Rebel Book Club Toronto x EXTREME DREAMS

Join us for RBC's October event as we explore this month's theme, Extreme Dreams, via Eva Zu Beck's book, "The Wilder Way". About the book: Eva zu Beck walked away from a high-flying career and a picture-perfect life to travel solo through some of the most remote places, from a lone horse trek in Mongolia to a desert island in Yemen. Along the way, she built an online community and confronted the tension between a life of freedom and the need for home. An inspiring memoir about dismantling someone else's dream and finding the courage to build your own. Why we chose it: "In a world that seems intent on locking us in gilded cages and behind screens, I want my book to stand as an ode to freedom, a call to blaze your very own trail and a blueprint for an adventurous life." Special guest: Ben Pobjoy | Earth's marathoner and documentarian Since 2015, Ben Pobjoy has trekked 90,000+ kilometres by foot across six continents. Not for athletics, but as a strange way to scratch a creative itch, where 1,000+ freestyle marathons through 70+ countries have been utilised as a means to intimately document earth and its inhabitants. His words, images, and naïve DIY adventures have earned hundreds of millions of major media impressions worldwide on radio, TV, podcasts, and in both newspapers and magazines. In sum, it is head scratching stuff, because Pobjoy started out morbidly obese, has never had any paid endorsements, and works a regular day job just like everyone else does. Inspired by our monthly non-fiction reads, our mix of part cocktail party, part creative classroom is a recipe that builds your reading habit while connecting with like minded people. Interested? Want to join us at our October event? Try out the club with Eventbrite - new customers only. Ticket price includes access to the Toronto Rebel Book Club event. Your hosts for the evening: Claire Jones Claire is a media, ad tech, and event marketing exec, and a recent master's graduate in the psychology and neuroscience of mental health, with a focus on AI and human behaviour. Born and raised in England, she's a proud neurodivergent who has spent the last 8 years following her curiosity across continents, and now she's bringing that energy to Toronto. With a bookshelf overflowing with non-fiction and a deep belief in the power of community, she can't wait to find her people at RBC! Claire's Top Non-Fiction Recommendations: 1. The Body Keeps The Score, by Bessel van der Kolk 2. Invisible Women, by Caroline Criado-Perez 3. Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson Simren Deogun Simren is a strategic advisor, marketer, systems thinker, people leader, and writer. Her nose has been firmly stuck in a book since kindergarten and hopes one day to be a published fiction author. She is a native Torontonian who enjoys taking in concerts, plays, musicals, and, more recently, WNBA games with the Toronto Tempo. Most importantly, she is a women’s health advocate and survivor of Stage 4 Endometriosis. “Rebel Book Club has found its new home here in Toronto – I know the people and the culture will welcome a third space like this where we can read and connect. I’m beyond excited to help bring this to life in my home city!” Simren’s Non-Fiction Recommendations: 1. Rest is Resistance, byTricia Hersey 2. When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress, by Gabor Maté MD 3. Mindset, by Carol S. Dweck About Rebel Book Club Every month since 2015, we've helped 1000's of curious minds explore a topic, meet, discuss and share learnings & actions. We're meeting monthly in London and four other locations within the UK (Oxford, Manchester, Bristol and Edinburgh), in Denver and New York (USA), in Sydney & Perth (Australia) and Toronto & Vancouver (Canada) + we have a digital membership for members round the world. Find out more about Rebel Book Club & RBC Toronto + follow us on Instagram.