#154 Kristen Matlock
“This Rally taught me that I don’t need as much in life as I thought I did. Putting my electronic devices away the day before the Rally began was stressful for me. I didn’t realize how connected I was until it was taken away and I don’t even want my phone back now. We already limit our children at home on their electronic devices. They don’t have phones or anything; they’re 13 and 15 years old. I felt like a hypocrite. I always have mine and no you can’t. Now, I don’t even want it, so it just assured me that I’m doing the right thing with my children and teaching them that there’s a lot more out there.”

#119 Jordan Keeth
“After my first Rebelle training, I decided I wanted to be a pilot. I figured out that maps and topography are my thing. I didn’t think I was smart enough, but now after doing the Rebelle I’m 150% confident that I will crush pilot school.”

#138 Laura Moore 
“Some of these young women have found ways to support themselves, to monetize what they love, whether it’s off-roading or overlanding or creating a new company that fills a niche. I find that just amazing and their willingness to do it. It seemed like when I grew up, it was you graduate from high school, you go to college, you get married, you have your family, you make your career, and you retire, and you play golf or Mahjong. But these young women here in this community are not content with that. I really love that. I like the way they manage their lives.”

#129 Nena Barlow 
What was different about this year?
“You had to go. We had to go hard every day, but the last three days, it was just 100% all the time. There was no strategizing to see if we would hold our position because we didn’t know, especially the last two days, what the points were. We knew we just had to work our asses off the whole ten and a half hours that we had today. There was no letting off the gas pedal.”

#204 Carey Lando 
“What goes on inside the car for 11 to 14 hours a day, in a tent, and day to day, that’s the most important thing to me is just making sure we have a good teammate relationship because that’s the most important thing. Then, helping others as we can, be it helping them with their own teammate relations, helping them with their car, having them feel encouraged and welcomed here at the Rebelle Rally. That’s another priority for me. Once all those things work together, you can think about being competitive.” 

#128 Susan Pieper 
How hard is it to leave the day before behind?
“We go over it at night in our tent, and we do what the Toyota teams called kaizen. We do a best of and worst of the day. We use that to learn and to figure out what we’re going to do the next day. So we really let it go with the positives in our hearts. We just let all the bad stuff go. We’re like, this is what we’re going to do. So, it’s never looking at what you don’t want to do. It’s looking at what you do want to do.”