Fear and the Quest for Everest in Menopause with Jeannette McGill (Episode 195)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Frozen with fear. That’s how many active women can find themselves on mountain bike trails, ski slopes, and wherever they recreate as our hormones fluctuate and decline in the menopause transition. That’s something high altitude mountaineer Jeannette McGill knows all too well as she summits some of the tallest mountains in the world and sets her sights on Everest. She’s also come to learn that fear can be trained like a muscle, and instead of giving into it–and giving up on her lofty goals–she works on her fear muscle to regain her nerve. This week we talk all about her history in the mountains, how she’s training to continue reaching high summits into her 50s, and how she coaches the midlife women she guides to do the same.

Jeannette is the first South African woman to summit Manaslu and the first-ever South African to climb Dhaulagiri - two of the 14 8,000-meter (26,000 feet) mountains in the world. She is passionate about supporting others to achieve their outdoor goals through her mountain mentoring and leads bespoke adventures in the Australian Alps and Nepal. Her portfolio career also includes industrial technology management, and she has a PhD from the Colorado School of Mines. You can learn more about her and her work as a mentor and guide at www.mcgillsmountains.com/

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:31.2	Hello, strong, feisty women.
0:33.7	I hope you all are well.
0:35.8	So back in 2022, I had on this wonderful high altitude mountaineer named
0:42.3	Jeanette McGill, who regaled us with stories of being a midlife woman in the often very male
0:50.1	dominated mountaineering space. And if you haven't listened to that one, I encourage you to go back.
0:55.1	I'll put a link in the show notes because it was a really, really good episode. And during our
0:59.7	conversation, I, of course, could not resist asking her what is undoubtedly the most annoying
1:05.1	question accomplished high altitude mountaineers get? Have you ever been to Everest? And at the time, she wasn't so sure
1:13.1	that that was something she wanted to do. But then she had a change of heart, and she decided to
1:18.8	give it a go. And I sent her all my best wishes and a hit play not pause buff to fly proudly at the
1:26.7	top of the world should she get there.
1:29.4	And it's not a huge spoiler to say it wasn't in the cards for her this year.
1:33.8	We would have that picture all over our site and on this episode if she did.
1:38.7	But now it's become a personal mission for her and one that she's not willing to give up on.
1:45.9	And she tells us about what happened and about her experiences and how she's also been
1:51.7	devoting a great deal of energy, helping other midlife women work with their physiology,
1:58.8	overcome the anxiety that can come during this time of life, flex their
2:03.7	nerve muscle a bit more, and pursue their own big mountaineering goals through her company, McGill's
2:10.4	Mountains.
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