Ep 20: Exploring the Arctic and Kicking Ass with Heather Thorkelson
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Attention digital nomads!
If Heather isn’t the most kickass person you’ve heard on a podcast… I don’t believe you.
There’s something epic about being known as an Arctic explorer — being a known associate of penguins and polar bears, battling enormous blocks of ice, forging a path into (relatively) unknown lands on huge ships…
In this episode, I ask Heather about how she got started and her journey to become an expert on the polar regions and a world traveler. I can’t wait to have her on again to shoot the s**t and talk about more of our journeys.
I love this conversation because we get into the real grime of entrepreneurship, the low points, the fears, the sacrifice, and how to overcome adversity to achieve what you really want.
Want to join Heather and I in Antarctica in 2022? It’s awhile away but you can put a deposit down to go with us through 7in7 — it will be a digital nomad conference like no other.
Apply here and make your deposit: 7in7.co/penguins
Stay emPowered, Beck
Show Notes:
- Currently based in Sweden as a Business Consultant working from her laptop since 2011 (2:54)
- How she randomly got involved in the business of Polar Expeditions (4:10)
- On saying yes to things instead of “not possible” …such as raising half a million quickly for a ship and expedition (9:44)
- The way that you’re perceived starts to precede you (15:44)
- Missing the mark when you don’t know what you don’t know (18:55)
- From living in a garage hawking items out of personal CD collection to pay the rent on the garage she lived in to successful business owner and how it all changed (29:50)
- Feel the fear and do it anyway. (36:40)
