Inside The Adventure

From Scottsdale, Arizona, 25-year-old Sierra Blair-Coyle has been competing professionally in the world of rock climbing since the age of 14. She's also been a World Cup Competitor, was a two-time National Champion as a junior competitor, and was voted one of the Top 99 Most Outstanding Women of 2015. Sierra graduated in May 2016 from Arizona State University with a degree in marketing and now travels the world competing and doing what she loves full-time.

Tucker 'Cinco' Hamilton is an Experimental Fighter Test Pilot for the United States Air Force and is the previous Commander of the U.S. Air Force F-35 Integrated Test Force. Tucker Hamilton started his Air Force career as an operational F-15C pilot where he supported multiple Red Flag Exercises and real-world Operation Noble Eagle missions where he protected the President of the United States, at times escorting Air Force One. He served as an Air Liaison Officer in Germany where he was the director of operations for a key command and control squadron. While serving in Germany, he was hand-selected to be the initial cadre for the first MC-12 squadron in Afghanistan as a part of the Air Force's first tactical Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance aircraft.

After Afghanistan, he attended Test Pilot School where he flew over 30 different aircraft. After Test Pilot School graduation, he became an F-15C and F-15E Instructor Experimental Test Pilot, leading 11 test programs, supporting the newest software and weapons for the 450-plus F-15 fleet. He then served as the Developmental Test & Evaluation Lead for the Joint Strike Fighter, F-35, overseeing the entire Developmental Test & Evaluation effort for the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marines. He then transitioned to Edwards Air Force Base, California, where he began to fly all three variants of the F-35 as the Developmental Test Director of Operations.

I've personally had the pleasure of knowing Cinco in our work together with the US team at Gravity Industries, and while it's no secret how incredible Tucker's career has been, I actually didn't know most of that until putting together this podcast! The most inspiring thing about Cinco is his incredible humility and servant leadership mindset, always putting the needs of others before himself. While I'm biased from knowing Cinco well, I can easily say this is one of our best stories yet.

Luke Peters has started over 5 businesses. His current brand NewAir is growing with over 50 employees and multi 8 figure sales, which Luke started as a side hustle out of his garage, and has been ranked as one of the fastest-growing private Internet retailers in America for three consecutive years according to Inc.

Luke's newest venture is a new ecommerce service business at www.retailband.com and he is the Host of The Page 1 Podcast, a twice-weekly Podcast featuring a variety of guests and thought leaders on topics ranging from channel strategy, tariffs, influencer marketing, product launches, and the details about how to grow ecommerce with big box retailers.

To listen in and stay current with the most recent Page 1 Podcast please visit: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-page-1-podcast/id1478811133

You can see his linked-in profile here https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke--peters/

During the winter, you'll find Leigh Coates free diving in the crystal clear waters, soft sands, and vibrant rainforests of the Big Island in Hawaii. In the summer, look up into the Alaskan sky and you might see Leigh rising over rugged glaciers and snow-laden mountains as she owns her own piloting business, VS Helicopters, where she leads helitours for tourists, carries workers into the Alaskan wilderness and mines, and once in a while stops to strike some epic yoga poses on the remote mountaintops along the way! She shares her experiences in these brilliant landscapes through her Instagram, where her followers can live the magic of her adventures with a vivid lens into her blissful world. But what her pictures don't immediately express is the journey she took in order to reach this place of success and joy.

Leigh's attraction to snowy terrain began during her youth, when she spent her time snowboarding professionally. In 1998 she was ranked as the fifth-best snowboarder in the world, specializing primarily in boardercross. Leigh was preparing to compete in the Olympics once snowboarding was considered an official Olympic sport, but at 26 years old, a freak accident ended her career as a professional snowboarder when a moving car pinned her leg to another vehicle, only to drive off without any help or remorse. Leigh went through ACL surgery and extensive physical therapy, working tirelessly to return to the sport she so loved — but a second surgery revealed an overgrowth of muscle tissue that permanently ended her ability to fulfill her snowboarding dreams.

Yet instead of allowing this tragic change to consume her life and identity, Leigh held tightly to her resilience and positivity. She opened her heart to new possibilities such as adventures in Hawaii, becoming a helicopter pilot, starting her own helicopter business in Alaska, and most recently training as a Jet Suit Pilot and the first woman to fly both the Gravity Jet Suit and the JetPack Aviation JetPack. This is truly an incredible story of a woman who lives a life driven by her dreams and who never lets a fear of failure hold her back!

In March 2007 Gary sold his house, started traveling, and has probably done and seen more in that time than he has in the rest of his life combined.

So far Gary has visited all 7 continents, over 130 countries, all 50 US states, every Canadian province, every Australian state and territory, over 150 US National Park Service sites and over 315 World Heritage Sites.

In 2014 Gary was named as the Society of American Travel Writers Photographer of the Year, the 2013 & 2015 North American Travel Journalists Association Photographer of the Year, and a 3x Lowell Thomas Award Winner.

His blog Everything Everywhere is widely considered one of the most popular travel blogs in the world. In 2010 Time Magazine named it one of the Top 25 Blogs on the Internet and it earned a Gold Medal in the Travel Blog category in the North American Travel Journalist Association (NATJA) awards.

As if that wasn't enough, Gary has also hosted his own podcast since 2009 as the co-host of This Week in Travel, an award winning weekly podcast which covers travel industry news. He is also the host of The Global Travel Conspiracy on the CBS Podcast Network.

And today, Gary shares the story of how he turned his passion for travel into a career in photography, and how before 2003, he didn't even own a camera.

Chris Korbulic is one of the world's leading expedition whitewater kayakers, with first descents and incredibly grueling expeditions that have taken him all over the world. His philosophy of life is to "appreciate what you have, enjoy the day for what it is, and say yes to new experiences."

Growing up on the Rogue River in Oregon, Chris had an extremely early introduction to the river lifestyle as some of his earliest memories where the wilderness, culture, and excitement stuck with him for the rest of his life. His parents and their friends inspired and taught him to enjoy and appreciate wilderness, especially on the river. Years down the road, or river, he's still following the water and enjoying it more than ever!

Bryan and Shannon love creating self-sustaining, innovative companies as the Co-Founders of BELAY, a leading virtual services company, and NoFO Brewing Co. They started BELAY in late 2010 after resigning from their full-time jobs on the same day where they cashed in their 401(k)s to start their company all during the "Great Recession." As leading voices for remote work, Bryan and Shannon's entire company works remotely, empowering their employees to work from wherever best suits their needs. On this episode, we'll learn how Bryan and Shannon built a business that empowers a lifestyle balance of work and travel along with the concept of virtual culture.

As one of the best whitewater kayakers in the world, Nouria has more incredible accomplishments than I can count in canoe, freestyle, and extreme kayaking where her achievements in the various disciplines prove she's truly one of a kind. In 2013 she won the Ottawa XL, one of the most important freestyle world meetings, followed that by taking K-1 silver at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, and just a few months later she was crowned extreme kayaking world champion. The following year she won team gold at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships and team bronze at the European Championships. In 2016 she was runner-up at the Sickline Extreme Kayak World Championships and in 2017 took first place at the GoPro Mountain Games Steep Creek Championships.

As if competition wasn't enough for this seemingly inexhaustible athlete, Nouria ventured on multiple solo kayaking trip and first descents around the world.

It's hard to understand how such an outstanding athlete would have any spare time to partake in any 'normal' activities, but she also has a masters in journalism and political science saying that "Journalism is actually very similar to kayaking. You always have to adapt!" But that's Nouria, always where you least expect her.

David Clapper is a long-time media marketing and branding professional with 20+ years of experience in promotion, marketing, and branding.

From launching the successful Classic Hits radio station, 97-1 The River in Atlanta - to the creation of its eclectic sister station at 97-7 - The OTHER Side of The River - David Clapper has transitioned into other areas of media in the last few years. After a short stint with Nashville based record company - Big Loud Records, David has launched his own business Scamper Van LLC and spent some time as the Ad Directory of the legendary ALT/Weekly Newspaper in Atlanta - Creative Loafing.

Outside of launching the brand and business for Scamper Van, David has been a hired hand to assist in amazing Atlanta area events like Food That Rocks and the Southern Wing Showdown as well as regional promotions rep for Canada's FOD Records.

David has thrived in the creation and execution of the ideas of others as well as building a vision and implementing his own successes as an entrepreneur.

Pierre Carter has been climbing since 1982 and paragliding since 1988 where these activities have taken him all over South Africa, her neighboring countries, and around the world.

Pierre is currently attempting to hike, climb, and fly off the Seven Summits, the tallest mountain on all seven continents (including Everest), together with living life, and saving up the money required for these massive expeditions. The adventure has taken him almost 10 years, where he's so far completed five of the Seven Summits. During those 10 years, he was also a bit distracted by the Red Bull X Alps in 2009, 2011, and 2013, commonly referred to as the world's toughest adventure race where athletes race non-stop across the Alps from Salzburg to Monaco only by paraglider when the conditions are good to fly and by foot when they're not.

Pierre is currently on track to fly off Everest in 2021!