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Cindy Whitehead Interview

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Cindy Whitehead Interview

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November 5, 2019 by Brooke Craven from United States
Shelby, host of the Wild Ideas Worth Living podcast, highlights all aspects of travel, nomad life and more in this can’t miss podcast! The host and expert guests offer insightful advice and information that is helpful to anyone that listens!

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In my little condo complex, I’ve noticed people putting some funny stuff that can’t be recycled into the recycling bins — like dirty salsa jars and even dirty paper towels. I asked @helannlowman, this week’s guest and President and CEO of @keepamericabeautiful, what I should do about it, and she had the simplest solution. Call my local recycling center, ask them what they accept or won’t accept, then try to just post a flyer and educate my neighbors about what can and can’t be recycled. I just called my local center in Solana Beach and they sent me this poster to hang up in my community. It took ten minutes total. Check out the episode to hear more recycling tips, plus learn more about the recycling economy, anywhere you listen to podcasts!

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Just because we’re done using it doesn’t mean our recycling isn’t valuable. There’s a whole global industry with lots of $$$ behind recycling our bottles and papers and cans. Helen Lowman, President and CEO of Keep America Beautiful, talked all about the recycling economy, her favorite recycling tips, and so much more on this week’s episode.

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There are a lot of products out there that tout using recycled materials to make their own. Shoes, water bottles, leggings, backpacks… if you can think of it, it exists. But we as consumers have to make the choice to maybe spend a little more money to support the companies that are doing this awesome work! What are some of your favorite companies that repurpose materials or sell used gear?

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Helen Lowman taught me A LOT about recycling on this week’s episode. Like the fact that what you can put in the blue bin isn’t the same everywhere. Recycling is very local and specific to your community. But with a little research with your local municipality, you can find out what you can recycle in your community and then spread the love by letting your friends and neighbors know. When you recycle what can actually be recycled, it allows recycling centers to actually recycle all the items and operate efficiently. When we throw items into the bin (like dirty paper towels or salsa jars with salsa still in them), it makes their jobs harder and items you wanted to recycle will end up in the trash.

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This week’s guest, @helannlowman, is a total badass. I got to meet her (and @austinkeen, both of whom are pictured here with me and show producer Chelsea Davis) in April while we were recording our Earth Day episode. Helen is the President & CEO of @keepamericabeautiful, an organization focused on keeping our communities clean and beautiful with campaigns around recycling, ending littering, and so much more. In this week’s episode you can hear more about Helen’s journey, plus learn a lot about recycling: the industry behind it, closing the loop, and what you can do to make an impact.

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When Chris McDougall was writing his new book Running with Sherman, he learned a lot about humans’ history with animals and why we love being around them so much. One of the statistics dives into a study where a woman who has anxiety is able to relieve her anxiety by a certain percentage when she sleeps next to her partner. But when she sleeps next to her pet dog, she anxiety relief almost doubles. I love how Chris mixes so much science, history, and psychology into all of his books, and this one is no different. Check out the episode to hear more about how he ended up owning a donkey, teaching it to run, and what he learned from everyone from Wim Hof to the Dog Whisperer himself.

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Movement. It’s a key ingredient to all of Chris McDougall’s books. And as someone who literally brought a donkey back to life, @chrismcdougallauthor learned firsthand that getting out, shaking your ass, and moving is one of the most important aspects of a healthy life. Get out and shake your ass this weekend!

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Every summer in Leadville Colorado (population 3,000), a town known as a hotbed for ultra runners, there is a world-class donkey race. Yes, a DONKEY race. Crossing the Rocky Mountains, donkeys, and their owners run up to 22 miles, hopefully in a somewhat straight line, to the finish. The donkeys have to carry a regulation pack saddle filled with traditional mining tools like a pick, shovel, and gold pan, and the race is a spectacle, to say the least. While somewhat underground, this race gave author Chris McDougall (author of Born to Run and Natural Born Heroes) the idea to train his newly rescued donkey, Sherman, not only how to run, but how to actually race. Check out this week’s episode to hear more from @chrismcdougallauthor about the training process, what he learned from Sherman, how to train a donkey, and his newest book, Running with Sherman.

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Getting a dog to go on a run is easy, but getting a donkey to go on a jog with you? That’s a whole different animal, pun intended. @chrismcdougallauthor, who adopted a donkey that had been neglected from an animal hoarder, knew he needed to give his donkey a bigger purpose than just being a pet. Besides rehabbing his hooves, cleaning him, and getting his health back into shape, Chris thought maybe teaching Sherman to run would be the perfect medicine to get him healthy. He talked to all sorts of people from Alexandra Horowitz, author and head of the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College, to Cesar Milan, THE Dog Whisperer. Turns out, giving an animal a sense of purpose is a key ingredient in helping them survive and thrive. For Sherman, that purpose became running a burro race. And for Chris McDougall, teaching that donkey to run provided all sorts of lessons and adventures.

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When I was in high school, I lost a cross country race two years in a row because I got lost on the course. I was in second and the first place runner (who was my guide) was way ahead. I couldn’t see which turn she made, so I made a wrong turn and came in 3rd and then 4th place in the same race, same wrong turn the next year. Taking a navigation class at REI and then a 2-day navigation course with @emily_offroad of the Rebelle Rally, was rewarding and challenging. We spent the first day learning to use traditional navigation tools and the second day driving off-road vehicles around the desert from point to point, plotting our way on old school topographic maps with protractors. You can hear Emily talk about why she created the @rebellerally, what it entails, and her own career as an off-road driver in this week’s episode.

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I love this line from @emily_offroad (who learned this from a colleague). Once something is in the past, it’s done. Learn from it, move on, and apply those lessons to the future. And once you make a decision in life, just look forward and get going.

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Nature is always the place I go to disconnect from the craziness of life and reconnect to what’s important. We recently went to Mammoth Lakes for two days of hiking to empty lakes, and the trip reset me for at least the next month. It was so great to be away from cell service and noise, and a great place for me to reset my internal compass. Where do you go to restore? Where should I put next on my list? How do you reset your internal compass when you need to?

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If your phone died when you were out of town, could you get to your next destination without your maps app? I am notoriously challenged at directions - I often go left when I should have gone right. But building navigation skills without relying on current technology is a great skill to have. Listen to Emily Miller, off-road racer and founder of the Rebelle Rally, talk about the importance of knowing where you’re going (and how to use your tools to get there) in this week’s episode.

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Exactly a year ago I was fortunate to do a podcast interview with Tate MacDowell. (Swipe to hear a powerful excerpt)
We talked about having cancer and how he summited the Grand Teton on chemotherapy with grit, hope, and a massive sense of humor. Tate and I knew each other from the industry. He made movies about people I found inspiring, and was an awesome storyteller, dad, husband, and a just a fun guy to know. The last few years he continued to surf as much as possible. He hosted an art show of his water color prints. He spent tons of time with his family, his son, and friends. I loved seeing him at the “old people” yin yoga class I love in town, and he often posted thoughtful, honest messages about having cancer, about life, and about love. I learned of Tate passing this past Friday. He died peacefully at home, with his wife and son by his side. We all hope he’s surfing fun sized waves, skiing chest deep powder, painting awesome water color scenes, making movies of good people town, and climbing onto the next mountain with a lot of love. He sure has left a ton of LOVE behind. I found this audiogram of our show that feels so ripe. We love you TATE. Thank you for teaching us how to live life. For showing us the obstacle on the path becomes the way, and for making fun a priority into your final hours on earth. My heart goes out to your family and close friends. I hope we can all learn to live a little more like Tate.

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How do you know when you are going in the right direction? This is something I’ve struggled with my whole life. I have been physically lost in cross country races because I have such a poor sense of direction. And metaphorically, when I’ve felt lost on which direction to go in life, it’s unraveled me mentally. But when I know my compass, “my true north,” I always know where to go and where not to go. I know what to say yes to, and what to say heck no to. It’s a great metaphor for life. I love Emily Miller’s take on finding your own true north, and all of the other gems of wisdom she shared from her experience as a professional off-road car driver, in our conversation. You can listen to the episode now wherever podcasts are available.

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After spending a career as a female off-road racer, Emily Miller knew it was important to get women involved in the sport. She knew making the @rebellerally a women-only event was going to be important to its success. She also knew requiring participants to go without GPS or cell phones and instead getting them out in nature, connecting with other women, and learning new skills would challenge them, and help them find their own true norths off the road as well.

Since the event started, there have been hundreds of Rebelle success stories — women who compete and then quit their jobs, get promoted, move across the country, change their relationships for the better, and change their lives. I love hearing stories about people who do an event or go on an adventure and the experience is so profound that it changes their life. It’s often when we get out of our comfort zones that we learn we are more capable than we think we are.

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Preparing for the tallest mountain on earth is a huge undertaking - you have to be physically fit, you have to prepare for altitude sickness, you have to pay a LOT of money. Throw in a torn ACL three months before you’re supposed to be summiting and things get even harder. @carolinegleich dealt with all of this and more as she prepared to climb Mt. Everest this past May. You can hear all about her preparations and WHY she decided to pursue this wild idea in this week’s episode.

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Many of my guests are challenging the norm of who gets to play outside. @carolinegleich, who summited Mt. Everest last spring, is on a mission to raise awareness about gender inequality and she had a great stat from her interview with @gearjunkie earlier this year. She said, “Close to 10% of all people who have summited Everest are women. Leadership positions across the board - whether it’s 8,000-meter peaks or Fortune 500 CEOs - do not have an equal representation of women.”

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How do you decide to go on one of the wildest adventures out there, and then continue to pursue it even when you get injured, even when you might not have enough money to pull it off, even when there are countless obstacles in the way? @carolinegleich said she just felt like Mt. Everest was calling to her. She knew the risks, she knew the investment, she knew the preparations it would take, and even after the countless obstacles thrown at her, she still decided to go for it. Hear her talk about how her climb up the tallest peak in the world went from an idea to reality on this week’s episode.

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I am a big fan of power couples. @carolinegleich and @rob.lea are a power couple who decided to climb Mt. Everest together this summer. In this week’s episode, Caroline talks about how she got engaged to her husband, Rob, on top of the world’s sixth tallest peak, Cho Oyu, while they were training to climb Mt. Everest! (And yes, she proposed to him!). I wanted to hear all about it, so if you’re curious, tune in to this week’s show.

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