Georgina Miranda - CEO of She Ventures | Adventurer, entrepreneur and activist. Completed 6 of the 7 summits and going after the Explorers Grand-slam!

Georgina credits the mountains and a life of adventure to shaping who she is today. She is passionate about sharing the gift of adventure and wellness with others to unleash the power within and enjoy life a bit better.

Georgina is a social entrepreneur, adventurer, public speaker, consultant, and coach combining over a decade of Corporate, Start-up, and Adventure experience. She is a social innovator working to accelerate gender equality globally and exploring new ways to unleash full human potential in life and business from a holistic mind, body, spirit approach. She's passionate about building healthier and more socially conscious entrepreneurial ecosystems that combine business and spirituality.

She firmly believes that women are the world's largest untapped resource and that given the proper resources and equal opportunities they can change the world. She’s on a mission to do her part to change this statistic. 

As an accomplished mountaineer, climbing 6 of the 7 highest peaks on each continent, including Mt. Everest twice, she is fascinated by the power of human potential. She loves working with people to help them unleash their full potential and bring to surface conscious and subconscious roadblocks in order to help them reach their dreams, goals, and objectives in business and life. She is currently in the process of completing the Explorer Grand Slam, a feat that less than 15 women globally have completed. 

Georgina credits the mountains and a life of adventure to shaping who she is today. She is passionate about sharing the gift of adventure and wellness with others to unleash the power within and enjoy life a bit better. 

Show notes

• Who is Georgina
• Coming from a small family
• Growing up in LA and San Diego
• Now living between the West Coast and Amsterdam 
• Getting into the adventuring world and being an unlikely adventurer
• Discovering rock climbing
• How being playful could benefit your life
• Going above 10,000ft
• Not being able to run a mile
• Figuring out what your body can do 
• Deciding to go public with her goal of the 7 summits - 2007
• The article that changed her life
• Being 10 years into her challenge
• Why the result don’t always come over night
• Climbing Mount Elbrus 
• Saying her goals outloud for the first time
• Being brought up in a traditional Latino household
• A message from ‘a real climber’
• How she keeps going after her goals even without family support
• How she decided when to summit Mount Everest
• Deciding to climb Mount Denali first (May 2010)
• Not making it up Everest on her first attempt (2011)
• Learning from failure and why her approach in 2013 was different
• Spending 30 hours in the Death Zone
• Making the decision to turn around
• Getting over the “failure”
• Why you need to train your mind
• How Georgina pays for her adventures
• The misconception about sponsorship and money
• The remaining challenges
• Saving Antarctica until last
• She Ventures
• Life is trail and error
• Top tips for you to step outside your own comfort zone

 

She Ventures 

Website -  www.sheventures.co 

Facebook -  @SheVenturesCo  

Personal

Website - www.georginamiranda.com 

Instagram - @gg_miranda  

Twitter - @georgina_here 

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