Vanessa Ruck The Girl on a Bike racing

The Tunisia Desert Challenge is a new cross-country Rallye-Raid, from the organisers of the Morocco Desert Challenge.

It’s a gruelling 8 day endurance event, covering up to 469km each day involving a race across 2400km of Tunisian desert in some of the harshest racing conditions in the world.

Against all the odds and showing true grit and determination Vanessa came 35th of 55 motorcycles and the first women to ever enter and finish the @tunisiadesertchallenge on a bike. It was a gruelling 8 day endurance event, covering up to 469km each day

Vanessa Ruck The Girl on a Bike adventuring

Vanessa has an unquenchable desire for adventure and her biking adventures have taken her to Bolivia, Romania, The USA, Sardina and Iceland.

Vanessa Ruck The Girl on a Bike Speaking

Combining her ten-year career in marketing and her resilience for life, Vanessa has built a following of over 270,000 and racked up over 2 million YouTube plays! She now inspires others to get up and tackle the battles life throws at us with gratitude and happiness. Instead of adding to the sometimes-toxic social media landscape filled with ‘all so perfect’ lives, she’s real and honest, sharing the highs and the lows. Showing the strength needed to come out stronger against life’s curved balls.

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Vanessa is on a mission to show that nothing is impossible if you work hard enough, even as a slightly reconstructed person following the accident. Vanessa has successfully leveraged the power of social media, passionate storytelling and marketing to share her story and inspire others. She empowers others with the lessons she has learned through her emotional, thought provoking and highly engaging story. “People can relate to my story because everyone goes through bad times. Hopefully I am inspiring others to show that if I can bounce back after seven surgeries, others can get through their hard times” says Vanessa.

​If we can pull her away from her bikes, she will bring an incredible energy to your speaking events.

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Below – Life before the accident

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The Girl on a Bike – What the audience can expect

An exciting story of sports and challenges from the point of view of Vanessa, who as a fit and active individual with many passions was struck down by an easily avoidable accident and went on to find new ways of slaking her thirst for adventure by becoming “The Girl on a Bike”. Expect to laugh and cry in the same minute.

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The Girl on a Bike Speaking topics

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The sessions deliver practical advice and focus on:

• Learning to accept your situation and love yourself
• Importance of talking about mental health
• Reality that life does have challenges and battles – it’s normal
• Working on outcomes, not the process, with goal setting to keep you focused and motivated
• The importance of understanding the facts in the situation and pushing aside the ‘noise’ when anxiety hits
• Remembering that wanting to quit is normal – but what makes you extraordinary is not quitting
• That FEAR is just False-Expectations-Appearing-Real
• Dealing with pressure
• Importance and benefit of gratitude
• Being part of the solution and a overcome mindset

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The Girl on a Bike Presentation Approach

Vanessa speaks from the heart, and as such will take your audience on a journey of emotions. They will feel they are with her through the adversity and adventure alike and will come away from the presentation with a renewed vigour and outlook.

Below: is Vanessas presenter showreel which also gives and insight into her global adventures:

Call +44 1753 439 289 or email Great British Speakers now to book motivational speaker, “The Girl On A Bike”, Vanessa Ruck  for your next live event or corporate video –  Contact us