First Woman to Circle the Planet in her Car speaks to the club
Ms. Jahnel has been traveling the world since 2006 - pursuing life as an act of living art. In 2011, she completed her first book about her journey, entitled "My Year of Beds" – during which, she became the first woman to circle the world alone in her car.
That car - a 2005 Renault Kangoo (dubbed the "Wishmobile") - completed its journey in 2007… at which time it was transformed from an ordinary vehicle into a global artwork entitled “One planet One people” by virtue of the hundreds of inscriptions scrawled onto its shiny silver surface by well-wishing people from around the world.
Ms. Jahnel has been travelling the world since 2006 - pursuing life as an act of living art. In 2011, she completed her first book about her journey, entitled "My Year of Beds" – during which, she became the first woman to circle the world alone in her car.
That car - a 2005 Renault Kangoo (dubbed the "Wishmobile") - completed its journey in 2007… at which time it was transformed from an ordinary vehicle into a global artwork entitled “One planet One people” by virtue of the hundreds of inscriptions scrawled onto its shiny silver surface by well-wishing people from around the world.
Currently, her travels span the Americas in a trek she calls ‘Searching for Galileo’. It was, after all, Galileo who changed the world by thinking the unthinkable – which (as it turned out) was merely the recognition of common truths. ‘There are ten times as many people in the world today” she observes, “as there was 400 years ago. Where then, are my ten Galileos?”
As she travels across the Americas Annette will seek out these uncommon thinkers and ask them to pose their own version of a world changing ‘WHAT IF’ scenario. These scenarios; the people who create them; the journey to uncover them; the technology and science she encounters, and the mental jam session she plans to conduct with these people, will form the foundation of her next book.
Her purpose was - and is - to keep people aware of the fact that in spite of many interesting (and sometimes conflicting) differences... we remain a single family on a very small planet.
Rene Descartes said “I think therefore I am”. Annette says ‘I think, therefore I become.’ The emergence of a consistent set of values - based on tolerance, honor, kindness, and self-control - reveals a pattern of universal thought that suggests a more balanced civilization than the one generated by a world media that caters to only to extremes.
Annette appears at hundreds of events each year. She is a regular media guest, and a witty, entertaining and effective spokesperson for the natural forces that unite us all. She changes the way we think… from the extreme, confrontational perspectives that divide us, to the unified synergy that grows between people in service to one other.
More information on Annette Jahnel is available at www.jahnelamericas.com
If you wish to watch her 31 minute presentation, here is a link to a YouTube Video
