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Becoming a Professional Traveler with Jeff Jenkins

Wild Ideas Worth Living - April 30, 2024 10:00 - 26 minutes
Five years ago, Jeff Jenkins decided he wanted to become a professional traveler. His goal was to make a living traveling around the world and helping people. Today he's doing exactly that. After years of hard work building an online platform called Chubby Diaries, Jeff is now the host of Nation...

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Merging Freediving and Art with Oriana Poindexter

Wild Ideas Worth Living - April 23, 2024 10:00 - 23 minutes
Oriana Poindexter is a professional artist whose work weaves together photography, science, and marine life. Her art is very unique. Oriana uses seaweed and light-sensitive chemicals to make stunning, almost haunting prints. She lives in San Diego where she free dives in kelp forests for inspira...

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Traveling to Every Country Without Flying with Thor Pedersen

Wild Ideas Worth Living - April 16, 2024 10:00 - 31 minutes
In 2013, Thor Pedersen left his home in Denmark for the trip of a lifetime. His goal was to travel to every country in the world. He had three rules for his journey. He had to spend at least 24 hours in each country. He couldn't return to Denmark until he had crossed off every nation on the list...

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Traveling to Every Country Without Flying with Thor Pedersen

Wild Ideas Worth Living - April 16, 2024 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 904 ratings
In 2013, Thor Pedersen left his home in Denmark for the trip of a lifetime. His goal was to travel to every country in the world. He had three rules for his journey. He had to spend at least 24 hours in each country. He couldn't return to Denmark until he had crossed off every nation on the list...

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Cycling Around the World with Lael Wilcox

Wild Ideas Worth Living - April 09, 2024 10:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 904 ratings
Lael Wilcox is known as one of the world's best ultra-endurance cyclists. She's ridden over 150,000 miles in more than 50 countries. Now, Lael is going after her wildest idea yet: to break the record for cycling around the world. Her goal is to ride more than 18,000 miles in 110 days. Connect w...

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Cycling Around the World with Lael Wilcox

Wild Ideas Worth Living - April 09, 2024 10:00 - 29 minutes
Lael Wilcox is known as one of the world's best ultra-endurance cyclists. She's ridden over 150,000 miles in more than 50 countries. Now, Lael is going after her wildest idea yet: to break the record for cycling around the world. Her goal is to ride more than 18,000 miles in 110 days. Connect w...

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Taking Less on the Trail with Glen Van Peski

Wild Ideas Worth Living - April 02, 2024 10:00 - 27 minutes
Glen Van Peski is known as the king of ultralight backpacking. While backpackers will hit the trails with a pack that weighs upwards of 20 pounds, sometimes even up to 50 or more, Glen's pack usually only weighs around 12 pounds. Glen is also the founder of the functional lightweight backpacking...

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Taking Less on the Trail with Glen Van Peski

Wild Ideas Worth Living - April 02, 2024 10:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 904 ratings
Glen Van Peski is known as the king of ultralight backpacking. While backpackers will hit the trails with a pack that weighs upwards of 20 pounds, sometimes even up to 50 or more, Glen's pack usually only weighs around 12 pounds. Glen is also the founder of the functional lightweight backpacking...

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Sailing Solo Around The World with Ruby Gates

Wild Ideas Worth Living - March 26, 2024 10:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 904 ratings
At the age of 50, Ruby Gates left her career and home to get on a sailboat for seven months. At the time, she knew nothing about sailing, but the trip changed her life. Now, nine years later, Ruby has decided to go after the wildest idea she's ever had. She's circumnavigating the world by sailbo...

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Sailing Solo Around The World with Ruby Gates

Wild Ideas Worth Living - March 26, 2024 10:00 - 26 minutes
At the age of 50, Ruby Gates left her career and home to get on a sailboat for seven months. At the time, she knew nothing about sailing, but the trip changed her life. Now, nine years later, Ruby has decided to go after the wildest idea she's ever had. She's circumnavigating the world by sailbo...

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Retiring From Competitive Skiing at 23 with Grace Miller

Wild Ideas Worth Living - March 19, 2024 10:00 - 24 minutes
What if your wild idea no longer brings you joy? Retired pro skier, Grace Miller, is intimately familiar with a change of course. Grace grew up in Alaska and started skiing at a young age. Before she was out of high school, she was recruited to compete at the highest level, but at age 23 after ...

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Retiring From Competitive Skiing at 23 with Grace Miller

Wild Ideas Worth Living - March 19, 2024 10:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 904 ratings
What if your wild idea no longer brings you joy? Retired pro skier, Grace Miller, is intimately familiar with a change of course. Grace grew up in Alaska and started skiing at a young age. Before she was out of high school, she was recruited to compete at the highest level, but at age 23 after ...

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Microadventuring with Alastair Humphreys

Wild Ideas Worth Living - March 12, 2024 10:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 904 ratings
Alastair Humphreys is an author and adventurer who has walked 600 miles across Southern India, ran an ultra marathon through the Sahara Desert, and hiked and rafted across Iceland. Alastair's newest wild idea is to embrace the concept of "microadventures," an adventure that is short, easily acce...

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Microadventuring with Alastair Humphreys

Wild Ideas Worth Living - March 12, 2024 10:00 - 28 minutes
Alastair Humphreys is an author and adventurer who has walked 600 miles across Southern India, ran an ultra marathon through the Sahara Desert, and hiked and rafted across Iceland. Alastair's newest wild idea is to embrace the concept of "microadventures," an adventure that is short, easily acce...

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Becoming the First Woman to Travel Around the Moon with Christina Koch

Wild Ideas Worth Living - March 05, 2024 11:00 - 28 minutes
What if you had an opportunity to travel around the moon? Christina Koch has worked at NASA for the last 10 years, and has been a part of groundbreaking missions in outer space. In 2019, Christina embarked on a 328-day stay on the International Space Station, setting a record for the longest sin...

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Becoming the First Woman to Travel Around the Moon with Christina Koch

Wild Ideas Worth Living - March 05, 2024 11:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 904 ratings
What if you had an opportunity to travel around the moon? Christina Koch has worked at NASA for the last 10 years, and has been a part of groundbreaking missions in outer space. In 2019, Christina embarked on a 328-day stay on the International Space Station, setting a record for the longest sin...

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Snowboarding as a Creative Expression with Travis Rice

Wild Ideas Worth Living - February 27, 2024 11:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 904 ratings
Travis Rice has been pushing the envelope of what's possible in snowboarding for over 20 years. He has won prestigious awards for his riding, and completely recreated what it means to host a winter sports competition. Travis has also built new businesses like Sendy and changed the way action spo...

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Snowboarding as a Creative Expression with Travis Rice

Wild Ideas Worth Living - February 27, 2024 11:00 - 22 minutes
Travis Rice has been pushing the envelope of what's possible in snowboarding for over 20 years. He has won prestigious awards for his riding, and completely recreated what it means to host a winter sports competition. Travis has also built new businesses like Sendy and changed the way action spo...

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Birding and Nature Photography with Dudley Edmondson

Wild Ideas Worth Living - February 20, 2024 11:00 - 23 minutes
Dudley Edmondson is a legendary outdoorsman and birder, nature photographer, cinematographer, speaker and an author. In 2006, he published a book called Black and Brown Faces in America's Wild Places. He hopes that his books, photos and film work will inspire the next generation of Black, Indige...

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Birding and Nature Photography with Dudley Edmondson

Wild Ideas Worth Living - February 20, 2024 11:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 904 ratings
Dudley Edmondson is a legendary outdoorsman and birder, nature photographer, cinematographer, speaker and an author. In 2006, he published a book called Black and Brown Faces in America's Wild Places. He hopes that his books, photos and film work will inspire the next generation of Black, Indige...

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Biking Across Latin America with Erin Azouz

Wild Ideas Worth Living - February 13, 2024 11:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 904 ratings
What if swiping on a dating app led you to your partner and an epic bike ride the length of Latin America? This was the case for Erin Azouz and her now-husband Mehedi. The bike trip profoundly shifted Erin's relationship with her work, her husband, and most importantly with herself. Connect wit...

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Biking Across Latin America with Erin Azouz

Wild Ideas Worth Living - February 13, 2024 11:00 - 29 minutes
What if swiping on a dating app led you to your partner and an epic bike ride the length of Latin America? This was the case for Erin Azouz and her now-husband Mehedi. The bike trip profoundly shifted Erin's relationship with her work, her husband, and most importantly with herself. Connect wit...

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Surfing, Fitness, and Plus-Size Adventuring with Kanoa Greene

Wild Ideas Worth Living - February 06, 2024 11:00 - 27 minutes
Kanoa Greene was born into a family of surfers in Hawaii, but for a long time she didn't feel like she belonged in the ocean. She'd never seen a plus size person out in the water and she struggled to find gear to fit her body. Eventually when she was in her 30s, she stood up on a wave for the fi...

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Surfing, Fitness, and Plus-Size Adventuring with Kanoa Greene

Wild Ideas Worth Living - February 06, 2024 11:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 904 ratings
Kanoa Greene was born into a family of surfers in Hawaii, but for a long time she didn't feel like she belonged in the ocean. She'd never seen a plus size person out in the water and she struggled to find gear to fit her body. Eventually when she was in her 30s, she stood up on a wave for the fi...

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Thru-Skateboarding America's Trails with Moondog Roop

Wild Ideas Worth Living - January 30, 2024 11:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 904 ratings
Over the past few years, Moondog Roop has done three major thru-skates. First in 2021, he spent 45 days on the 1,100 mile Florida Trail. In 2022, he thru-skated across the entire state of New Mexico, and in 2023 he skateboarded 444 miles on the historic Natchez Trace, a trail which passes throug...

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Thru-Skateboarding America's Trails with Moondog Roop

Wild Ideas Worth Living - January 30, 2024 11:00 - 24 minutes
Over the past few years, Moondog Roop has done three major thru-skates. First in 2021, he spent 45 days on the 1,100 mile Florida Trail. In 2022, he thru-skated across the entire state of New Mexico, and in 2023 he skateboarded 444 miles on the historic Natchez Trace, a trail which passes throug...

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Exploring the North and South Pole with Ann Bancroft

Wild Ideas Worth Living - January 23, 2024 11:00 - 23 minutes
What if your life revolved around leading groundbreaking polar expeditions? In 1986, polar explorer Ann Bancroft became the first woman to ski to the North Pole after a chance encounter with Will Steger.  Connect with Ann:  Website  Ann Bancroft Foundation Instagram Ann Reed website & featur...

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Exploring the North and South Pole with Ann Bancroft

Wild Ideas Worth Living - January 23, 2024 11:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 904 ratings
What if your life revolved around leading groundbreaking polar expeditions? In 1986, polar explorer Ann Bancroft became the first woman to ski to the North Pole after a chance encounter with Will Steger.  Connect with Ann:  Website  Ann Bancroft Foundation Instagram Ann Reed website & featur...

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Becoming Mentally and Physically Elite with Chad Vanags

Wild Ideas Worth Living - January 16, 2024 11:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 904 ratings
In September of 2022, at 39 years old, Chad Vanags was diagnosed with stage 4 terminal lung cancer. Chad is a surfer, runner, and all-around athlete. In the year and a half since his diagnosis, Chad has been living his wildest most authentic life as he faces his own mortality. Cancer isn't the m...

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Becoming Mentally and Physically Elite with Chad Vanags

Wild Ideas Worth Living - January 16, 2024 11:00 - 27 minutes
In September of 2022, at 39 years old, Chad Vanags was diagnosed with stage 4 terminal lung cancer. Chad is a surfer, runner, and all-around athlete. In the year and a half since his diagnosis, Chad has been living his wildest most authentic life as he faces his own mortality. Cancer isn't the m...