Jamie Maybe is a soccer mom, veteran, business person, and adventure paddle boarder. Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, she is an outfitter on the Neuse River introducing people to a new type of adventure in the form of adventure SUP. Expect to challenge yourself, we're going to have some Type 2 fun.

Visit her site:

https://www.holonraleigh.com

and social media @holon.raleigh

This podcast has been my effort to reach out to people who are adventure travelers, content creators, and river enthusiasts. It's also my purpose to celebrate a positive outlook on life.

In this episode we find all of these with Canadian river surfer Jacob Kelly Quinlan.

We talk river surfing, his background as a surfer, and his surfing odyssey to Afghanistan.

Good vibes only!!

Enjoy

Shannon Thomas is cofounder of Surf Dayton, a river surfing outfitter on the park waves of the Great Miami River running through Dayton, Ohio.

He’s been getting people on the river building a community of both athletes and stewards. During covid, people have been looking to stay sane by learning to go with the river flow, embracing good vibes, and bridging divides.

Over the last couple of months since recording my last podcast I have escaped the headlines by heading into the backcountry. So, in late September I was thrilled to see a BBC article highlighting Surf Dayton. It encouraged me to get in touch with Shannon with whom I have not surfed with in a few years.

Here is the link to that BBC article. The pandemic is fuelling a surfing boom - in Ohio corn country https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-54244009

Jack Nelson is my guest in this episode. He is a whitewater paddleboarder based in Asheville, NC. He helped organize the NoliFest river SUP race. And be is the SE Hala Gear SUP rep (my counterpart in the south east).

Over the last few weeks he has showed me his hone rivers including the Nolichucky, Nantahala, French Broad, Pigeon, Ocoee, and Green rivers.

We talk Appalachian rivers in this episode, how he got into paddling, and what it’s like to represent the paddle board industry.

See his story on CNN:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/whitewater-stand-up-paddleboarding-feat/index.html

And the Travel Channel:

http://iplayinnature.blogspot.com/2017/09/media-whitewater-paddleboarding-on.html

In this SUPPAUL Podcast episode we talk with Dallas based climber Mario Stanley. He is a coach, mentor, and businessman who preaches the gospel of the rock. Rock climbing that is.

After moving to Texas to go to seminary school, he discovered his path for ascension was by leading others on climbing routs and pursuing a rich life of meaningful experiences.

We talk about "Type 2 Fun" as he calls enjoying life spiced with suffering. We also talk about race and access to the backcountry.

Enjoy the episode.

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Learn more about Mario by visiting his site:

https://mariostanley.com/

Norm Hann is a paddle boarder, instructor, and First Nations advocate.

He was one of the only few people I knew of when I started paddle boarding who was doing what I wanted to be doing, namely paddling on long trips with a dry bag tethered to the deck of the board and heading into wilderness.

He documented the experiences of one of his expeditions with the movie Stand. It highlighted the culture and geography of the Great Bear Rainforest that was threatened by a proposed oil pipeline and shipping route.

Visit his site for more information

Www.normhann.com

Christian Shaw is the founder of Plastic Tides, an environmental awareness organization focused on spreading the message of Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle plastic waste in an effort to save the ocean.

In his early 20s, he began the organization in 2014 as part of a paddle board expedition in the Caribbean after experiencing the alarming amount of plastic waste in the ocean.

Six years later Plastic Tides has become an international movement promoting stewardship and environmental education.

To learn more, visit www.plastictides.org

In this episode we are talking with Alex Mauer. He's a river surf and SUP paddler based in Denver, CO.

We are chatting about being ambassadors in the outdoor industry, recovering from injury, content creation, and the "photo contest scams" media houses use to get your images without paying.

And we talk about the Flow State that perhaps is that transcendent experience both athletes and spiritual people are looking for to define their purpose in life.

Enjoy the episode.

In this episode I am overlooking Smith Rocks in Central Oregon as I chat with Mike Tavares in his home office in Salt Lake City, UT.

Mike is one of those river SUP paddlers who has helped define the sport, both river surfing and downriver running.

When I give pointers to people getting into SUP surfing rivers, I suggest that they be like MIKE T! Enter the wave on your toe side. This requires an ambidextrous stance which requires training and effort. But all things worthwhile requires those things, right?

Enjoy the conversation!

Find more about Mike at his site: www.rivershred.com

In this episode, we talk with river surfer Ben Smith. Chasing waves throughout the western states, Ben is not your typical surfer. He's passionate about river waves and will travel far and wide to ride the best waves.

We talk about surfing, of course. But also access to and diversity in outdoor recreation.

His gear review site is:https://www.riversurflab.com

Here is a clip of mine featuring Ben surfing at the Glenwood wave in Colorado: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfImr2lBBG0