Summary

In today’s episode, we sit down with Catherine Pitura an ACMG apprentice rock guide and the founder of Mind Tools. Catherine as she puts it “is just a person with a big climbing experience”. Like so many of us, she fell quickly in love with the sport of climbing, but, unlike many of us, she had the opportunity to live the dirtbag dream. For nine years she lived and breathed climbing. During this time, she became a capable trad leader and certified apprentice rock guide. Towards the end of this nine-year climbing cycle, she started to feel that there were things about her life and herself that had been neglected. That there might be more to life than being fully immersed in climbing. So she began her dirtbag rehab, where she journeyed back into “everyday life” and worked on exploring the intricacies of the human mind. Now, she has combined her experience as a climber and the knowledge she obtained through her dirtbag rehab into a business called “The Conscious Climber” and developed an innovative product named “Mind Tools”. In our conversation, we dive deep into what it's like to return to life after living the dirtbag dream, the effect that climbing has on the mind, the relationship between our conscious and subconscious minds, and finally how we can use mind tools to help us stay present, calm, and collected while in the vertical world.

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References

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https://www.vernonmorningstar.com/business/mind-over-matter-vernon-entrepreneur-creates-motivational-rock-climbing-gear/

https://gripped.com/events/watch-free-talk-by-mind-tools-for-climbers-on-april-21/

https://gripped.com/gear/mind-tools-aim-to-keep-you-psyched/

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