S3 Ep6: The Extraordinary Ordinary with adventurer and mental health campaigner Sally Orange

Saying that this episode's guest holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest marathon run dressed as a nut, doesn’t even begin to do justice to the absurd number of ridiculously difficult physical challenges that former Major in the Royal Army Medical Core, Sally Orange, has undertaken in her on-going quest to raise awareness of mental health issues. 

This is a woman who has run the hardest land race in the world, the brutal Marathon de Sables, and the Siberian Ice Race in Russia. Who has skied 250km across the Artic Circle, and done the Arch to Arc triathlon - running from Marble Arch, swimming across the Channel, then cycling to the Arc de Triumph in Paris. Who has led the first ever all female wounded, injured and sick team to complete the word’s most challenging cycling event, the Race Across America, and is the only woman to have run seven marathons in seven continents in seven days.

Awarded an MBE in the King’s first Birthday Honours list this year for services to charity and mental health, Sally talks with powerful honesty about her own struggles with severe mental health problems and how her experiences, and her desire to help anybody else going through anything similar, have been the driving force behind all the astonishingly difficult challenges she has done and continues to do.

Learn more about Sally here
sallyorange.com
And find her on Instagram at sallyorangembe
and LinkedIn at Sally Orange MBE

Written and Presented by Diane Kenwood
Produced by Clare Lynch
This Podcast is brought to you in partnership with Coca-Cola Europacific Partners.