going to do next?
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This was taken away from me.
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Yeah, I'm not going to lie and say that it was all roses.
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I walked my first park run with a crutch.
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Um, it was, I'm trying to think, june, so about maybe three and a half months afterwards, and I really shouldn't have done that.
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I pushed myself too far to because, just because I really wanted to get a, have a, you know, do the park run myself, because I was.
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I was always volunteering, it's like when's it going to be my turn?
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I, I was really impatient and that set me back.
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It took me a week to get over it.
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So I thought, okay, I came back way too soon, but by August so we're talking seven months post fall I was able to walk.
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I was doing like every other week and slowly, and then it became every week I was able to, I was able to walk a bit more.
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You know, during the week I do shorter walks and then I remember I think it was December I would start walking around my neighborhood and I would run.
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Just you know when you're crossing people's driveways, so I would be on the footpath and then I'd get to a driveway and then I would just run on the driveway and then as soon as on the path again.
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So it was really short, like not very long distance at all, but just reminding my body what it felt like to run and that I think a lot of it was more um, because I hadn't been running for such a long time.
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There was that fear that what if my ankle breaks again?
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Is my ankle strong enough, when really it's super strong, it's got loads of metal in it, it's not going to break.
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The ankle is not going to break.
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My leg might break, but my ankle is not going to break.
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My leg might break, but my ankle is not going to break.
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And I started running.
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I did the.
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Have you heard of the Couch to 5K program?
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No, I have not.
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It takes you from the couch to running 5K, which is 3.1 miles or half an hour, over nine or 11 weeks, I forget.
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But I started that program in the January and I remember walking to my office in the hospital and I walked past the surgeon that had been in charge of all my my care and I said, oh, I started running.
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Again he goes.
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I told you it would be a year.
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Yeah, he knew I was so frustrated and impatient, but this is where you really have to trust the experts no, you do, and you have to trust your body too.
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Your body was telling you hey, allison, I don't think you should be doing that, but it's hard for us to listen to our body sometimes.
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Right, we want to do what our body tells us not to do, sometimes and push our limits and so.
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But you finally listen and now you know you're able to do.
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You're getting back on track little by little Now.
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Are you looking forward to doing that hike again?
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I'm never doing that hike again.
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I've seen the lakes.
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That's all I wanted to do was see the lakes.
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So I saw the lakes and that was game over.
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I've done it oh my goodness.
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So you created this podcast, which is amazing, called the Women who Podcast.
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Why did you create this podcast?
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What was your mission behind creating this podcast?
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My background is in journalism and I did a degree in broadcast journalism many years ago when we edited with reel-to-reel tape and a razor blade and sticky tape, you know, to cut the tape and stick it back together.
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So audio has always been something that's been a big part of my life, and I've dabbled in podcasting before and it never really stuck and I think it was because I didn't have the subject or the interest matter that was keeping me going.
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I love listening to podcasts.
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As a journalist, I've loved interviewing people with really interesting stories, but what I have found is that people who've got really interesting stories don't believe that their story is interesting to them.
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It's just, it's just what they do, it's just their life, it's their normal, it's.
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There's nothing amazing to it is how they see it.
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But we can learn so much from hearing other people tell their stories.
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Other people tell their stories, and so my podcast is about women who have got podcasts, because I want to inspire other women to take this up themselves or just learn about other podcasts that are out there and maybe find something that they want to listen to as a result.
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So now.
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It is because, like you just said, for a long time I didn't realize that my story would have an effect on anybody or would make bring change, and so a lot of times I just held the story to myself.
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And not until this year, you know, it came to my awareness that my story mattered and that I needed to use my experience and my story in order to bring awareness to other women and other men.
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Seeing that, you know, through it all, through the trauma, through the darkness, through everything that you've been through, you're capable of so much.
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You know, and we tend to be the ones to hold ourselves back because we don't believe our worth, we don't believe that we're capable, we just don't believe that we're enough, and so we just stay in this comfort zone that we're familiar with, holding ourselves back from like so much things that we could do.
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So I totally believe you when you say like a lot of people hold themselves back because they don't think their story matters, but it does matter and they'd be surprised how their stories can make an influential change in others people's lives.
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You know, and so with you, you know, being being athletic and having that injury, you just showed other people that that didn't hold you back, you just took little steps.
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But now again you are.
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You know running.
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You know, maybe not at the speed you want to run at, but you're back at running.
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You're not going to do the mountain again.
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That's because you already saw the lakes.
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So what's next?
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so what's next?
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Um, I've actually been thinking about doing another marathon.
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I've done 16 in my past and I keep thinking I should do another one, but I'm not sure.
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There are quite a few hikes that are still on my list that I would like to do.
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Um, there's one in Scotland that I really, really want to do, called the West Highland Way.
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That might be a 2025 goal, because I looked up accommodation for when I'm going to be in Scotland in 2024 and it's all fully booked, so there's a 2025 goal.
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It's um 100 miles through the, the West Highlands of Scotland, and it looks absolutely stunning.
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Um, scotland is my ancestral home.
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I guess it's like my spiritual home.
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My dad was scottish, hence why my other podcast is called scottish.
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At heart, it's exploring all things to do with scotland and people who are in any which way.
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Um, so yeah, so other hikes.
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Um, podcasting is next.
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Um, I know there's just so many things that I want to do.
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It's finding the time and and not pressuring myself to try to do everything all at once if you could tell everybody what has been your true awakening in life, where you said this is my moment to shine, what would you say that was?
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Oh, there's been so many.
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But right now, when it comes to podcasting, I'm feeling just in the last couple of months I've been having so many wonderful conversations with people on my show and being interviewed on other people's like yours that I'm feeling this is my time now, where I have this opportunity to spread my message and tell people that they are more than capable of doing all the things that they want to do.
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Just don't try to do everything all at once.
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Don't beat yourself up that you can't do everything.
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There's a season for things.
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So if you want to do like five things which are all going to take up a lot of your energy, just stick them on a calendar for some time in the future.
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It doesn't mean that you're not going to do them.
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You've still given them a time in the future doesn't mean that you're not going to do them.
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You've you've still given them a time.
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You know time in your life to do it.
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So, yeah, this um breaking my ankle when I wasn't able to do much, that was a bit of an awakening um.
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And tell you one other thing was in May I went to Scotland to go and see my one of my favorite bands and I went to the Isle of Skye and just being, as I don't know if you've ever seen pictures of it, but it's absolutely stunning.
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You've got these huge mountains like rugged hills on one side and still lochs on the other, like just flat water, and it was just this feeling of awe that I know, like there's so much beauty out there and we are just one tiny piece of this world, but we all come together to make it something special it's true, we all bring a little part of ourselves, our unique selves, and that's what makes us so beautiful, because we all bring our own little value, you know, and I couldn't imagine us all being the same.
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I feel like there's a reason why there's so much diversity in this world is because through diversity there's just so much more beauty and we all learn from one another, and I wouldn't want to live in a boring world where everybody was the same.
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I love seeing how different everybody is and what they think and what they do and what brings them joy.
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It's, it's so beautiful.
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That's why we are human, because we all bring our own uniqueness to like the world, you know, to life and that's why we've got so many different flavors of ice cream, because it would be so boring if it was just vanilla right.
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I just, I know I always think to myself I was like the world, god, god made us all be so different Because if we wouldn't have been different, there would be a world of boredom, and I don't want to be bored.
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Yes, it's just like everybody's doing the same thing at the same time.
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Yeah, just the thought of that that's boring.
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Yeah.
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I'm here to be different.
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I am too.
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I'm here to be different.
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I am too.
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I love that I'm different.
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I love that, even amongst my friends themselves I am a little different, the way I think it's different and it's funny because we all bring our little selves into our connection and through that connection it's like we bring more joy to one another and through that connection it's like we bring more joy to one another, you know, and it's, and because we all respect who we are as people and that's what's important, you know, respecting each other's values.
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We don't have to be the way you think or the way you are.
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It's like I accept you as you are and that's what's important.
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So, so, yeah, keep being different.
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Yes, Well, I love to connect with you and I thank you for being on this podcast and bringing so much you know value to our listeners.
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And I can't wait to continue listening to your podcast because it is amazing.
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I've listened to a couple episodes myself and it's brought me some moments, so I can't wait to continue listening to your fabulous work that you're bringing out there.
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So, thank you so much, and keep doing what you're doing too, because we need to hear what you have to say.
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Thank you, I will.
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You and everybody else has brought me just so much encouragement, and so that's been helping me along this journey of mine.
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This is a new path for me, so thank you so much.
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Thank you for taking your time and connecting with me on this beautiful journey of life.
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Always remember you matter.
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If nobody has told you today, I am here to tell you that you are enough, you are worthy and you are deserving of the best.
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Every day that you wake up, I want you to take one moment and just look at yourself in the mirror and know that the person staring back at you is so proud of you and loves you beyond measures.
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You are a true warrior.
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Thank you.
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