Since launching The Sisterhood Networking Group in 2022, Sarah Ridge has been introduced to some incredible women, all with amazing stories to tell. Now she wants to share those stories with you! Listen as Sally speaks with warmth, vulnerability, and optimism, offering a message of reassurance rather than pressure. "You don’t have to be fearless to be hopeful, you just have to keep going, one step at a time."

Recorded as part of their Kendal Mountain Festival season of "Hope", Cathy and Wayne chat with endurance runner and adventure athlete Sally Orange MBE. Listen to learn why Sally holds the Guinness World Record for the first (and possibly only) person to run a marathon on every continent dressed as a piece of fruit, how she had to re-think her clothing while running the Everest Marathon with a cancer diagnosis and why running to her chemotherapy appointments was so important.

Today's guest is Sally Orange MBE, former British Army Major and physiotherapist turned fruit dressing adventure athlete, mental health campaigner and charity fundraiser. Diagnosed in 2025 with breast cancer, she has faced her experience with hope, moving forward openly and unapologetically. Sally has completed over 85 marathons, including The London Marathon and the Everest Marathon, both between diagnosis and surgery!! She has completed the 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7

In this episode, Sally sits down with David and Jenny Harkin to talk about the real story that sits underneath all of her challenges. The personal journey through chronic depression and anxiety that has shaped the work she does today. It’s the reason she speaks so openly, and so generously, about what it takes to keep going when everything in you is telling you to stop. In this conversation, she explores: ⭐️The real meaning of endurance, beyond medals or miles ⭐️ How to be re

Some people inspire and somehow never give up even when the challenge tests every fibre of their being.  Sally Orange is that person, and it was a pleasure to meet up with her this week. I have known Sally for a few years now and interviewed her for the Salisbury Journal while working there.  Sally is someone you don’t forget. Her background is in health and she was a physiotherapist in the Royal Army Medical Corps for 22 years, but then went on to be an adventurer, climbing