Vicki Anstey is a fitness expert, entrepreneur, and adventurer, renowned for her remarkable achievements in extreme endurance challenges. As a two-time world record holder, she has demonstrated exceptional resilience and determination, having rowed unaided across the mid-Pacific and cycled non-stop across America. Vicki's journey is not just about physical feats; it embodies a powerful narrative of empowerment and self-discovery.
Vicki's challenges also include racing 250 kilometres across the Arctic in severe cold and traversing the plains of Kenya in extreme heat. Her 60-day unsupported row from San Francisco to Hawaii is another testament to her mental and physical endurance. Vicki's latest challenge, the Race Across America, saw her cycle 3,000 miles through 17 states, pushing herself to the limits of human performance.
Through her talks, Vicki speaks on empowerment, self-reliance, and the importance of teamwork and mindset. She shares the powerful lessons she's learnt about what creates psychological safety in a team and what an unbreakable team dynamic looks like.
Vicki also draws from her transition from an advertising executive to athlete and world record holder, using her extreme experiences to inspire women and young girls to embrace their potential. As a trained stress and resilience coach and founder of the pioneering Barreworks Studios, Vicki brings a unique perspective to her audience.
Vicki's message encourages audiences to confront their fears, illustrating that true personal growth arises from overcoming adversity. Her journey reminds us that with determination and the right mindset, one can achieve extraordinary things. Contact the PepTalk team today for fee information and a speaker availability check.
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What topics does Vicki Anstey specialise in?
Vicki Anstey specialises in talking about resilience, mindset, teamwork and more.
What is Vicki Anstey's speaking style like?
Vicki captivates audiences with her gritty, inspiring storytelling, blending personal experiences with practical advice. Her talks motivate and empower, offering real-life strategies for overcoming challenges and achieving potential in both personal and professional realms. AI summary based on real event feedback.
Does Vicki Anstey offer virtual speaking engagements?
Yes, Vicki Anstey offers virtual speaker bookings for webinars, online conferences, and remote or distributed team engagements.
Psychological safety is not about being nice or making people ‘comfortable’, it is felt permission for candour, authenticity. In this session, Vicki Anstey shares fascinating insights from the 60 days she spent at sea with two other women feeling emotionally unsafe, isolated and bullied. Vicki shares the lessons she learned from this experience about what truly high-performing teams need to have in place to succeed with integrity.
In this session, Vicki Anstey explains the ‘Pressure Performance Curve’, guiding audiences through a series of simple adaptations to mindset, lifestyle and how we can better regulate pressure and stress. Your team will learn the difference between challenge and threat and how to re-wire our brains to enable higher executive functions that regulate our emotions, suppress biases, solve complex problems and help us think more flexibly.
In this session, Vicki Anstey redefines what comfort really means. Explaining that life is actually more comfortable on the other side of discomfort. The key to this is mastering the art of the mundane, creating and ‘stacking’ good habits, making consistency our focus and discharging the toxic effects of chasing dopamine and instant gratification. Vicki will leave your audience knowing how to live life determinedly and how to be ready for any opportunity that may cross their path.
Have you ever felt like you’re operating at 40%? Like you have more to give but just can’t unlock that missing 60%? Vicki Anstey’s series of eye-opening lessons will teach you that fear is just an opportunity in disguise. You’ll learn the skills needed to unlock your true potential, a new perspective on how to overcome what’s holding you back and thought-provoking insights that will inspire change.
In this session, Vicki Anstey presents compelling evidence that enhancing underlying physiology is what supports and drives human health. By improving our wellbeing and physiology, we can only set ourselves up BETTER to withstand, pressure, stress and the onset of lifestyle disease. So, take a deep dive with Vicki into the drivers of wellbeing, the impact of our thoughts, our ability to manage stress, and the difference between lifespan and health-span.
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