Keep walking with me - Sunniva Sorby

Keep walking with me - Sunniva Sorby

From Keep walking with me by Walking Mentorship

March 2, 2026 · 1h 36m · Season 5 · Episode 49

About this episode

Sunniva Sorby discusses her experiences as a polar explorer and the insights gained from extreme environments on leadership and personal growth.

In this episode of Keep Walking With Me , we sit down with Sunniva — polar explorer, speaker, and founder of the Embrace the Planet Project — for a conversation that goes far beyond expeditions and extreme environments. For more than thirty years, Sunniva has lived and led at the edges of the Earth. She has skied to the South Pole, overwintered for nineteen months in the Arctic, and gathered climate data as a citizen scientist while storms battered the cabin walls around her. But this episode is not about heroic survival. It is about what happens to a human being when they sit in deep silence. When the sun disappears for months. When nature strips away distraction and leaves only what truly matters. From those frozen landscapes emerged a clear mission: To help others turn awe into action. We explore: How extreme environments shape leadership Why vulnerability is strength, not weakness What it means to become a “citizen scientist” in your own life How purpose is discovered — not declared Why courage today looks different than we think Sunniva does not glorify hardship. She does not chase sensationalism. Instead, she invites us into something far more demanding and far more…

People in this episode

Guest: Sunniva Sorby

Topics covered

  • polar exploration
  • leadership
  • vulnerability
  • citizen science
  • purpose
  • courage

Keywords

  • Embrace the Planet Project
  • climate data
  • TEDx
  • truth
  • responsibility
  • conscious action

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Keep Walking With Me, TEDx

Places: Earth, the South Pole, Arctic

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