Thank you FOX5 Good Day DC! I loved the opportunity to talk to Marissa Mitchell about my book, Brave-ish, One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty, on your show.
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Feeling fearless, the author of BRAVE-ish joins us live with new challenges to tackle and tips for that Bucket List birthday project.
Our next guest is a testament to live life to the fullest. Her story could actually inspire you to cross off those bucket list adventures. We all have them and you can get on yours today. Joining me right now is award-winning travel host Lisa Niver. She’s also the author of the upcoming book, Brave-ish, One Breakup, Six Continents, and Feeling Fearless After 50. Hey, welcome Lisa to the show.
Thank you so much for having me. I’m so honored to be here.
Marissa Mitchell:
Your book is a gem. I’m so happy to encourage our viewers to dive in. Before we get into some of the specific parts of it, why did you decide to embark on this 50 things before 50 Journey?
Lisa Niver:
That’s such a good question. First of all, again, I’m so honored to be here and it really makes me so happy to hear that you enjoyed my book. Thank you. So what happened was I was traveling with my was-band but then he was my husband. I came home back to America and I’d always had some problems with my eyes. So as part of my divorce process, I was fixing this issue with my eyes and I always thought I was clumsy. It turns out I’m not clumsy. I had a problem. As part of that, my amazing doctor, Dr. Alan Brodney recommended, now that we’ve got your eyes working, you have to do some challenges. And that led me to try new things and reinvent myself through the 50 challenges.
Marissa Mitchell:
I know one thing you talk about is your fear of water, right? but you did so many things, water related, including underwater dancing! So how did you kind of get rid of that phobia at the same time?
Lisa Niver:
On the video, this is me on the water slide on a Carnival cruise. I did have a near-drowning as a child and I was afraid of the water. One of the ways I felt better was I took these really tiny baby steps and one of the baby steps was that in college, my roommate taught me — re-taught me to swim. And now you can see in the video, this is me scuba diving underwater. And like you mentioned dancing, andhaving such a good time underwater. The thing that I think repeatedly in my adventures has been, if you never take that first tiny step, you never get to the bigger step. You’re never going to scuba dive with bull sharks if you didn’t feel more comfortable swimming in the water. We forget sometimes that you have to take those little steps first, even if it feels like nothing. When a friend says, can you meet me for coffee? And you decide, yes, I’m actually going to go that you’ve gotten outside your house.
Marissa Mitchell:
Absolutely.
Lisa Niver:
And then you can get to the next step. I started hula hooping for exercise and I’ve been traveling with my hoop and my friends were filming me. I filmed in Kenya, I filmed in Mexico, and then one day I filmed hula hooping while flying a kite. This video has more of my adventures in Indonesia. I was a teacher first and I love to meet children around the world.
Marissa Mitchell:
Absolutely. I love teachers. I have a family full of teachers. I also love too that you are a cruiser. Viewers by now know that I love a good cruise. I know you mentioned that at length as well, but you talk about getting over the fear and doing it anyway. I love the line where you say, after the divorce and everything, you go completely and utterly disoriented. “I knew I had to get on the plane, but part of me still did not even know why.” It’s okay to not know.
Lisa Niver:
That’s true.
Marissa Mitchell:
You still have to put one foot forward and keep moving. And along with the book, I know that you share about that on your podcast. Talk about that as well.
Lisa Niver:
It has been so exciting to have a podcast. I recently got to interview the ambassador from Ireland, and she was the Irish ambassador to the Security Council. It’s just incredible to learn from people. I was able to speak with Deepak Chopra and he was so interesting and kind. I had interviewed his daughter, and so I introduced Deepak Chopra as Malika’s dad.
Marissa Mitchell:
Oh, <laugh>. I love that. I’ve interviewed him too. You can just feel it. You have to be a good interviewer to sit down with him. I know you’ve been invited to cover the Oscars and the United Nations. So many things came out of that list, right? You didn’t envision all of that for yourself?
Lisa Niver:
Not only did I not envision it, I quit about 1 million times during this project. I was not finishing the list, I was not finishing the book. I was always quitting. And it’s okay to take a break and start again.
Marissa Mitchell:
At any age. Well, thank you so much, Lisa. I wish we had more time. This was a lot of fun. Her book, Brave-ish, One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty isavailable for pre-order.
Lisa Niver:
Yes my book is available everywhere books are sold. Walmart, Amazon, Target, Bookshop. You can find my book all over the internet!
Marissa Mitchell:
Thank you so much. I would say you’re brave. I know you put the ish on there, but you’re very brave and courageous. Thank you for joining us.
Lisa Niver:
Thank you for having me on your show.
Brave-ish, One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty
Lisa Niver and Marissa Mitchell on FOX5 Good Day DC
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