After working in finance for 8 years, feeling “grey and tired”, Sarah Williams quit her city job and spent 18 months travelling the world, climbing Kilimanjaro, backpacking around South America and doing a ski season in Verbier.
She used this time to help her decide on what she wanted to do with her life. She set up Tough Girl Challenges as a way of motivating and inspiring women and girls. She is the host the Tough Girl Podcast where she has interviewed over 300 inspirational female explorers, adventurers, athletes and everyday women who have overcome great challenges.
The Tough Girl Podcast has been downloaded over 1.5 Million times in 174 countries. It won the Women’s Sport Trust, Media Initiative of the Year Award in May 2018 and the She Extreme best adventure podcast in 2019.
Sarah completed the Marathon des Sables (6 marathons in 6 days across the Sahara desert) in April 2016 and in 2017 she thru hiked the Appalachian Trail (2,190 miles) in 100 days!
She completed her Masters in Women & Gender studies at Lancaster University in 2018 and cycled the Pacific Coast Highway and Baja California solo and unsupported (over 4,000 km).
For me personally, this is possibly one of my most inspiring chats to date. Sarah feels more like me than many of the women I have interviewed and I could relate so much to her need for adventure, her desire to inspire and motivate women to get out and live their one life to the full.
She is infectious with her positivity, her drive and her generosity of spirit. I took so much from this conversation. Not just what she has learned from her incredible guests (as I do every week) but from her own adventures into the pain cave, delving deep to find out what we’re made of.
Listen to this and then binge listen to her incredible podcast. You can become part of Sarah’s Tough Girl Challenges tribe through the following links:
✩Twitter - https://twitter.com/_tough_girl
✩ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/toughgirlchallenges/
✩ Blog/Website - https://www.toughgirlchallenges.com/
✩ FaceBook - https://www.facebook.com/ToughGirlChallenges/
✩ Pinterest - https://uk.pinterest.com/Tough101/
✩ Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/ToughGirlPodcast?ty=h
✩YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/SarahWilliamsToughGirlChallenges
You can listen to the Tough Girl Podcast on the go via iTunes, Soundcloud, Spotify & Stitcher!
Sarah has also written three books and you can find them here: