Podcasts Education Tough Girl Podcast Rosemary J. Brown - Working to get female adventurers back on the map. Author: Following Nellie Bly: Her Record-Breaking Race Around the World.

Rosemary J. Brown - Working to get female adventurers back on the map. Author: Following Nellie Bly: Her Record-Breaking Race Around the World.

Published: Dec. 2, 2021, 7 a.m.

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Rosemary in her own words, talking about Nellie Bly and her record breaking race around the world:
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\\u201cCrusading journalist\\xa0Nellie Bly\\xa0jumped off the page at me. She appeared as I was researching\\xa0Victorian\\xa0women adventurers\\u2026 and she wouldn\\u2019t go away. \\xa0The more I got to know her, the more I was intrigued by this spirited woman who wouldn\\u2019t take no for an answer despite living in a world where women \\u2018knew their place.\\u2019 \\xa0
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Nellie knew her place alright, smack dab on the front page of the world\\u2019s newspapers.
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She pioneered investigative journalism and paved the way for female reporters like me.\\xa0Nellie\\u2019s crusades in print brought about huge reforms in women\\u2019s asylums, sweatshops and prisons.
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2015 marked the 125th anniversary of her best known adventure \\u2014 circling the globe in a record-breaking 72 days.\\xa0In celebration of the remarkable Nellie Bly and her amazing journey, I followed in her footsteps around the world.
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Now there is a book chronicling our two journeys:\\xa0Following Nellie Bly: Her Record-Breaking Race Around the World.\\xa0\\xa0
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My aim is to put Nellie \'back on the map\' as an inspiration for adventure, and a reminder that (as Nellie said) "\'nothing is impossible if one applies a certain amount of energy in the right direction.\\u201d
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Show notes
  • Who Rosemary is and what she does
  • Being in journalism since graduating from university
  • Wanting to help to change the world
  • Trying to make a difference
  • Drawing attention to female explorers\\xa0
  • Why we need to hear these stories
  • Wanting to get contemporary female explorers on the map
  • What we can learn from these women
  • \\u201cFollow your dreams and move out of your comfort zone\\u201d
  • Why it\\u2019s ok to take calculated risks
  • Discovering women in adventure\\xa0
  • Wanting to follow in inspiring women\\u2019s footsteps
  • Doing her research and discovering Nellie Bly
  • Sharing inspiring stories\\xa0
  • Getting these women on the map
  • Who is Nellie Bly!
  • Starting with her childhood and why she was such a determined woman
  • Getting into journalism and becoming a writer
  • Deciding to go to NYC to make her name
  • Getting her first assignment to go undercover
  • The beginning of investigative journalism
  • Wanting to go around the world
  • Setting off with 2 days notice
  • Wanting to help the most vulnerable members of society\\xa0
  • Planning to travel around the world recreating her journey\\xa0
  • The challenges and difficulties of re-creating the itinerary
  • Packing lightly
  • Knowing when to stop planning and to start going
  • Around The World In Seventy-Two Days\\xa0by Nellie Bly
  • Feeling close to Nellie at certain places on the trip
  • Sometimes you have to get off the path!
  • The risks and concerns before the trip
  • Why the best thing you can do, is to just get started
  • What would Nellie Bly do?
  • Dealing with a typhoon (level 8) in Hong Kong
  • Walking straight out into the typhoon!
  • Synchronicity while on the train
  • Self funding the adventure\\xa0
  • The dramatic ending of the trip
  • Racing against - Elizabeth Bisland\\xa0
  • Finding Nellie Bly\\u2019s grave in Woodlawn Cemetery Bronx, NYC
  • Visiting her hometown and birthplace in Cochran\'s Mills, Pennsylvania
  • Needing to have a happy/meaningful ending to the story
  • Sitting down to write the story and having to be very disciplined
  • Putting together a conference at the RGS on historical women
  • Why you need to put your all into everything that you do
  • Advice for women who want to go on more adventures
  • \\u201cnothing is impossible if one applies a certain amount of energy in the right direction\\u201d - Nellie Bly
  • Why you need to take that first step
  • Leap and the net will arrive!
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Social Media
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Instagram: @rosemaryjbrown\\xa0
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Twitter: @Rosemary_Nellie\\xa0
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