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Above Chelsea has found solace in silence, nature and reflection. Opposite page Chelsea has found new strength and wisdom, while maintaining her zest and spark. everything takes longer when you’re on the road so it took a little while to get into it,” Chelsea recalls. “It also took us a little while to get on the same page. Scott had this life-is-short attitude whereas I’m more laissez faire saying like let’s spend a month in this little remote village in Argentina and he was like but then there’s Chile and Ecuador and Patagonia and … So we had to get on the same page. But then we got in our groove and it was great.” The couple travelled through South America for three months, visiting Live Your Legend local groups in Argentina, Chile and Panama. They journeyed through Europe, visited Morocco and ventured into Eastern Europe during five months’ of travel – a glorious whirlwind of ancient cities, fired-up people and fascinating encounters. Chelsea remembers visiting a Live Your Legend group in Bulgaria and being struck by the similarities between people the world over. “It’s really unbelievable that you go to these places in the world that, for a lot of people in the States, seem 10 million light years away and people literally believe in the same thing,” Chelsea says. “This belief, this vision that Scott was wise enough to come up with in his youth, it’s something that transcends all religions and backgrounds and cultural upbringings. The reality of it is that it taps into part of the human spirit. We all know that when we get out of our own way, and get out of our own heads, we have a purpose in life. That’s what Live Your Legend is all about – finding and living your purpose.” TRAGEDY Fired up by their travels and the difference they were making, the duo arrived in Africa, excited about a hike to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. They rose at 3.30am on the day of the summit attempt, and climbed for three hours through the darkness. Stopping as the sun rose, they removed their head lamps before making the final assault on the summit. Not long afterwards, they heard a shout from above and looked up to see boulders thundering down the mountain. Chelsea dove to the right from their single file line and looked back to where Scott had been standing behind her. He was no longer there – his form laying prone further down the mountain. “I remember the moment of looking back down at him, I think it was the last moment I didn’t realise the severity of the situation,” Chelsea says. She flew to his crumpled body. At first he was breathing. But his breath faded as Chelsea started giving him CPR. Her frantic efforts brought him back for a moment. “I see that moment as a gift,” Chelsea says. “Because I had the chance to say I love you.” Then, near the top of a mountain in Africa, Scott was gone. POWER TO GO ON Chelsea then endured a five-hour return trek down the mountain. Porters carried Scott’s body. As tears streamed down her cheeks a voice in her head whispered: “You can do this Chelsea, you can do it.” Next came a blur of police, hospital, questioning by the authorities and a 36-hour flight home to America. “The human spirit is a crazy resilient thing,” Chelsea says. “I tell this story and I know I lived it and breathed it and experienced it but it wasn’t me, it was a part of me that is so much deeper than the shell of me. I think we don’t tap into that place until we have to. It’s amazing when you realise the power of it.” FINDING THE STRENGTH Chelsea returned to America to no house, no possessions, no husband. “If someone had said ahead of time that this would happen to me I never would have said I could overcome it,” Chelsea says. “But in the moment that event happened I became a fundamentally new person. A core part of you changes and it’s that part you have to tap into because that’s the part that knows the power and strength you have.” Chelsea says several factors motivated her to claw her way back from grief. “Firstly, I knew at a level that most don’t how short life is,” she says. “It’s not some cliché phrase to try to motivate me. My physical body knows every moment of life is precious. Secondly, I really aligned myself with this idea that the best way to honour Scott and continue to love him in this new dimension was to be me, because he loved me. He loved this Chelsea – the smiley, the radiant and goofy Chelsea. “And thirdly, I had been close to depression and suicide growing up and I made a decision at a very young age that that was a path I’d never go down. 16 CHELSEA DINSMORE
In Chelsea’s words ... Who inspires me People who are living examples that your external circumstances do not equate to your happiness, like Nelson Mandela or Viktor Frankl. These people are proof that happiness lies within, no matter what is going on around you. I am also inspired by the everyday people out there on a mission to live their legend, to not accept mediocrity and make the choice to live their life with intention. Best advice You always, always have the choice to focus on what you do have or what you don’t. And you can make the choice to appreciate what you do have in any given moment. I was never going to be a victim of life. I was going to take whatever life handed me and turn those lemons into lemonade. I was a little too close to seeing how you could let external circumstances lead you down the road of victim. Now I see that as such a gift. “It’s a gift because I was not in a good place when I got home. Suicide wasn’t an option but I wanted to die. I would wish that cars would run over me, I’d wish that a tree would fall on me – I did not want to live on this planet. And I couldn’t live in that place for long. I got there, I felt the depths of it and I said I cannot live here. It wasn’t a ‘should’, or I’m going to figure it out, it was a freaking must.” OUTPOURING OF LOVE Chelsea also gained solace in the support of the Live Your Legend community. “I could never have imagined the amount of love and support and grace from all walks of life that came at me,” she says. “I couldn’t believe it. I co uldn’t believe the kindness of humans.” Wanting to give back to these people who’d supported her, she decided to write a blog post of her own to the Live Your Legend community explaining, in her own words, what had happened in Africa. The responses made her realise her writing could actually help people. By sharing her pain and her journey she was helping others. So she continued to do so. Chelsea took on Live Your Legend herself, not just out of love for Scott, but also for a sense of purpose and fulfilment. FINDING HER PURPOSE Recently, Chelsea has felt ready to step away from the urge to hide behind Live Your Legend and instead take its core advice – to determine her own life calling and gift the world by living her purpose. She has brought partners on board to help run Live Your Legend while she figures out her future. While she plans to stay in<strong>vol</strong>ved with Live Your Legend, she is also up for new callings life may have in store for her. “The best thing I could do for the business is to live out its philosophy,” she says. “I feel like I’m at stage one of Live Your Legend. Maybe I’ll start a little B and B, cook and teach yoga and offer some kind of sanctuary. I’m about the simple life. Scott was the big dreamer – the one who wanted to change millions of people’s lives, I’m good one on one. I’d love to help people who come into my space – that’s where I shine and can make the biggest difference.” You could imagine that Scott would approve. Speaking to his Live Your Legend audience online, he said, “Imagine a world where 80 percent of people love what they do – what would that look like? What is the work you can’t not do? Discover that, live it, because that is the work that changes the world.” That is living your legend. Get in<strong>vol</strong>ved Find out more about Live Your Legend and use its free resources to determine your own calling at www.liveyourlegend.net CHELSEA DINSMORE 17
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