The Girlfriends: Spotlight, E13: Silvia Climbs to the Top of the World
2/9/202640 min
When you’ve suffered childhood trauma, endured alcohol abuse, been through awful bereavements, how can you heal? For Silvia Vasquez-Lavado the answer was to climb to the top of the world - and then take other traumatised women and girls with her.
Silvia is the first Peruvian woman to summit Mount Everest and the first openly gay woman to complete the Seven Summits, the tallest mountain on each continent.
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First 90 secondsAnna Sinfield· Host0:00
This is an iHeart podcast, [upbeat music] Guaranteed Human.
Michael Easter0:04
2%. That's the number of people who take the stairs when there is also an escalator available. I'm Michael Easter, and on my podcast, 2%, I break down the science of mental toughness, fitness, and building resilience in our strange modern world.
Silvia Vasquez-Lavado· Guest0:19
Put yourself through some hardships, and you will come out on the other side a happier, more fulfilled, healthier person.
Michael Easter0:27
Listen to 2%. That's T-W-O percent on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Sam Jay0:36
On the Look Back At It podcast.
Speaker 40:40
1979, that was a big moment for me.
Speaker 50:42
'84 was big to me.
Sam Jay0:43
I'm Sam Jay.
Alex English0:45
And I'm Alex English.
Sam Jay0:46
Each episode, we pick a year, unpack what went down, and try to make sense of how we survived it with our friends, fellow comedians, and favorite authors, like Marc Lamont Hill on the '80s.
Speaker 50:56
'84 was a wild, I mean, it was a wild year.
Speaker 40:58
It was a wild year.
Speaker 50:59
Yeah. I don't think there's a more important year for Black people.
Alex English1:02
Listen to Look Back At It on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Kier Gaines1:09
Hey, what's good, y'all? You're listening to Learn the Hard Way with your favorite therapist and host, Keir Gaines. This space is about Black men's experiences, having honest conversations that's really not safe to have anywhere, but you're having them with a licensed professional who knows what he's doing. How many men carry a suit of armor? It signals to the world that you not to be played with, and just because