Facing Discomfort on Mt. Everest, in Your Brain, & in Your Life with Ellen Miller
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12/28/20 • 63 min
Ellen Miller is the first American to summit Mt. Everest from both sides (!!!) and in this episode we explore taking calculated risks, cultivating self-awareness, grit, and navigating the light and dark that exists within all of us.
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Show Notes:
2:30 How Ellen got into mountain climbing
5:30 Climbing Everest twice was never a goal
6:25 Life is going to unfold in ways that you can not possibly plan for
8:03 Breaking the glass climbing ceiling as a female
9:06 This one's for the nay-sayers
10:30 How the ego can be helpful
11:18 One step at a time
14:14 You are in the driver's seat of your thought patterns
17:30 Metacognition
19:55 The 100 Gratitude things challenge
20:10 How to fill the Grit Reservoir
26:42 How Life is prepares us for where its going to take us
30:43 Battling the light and dark
36:15 Failing on the mountain & what
43:07 The space between the stimulus and the response
46:10 Restorative Yoga & Visualization
51:30 Grounding as a practice; link to the video we mention is here
54:03 Being inspired by young activists
56:10 Book recommendations from Ellen
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Ellen Miller is the first American to summit Mt. Everest from both sides (!!!) and in this episode we explore taking calculated risks, cultivating self-awareness, grit, and navigating the light and dark that exists within all of us.
Follow @makeonedayhappen | https://makeonedayhappen.com
Visit Lost Range CBD: www.lostrangecbd.com & Use code “makeonedayhappen” for 2 free gifts + 10% donated to Last Prisoner Project | www.lastprisonerproject.org
Show Notes:
2:30 How Ellen got into mountain climbing
5:30 Climbing Everest twice was never a goal
6:25 Life is going to unfold in ways that you can not possibly plan for
8:03 Breaking the glass climbing ceiling as a female
9:06 This one's for the nay-sayers
10:30 How the ego can be helpful
11:18 One step at a time
14:14 You are in the driver's seat of your thought patterns
17:30 Metacognition
19:55 The 100 Gratitude things challenge
20:10 How to fill the Grit Reservoir
26:42 How Life is prepares us for where its going to take us
30:43 Battling the light and dark
36:15 Failing on the mountain & what
43:07 The space between the stimulus and the response
46:10 Restorative Yoga & Visualization
51:30 Grounding as a practice; link to the video we mention is here
54:03 Being inspired by young activists
56:10 Book recommendations from Ellen
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20:15 Why be on a team?
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24:45 Forrest Woodward film The Time Travelers
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