Happily paid in Sunsets
‘An adventure with other women gives you a deeper understanding of your own strengths and resourcefulness in the face of self- limiting believes that can easily be dispelled by spending time in the company of other women, just like you’ Catherine Edsell
The pursuit of wisdom leads into understanding the laws of natural knowledge and gives you the courage to adventure into the human mind. While investigating world’s recent adventures, our team came across with Catherine Edsell’s story, who encourages women to step out of their comfort zone, and enter one of the most transformative, spiritual, imaginative, generous experiences: Adventure! Together they track desert elephants, push their limits and meet challenges head on. After becoming a mother, Catherine rediscovered her sense of herself through adventure. Connecting with nature and wildness helped her find her inner confidence and her story opens Catherine’s world to other women who dare.
For the last two decades, Catherine mastered her passion for real adventure and effective conservation through independent and collaborative expedition work around the world.
With a vast expertise in both terrestrial and marine environments, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, an avid naturalist and lecturer in coral reef ecology, a PADI Divemaster, jungle trainer and a true adventurer at heart, Catherine is inspiring generations of mothers and daughters to push their own mental and physical boundaries, and rediscover themselves.
Eldest daughter of a family of five with four brothers, Catherine grew up in a small, noisy house in North London gave her a ‘hankering for freedom’ at an early age. After graduating as a choreographer at Nottingham University, she felt frustrated with the limitations of planning her life a year ahead of time, with no room left for creativity. Catherine decided to leave everything behind and explore the world. For the first five years she worked with Leatherback sea turtles in Costa Rica, line-handled yachts in the Panama Canal, worked for an NGO in India, trekked in the Himalayas, visited ashrams, lead exploratory hikes in the jungle, amongst other thugs’.
With her new-found love of the tropics, I earned the position of jungle trainer for a biodiversity science expedition company. ‘I would spend one week training volunteers in jungle survival, and then the next week setting up all the logistics for remote base camp surveys in the rain-forests of Indonesia. This, interspersed with working for other expedition companies in the jungles of Belize and deserts of Namibia, taking time out to go on my own expeditions to the remotest corners of the planet, and also set up a new biodiversity operation in Honduras kept me very busy.’ Catherine says.
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Dr Marina Nani
Editor-in-Chief
Editor-in-Chief of Rich Woman Magazine, founder of Sovereign Magazine, author of many books, Dr Marina Nani is a social edification scientist coining a new industry, Social Edification. Passionately advocating to celebrate your human potential, she is well known for her trademark "Be Seen- Be Heard- Be You" running red carpet events and advanced courses like Blog Genius®, Book Genius®, Podcast Genius®, the cornerstones of her teaching. The constant practitioner of good news, she founded MAKE THE NEWS ( MTN) with the aim to diagnose and close the achievement gap globally. Founder of many publications, British Brands with global reach Marina believes that there is a genius ( Stardust) in each individual, regardless of past and present circumstances. "Not recognising your talent leaves society at loss. Sharing the good news makes a significant difference in your perception about yourself, your industry and your community."
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