Lisa Sander

The only thing I was happy about is that there was nothing on TV.

So we literally would start hanging out together as a family and communicating more.

And this is where my life, I had my aha moment too.

All the years that I've worked with people, I've always asked the question before dying, like if there's one thing you could ever change, what would that be?

And they said, travel in your 40s.

Travel when you're young so your body can, first of all, keep moving and climbing mountains and doing everything that you want when you're older.

Because if you start, if you retire, like more people are retiring later, even 70 years old, like if you don't do this stuff now in your 40s or 50s, you're not going to be able to do it when you get older.

And I told myself going through COVID, this is it.

I've been hearing this for years.

I am done doing this ever.

and not taking my vacation hours to actually go and experience life.

So I started doing that.

I climbed my first mountain during COVID in Arizona.

I climbed Flatiron.

My girlfriends didn't tell me about this mountain.

And I'm glad they didn't because I wouldn't have climbed it.

It took us five hours.

And the things that I went through on the way up, I laughed so hard, I almost peed my pants.

I cried.

I talked to God.