Oublie que c’est impossible ! | Juliette Pêtrès | TEDxSaintBrieuc

recently I read a study about

regrets before death a

palliative care nurse

australia interviewed and compile this

that people regret the most

before dying four big regrets

always come back not having had the

courage to live one’s dreams have

worked too hard not to have stayed

more in touch with his friends do not

have managed to express feelings

after this reading I did what

everyone would do I wondered

and if I died now is that

I will have his regrets

so I found that there was at

least a regret that I would not have

that of not having lived my dreams

because since I was little I

want to know to discover to try

to try this way of thinking me

pushes to have a life that a lot

qualify raid adventure yesterday or even

unstable for some gold in our

society we like stability and

we are taught to wait and say

often that our dreams

they must be covered with a small

handkerchief the masters well at the bottom of

our pocket

because first and foremost you have to succeed

life having a husband a children’s profession

hobbies I did not want to wait

I preferred to realize now my

dreams by taking the risk of bumping me

many times but still learning

that’s the logic that led me to

cross the finish line of a

legendary sailing race the road to

single-handed transatlantic rum

connects saint malo with a clown in

guadeloupe two years ago and that of

the transat jacques vabre the year

latest

preparing what we do

years I took the time to go up the

time and I wondered what to

my little ladder had already allowed me

to achieve many of my more

big dreams

is there a recipe and what in

are the ingredients

I was born 34 years ago to all I have

grew up in the suburbs of the city in a

small building

I was immediately fascinated by the

animal world I was bringing back to

apartment

all possible animals and

imaginable and to the chagrin of my

Parents I looked on the turn

foot and made them do little

at one point there were over 1000

stick insects small twig insects

in my room and even 10 chicken when

I finally managed to tinker a

incubator so much to say that I was

predestined to be veterinarian

I worked hard to succeed

contest and I ended up doing my

first passion my job

during my studies I did not want

give up my other dreams including

riding one

even if I did not have the means

so I created an association for

to take care of old work horses

practices of the veterinary school and

from one thread to another

meet

I ended up training as a jockey

and run on one of the biggest

Parisian racecourses

my little girl dream fascinated by

black heels been made

I started working as

veterinarian in the countryside at 23 years old

calving at night the calves saved

the satisfaction of the breeders I was

happy to be lifted

early in the campaign which everyone

speak with love and that’s after

a few years of exercise

I quickly realized that

was difficult to coexist

work and dream I surprised myself

more and more often driving my

car between two visits to watch

the horizon and to tell me I have to

see something else then in 2008 I

tried something different

I put my foot for the first time

on a boat during an internship at UCP

at the sea ​​fascinates me and shot me but

scared me too

I had eaten all the stories of

sailors bombard at kelton tabarly miles

davis ellen macarthur and this time

it was me who was at sea surrounded

of sky water and dolphins it was

a real love at first sight

I decided to leave

mountains the Aveyronnaises where I

worked at the time to join

the ocean and I landed at valves in

October 2009 or after a few internships

of sailing I quickly pass my

tutoring

I registered in the stock exchanges

crew

port masters and I have

so I could perfect myself to a lesser

cost I also found a job

part time as veterinarian but I

only thought of one thing sailed

for three years I did all the

regattas possible

I accepted all the convoys we

I was able to meet

other passionate and thanks to these

met

I left more and more off

spain england spain and then in

December 2012

I’m leaving on my first transatlantic

in crew we are four on a

old classic wooden boat i

left my apartment I left my

veterinary job I put my

business in custody I’m free

ready for the adventurous

the race was magical

I come back in April 2013

at a friend’s house without a job without

housing the head full of racing

boats and mother I’m a little lost

I do not want to go back to my life

from before but I do not have the means to

offer me a boat and go to sea

it is then in July 2013 that I do

a meeting that will change my life I

I’m going to go to a party

of friends of friends to whom I did not owe

not going

that’s where I meet bertrand from

pitcher

the sailor famous for having sewn up

the language alone during a savoy

of ain during one of these sold globe

he’s looking for a sailor for tomorrow

morning I jump on the opportunity and the

two days later I have a second shot

lightning

fast offshore racing boats

beautiful everything seems fluid on board

everything seems simple

it’s bertrand who talks to me about the road

Rum that leaves the following year

so obviously I’m laughing I did not

only one transatlantic team

yesterday I never sailed alone

even less on a racing boat

I have no knowledge in the

middle and especially I have no penny anymore

I no longer work as a veterinarian

I just have enough to live a few months

with the money I put aside I

then reminds me of the beginning of summer

during a week of regattas in

England because or I am equipped

a number 1 on a beautiful sailboat

when the master on board has arrived

and said it would be a boat

entirely masculine I got

found casey like you I find on

another english boat where I do not

understood nothing

so thinking about what

said bertrand I understood that I

could become the commander of my

own boat and find the same

sensations that on his sailboat be

independent

for that I needed a crazy project the

the world’s most famous transatlantic

the rum road and find sponsors

to do it with hindsight

at that time if I did not have it

I would never have dared

think of the rum road but he believed

in me and he gave me confidence and that

changed my life so mid August 2013

I go home alone a huge weight

on the shoulders because I know it I

will do it but how do you do it

find 240000 euros in less than a year

Besides, how can we find a sponsor?

and how does it work?

and then besides but what boats

have to find then I got

asked but who can help me create

such a business

I was then asked for advice

the former entrepreneur who

owned the boat on which I

had just crossed the Atlantic

he was immediately enthusiastic and

thanks to him and the other team members

who were on board

we started the project it my

coach and to create my company

work image and communication

and especially organize myself for research

sponsors

thanks to them we built the

project foundations and they helped me

to build communication media

funny it’s offbeat

I realize that at this time

my project would not have been born if I

did not dare to talk about it around me

I was not afraid to be ridiculous and

I was not afraid to ask

ugly

and I met people

extraordinary things that made me

hundredfold

so many sailors dream of doing

the road of rum all can not get there and

even fewer women at the start of

rum in 2014

we are only four women on

93 leaving me it’s only four

years that I discovered sailing and I

have no knowledge in the middle

I wonder how I can be more

convincing that all these sailors

seasoned to enthuse a sponsor

we then said two things

firstly we had to do

differently do not copy all these

sailors because it will not work

for me to take into consideration the

differences and turned them to my

advantage

I then have access to my profession

veterinary who made me different

others

and then secondly if I came to

line me on the starting line of the

rum road with my nautical luggage

of beginners we speak rémois is sure

and the sponsors would have a return on

investment the bet was imposed

concretely I had the idea of

start with a campaign of

completely offbeat communication

with animals animals support

a veto on the Atlantic this has me

allowed the local newspaper one west

france in my area and this has me

allowed me to form a fan club

animal omar the lobster marie-jo la

hen peanuts the rabbit kitty the

guinea pig hannibal the cat jacquotte

the goat and hundreds of others

allowed me to believe in my project

to continue in the offbeat side

I went to the salon of

agriculture in paris with my painting

weleda and my camera I wanted

involve breeders and their

beasts at my run

on this picture I see myself at the booth of a

very famous cheese with a lamb

Lacaune the breed that makes this cheese

famous and a few months later we

find this cheese on my mainsail

so by force of hundreds of emails from

phone calls

I ended up getting the first

rendezvous and finally after

four months in January 2014

I have three first big sponsors in

the middle of the animal and rural world I

brought together a third of the budget about 80000

euros

I realize at this time

that by remaining candid

by integrating this environment that was not

mine it finally worked

in fact I made my weaknesses

differences and my differences I

I made some strong points at the end of March 2014

I finally found the boat 7.1 class40

English beautiful and very good

equipped I do not quite enough

money to rent it I rent it when

even the grip of the car in

lonely was amazing and I

long reminder my exit from the port

trinity on the sea ​​where I go to

dawn so no one sees me

hoist the mainsail by putting a

crazy time

that’s when I

realized that I was alone without

experience and without the budget to duty

assume my company

my first sponsors the boat to

start the paperwork

to succeed my qualifying races

I saw a mountain and I thought I was sunk

with the ship I did not have a choice

I decided not to look anymore

all the problems but of

to work on solving them

a dwarfs I made lists of

excel boards and my goal at each

morning bart and the maximum of lines

I have all the tests

qualifying

between April and June 2014 and I

overcame my budget problems at

day to day

first of all by making a dung

funding a funding platform

participatory on the internet and then

making a small loan to the bank

on bail obviously because the

bank would not lend me

I was able to hold until the summer

so early July 2014

I am qualified is registered for the

rue du rhône I have a beautiful boat

but now I have no more money

face the wall if I do not pay the

next boat rental deals

late August I have to return it to his

English owner

I feel like I have tried everything

claude funding art phoning banks

family friends i have to do differently

but I do not see how then I

go for a few days doing yoga what

I am a bit like a bundle of nerves

contract the first two days I do not

can not move so much I have

aches and the third day I

finally breathe

I come back but it’s summer France

is dormant

all my strokes fall in the water

so early August desperate me

say leave to lose my boat as much

go sailing and then tried a

last thing go to saint malo

this is the city of departure he will go there

maybe something else if not heading

England to try to renegotiate

the lease of the boat mid

August 2014

a year right after my decision to make

the road of rum I arrive at saint malo

with my boat I keep it in front of the

old town and I try to sell my

t-shirts loved stickers on

pontoons

it’s a failure the first two days

I sell a sticker at 2 euros and the

third day only three

tee-shirts

so it’s not for lack of using all

our strengths but I do not pass

unnoticed and after a few days

a little singh sponsor for 3000 euros

but most of all, I have a good meeting

a skipper friends of friends just lost

his boat on which he must make the

rum road

he still has his sponsor while I

drop moorings for england he

warns me that he’s going to contact and

next morning while jacques coste

in southampton

I get a call his sponsor want

to meet me well neither one nor two

cross over and finally I signed

with the biggest partner of my

project I realize that being

remained in action having tried to

new things I did not have what I

counted getting I had a lot more

a lot better if I had not acted

that moment I think I would be

stayed at the dock

so early September thanks to this

new sponsor I can finally

to train seriously I ask

rushing thomas last winner of the

rum road to train and I

also takes weather courses with a

excellent racer circuit figaro

but here I am still missing

fifty thousand euros

then end of september at the

official presentation of the skippers

paris the presenter explains my

situation in front of 500 people from

the audience and the same evening I sign

with a real estate agency for the end

of the budget after a year of racing against

the watch my budget buckled a month

before departure on November 2nd

I remember the million people

on the pontoons before departure

and still that same exclamations

but what courage to go on

Atlantic

only one more girl and me but I

did not know what to answer so much

it seemed obvious to me the courage

it was before I needed it because

that I only want one thing

I will not go back to live

the whole race day by day because

that it would take another tedx I am

arrived 19th out of 43 competitors of my

category in 19 days I remember with

emotion some pictures the start in

a second state where I’m sick but

naughty no I will not let go

do you have to paddle?

I will go to the end the hours at night

alone facing the sea with the sensation

to be more and more in agreement with

my boat as if it was an animal

and the finish that stay up

today the happiest day of my life

so is there a recipe

to make a crazy bet by going back

the time I remember five great lessons

which allowed me to win this bet and

that can be reusable for

many of us and for all

project that we are trying the dream is born of

the trust they gave me

the ridicule did not kill me but

helped I turned my weaknesses into

strong point I forgot that I had

no chance

and when nothing else makes me feel

currencies did not seem possible

I acted when I read these ingredients

between them I see him a common point

a certain candor a refusal to take

account what we all call the

reality that allowed me to go to

beyond material constraints

financial and psychic that we

puts or that we are naturally put

I would like to conclude this conference

with a quote from a movie

celebrates tanned ski

because as jean claude dusse

I would like to tell you forget that this is

impossible

c’mon dark

[Applause]