Karen Darke started her working life as a geologist in the Bolivian Andes, researching gold, but a life-changing accident left her paralysed from the chest down. She transitioned from being a ‘rock-doctor’ to exploring both outside and within. Karen loves to discover ways to align mind, body and spirit to do extraordinary things.
Karen visualised winning a gold medal in the Paralympics and successfully achieved a silver medal in the 2012, London Paralympics and a gold in Rio in 2016, both in handcycling.
In this episode we’re talking about Karen’s next adventure.
Timestamps
00:00 Theme intro
00:30 Intro to my guest Karen
02:10 Karen’s next adventure: The Pole of Possibility!
03:45 ICE: Inner Gold, Connection, Environment
04:20 How you can join Karen for the launch of the Pole of Possibility
04:25 What will happen at the launch?
06:45 Karen explains more about the expedition
09.00 The “I” in ICE. What gold means to Karen. “79” the atomic number of gold.
10:30 Karen’s retreats to help you find your inner gold.
11:30 The “E” in ICE - Environment
12:40 The other two people in the team: Film Maker Mike Webster who will record the expedition through a documentary film.
15:00 Professor Mike Christie of Aberystwyth University who will use the expedition as a research platform to demonstrate the impacts of climate change on the Antarctic continent and how this has wider impacts to people and nature across the world.
16:10 Fundraising and how the funds will be used. Shout out to the sponsors.
19:00 Karen explains how she is excited but a little scared too as she has more complex personal care needs than most.
21:10 Karen explains how she found the training in Norway in minus 30 temps!
Check out Karen’s links here:
Thursday’s live launch of The Pole of Possibility: http://bit.ly/3Eskr2Z
Karen’s “Go Fund Me” page: https://gofund.me/b0328280
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/karen-darke-317b0a7
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/karen.darke.9
Website: https://www.karendarke.com/
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