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Wild Ideas Worth Living Podcast

High-impact interviews for those who love adventure and the outdoors. Host and journalist Shelby Stanger interviews world-class explorers, athletes, authors, scientists, health experts and entrepreneurs about how they’ve taken their own wild ideas and made them a reality, so you can too. Some of the wildest ideas can lead to the most rewarding adventures.

  1. Inspiring Climate Action with Lauren Bash

    3 DAYS AGO

    Inspiring Climate Action with Lauren Bash

    Lauren Bash is an environmentalist and storyteller who breaks down the complexities of climate change in an inspiring, accessible way. She empowers people with simple, actionable steps to create a healthier environment—and ultimately, a healthier world.

    29 min
  2. Exploring Blue Zones with Dan Buettner

    10 SEPT

    Exploring Blue Zones with Dan Buettner

    For the last 20 years, researcher and journalist, Dan Buettner has been studying the happiest, healthiest people on earth. In 2003, Dan started exploring Blue Zones— regions where people live longer than average, many living to be over 100. His work has revealed that by living in places that encourage healthy habits, living a long fruitful life is more possible than people realize.

    35 min
  3. Redefining Outdoor Media with Dani Reyes-Acosta

    3 SEPT

    Redefining Outdoor Media with Dani Reyes-Acosta

    Dani Reyes-Acosta is a runner, a snowboarder, a climber, and a filmmaker who is intentional about the why behind her adventures. She’s currently in the middle of making her first independent film series, called OUTLIER. The series tells the stories of boundary breaking Latina athletes as they explore their own identities and the great outdoors. Dani’s path to adventure film started in corporate America, but eventually she decided to quit her job and pursue a life of storytelling.

    23 min
  4. Climbing El Capitan at 8-Years-Old with Joe & Sam Evermore

    27 AUG

    Climbing El Capitan at 8-Years-Old with Joe & Sam Evermore

    Joe and Ann Evermore live in Colorado and they take wild parenting to a whole new level. Their kids are five, eight and 10, and each of them is a skilled hiker and rock climber. In 2022, their oldest son Sam became the youngest person to climb El Capitan via rope ascent.

    30 min
  5. Camping, Fishing, and Cooking Outdoors with Taku Kondo

    20 AUG

    Camping, Fishing, and Cooking Outdoors with Taku Kondo

    Taku Kondo makes delicious meals outside with ingredients that he forages or catches in the wild. He documents his cooking creations on his YouTube channel, Outdoor Chef Life, which features videos of Taku harvesting the ingredients and preparing meals back at camp.

    29 min
  6. Guiding Communities Outdoors with Cheyenne Smith

    13 AUG

    Guiding Communities Outdoors with Cheyenne Smith

    Cheyenne Smith is a multifaceted, adventurer and outdoor guide. She skis, rock climbs, highlines, and leads climbing trips for women of color with a nonprofit called Women's Wilderness. Her guiding style focuses on building community and teaching others to be present and intentional when they're in the wild.

    27 min
  7. Baking Cakes on Glaciers with Rose McAdoo

    6 AUG

    Baking Cakes on Glaciers with Rose McAdoo

    Rose McAdoo is trained baker and culinary artist who makes “science desserts” — four tiered cakes or sparkling lollipops that she uses to explain complex environmental concepts. The best part, Rose creates these culinary masterpieces in the wild. She has whipped up desserts at the edges of glaciers, on volcanoes, and in caves and deserts. Each sweet is an educational work of art that tells a story and celebrates science and adventure.

    29 min
  8. Rock Climbing for Parkinson's with Molly Cupka

    30 JUL

    Rock Climbing for Parkinson's with Molly Cupka

    Molly Cupka is a climber and founder of the organization Up Ending Parkinson's, a nonprofit that teaches people with Parkinson's disease to rock climb. Parkinson's is the second most common neurological disease behind Alzheimer's and rock climbing provides a ton of health benefits including balance, grip strength, and mental acuity. For the climbers who Molly trains, there's another benefit that is harder to quantify, community and connection.

    24 min
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High-impact interviews for those who love adventure and the outdoors. Host and journalist Shelby Stanger interviews world-class explorers, athletes, authors, scientists, health experts and entrepreneurs about how they’ve taken their own wild ideas and made them a reality, so you can too. Some of the wildest ideas can lead to the most rewarding adventures.

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