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7 Women - 7 Challenges came about back in October 2016 after discussions and feedback from the Tough Girl Tribe. It was decided as well as having inspirational interviews with the women who were the elite and the best of the best. I also wanted to connect and share the stores of; everyday women, real women, ordinary women, who are out their living full lives and saying yes to challenges and adventures. This would be a way to learn more about members of the Tribe and how they go about achieving their goals.\\xa0

I asked the tribe to put themselves forward with their challenges and goals for 2017 and we then took a public vote to shortlist potential women who we would be interviewing\\xa0for the podcast.\\xa0

There were so many amazing entires it was a really difficult process to narrow it down and only select only 7! I\\u2019ve tried to be as fair as possible and have gone for a mixture of challenges and ages.

On a side note, expect more interviews with member of the tribe on the Tough Girl Podcast EXTRA which comes out on an adhoc basis every Thursday at 7am UK time.\\xa0

Lets meet the 7 women!

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Georgie Akin Smith is doing 12 CHALLENGES IN 12 MONTHS!\\xa0

Georgie is\\xa026 years old, living and\\xa0working\\xa0as a marketing manager in London. She loves being fit, active and getting outside as much as she can. Georgie has\\xa0set herself 12 challenges which scare and excite her\\xa0in equal measure\\xa0and are all new things she hasn\'t\\xa0tried before. She is booked in to to the Windsor Duathlon, the Engadin\\xa0Cross Country Ski Marathon in Switzerland, as well as the London Marathon and the Mallorca 312! This is just an example of some of the challenges she will be completing in 2017!

Rae Red is a new runner going after her first Ultra!

In the late summer of 2016 after a fairly sustained period of life being crappy Rae\\xa0was looking for something to help her with her own\\xa0mental health. She started to consider\\xa0running, but there were\\xa0a whole host of reason to not start;\\xa0she\\xa0lives in a bad area, it\\u2019s not safe, she commutes for 4 hours a day so doesn\'t\\xa0have time, she\'s not a runner, she has\\xa0tight leg muscles, it\\u2019s too cold, it\\u2019s raining, it\\u2019s too hot....\\xa0\\xa0

Rae saw an article on ultra running and that was it, she signed up for the Dig Deep Ultra (30 miles). We will be following Rae on this journey to complete her first ultra!\\xa0

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Gemma Smith is off to climb Kilimanjaro and also plans to climb both the Matterhorn and the Eiger!

Almost two years ago she\\xa0had a moment where she decided it\'s not worth being that person that says,\\xa0\'that sounds fun\\xa0but\\xa0I could\\xa0never do that\'. Because of this change in attitude she started to believe she could do it.

This resulted in a life changing\\xa0trip to Everest Base Camp in 2015 which was booked on a complete whim! Even since then, subsequent trips have been booked which have included\\xa0summiting Mont Blanc in June 2016 and Mt Toukbal in the High Atlas Mountains in late 2016.

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Rachel Wise is taking a gap year with her husband and 3 daughters and heading off to travel the world!\\xa0

The plan is to leave in August 2017 flying from Geneva to LA. Where they \\xa0will do a road trip across the States from the West coast to the East coast. From there they will head down to the Caribbean and be based in St Lucia. In November they will fly to Sri Lanka for a couple of months. Then it\'s onto South\\xa0East Asia where they plan to spend\\xa0a chunk of\\xa0time in Indonesia. They are also planning to head to New Zealand for a few weeks to see the\\xa0family before going onto Fiji for two months. After that its time to head back to Switzerland via LA in the Summer of 2018.\\xa0

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Laura Try - Rowing 1,800 miles around the coast of Great Britain, followed by rowing crossing the Atlantic in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge!

Laura is 34 years old and lives in Brentwood, Essex. She works as a Personal Trainer and Event Organiser. In June and July 2017 Laura will taking\\xa0part in the Rannoch GB Challenge, which invovles rowing 1,800 miles around the coast of Great Britain with a team of 5.\\xa0 The challenge will take place over 8 weeks and they\\xa0will be raising money for the RNLI.\\xa0On competing\\xa0that, she plans to take\\xa0part in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge in December. She will be raising money\\xa0for Centrepoint, the UK\'s largest charity for homeless 16-25 year olds.

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Jen Dykxhorn will be biking the iconic LEJOG - Lands End to John O\'Groats, across the UK!

Jen is\\xa0a coffee-drinking, bicycle-loving, nature-loving, ukulele playing, adventure-seeking wanderer!\\xa0 She is a 30-year-old Canadian living (mostly) in London, UK while\\xa0working on her\\xa0PhD in psychiatric epidemiology.\\xa0

In the\\xa0summer of 2017, Jen\\xa0will be biking the iconic LEJOG - with her\\xa0sister. They\\xa0will be leaving (approx) August 21st and be arriving in the north of Scotland around the 5th of September. Along the way, they will be wild camping (in home-sewn bivy sacks!).\\xa0To finish off the adventure, they will be completing the\\xa0Coast to Coast adventure race, and\\xa0have signed up to do the "expert" course (all 105 miles of biking, trail running, and kayaking in one day).

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Jo Jo Rogers at 52 will be training and racing in an effort to be selected for the US 50km\\xa0National Team!

Jo Jo\\xa0is a passionate runner and she loves to train. She is out running every day, sometimes twice a day! For Jo Jo this is an opportunity to share her story but more so to encourage other women to get out there and go after their dreams, no matter their age.

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