From Mount Kilimanjaro to Antarctica: A Life Well Lived by 88 year old Joyce Perrin | Ep 212
🌍✨ Episode Highlights: A Life of Adventure with Joyce Perin ✨🌍
In this inspiring episode, Melissa chats with Joyce Perin, an 88-year-old globe-trotter, nurse, and humanitarian who proves it's never too late to chase your dreams! Joyce shares her journey from a curious Girl Guide to a solo international traveler at 57, her impactful work co-founding a hospice foundation in Panama, and her awe-inspiring adventures, including climbing Mount Kilimanjaro at 64 and visiting Antarctica. 🏔️❄️
Joyce’s story is a testament to following your passions and prioritizing health and fitness to live a full, active life. Tune in for her invaluable advice on staying adventurous and making a difference at any stage of life. 🌟💪 Also grab her book on Amazon “Ants in My Pants: One Woman’s Unexpected Adventures Across Seven Continents”
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Episode Summary:
Introductions and background @ 0:00
Melissa introduces Joyce Perin, an 88-year-old woman with a fascinating life story and extensive global travel experience. Joyce shares how her early fascination with other cultures and countries, sparked by books and a Girl Guide camp, led to a lifelong passion for exploration and adventure.
Nursing career and solo travel @ 1:58
Joyce discusses her nursing career and how, after raising her family, she was able to pursue her dream of solo international travel starting at age 57. She shares insights about adapting to different cultural norms and customs when living and working abroad.
Establishing a hospice foundation in Panama @ 20:41
Joyce describes how, after retiring, she co-founded a hospice and respite care foundation in Panama to provide free healthcare services and medical equipment to those in need. She talks about the rewarding impact of this legacy project.
Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and visiting Antarctica @ 23:00
Joyce recounts her impressive physical feats, including climbing Mount Kilimanjaro at age 64 and her awe-inspiring trips to Antarctica, where she witnessed the natural wonders and scientific research being conducted.
Advice and final thoughts @ 41:41
In closing, Joyce shares her key advice for others: follow your passions, no matter how long it takes, and prioritize your health and physical fitness, as they enable you to live an active, adventurous life. She emphasizes the importance of maintaining one's health and activity levels as one ages.
About the Guest:
Joyce Perrin’s early fascination with the 1950’s Lands and Peoples book series sparked a lifelong curiosity about different countries and cultures. When she represented Canada at an international Girl Guide camp at age 17 and met her role model, Lady Baden-Powell, Baden-Powel’s quote, “Happiness comes not from what we have but from what we give and what we share” became her guiding light.
Her nursing career led her into hospital administration, but a life change prompted her to pack up all her belongings at age 57 and to embark on a solo global journey, across 187 countries and territories. After many years of amazing adventures, she settled in Panama, where she co-founded the Panama Hospice and Respite Foundation.
Returning to Canada at age 80, and despite several health challenges, including blindness in one
eye and breast cancer, Joyce published her book Ants in My Pants: One Woman’s Unexpected Adventures Across Seven Continents. Now 88, she resides in Pickering, just east of Toronto, and finds purpose in supporting fellow survivors, volunteering with health teams and encouraging people, through her book and speaking engagements to pursue their passions, no matter their age.
Contact:
FB - https://www.facebook.com/JoyceEPerrin/;
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joyce-e-perrin-6994b7277/
Purchase the Book: Available on Amazon.ca https://a.co/d/9jJ9rEG and Amazon.com
Please visit my website www.joyceperrin.com to learn more about my book
Travel Organization recommended by Joyce: Journeywomen.com
About the Host:
Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.
Melissa has launched Amplify Impact Academy, with business partner, Billie Aadmi and together they train other coaches, practitioners and counsellors in the 4 mind-body healing modalities mentioned above, giving them powerful tools to use with clients to get results with greater ease, speed and grace. These courses teach life skills and anyone can take them, if you wanto be a better leader, parent, partner, be empowered in your own life, these courses are for you!
Melissa is the winner of the 2024 Women in Podcasting Awards in the “inspiration & motivation” category and the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022, 2023 & 2024 for Whistler.
Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more! She has also guested on over 90 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started.
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