Ocean Rower GB Triathlete Yacht Skipper Business Owner Cancer Survivor Mum
Liz Mayon-White speaks of a life;
- Challenges
- Resilience & Reframing
- Redefining "What Does Success Look Like"?
Speaking Engagements
"Comfort never changed the world. Challenge it."
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
Who knows what life we have in the years ahead of us? I certainly did not!
Leaving school with no real goal or plan, and a blank canvas ahead of me.
I chose to find out who I truly was, to take time out of my comfort zone to challenge myself.
We don’t grow by staying safe. We grow by daring greatly.
I chose a life of embracing growth, facing discomfort and choosing progress over perfection, every single day.
"If it doesn’t scare you a little, it’s not big enough"
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
Whoever you are and whatever you do, life will always throw you curveballs.
It is your response, that defines you!
Life is about all about experiences. The good, the bad ... and the downright ugly!
We are a series of building blocks that make us the people that we become.
And without the lows we can never really appreciate the highs.
I have learnt that every detour teaches you something that the straight path never could and not getting what you want is sometimes the best thing that can happen!
"Resilience isn’t about bouncing back, it’s about bouncing forward"
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
"Resilience isn’t about bouncing back, it’s about bouncing forward"
I have chosen my own unique ways to challenge myself.
But, at times, my greatest accomplishments have been overcoming those challenges that have 'chosen me'!
Controlling our response: the mindset we choose, the actions we take, and the story we tell ourselves in the aftermath.
That’s where resilience lives. Not in avoiding hardship, but in rising up to meet it with clarity and courage.
We have 'ONE PRECIOUS LIFE' ...
... LET'S LIVE IT ... boldly, bravely and unapologetically!
About Liz
“A Life Less Ordinary”
Liz’s positive drive to live life to the full has led her to meet her challenges head on.
Qualifying as a Yachtmaster Instructor aged just 21, she went on to lead sailing expeditions around the UK before sailing solo to Greece.
In 2005-06 she took on the might of the Atlantic Rowing Race, along with her fiancée. Encountering hurricanes, tropical storms, whales, serious injuries, capsizes and equipment failure, before reaching the Caribbean and becoming the 13th woman ever to row an ocean and the first woman in history row into Antigua.
Not being one to rest on her laurels, and whilst holding down a full time job and tackling (possibly the hardest challenge of them all) ‘motherhood’, she then returned to her passion of triathlon and Ironman events.
In 2018 she qualified to represent GB in her age group at both Olympic and Ironman distances and raced in the GB colours from 2018-2022.
It was at the World Championships in Abu Dhabi in November 2022 that Liz first noticed a rapidly growing lump on her tonsil which coincided with a neck lump on the same side, and following a series of investigations, she was diagnosed with throat cancer 4 weeks later.
Liz underwent a brand new 7-week, million-pound, trial treatment of proton beam therapy at The Christie Hospital in Manchester in 2023, which left her with radiotherapy burns both inside and outside her throat.
Whilst now in remission, she remains under the care of the hospital and will live with the life-changing side effects of this treatment forever. But wasting no time, Liz is now back taking on ultra marathon running, completing 105km this year, with sights on 100 milers in the future.
Liz talks with honesty and humility about the challenges she has faced in life. Both those that she has chosen and those that life has chosen to throw at her. She describes finding joy in all the small things, her coping mechanisms, never settling for ‘okay’ and the drive to always keep moving forward, that can be applied across all walks of life.
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