How Dame Ellen MacArthur is Fuelling Purpose for Young Cancer Survivors (E413)

We talk a lot on high performance, about adversity, about what it takes to come back from the lowest moments of your life. Well today's conversation is about a different kind of adversity. Young people who face illness, identity and recovery all at once, at the exact moment they should be stepping into life. My guests today are the legendary sailor, Dame Ellen MacArthur. Frank Fletcher, CEO of Ella MacArthur Cancer Trust, and Josh Rands, who's been helped by their charity.

Between them, they've lived every side of the story, and they know what it means to build something that genuinely serves other people. And we're here talking about the support that's been possible thanks to players of Postcode Lottery. I think maybe we should just begin with each of you giving us maybe 20 seconds about yourselves and why you find yourselves sitting in the high performance studio today. My professional life was sailing. And through sailing, I met a French charity that took young people sailing and recover-free from cancer and leukemia.

And that day will stay with me for the rest of my life because it had such a profound effect on me. And as a result of that, I created the Ellen McCarthy Cancer Trust. Frank? So I I've worked with young people in the outdoors for almost all of my working life. And then I knew Ellen many, many years ago before Ellen went around the world and then

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