The Outdoor Journal Podcast

The Outdoor Journal with Host Davey Braun

The Outdoor Journal launches its own podcast to share inspirational interviews with athletes, explorers and filmmakers about pushing the limits of human potential in the outdoors.

  1. Feb 12

    100 Miles of Darkness and Light with Marcus Kjellberg

    Watch Marcus Kjellberg's ultrarunning adventures @MarcusKjellberg Marcus is known for taking on 100-mile ultras, the kind of suffering you choose to find out how resilient you are, but this year Marcus found himself at theintersection of chosen suffering and the kind that arrives uninvited. Over the past decade, the 53-year-old has built a life around going farther into uncertainty than most people will ever choose to go. In addition to work and family life, event races at Lavaredo, Snowdonia, Chamonix, and Kullaberg, Sweden have become seasonal rites of passage, rituals for challenge and growth. Marcus also competes with an added layer of difficulty that most ultrarunners never have to consider: managing Type 1 diabetes in real time across 20-plus hours of racing. During a race, his continuous glucose monitor becomes another data stream to manage — its rising and falling trend lines mirror the elevation profile on a mountain ultra course. Both demand constant adjustment. Both punish overcorrection. And both require staying calm while the line moves in directions you don’t always control. In our chat, we explored how the skills required to manage extreme distance — controlling emotional spikes, making clear decisions under fatigue, and continuing forward into the uknown— became critically relevant when Marcus’s wife was diagnosed with cancer.

    47 min

  2. Jan 29

    Island Hopping with EX Swimrun Founder Nicholas Roman

    A Wild New Race Emerges in Sweden’s Archipelago with EX Swimrun Founder Nicholas Roman Follow EX Swimrun and Nicholas Roman: Instagram: @roman_nicholas, @exswimrun Find the perfect race format and distance for you at EXSWIMRUN.SE Sumarpo Hyperlight - coupon code OJ20 Nicholas Roman is the founder and CEO of EX Swimrun, one of the most innovative race organizations in the sport, based in the Swedish archipelago where swimrun itself was born. He’s an entrepreneur, a lifelong island dweller, and a race director who believes the ultimate test of a course is whether it’s so compelling you can’t help but race it yourself—which he does. This August, I’ll be on his start line, racing EX Swimrun and turning it into a family trip to Stockholm, bringing my kids into the heart of the archipelago  So this conversation is both an interview and a kind of reconnaissance mission—inside the mind of the man designing the course I’ll soon be swimming and running across. We talk about the evolution of swimrun gear, the future of open-world “safari” racing, why so many former triathletes are being drawn to the freedom of island-hopping, and how innovation can coexist with deep respect for Swedish outdoor tradition.

    58 min

  3. Jan 20

    Steps Add Up to Crossings with Ray Zahab

    Follow along with Ray's expeditions on his website rayzahab.com and social media: Facebook: @ray.zahabTwitter: @RayZahabInstagram: @rayzahab impossible2Possible Ray Zahab is one of the world’s great modern explorers. He’s run across the Sahara Desert. He’s crossed the Atacama. He’s skied to the North Pole. He’s led expeditions through the high Arctic, through jungles, through places most of us only ever see on a map. And in between all of that, he’s faced something even more personal — a battle with blood cancer — and came back not just to survive, but to keep pushing the edges of what’s possible.

    36 min

  4. 12/18/2025

    One Battle After Another with Client Earth´s John Condon and Francesco Maletto

    Join Client Earth's community Earth Day: The Whole Truth with ClientEarth’s James Thornton Meet Client Earth´s John Condon, along with Francesco Maletto, two marine lawyers who are working to eliminate illegal fishing practices in Spain’s marine-protected areas and transition to more low-impact, sustainable practices. Just last month, Client Earth brought suit against the Spanish government for authorizing bottom trawling within protected areas, which are home to sensitive and endangered species, unique ecosystems and habitats, and which are key to supporting fishing resources and mitigating climate change. Spain has the largest fishing capacity in the EU and the highest per capita consumption on the continent, yet the suit claims that the Spanish government is failing to conduct adequate assessments on the damage caused by bottom trawling, which involves dragging heavy nets across the seafloor that damage habitats and kill wildlife indiscriminately. Client Earth is asking for your involvement, so please follow the link in the show notes to see how you can join the Client Earth community and support their work. In our chat, we discuss the scale of the problem, who benefits from keeping trawling legal (and subsidised), the role of the public in shaping change, and signs for holding on to optimism moving forward.

    54 min

  5. 11/27/2025

    From Dirtbag Ice-Climber to Deep-Tech VC: with Juho Risku at SLUSH Helsinki

    This conversation takes place in Helsinki at the SLUSH startup tech event, and it meets at the intersection between entrepreneurship and mountaineering. It was a local event for AP, and he sat down with his old climbing buddy Juho Risku.In addition to his lifelong passion for ice climbing and mountaineering, Juho has been a serial entrepreneur since 1996. In 2012, he co-founded Butterfly Ventures, a Nordic deep-tech / early-stage venture capital firm. He often supports science-based projects that come straight from the university level, which have a positive impact on the environment, such as saving energy In this episode, Juho talks about his ice climbing and mountaineering background, including his sketchiest moments battling summit fever and AMS. He also talks about recent trends in climbing since he became the President of the Climbing Federation of Finland.And he recalls his helicopter evac in Nepal and those hard moments when he had to decide between turning back or pushing on.

    31 min

  6. 11/18/2025

    Whiskey Hour Episode 3 - The Longest Golden Hour

    In this episode, AP gives a tour of his Finnish summer cabin and discusses the challenges and benefits of remote living. Davey and AP explore topics like climbing, mushroom identification, and Finnish sauna etiquette.

    21 min

  7. 11/13/2025

    Whiskey Hour Episode 2 - The Only Train Has Gone

    AP recounts the time he was stranded somewhere between the China-Mongolia border. Davey introduces his interview with Rafael Hidalgo. AP and Davey discuss the differences between the helpful TOV Blog and the inspirational TOJ content.

    43 min

  8. 11/11/2025

    In fear, it will be found with ultrarunner Rafael Hidalgo

    Read Rafael´s article on The Outdoor Journal The Fire That Pulled Me to the Finish Watch Rafael's films on Youtube Follow Rafael on Strava If you don’t watch ultra running documentaries, then you might not have heard of Rafael Hildago, but I promise you if you watch any of his films on YouTube, you´ll feel inspired to set a goal so big that it scares you. He brings his camera along with him on races in the Alps, across the US, and evento South America, so you can see the emotional ups and downs of ultras. What really sets him apart is his way with words. His voiceovers are so poetic and philosophical, and inspirational and they give me goosebumps. He writes about ultras the way people describe an ayahuasca experience - like a meeting with the soul. So I highly recommend our listeners check out his YouTube channel, Rafael Hidalgo, specifically his journey on the UTM,B which is the pinnacle of the sport. It is over 100 miles and 10,000 meters of elevation gain in the Alps through France, Italy, and Switzerland over two sleepless nights.

    55 min
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The Outdoor Journal launches its own podcast to share inspirational interviews with athletes, explorers and filmmakers about pushing the limits of human potential in the outdoors.

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  • Creator
    The Outdoor Journal with Host Davey Braun
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    39
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © The Outdoor Journal with Host Davey Braun
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    The Outdoor Journal Podcast