Latest Outdoor women Podcast Episodes
Endless Curiosity (The Last Episode)
She Explores - July 19, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsThis is the last episode of She Explores. In it, we say farewell, reflect on endings, and invite past guests of the show to share the lessons they’ve learned in the outdoors over the last few years. Through these women’s stories, we’re reminded how important it is to have the space we need to sh...
A Deeper Connection - Mugdha Flores
She Explores - May 12, 2023 09:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsMugdha Flores is proof of where your passion for science and the natural world can take you. From playing in tide pools as a child in Southern India, to mapping the undiscovered corners of the ocean, to surveying salmon as they make their long journey to the Pacific. For Mugdha, all her explorat...
Becoming a Mermaid - Irene Marcoux
She Explores - April 26, 2023 09:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsWhen Irene Marcoux was growing up and playing at her local pool, she didn’t dream of becoming a mermaid. She was a mermaid. Those early days of freedom and play were her gateway to a life in the water. And because she’s a big believer in the fact that every BODY can dive - Irene is all about hel...
Fluidity in Recovery: Antoinette Lee Toscano
She Explores - April 12, 2023 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsA life-changing rappelling accident lead Antoinette Lee Toscano to choose to live the life of outdoor adventure she’d always dreamed of. And since then, she’s dedicated herself to helping others make it easier to shape their lives for the better, too. Antoinette Lee Toscano is an outdoor indust...
A Student of the Sea: Olivia VanDamme
She Explores - March 29, 2023 09:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsOlivia VanDamme’s hope is that one day, in her older years, she’ll be at the beach, covered in seaweed and still contributing to community science. Olivia has always felt comforted, alive, and happy in the ocean. And as an educator, poet, singer, environmentalist, surfer, and more – Olivia celeb...
Immersed in Swimming: Eden Elgeti
She Explores - March 15, 2023 12:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsEden Elgeti is a wild and pool swimmer in the United Kingdom, and is featured in our new book, Women and Water. The first line in her profile is, “I often joke through winter that I’d be more than happy to not swim and just turn up for the post-swim coffee and cake.” Of course, she goes on to sh...
Finding Freedom in Swimming: Bonnie Tsui
She Explores - March 03, 2023 14:05 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsBonnie Tsui's book, Why We Swim, dropped at a time when we were all looking for guidance on how to move our bodies in ways that took us out of our heads and into our element. But its message is continuous. Why We Swim is a must-read whether you think of yourself as a swimmer or not. It takes you...
We Know You'll Love: Wild for Scotland's "Creature of the Sea"
She Explores - February 23, 2023 10:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsIn the coming weeks, we’ll be sharing a series of interviews with some incredible humans who are featured in Women and Water - a new book from the team behind She Explores. We’ll take the conversation off the page and into their relationship with water today. And you’ll hear from swimmers, surfe...
Living the Vanlife: Noami Grevemberg
She Explores - January 12, 2023 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsNoami Grevemberg is a leader in the world of vanlife, and the founder of Diversify Vanlife, a platform that highlights less-heard voices in vanlife, road travel, and nomadic communities. It’s also a resource that helps break down barriers to accessing life on the road, a lifestyle that Noami and...
How Do We Spend Time Alone? Creative Fuel
She Explores - November 02, 2022 09:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsWhen writer Florence Williams’ 25-year marriage falls apart, it sets her on a journey to explore the science behind loneliness. Photographer Alexandra de Steiguer has spent the last quarter century spending her winters solo as a caretaker in the Isle of Shoals. With the help of these two creativ...
Taking Up Space on the Trail: Victoria Amico
She Explores - October 05, 2022 09:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsVictoria Amico would say that hiking 100% ruined her life, but in the best way possible. Seven years ago, she thought she knew what she wanted in her career and devoted her whole self to achieving her goals. But then hiking came along and forced her to examine what she really wanted. In the proc...
Constant Forward Movement: McKayla Bower
She Explores - September 07, 2022 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsWhether she’s rock climbing or sailing, McKayla Bower is motivated by always moving forward. And by setting her sights on becoming the first trans woman and queer person to circumnavigate the world solo in her sailboat Swirl, she’s moving forward in more ways than one. We talk about what inspir...
We're back! And an Introduction to Creative Fuel
She Explores - September 02, 2022 13:56 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsA hello, what we've been up to, a new podcast Gale's working on called "Creative Fuel", and a fresh episode of She Explores comes back next week. Resources Follow Creative Fuel wherever you get podcasts Creative Fuel on Apple Podcasts Creative Fuel on Spotify Follow About the Journey where...
Makeup and Muckboots in the Field
She Explores - April 29, 2022 08:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsHow do you navigate your femininity in a male-dominated space like environmental fieldwork research? For Julia Bingham, it's been an exploration of self. Julia is an interdisciplinary marine scientist and currently a PhD candidate at Duke University. Her research is focused on improving conserv...
Courage & Surrender on the Road - Steph Jagger
She Explores - March 16, 2022 09:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsSteph Jagger and her mom, Sheila, took a camping road trip together in 2016 across the Rocky Mountains. So often, the purpose of a road trip, or spending time in the outdoors, is to get away from it all. But in this instance, Steph was driving towards something many of us might rather avoid: her...
Caving, Creatures, & a Dream Job - Ashley Adkins
She Explores - March 02, 2022 10:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsAshley Adkins isn’t a scientist, she simply loves recreational caving and the opportunity it offers folks with non-science background to contribute to the ongoing documentation and understanding of underground ecosystems. Listen as Ashley shares her experience getting into caving, which led to ...
An Announcement
She Explores - February 28, 2022 11:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsA special announcement from host Gale Straub about the future of this show. Prefer to read it rather than listen? Find the 3-minute transcript on the episode landing page (or linked in the Simplecast player). Hosted & Produced by Gale Straub A production of Ravel Media Join the She Explores...
Examining Skiing, with Love - Heather Hansman & Tori Duhaime
She Explores - February 16, 2022 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsJournalist Heather Hansman digs deep into the past, present, and future of skiing in her new book Powder Days. Her love for the sport leaps off the pages, but that doesn’t stop her from looking at skiing through a critical lens as she explores its challenges and triumphs across an expanse of tim...
We Know You'll Love: Indoor Kid by Out There
She Explores - February 09, 2022 10:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsSarah Dealy was not outdoorsy. But at age 20, during a severe bout of depression, she enrolled in a wilderness therapy program. By the end of the program, she wanted to become an “outdoor girl.” But becoming the outdoorswoman of her dreams didn’t come naturally. Sarah was an indoor kid at heart...
Embracing a New Life in the Subarctic - Kristen Berkeley
She Explores - February 02, 2022 10:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsSometimes adventure looks like picking up and moving 3000 miles away from your home to live in the subarctic. Four years ago, Kristen Berkeley was living in Toronto and blogging about fashion, makeup, and cooking. On a whim, she took a job in Yellowknife, a small city in the Northwest Territorie...
Nature Meditations: Kenya Jackson-Saulters
She Explores - January 19, 2022 14:22 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsKenya Jackson-Saulters believes in the power of pairing meditation with time outside and cultivating rituals to help her channel the spirituality and peace of mind she finds in nature. In this episode, we hear all about the Nature Meditations deck she recently authored through Chronicle Books. I...
We Know You'll Love: This is Our Time
She Explores - January 12, 2022 10:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsListen to a preview of "This is Our Time" a storytelling podcast that takes you on an immersive adventure on a ship to Antarctica with host Samantha Hodder and 80 women who all work in STEM. About This is Our Time Launched in 2018, This is Our Time is a storytelling podcast that takes you on a...
The Cyclical Nature of Everything: Anna Brones
She Explores - January 05, 2022 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsThe idea that everything comes back around can be a comforting thought - especially as Anna Brones shares it: “I think that that's what we've really been doing in a larger way in the last two years. We've had to reckon with some of these larger questions about what it means to be human, what it...
Into the F.U.T.U.R.E.
She Explores - December 15, 2021 11:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsThe Outdoor F.U.T.U.R.E. Initiative is a coalition of ethnically and racially diverse leaders dedicated to ensuring youth from historically excluded communities have access to meaningful experiences in the outdoors. As a team, the Outdoor F.U.T.U.R.E. Initiative is campaigning for the creation o...
The Adventure Art Academy: Claire Giordano
She Explores - December 01, 2021 10:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsJoin environmental artist Claire Giordano in the field as she teaches plein air painting in stunning landscapes like alpine lakes, old growth forests, beneath sandstone cliffs, oceanside, and glaciers. While Claire loves sharing the fun and beauty of experiencing these places through her virtual...
How to Be Alone: Nicole Antoinette
She Explores - November 17, 2021 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsNicole Antoinette recently released a trail journal of her 2017 thru-hike of the Arizona Trail called “How to Be Alone.” And that’s what we met up to talk about on a trail near Boston: how her first thru hike came to be, how she persevered, and why she decided to add to the trail journal canon. ...
Showing Up as Her Full Self for Wildlife: Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant
She Explores - November 03, 2021 09:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsAs a little girl, Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant loved watching nature shows -- and she paid a lot of attention to the humans that showed up in front of the camera. Not seeing anyone in the host position who looked like her as a Black woman, Rae made it her goal to become a wildlife ecologist and to help ch...
Hiking Through Cancer: Rebecca Sperry
She Explores - October 13, 2021 09:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsRebecca Sperry was in the middle of a big hiking challenge when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in August 2020: she was tracing all 1400+ miles of trails in the White Mountains. While she had to put that quest on pause during cancer treatment, it didn’t stop her from hiking. Once Rebecca go...
Listen to this: About the Journey
She Explores - September 29, 2021 09:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsListen to this: About the Journey, the podcast that takes you on an audio road trip with travel lover Oneika Raymond. Each episode of About the Journey takes you on the road along routes like Miami to Key West, Oahu’s North Shore, or Wyoming’s National Parks. You get to ride along with host and...
A Problem Solver's Approach to the Climate Crisis: Shaandiin Cedar
She Explores - September 22, 2021 09:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 880 ratingsShaandiin Cedar is on the solution side of fighting the climate crisis and invites you to join in, too. A problem-solver by nature, Shaandiin is taking both a bottom-up and a top-down approach to activating climate solutions through her grassroots and corporate sustainability efforts. As an Indi...
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