Jenny Tough: Finding Growth Outside our Comfort Zones

About this episode

Jenny Tough discusses the importance of pushing beyond comfort zones for personal growth.

This week's Cool Conversations guest is Jenny Tough, a writer and professional adventure athlete based in Scotland. Jenny has completed numerous cycling and running multi-day adventures all over the world, almost always solo and self-supported. Jenny talks to Kenton about her constant desire to find what is around the next corner, and her belief that to grow as humans, we need to push outside our comfort zones. She spends a lot of her time in remote, mountainous environments and some of her past adventures include traversing Kyrgyzstan, Morocco and the Bolivian Andes. This is a typical 'cool conversation' in that it jumps around lots of different topics but, at its heart, it centres on pushing beyond our limits and finding what lies beyond.

People in this episode

Host: Kenton Cool

Guest: Jenny Tough

Topics covered

• adventure
• personal growth
• comfort zones
• mountain environments
• solo travel

Keywords

• adventure athlete
• multi-day adventures
• self-supported travel
• remote environments
• personal growth

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Scotland, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Bolivian Andes

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