Team Early AF

It has been A LONG time since my last coaches corner podcast. A year of helping my dad recover from multiple poor spinal fusion operations has been a test. No one prepares you for watching your parents get old and have their physical capacity taken from them. Challenges all the identities and roles you had created for you and your loved ones. This year I have also been volunteering more in various organizations and leaning more into helping the local community where I can.

A big thank you to the patrons of the show. You support has kept the website and digital catalog up and running. Along with the show we were able to host local meal prep workshops for people at Central Rivers Farmshed in Stevens Point, and use the funds to get multiple people involved in hunting. After taking the Becoming an Outdoors Woman Mentor training back in early 2020 I wanted to make sure I continued down that path in some small way.

Thank you to Scholze Family beef, long time  supporter of the show and all things Seasonal AF meal prep. Check our their custom Wisconsin beef options shipped right to your door!

This episode of Coaches Corner, we sit down with David Derus of Midwest Peak Performance to chat the Head Games Event we have coming up this week at D1 Training Stevens Point. How do we start forging a more resilient mind and build some strong habits along the way? Those topics and more discussed!

Midwest Peak Performance

Head Games event

David Podcast on Highway to Well w/ Derek Bell

How do we become native to a place?  A question Jeremy Solin brought up on episode 1 of the SeasonalAF tour for 2021.  I cant help but think that educating ourselves on the "weeds" growing around us may be a great first place to start.

Joined by my friends Chris Gavin of Eagle Outdoor Skills and Kelly VanLaanen of Becoming an Outdoors Woman to talk about foraging, the land ethic, and the various programs they offer to teach people how to live WITH their environment.

Back in the studio for the final pre-hunt prep podcast with Kelly and Peggy.  We break down hunting logistics for our new hunters Lyna and Mike.  Many nuggets and pearls for hunting mentors, new hunters, or people interested in tongue pressure for mouth calls...

With all the scuttlebutt around R3 in the hunting world we hope this can be the start of reimagining how we learn and share about these outdoor traditions.  A love of the outdoors for everyone will help our conservation efforts going forward.

Excited to share it with you all.

We are back for episode 2 of Turkey Hunting 101.  Kelly and I are joined by Wildlife Biologist Sara Kehrli to talk all things turkey in Wisconsin. We dive into habitat, hunting logistics, social structure, what the turkey stamp is, and more.

There have been a few anti-R3 articles posted from some mainstream hunting organizations. While they each may have a valid concern or two, I could not disagree more with the thinking R3 does not have an important part to play in continuing in sharing and evolving our outdoor pursuits.  Quality over quantity and creating a new way of sharing has been the goal of this project.

Enjoy, and reach out if you need any help.

I love Seasonal Books. Stories that follow the changing of the seasons on the landscape. The most common may be A Sand County Almanac.  

We started the SeasonalAF series with the maple season. Now we dive into chasing turkeys.  We will be guided by my friend Kelly VanBeek a biologist, and the best damn turkey tactician I  know.  We will learn all the things about how to enjoy spring and chase some gobblers.

The "WE" is myself, Chef Mike of Chef C's Munchie Mobile/Father Fats/Chef's Kitchen here in Stevens Point.  He is a 5 year hunter who loves eating local, making amazing meals, and interested in improving his hunting skills.  Lyna Matesi the UWSP MBA director is my other turkey hunting buddy that will be going into her first hunting season.  She wants to learn all the things!

We are joined in this first episode by guest host Peggy Farrell of the Becoming an Outdoors Woman program here at UWSP.  She will be our guide into this world of hunting stories, being a good buddy, and continuing the human tradition of hunting.  I hope this series will be a guide for people looking to mentor with a learning style, and also help those looking to get started on their own.

Please reach out with anything you would like to see covered.