Adventure Made Podcast

Jordan Reasoner is a well-known business consultant and marketer in the natural health world, an avid hunter, outdoorsman, friend, and wilderness guide living in Bozeman, Montana. Seth and Jordan enjoy a bottle of tequila while talking about life, the outdoors, and their recent backpacking trip. 

Quotes: 

• "There is so much awe, beauty, and elegance in nature."
• "God, what do you want me to know & what do you want me to do?" 

Topics Discussed:

• Montana trip recap
• Pushing your limits
• "Pray & Poop" routine 
• Being grateful
• Learning & growing 
• Seeing the world wake up while in nature
• Hiking angry
• Internal motivation
• Leaning into hard things & temporary pain
• The military's research on time under tension
• Solo vs. group trips
• Building stamina in the mountains
• Messages, injuries, & what our body is telling us
• Instilling mental toughness in children
• Doing something challenging every day & building that skill 
• Wrecked on the floor & getting through difficult times
• Total responsibility 
• Prince or king & the maturation of man
• Adjusting to society after being in the wilderness
• Winning, losing, learning, & showing up
• Your brain as a sponge vs. filter
• Having balance and appreciating life

Resources Mentioned:

• Jordan's prior Adventure Made interview
• Instagram: Jordan Reasoner
• Wilderness Event
• David Goggins 
• Drawn to the Image
• Sonship Studio
• Rewild Gear

The Adventure Made Podcast is sponsored by Rewild Gear. Essential gear built for the great outdoors, designed to fuel your next adventure. Come find your wild at RewildGear.com!

Seth, Adam, and David are joined by longtime friend and former college roommate Patrick McNamara. Patrick is a videographer and photographer and recently accompanied the brothers on a backcountry wilderness excursion in the heart of Montana. 

Quotes:

• "Right foot, left foot"
• Trust yourself, but listen to your body"

Topics Discussed:

• Trip expectations
• Patrick's experience 
• Studying abroad in Austria 
• Disconnecting from technology
• 10,500 feet of elevation
• Physical exhaustion 
• Gear prep
• Blisters and feet taping
• Ounces adding up
• What gear to leave behind
• Altitude sickness
• Hail storms in the mountains 
• Overcoming mental hurdles
• Hiking with 50+ lbs
• Jake, the mountain goat
• Coping with having the "shits" in the mountains
• Dehydration, nutrition, and meals
• Cold plunges
• Cooking fish in grizzly bear country
• Capturing moments
• Favorite pieces of gear
• Appreciating the little things 
• Hedonic adaptation
• Understanding stressers 
• Information overload 

Resources Mentioned:

• Jordan Reasoner
• Jake Larsen
• Wilderness Event
• Drawn to the Image
• Sonship Studio
• Danner Pronghorn
• Platypus water bladder 
• MSR water bladder
• Hilleberg Namajt Tent
• Big Agnes Q Core
• Klymit Static V
• MSR Whisper Lite Stove
• First Lite Corrugate Guide Pants
• Mountain House
• Peak Refuel Meals
• Alpen Fuel Meals
• Next Mile Meals
• Wild Zora Meals
• Darn Tough Socks
• Kifaru Slick Bag
• Kifaru Lost Park Parka
• Buff Merino Neck Gaiter
• Merrell Boots
• Schnees Boots
• Crispi Boots
• Scarpa Boots
• Firelight Bellows
• Tinder Ridge Ferro Rod
• Trailside Utensil
• Gasper 4 Knife

The Adventure Made Podcast is sponsored by Rewild Gear. Essential gear built for the great outdoors, designed to fuel your next adventure. Come find your wild at RewildGear.com!

Marcus Ewing is the owner and founder of The Average Conservationist. He was born and raised in northern, lower Michigan, where he spent much of his youth hunting, fishing, camping, playing sports, and just being outdoors. Since starting the company, Marcus has partnered with 2% For Conservation to host The Average Conservationist Podcast, which primarily features businesses and individuals who have focused on giving back to wildlife.

Quotes:

• "Life begins when you step outside your comfort zone."

Topics Discussed:

• Marcus's start in the outdoors
• Connecting with others through nature
• The glories of Deer Camp tradition & its rite of passage
• The importance of the outdoors & living harmoniously
• Littering, pollution, & being responsible
• The "Game Trashbag" 
• Taking advantage of time spent with family & friends
• The gravity of taking a life
• Enjoyment & slowing down with life
• The journey over the destination
• Similarities of dating & hunting
• Opening morning, as exciting as Christmas 
• Fishing stories
• Learning from mistakes
• Handing down knives
• Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)
• The Average Conservationist 
• Adult-onset hunting

Resources Mentioned:

• The Average Conservationist 
• Instagram: The Average Conservationist
• Facebook: The Average Conservationist 
• Stone Glacier 
• First Lite
• The Gasper 4 Knife
• National Deer Association 
• Sportsmen's Nation 
• Dan Johnson
• Andy Stumpf
• 2% for Conservation 
• Randy Newberg
• Book: The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
• Podcast: Nine Finger Chronicles
• Podcast: Cleared Hot

The Adventure Made Podcast is sponsored by Rewild Gear. Essential gear built for the great outdoors, designed to fuel your next adventure. Come find your wild at RewildGear.com!

Christian Fortson is a firefighter, EMT and wilderness guide in Montgomery County, Texas. He works with kids and adults to help them learn from nature and spend more time in the wilderness.

Quotes:

• "The thing about being in nature is it's uncomfortable, and I've never heard of anybody growing in a comfortable state." 
• "Get outdoors more and spend time with people." 

Topics Discussed:

• Christian's introduction to the outdoors
• Spending time in jail
• Doing fulfilling work
• Sobriety at 19
• The danger of selfishness
• Living in a car for three months
• Leading at-risk teens into the wilderness
• Being alone in the wild & facing your thoughts
• 21 days & breaking habits
• Societal changes & enjoying nature
• Leaving no trace behind 
• Essential equipment
• Helping without expectation

Resources Mentioned:

• Adventure Learning Program 
• Leave No Trace
• Garmin inReach 
• Iodine Tablets 
• Book: The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous by  Dr. Bob Smith & Bill Wilson
• Book: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• Podcast: The Joe Rogan Experience 

The Adventure Made Podcast is sponsored by Rewild Gear. Essential gear built for the great outdoors, designed to fuel your next adventure. Come find your wild at RewildGear.com!

Dan Doty is a somatic meditation teacher, men's coach, wilderness guide, husband, and father. He has taken thousands of men into the outer and inner wilderness, guiding them to vulnerably accept their humanity and connect to each other. He currently coaches CEOs, founders, and teams and runs programs and groups for fathers based on embodiment, leadership, and accessing one's inner wildness.

Quotes:

• "Get outside and slow down"
• "We learn who we are in the outdoors"

Topics Discussed:

• Early days of adulthood & working
• Moving to New York & a quarter-life crisis
• Dan's involvement with Meateater
• Getting started in film & media 
• Learning how to tell stories & build brands
• Feeling at home in nature
• Breaking down barriers & being vulnerable 
• The origins of Evryman
• Passion, mission, & paying the bills
• Developing awareness through the wilderness
• Feeling safe & belonging 
• Constant stimuli 
• Fatherhood
• Men's Group & trauma
• Conservation & what's needed
• Most memorable outdoor experience 
• Essential gear

Resources Mentioned:

• Dan Doty
• Evryman
• Dan's TEDx Talk
• Dan's Instagram 
• Meateater
• Meateater episode: KY Elk Hunt
• Remi Warren
• Steve Rinella
• The Wild Within
• Joe Rogan
• Owen Marcus
• Randy Newberg 
• Apex Predator
• Travel Channel
• Zero Point Zero
• Sportsman Channel
• Knights of Columbus
• Nature Needs Half
• The Wild Foundation
• ManKind Project
• Seek Outside
• Arcteryx
• Mystery Ranch Backpacks 
• P Cord
• Book: Spiral Dynamics
• Book: Grow Up

The Adventure Made Podcast is sponsored by Rewild Gear. Essential gear built for the great outdoors, designed to fuel your next adventure. Come find your wild at RewildGear.com!

In this episode of the Adventure Made Podcast, brothers Seth, Josh, Adam, and David, catch up and talk about Rewild Gear product updates and give a behind-the-scenes look at starting a gear company. This episode was the first one featuring the four founding brothers of the company. 

Quotes:

• "If the desert wants you to die, you will." 
• "Get your gear right and keep it tight!" 

Topics Discussed:

• Product updates & testing
• Feedback on the Gasper 4 knife
• Learning, stretching & growing
• Manufacturers frustrations
• Firecrackers & catching things on fire
• Josh's disdain for plastic
• Adam's destiny as a Firefighter
• Seth's experience with start-ups & overcoming hurdles
• David's thoughts on branding, positioning & storytelling
• The design process & bringing products to market
• Everyday gear for the car
• Quality companies & scaling
• Wilderness lessons learned from living in the desert 
• Conservation & controversy 
• Future products 
• Pocket dump

Resources Mentioned:

• 52100 Steel
• S35VN Steel
• LC200N Steel
• H1 Steel
• Blade Show
• Jess Johnson
• First Lite
• Rewild Gear
• Argali
• Brad Brooks
• Gary Vaynerchuk
• 2% for Conservation 
• Podcast episode: Jess Johnson 
• Spyderco Knives
• Benchmade Knives
• Wilderness Event
• Field Notes
• Tactile Turn Pen
• Trayvax Wallets 

The Adventure Made Podcast is sponsored by Rewild Gear. Essential gear built for the great outdoors, designed to fuel your next adventure. Come find your wild at RewildGear.com!

Mansal Denton "Little Beaver" is the founder of Sacred Hunting, host of the Mansal Denton Podcast, and is the subject of an upcoming documentary BELOW THE DROP exploring our relationship to life and death through hunting. 

Feeling insecure in early life, he chased a woman to Europe, which led him to prison. Struggling with shame and confusion of what it meant to be a man, he found his calling with the sacred art of hunting. He now desires to share this practice with more men.

His indigenous name comes from a Crow Sun Dance chief. His spiritual lineage is derived from 7 years of mentorship from a Muskogee/Creek medicine man named Will "Star Heart."

Quotes:

• “We have to believe in a more beautiful world in order to create it”

Topics Discussed:

• Finding the true version of yourself
• Using insecurities to do good
• Stealing historical documents 
• Being in prison and its transformation
• The background of Sacred Hunting
• Indigenous hunting practices
• Consumerism culture 
• Symbolism & relating to the land
• Going from zero to one in hunting
• Using hunting as a tool to transform oneself 
• Building confidence through the outdoors
• The gravity of taking a life 
• Reconnecting to our food source
• The importance of social interaction & building community
• Utilizing harsh conditions to improve & grow
• Navigating  vulnerability
• Favorite gear & brands

Resources Mentioned:

• Sacred Hunting
• Mankind Project
• Book: Way of the Superior Man
• Book: Walking with Bears
• Book: Empire of the Summer Moon
• Book: Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
• Podcast: Charles Eisenstein
• Movie: The Big Year
• Documentary: BELOW THE DROP
• Vortex Diamondback Binoculars
• Kuiu Binocular Harness
• FHF Binocular Harness
• Maven Optics
• Sitka
• Patagonia

The Adventure Made Podcast is sponsored by Rewild Gear. Essential gear built for the great outdoors, designed to fuel your next adventure. Come find your wild at RewildGear.com!

Patrick Rollins is the lead instructor for Randall's Adventure & Training and is part of the team at ESEE Knives. He developed his enthusiasm for the outdoors from an early age, growing up camping, hunting, fishing, and a member of the Boy Scouts before spending 19 years as a Sheriff's Deputy in Whitfield County, Georgia. Since then, he has taught numerous classes in the US and the Amazon jungles of Peru. 

Randall's Adventure & Training teaches survival, Bushcraft, land navigation, basic human tracking, single rope techniques, rope rescue, cave rescue, wilderness first responder, and Search and Rescue classes.

Patrick is certified as a First Responder, Firearms Instructor, Glock Armorer, Rope Rescue Technician, Swiftwater Rescue Technician, and Wilderness First Responder. He has many hours of training in various skill sets, including woodland operations, wilderness survival training, land navigation, and tracking. 

He has been a Law Enforcement Instructor since 2001 and served on the Whitfield County Sheriff's Office Special Response Team (Entry and Sniper) from 2001 to 2004. 

Quotes:

• "Be adaptable."
• "Get comfortable with being uncomfortable."
• "Get out there and do it."

Topics Discussed:

• 5 Cs of survivability 

1. Cutting
2. Combustion
3. Cordage
4. Container
5. Cover

• Patrick's background & love of the outdoors
• The difference between Survival & Bushcraft
• Esee's most popular knives
• How to get started in Bushcraft
• Deciphering "good" information
• The start of Randall's Adventure & Training
• Gear testing & customer feedback 
• Knife steels
• Testing the limits of gear
• Favorite knife styles and their applications 
• Future company plans
• How to manage ticks while in nature
• Understanding what a good knife is
• Are there too many outdoor companies?
• The outdoor class that everyone should take
• The "Glock" of knives
• Life lessons from the outdoors

Resources Mentioned:

• ESEE Knives 
• Randall's Adventure & Training 
• Ontario Knife Company
• Rowen Manufacturing
• Blade Show
• Shot Show
• #beateresee
• Osprey Backpacks
• James Gibson
• 2% for Conservation
• Dave Canterbury
• Victorinox Swiss Army 
• War Bonnet Hammock
• Big Agnes Copper Spur Tent
• Black Diamond
• Tactical Intent 
• Book: Camping and Woodcraft by Horace Kephart
• Book: Adventure Travel In The Third World by Jeff Randall & Mike Perrin 
• Book: Bushcraft - Outdoor Skills and Wilderness Survival by Mors Kochanski
• Podcast: The Joe Rogan Experience 

The Adventure Made Podcast is sponsored by Rewild Gear. Essential gear built for the great outdoors, designed to fuel your next adventure. Come find your wild at RewildGear.com!

Duke Phillips is a third-generation rancher living in Wyoming. He is the CEO of Ranchlands, an agricultural-based business that operates large-scale cattle and bison ranches in the American West that are dedicated to conservation and sustainability. They partner with conservation-minded owners to implement ambitious and complementary programs, including hospitality, hunting and fishing, a leather shop, strategic advisory services, and ecotourism.

Duke's journey has led to creating a set of core beliefs that balance ranching, conservation, and economics. He leads the strategic vision and business development oversight of Ranchlands' ventures and managed properties.

Quotes:

• "Regenerative agriculture should include humans too. You want to be having a good time, be happy with what you're doing, and have a healthy community and healthy family while you're doing it." 
• "Nature is powerful as hell."

Topics Discussed:

• How Duke got started in ranching 
• The origins of Ranchlands
• Business diversification and land conservation
• Combatting draughts and building contingency plans
• Yellow Stone the show
• Misconceptions about ranchers
• Understanding bison, the national mammal 
• The differences between managing Bison and Cattle 
• How education has become a core piece of the business
• Duke's thoughts on what conservation needs today 
• How to live symbiotically with nature
• The importance of questioning a company's motives before supporting them
• The dichotomy of urban sprawl and what to do about it 
• How nature has impacted Duke
• A Rancher's essential gear
• Being alone and not having Amazon Prime
• Brewing beer from home
• The ecological benefit of rewilding & how it affects land
• What it's like being a cowboy
• The importance of keeping family as a priority

Resources Mentioned:

• Ranchlands
• Ranchlands Mercantile
• The Nature Conservancy
• Smith Sunglasses 
• Swarovski Optik
• Filson
• REI
• Show: Yellowstone
• Musician: Steve Earl
• Book: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
• Book: Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
• Book: The Teachings Of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
• Book: Dune
• Book: Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
• Podcast: Mountain & Prairie 

The Adventure Made Podcast is sponsored by Rewild Gear. Essential gear built for the great outdoors, designed to fuel your next adventure. Come find your wild at RewildGear.com!

Brad Brooks is the owner and General Manager of Argali Outdoors, a backcountry hunting gear, and equipment company. Brad is an adventurer, conservationist, and family man hailing from Boise, ID. 

Topics Discussed: 

• How Brad stumbled into starting an outdoor equipment company
• His background in environmental economics and working in public lands conservation 
• The first backpacking tent bought in high school
• The inner draw to the outdoors 
• How being in wild country helps to recenter life 
• Brad's interest in business and entrepreneurship from an early age
• The origination of Argali 
• Early days of technical clothing 
• Calculating risks
• Storytelling about wild places through film 
• The importance of timing in life and business
• Family bonds in working together
• The daily struggle of work-life balance
• The importance of being a present father
• Spending 75 nights in a tent per year
• The biggest threats to conservation today 
• The effects of westward expansion 
• Brad's reflection on death while rock climbing
• Getting lost while hunting at age 15
• Product development and scratching an itch 

Quote:

• "The loss of the ability to get lost in wild country is a tragedy." 
• "Figure out something that interests you in your life and figure out how to make that your job."

Resources Mentioned:

• Argali
• Argali Instagram
• Wilderness Society 
• North Face
• Patagonia 
• First Lite
• Sitka
• KUIU
• Sportsman Channel 
• Outdoor Channel
• The National Wildlife Federation  
• Backcountry Hunters & Anglers
• Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership 
• EXO MTN Gear
• Vortex Optics 
• Feathered Friends 
• Book: A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
• Book: Rebel Yell - The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
• Author: Terry Tempest Williams
• Podcast: Hidden Brain 
• Podcast: The Meateater 

The Adventure Made Podcast is sponsored by Rewild Gear. Essential gear built for the great outdoors, designed to fuel your next adventure. Come find your wild at RewildGear.com!