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One Wild Life Podcast with Abbie Barnes

23 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings

There are no boundaries to the One Wild Life Podcast, as it is simply a show about life. Biweekly episodes offer deep conversations designed to inspire, empower, educate, and unlock; taking the time to chat with guests from all around the world, from small business owners and creatives, to medical professionals, outdoor fanatics, athletes, and more. Long story short, we want to explore how we can all grow the confidence to live our best lives everyday.

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#22 Mark Valentine White Fox Talking| Podcaster and International Mountain Leader on Overcoming PTSD

January 25, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 64.1 MB

Mark Charlie Valentine is deeply passionate about promoting the many benefits towards improved physical health & mental well-being through spending time outdoors and this theme can be seen running through all avenues of his work. He is a Winter & International Mountain Leader, Climbing Coach & Rock Climbing Instructor, and is the director of and an instructor at Your Mountain Adventure.  But Mark has not always worked in the hills and mountains. After dealing with a horrific incident whilst...

#21 Harrison Ward | Fell Foodie on Wellbeing in the Outdoors

January 11, 2023 07:00 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MB

Now for many of us when we head into the hills for a wee hike we might pack a few bars, a banana that will inevitably get squashed, and maybe even indulge in a soggy sandwich or two.  But for Harrison Ward, time outside means both gym and kitchen, as he carries beautiful ingredients with him on his adventures to create delicious, restaurant style meals on minimal camping equipment. Now known as Fell Foodie, Harrison has gained a reputation as an outdoor cook, hiker and mental health speake...

#20 Charlotte Wray Exmoor National Park Ranger and Environmental Advocate

December 28, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 65.7 MB

Exmoor is a place like no other. As one of the UK’s 15 National Parks it boasts a myriad of habitats from rugged heather moorlands, home to wild deer and semi-feral ponies, to the most extensive broadleaved coastal woods in Britain, and the highest sea cliffs and most remote coastline in England. The park is full of historical buildings, bubbling brooks and fascinating combes and valleys, and is an International Dark Sky Reserve. Exmoor sees around 2 million visitors pass through its border...

#19 Chaz Powell The Wildest Journey | Explorer of the Year 2021

December 14, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 84 MB

Adventure means different things to different people. An adventure for some could mean going for a dip in an icy tarn or riding a mountain bike down a gnarly home run; for others it could be climbing a mountain for the first time or facing a long-term fear of some sort.  For explorer and expedition leader Chaz Powell, adventure has become a way of life that has seen him walk the length of some of Africa's wildest rivers and create a way of life that embraces nature and sustainable living. A...

#18 Bex Band Professional Adventurer Life Is Better Outdoors

April 25, 2022 06:00 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MB

Bex Band is the founder and director of Love Her Wild, a registered non-profit Female Adventure Company, established in 2017. It has since grown into the largest of its kind in the UK with over 25,000 members.   Through Love Her Wild Bex aims to make adventure more accessible to women, and has raised more than £10k for charity, removed over 10,000 pieces of plastic pollution from waterways, and set up 8 mentoring partnerships.  Bex is a professional adventurer too, boasting an impressive a...

#17 Rory Southworth Cold-Water Swimmer, Free-diver, Trail Runner, And All Round Superhuman

April 11, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 74.7 MB

Rory Southworth is what most people would call superhuman. He spends much of his time undertaking interesting challenges across the hills and mountains of UK, often involving cold water swimming, free-diving, skiing, hiking, trail running, cycling, or, really, anything outdoors.  He is passionate about sharing his adventures across his popular Instagram platform, and for me, is a shining light in the industry, never failing to offer an inspirational or reflective post, coupled with a huge s...

#16 Joe Williams On Mountain Ultra Running and Life At Cicerone Press

March 28, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 67 MB

Joe Williams is the Business Development Manager for Cicerone, which for over 50 years has been one of the very best publishers of outdoor guides to exploring the hills, mountains and countryside of Britain, Europe and the world. Naturally, Joe’s passion for the outdoors is threaded into his everyday life. He is an enthusiastic all-rounder in the mountains and seeks to pursue a wide array of outdoor activities that allow access to more remote and inspiring landscapes. His main skill though ...

#15 James Forrest The Mountain Man Adventurer, Author, Hiker

March 14, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 63.4 MB

James Forrest is a British adventurer, hiker and author. Nicknamed ‘Mountain Man’ by The Sunday Telegraph, James has set several hill-walking records, including climbing all of the 1,001 mountains across the UK and Ireland between 2017 to 2019. During this challenge he walked more than 5,000km, climbed the height of Everest 30 times and slept wild under the stars for over 100 nights. He has since completed the National Three Peaks by foot, walking 500 miles in just 16 days, along the way cre...

#14 Dr Rani Bora Wellness Coach and Holistic Psychiatrist on Listening Into Wellbeing

February 28, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 66 MB

Trigger Warning: please note that this episodes contains conversation around mental health and wellbeing, sometimes covering sensitive subjects. We advise you to come back to this episode at another point if you are finding yourself struggling at the moment. Rani Bora is a holistic psychiatrist, author, international speaker and wellness coach. She also works as a practising consultant psychiatrist in the NHS. Her passion is to transform the lives of people struggling with any form of menta...

#13 Dave Shanks CEO and Founder of Water-to-Go On Sustainable Alternatives To Plastic

February 14, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 68.4 MB

Get 15% off your Water-To-Go order today using WILD15 at checkout After working in the garment industry for many years and seeing the horrific problems of waste pollution first-hand, CEO and Founder of Water-to-Go, Dave Shanks, sought to create a sustainable and reusable alternative to single-use plastic water bottles. He then developed a unique filter for the bottle and so Water-to-Go was born. Realising that here was a technology that could provide clean, healthy water almost anywhere and...

#12 Russel Hepton The Trail Hunter on a Mission To Discover The World On Foot

July 12, 2021 08:45 - 1 hour - 64.5 MB

Russel Hepton began hiking when he was living in London 5 years ago. His first step into the outdoors was a failed summit of Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the British Isles, in winter conditions. He describes standing in a white out, alone on the switchbacking trail with nothing but the soft sound of falling snow around him. He turned back, but thankfully for us all, this was to be the ignition of his new-found passion for the great outdoors. Since then Rus has committed to building mo...

#11 Alison Ingles on Buddhism, Massage and Kindness in the 21st Century

June 28, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 64.6 MB

Alison Inglis has been a college lecturer since 1989 and worked with the Open University, teaching business, management & IT. She has also been a practicing buddist since 2003 and is in training for ordination with the Triratna Western Buddhist order. Like many Buddhists, she wanted to take up holistic therapies to help others and practise kindness & generosity. She also wanted to do something that involved her hands, rather than her brain, to balance out her working life. So in 2004 she was...

#11 Alison Inglis on Buddhism, Massage and Kindness in the 21st Century

June 28, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 64.6 MB

Alison Inglis has been a college lecturer since 1989 and worked with the Open University, teaching business, management & IT. She has also been a practicing buddist since 2003 and is in training for ordination with the Triratna Western Buddhist order. Like many Buddhists, she wanted to take up holistic therapies to help others and practise kindness & generosity. She also wanted to do something that involved her hands, rather than her brain, to balance out her working life. So in 2004 she was...

#10 Sarah Williams from Tough Girl Challenges on Inspiring Women to Dream Big

June 14, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 104 MB

Sarah Williams started her career in banking, but in 2013 after 8 years of office work, she packed her bags and started traveling around the world. It was whilst she was travelling and questioning her next step that she realised her love of three things; challenges, travel, and adventure. And so she took these passions and used them to found Tough Girl Challenges in 2014. Her aim? To motivate and inspire women and girls to get fit and active, to travel and explore, and to have big dreams and...

#9 Crista Valentino on Being A Force For Change

May 31, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 81.8 MB

Crista Valentino was 26 years old when she co-founded CoalitionWILD. Her aim? To connect and equip the world’s young change-makers to tackle our planet’s greatest conservation challenges. She is an unstoppable force in the field of conservation with an impressive list of credentials to her name. She is the North American Focal Point for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s World Commission on Protected Areas Young Professionals; is an active member of the Global Youth Bi...

#8 Max and Tom Swinhoe | It Takes A Journey | See More. Feel More. Be More.

May 17, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 95.5 MB

It is always great fun to chat with like minded people and in this episode I feel I hit the jackpot. If you are interested in personal growth, travel, and leaning to face fears and doing things anyway, then this is the episode for you.  Max and Tom have travelled the world, visiting Central and South America, before working for a year in Australia for a year and then stopping off in New Zealand, Asia and Nepal on their way home. Naturally, they are very self-aware individuals, passionate ab...

#7 Andrew Miller on self-employment and small business management during a worldwide pandemic

May 03, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 71.9 MB

Andrew Miller spent the first chapter of his working life in Military Intelligence units. After 12 years of service he left to begin a self-employed career as a consultant, coach, and mentor, working for many blue chip companies including HSBC, Ericsson, Alcatel Telecom, Dell, British Energy and British Airports Authority as well as for national government agencies and departments. In 2007 during the financial crash, Andrew branched out into a career as a wedding photographer, firmly establ...

#6 Andrew Miller Ex-military Specialist on Being the Best You Can Be and Saying Yes More

March 22, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 88.5 MB

Andrew Miller is someone who really likes to make the best out of life, following in the footsteps of his grandfather's advice of ‘saying yes more’. He’s also a bit of an enigma, in that he both works to live and lives to work. If I were to summarise him in three words they would likely be adaptable, generous, resilient. In this conversation we dive into Andrews military career and how it provided endless opportunities for him to grow and mould into the person he is today. We then explore h...

#5 Bob Cartwright on Overcoming Fear and Making Creativity Accessible For All

March 08, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 78.1 MB

Bob Cartwright has backpacked around the world, competed in numerous Original Mountain Marathon events, designed multiple pieces of lightweight adventure kit,and walked the 200 mile Great Outdoor Challenge in Scotland more than a handful of times.  In 2005 Bob established backpackinglight.co.uk with the aim of making lightweight hiking, biking, and riding more accessible, and then went on to launch The Outdoor Station Podcast in 2005. The show has now received well over 14 million downloads...

#4 Eoin Hamilton on Combining Working Life with Personal Passions

February 22, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 56.9 MB

We all know that spending time outside can be immeasurably beneficial for our mental and physical wellbeing, but for some, accessing the outdoors can seem overwhelming and scary. This is especially true now, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thankfully though, there are people out there who are trying to make the outdoors more accessible and who keep encouraging us to dream big. Eoin Hamilton is one of those people. In July 2019 Eoin, along with friends Paul Finely and Pete Britton, began work ...

#3 Stephen Moss on Nature Writing and the Importance of a Local Wild Patch

February 08, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 88.1 MB

In this chat Stephen and I dive into his childhood experiences where the foundations of his love for nature were laid at a very young age. He explains why birds were his primary fascination, and how as he grew up and entered the world of work, this broadened into other flying things such as dragonflies and butterflies after meeting the legendary birder, comedian and presenter, Bill Oddie.  Stephen is a former producer at the BBC Natural History Unit with an admirable career spanning three d...

#2 Amanda Dudgeon NSW Park Ranger on How We Can All Protect Our Wild Spaces

January 25, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 81.8 MB

Amanda never set out to work in conservation, despite her lifelong fascination with the natural world, which interestingly started with geology. Instead, she went to Italy to study gastronomy, keen to impact people with good food and fine dining experiences. It was here though that she unleashed her true passion for the wild world, and after a year she left her foodie schooling to return home and pursue a Bachelors of Applied Science in Integrated Resource Management.  Following the complet...

#1 Introducing the One Wild Life Podcast

January 10, 2021 12:39 - 6 minutes - 6.25 MB

Hey everyone, welcome to the One Wild Life Podcast with me, Abbie Barnes! deep breath... We've made it! This podcast has been a long time in the making, but finally we are up and running. I am a hiker come filmmaker come personal trainer come business owner, and now officially the host of The  One Wild Life Podcast! This show is designed to be a show about life and therefore it has no boundaries. I'll be covering a wide range of topics with guests from all around the world, although initi...

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