Tough Girl Podcast

Rosie Swale Pope - (MBE) is a legendary global adventurer, author and motivational speaker. Throughout her life, Rosie has completed numerous marathons in some of the world’s most challenging terrains and has embarked upon many adventures including riding across Chile on horseback and sailing across the globe in a small boat. In 2003, aged 57, she began a five-year run-around-the-world, travelling 20,000 miles to raise awareness for the early diagnosis of cancer. Rosie is the only person in the world to have completed this solo challenge unsupported, carrying all her belongings in her cart behind her.  Now, at the age of 73, Rosie has taken on an exciting, new challenge: a run of 6,000 miles from Brighton, UK all the way to Kathmandu in Nepal in support of the charity PHASE Worldwide and their work in remote areas of the Himalayas. Show notes Where Rosie is in the world Rosie is running from Brighton to Kathmandu for Phase Worldwide Growing up and being looked after by her grandmother Why she decided to work