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. I lived in Abidjan and was given the name Akissi by my Baoulé community
Spent 1.5 years solo backpacking across Africa, Europe, and Asia on $7,000.
To date I’ve traveled 50 countries.
Every year I celebrate my birthday by climbing a mountain
I refer to the back country as The Honest World, and try to spend as much immersive time in it as possible
Myers Briggs: ENTJ
Enneagram 3 (Achiever)
Languages: English & French
I don’t watch TV

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