Surviving the Savage: this woman rowed across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean alone

Courage.

We think we know what it looks like, but it often shows up in the most unexpected places.

Roz Savage is one of those.

London-based Roz is the only woman in the world to row the Big Three oceans – the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Indian Ocean – alone in a 23-ft rowboat. She’s spent over 520 days of her life – solo – in the middle of virtually unending tracts of water, and rowed 15,000 miles, one stroke at a time.

And she did this not as a competitive athlete or challenger to a title – though she now holds four Guinness World Records – but because on the tube in London one morning as she made her way to her management consultant job, she mentally wrote her obituary, and it didn’t sound like the woman she wanted to be.

So she wrote another, the obituary she’d like to read about herself – and she went out to become that woman.

Roz demonstrates the capacity for the exceptional in the seemingly most ordinary, and it was an uplifting start to our last evening of the year.

Watch this jaw-dropping conversation above.