Holy tits, it's episode 50 of the Climb Your Mountain podcast! Thanks so much for listening and helping to make my little pandemic project such a success.

This week to celebrate, I'm going to share five ways mountaineering has changed my life (and will change yours too).

If you're just starting this journey, you may be like, Sarah, WTF? You just work out, get in shape and climb the mountain. Why make it complicated?

But friend, I promise you. You are going to come out of this mountaineering journey a whole new person.

And thinking about it just lights me up, because you have no idea how awesome it's going to be.

Let me show you what I mean.

Ready? Let's do this.

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Episode Sneak Peek

• [3:41] Why mindset is definitely the most important part of training — and also the one we tend to put on the back burner. What happens in our minds during training. How training your brain for mountaineering benefits other areas of your life.

• [7:46] How slowing down will often help you get there faster. What will happen if you don’t give your body a break when it needs one. Why you should always focus on the big picture in training over individual workouts.

• [12:57] Why being mean to your body is pointless. A surprising revelation that happened recently about my own size. What I wish I had been doing the past few years instead of obsessing about weight.

• [17:29] The importance of getting comfortable with failure. Why the house always wins in mountaineering. The joy of growing your “unfinished” summits list. Benefits of choosing discomfort on purpose.

• [20:59] Why reaching the summit will never make you happy, and what actually will. When getting the thing you want makes you sad. The importance of enjoying the journey.