Farewell Mandela & A Check-in with Marcia

This week on the program, a reunion! Mandela van Eeden is leaving Artemis for an epic road trip throughout Africa, where she plans to put her storytelling skills to work on behalf of endangered elephants and rhinoceros. Marcia drops in to talk about what she's been up to ever since leaving Artemis a year ago. We discuss conservation work, burnout, and the powerful feelings of success in what can feel like an up-and-down career. 

5:00 Bear-fat French fries, applesauce up the wazoo, and game as a substitute for lamb in recipes

8:00 Straddling life between South Africa and Montana

12:00 Cultivating a life in radio... 18 years strong (then transitioning to video)

14:00 'The Easter rhino'... also an egg-layer?

15:00 Conservation as a family legacy/identity

19:00 "If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never spent the night with a mosquito."

22:00 Career transitions and the why of how we find our paths (with a side dish of burnout)

28:00 Supporting public educators with counseling

32:00 When your hometown feels a little more cozy in the outdoors than it used to

35:00 Inadvertent geotracking of your wildlife photos 

38:00 Lessons learned from a career at NWF - lead-free ammo, wildlife crossings, CWD, policy change, salmon recovery, and more

42:00 Advocating for the Grand Canyon on Capitol Hill

52:00 Staying involved in advocacy in Montana and abroad

53:00 Game Rangers International; Xplorer Maps

55:00 The Trail Less Traveled podcast and radio show

56:00 Interacting with children at home and abroad

57:00 Storytelling as a conservation tactic

1:06 It's not goodbye... it's 'see you downstream'

1:09 "This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. --George Bernard Shaw

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