Climbing Toward a True Self on Mount Everest (Ft. Melissa Arnot Reid)
Behind The Human with Marc Champagne
Release Date: 06/15/2025
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Behind The Human with Marc Champagne
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Behind The Human with Marc Champagne
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info_outlineWhat if you could stop achieving your way into feeling worthy—and simply be enough as you are?
Meet Melissa Arnot Reid / @melissaarnot — the first American woman to summit and descend Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. But this conversation isn’t about records. It’s about the inner Everest we all face.
Melissa reveals how a life of achievement masked wounds of not-enoughness, and how the journey of healing—not summiting—became her most important climb. We discuss shame, self-forgiveness, parenting, and the quiet power of curiosity.
This is a raw and rare look at what it means to shift from proving your worth to simply knowing it.
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