Elspeth Beard's Global Ride
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Sam Parr shares a story about a woman who did an epic motorcycle journey around the world in her early twenties.
"I'm reading this book about this woman named Elspeth Beard. In 1979 or 1980, she was 22 years old and just said 'fuck it, I'm gonna ride my motorcycle around the world.' You get on a ship and go to America, ride it all across America, get on a ship on the other side.
I did it across America which is soft - there's a McDonald's every 50 miles. She did it in Iran and places like that. She did it in 1979 when they couldn't even get maps.
Now she's like 65, she's still giving talks about it and making money because we are all so weak and refuse to do interesting things. It's not that hard nowadays to ride a motorcycle across the world - you take 6 months, buy a $20,000 BMW, use your iPhone. But she did this thing at age 22, and it's kind of like whenever I see the Rolling Stones perform - this guy's 80 years old and he's playing a song that he wrote when he was 18. That's longevity. She's doing the same thing - you could do one thing at a young age and live off of it forever."
Sam Parr
Host of MFM and fitness influencer
Sam Parr is a serial entrepreneur and business media pioneer.
In 2016, he founded The Hustle, a business news media company that started in his kitchen with just $12 and grew to eight figures in revenue.
Sam led the charge in making newsletters popular when few believed in their potential.
After four successful years, he sold The Hustle to HubSpot, a publicly traded company. Now operating as HubSpot Media, The Hustle reaches 3 million readers daily, employs a team of nearly 100, and has been the launchpad for dozens of its staff to found their own media companies and newsletters.
Sam remains the host of the popular business podcast, My First Million, and continues to start and sell companies. He also co-founded Hampton, a highly vetted community for entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs, and teaches people to write better through his platform, Copy That.