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What If Your Hardest Climb Is Within?

In this episode, Melissa Arnot Reid shares what it really takes to climb—not just the highest peaks on Earth, but the deepest valleys within ourselves. Melissa is a world-renowned mountaineer, professional mountain guide, and the first American woman to summit Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. She has spent years guiding others to the top of the world’s tallest mountains, but in this conversation, she opens up about an even greater challenge: facing the internal struggles that no summit can fix.

We dive deep into the difference between achievement and self-worth, the pressure of proving yourself, and what happens when success doesn’t bring the validation you expect. Melissa shares the raw, untold side of her journey—the failures, the doubts, the painful past she had to confront, and the losses that forced her to reevaluate everything. She also discusses her new book, Enough, a raw and powerful memoir about what it really means to be enough, when success isn’t and the truth is harder than the summit.
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Some highlights we explore:

  • The fallacy of achievement – Why success doesn’t automatically bring happiness or contentment.
  • “Am I good enough?” – The two questions that drove Melissa’s biggest climbs—and biggest struggles.
  • Lessons from the mountains – How extreme environments strip away who we pretend to be and reveal our true selves.
  • The real hardest climb – The internal work of self-forgiveness, facing fear, and learning to let go of external validation.

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