CATHRYN PEIRCE

How I climb mountains embodies how I do everything in life: with enthusiasm, earnestness, and indefatigable determination

SUMMA CUM LAUDE UPENN | Fulbright Fellow | Solo Backpacker | Mountain Climber | Founder | Public Speaker | Coach | ADVENTURE ENTHUSIAST |

Originally from Philadelphia - and it shows
Now based in San Diego in a founder’s collective called The Entrepreneur House
Summa Cum Laude graduate of The University of Pennsylvania
Fulbright Fellow, Côte d’Ivoire
Spent 1.5 years solo backpacking across Africa, Europe, and Asia on $7,000
Have traveled 51 countries to date
Avid high altitude mountain climber; every year I celebrate my birthday by summiting a mountain
Refer to the back country as The Honest World and spend as much immersive time in it as possible
Myers Briggs: ENTJ
Enneagram 3 (Achiever)
Languages: English & French
Habitual host, known for organizing monthly discussion groups, dinner parties, campfires, book swaps, cold plunge challenges, etc.
I stopped watching TV in 2023

How you do one thing is how you do everything

Self trust is built or broken in the time between knowing better and doing better

character = beliefs ^ actions

A good education refines your mind, a great education refines your character

The relationship you have with yourself reverberates across all other facets of your life

You’re not really living if you don’t feel alive

Of course I can

Small steps yield big summits
Nothing slows people down like a bad attitude and limiting beliefs
A true climber loves the challenge more than its completion
Pursuing difficult goals & giving yourself reasons to be proud are vital practices of self love
#1 thing the mountains have taught me: Find the things you authentically love - personally and professionally - and give them your all. These will always be your greatest summits