Vicki Anstey

And that's how we thrive.

And that's what led me to do Race Across America as a team of four women.

And that was an amazing experience and restored my faith.

It was a wonderful experience.

And not just the four of us, but we had an 11-person crew.

Just people giving up their time to help us get a record was just amazing.

And we're all still great friends and have amazing memories.

um so you're you're absolutely right it's not about isolating yourself and saying well you know nothing else matters apart from who I am and what's inside of me and how I'm going to kind of live that in my life um of course not but it is about I guess um just

distancing yourself from the things that you cannot control.

And there's so much power behind that, I've learned.

And I don't know if you've ever read Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, which was written as a sort of documentation of his time in Auschwitz.

And he concluded that anything could be taken away from a man

or a woman, but one thing which is the last of the human freedoms, the ability to choose one's response in any given set of circumstances and I think there's so much power behind that and that is just really human nature no matter what era we live in, what we've been through the only thing we can ever really control are the thoughts in our heads and then the behaviours that come from that and I think it's

It's wise to remember that that's true of everyone.

You know, in the ways that sometimes we interact are driven by influences that we can have no control over.

But if we can understand them, then that helps.

And that's one of the reasons why I wanted to be or try to be so open and frank and honest in the telling of my story.

Great story.

200.

Thank you.