The Divergent Path with Rollie Peterkin

Geoff Riccio is a video producer and photographer who has covered the sport of wrestling at every level. He had been there for many big moments in wrestling, including when wresting was dropped from the Olympics in 2013.

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While the rest of us couch potatoes binged Netflix and drank beer during the quarantine, Mark Larson thru-hiked the entire Appalachian Trail during the corona pandemic. Being an experienced endurance athlete, Mark finished in 3.5 months (107 days), when most people take around 6 months to finish the grueling trail.

The Appalachian Trail has been a lifelong dream of mine and I was extremely curious about all of the preparation, logistics, equipment, lodging, wildlife encounters, and physical strain. So I grilled Mark like an FBI interrogator until he answered every one of my questions.

Read more about Mark's journey here: https://rolliepeterkin.com/mark-larson-appalachian-trail

And here: https://rolliepeterkin.com/running-ultramarathons-with-mark-larson/

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Ellis Rosen is a cartoonist for magazines such as The New Yorker, Wired, and MAD. He posts a weekly cartoon series called Junk Drawer on GoComics.com and is the illustrator for a children's book called Woundabout.

Rosen attended art school and then got a master's degree, but wasn't sure where to go with his artwork. Until one day in 2016 when a friend encouraged him to submit gag cartoons to The New Yorker, and he knew right away that he had found his calling. Since then Ellis has sold around 60 cartoons in the magazine.

Weekly Cartoons: https://www.gocomics.com/junk-drawer

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ellisjrosen

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Olly Richards is a polyglot who speaks eight languages. He runs a site called I Will Teach You a Language which offers a series of books and courses to aspiring language learners. He is also the host of the I Will Teach You A Language Podcast.

Olly believes in the power to stories in learning languages and has dedicated his life to teaching people languages through stories. He has published a series of books with basic stories geared to the language learner's level, covering every language from Turkish to Russian to Chinese.

Website: https://www.iwillteachyoualanguage.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iwillteachyoualanguage

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More about Olly here: https://www.rolliepeterkin.com/olly-richards-polyglot

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Kim Macquarrie is an author, documentary producer, and journalist. He has written four books about South American history and his book The Last Days of the Incas, is the definitive book on the Incan Empire. His latest book, Life and Death in the Andes, traces Macquarrie's travels through South America as he reveals the history of each place he visits through the portal of iconic events.

Kim has earned 4 Emmy Awards for his work in documentaries. He wrote and produced a documentary called Living Edens about the natural beauty of the Amazon jungle in Peru.

Website: http://www.kimmacquarrie.com/

Green Our Planet: https://greenourplanet.org/

Read more about Kim's story here: https://www/rolliepeterkin.com/kim-macquarrie-incan-empire-peruhttps://www.rolliepeterkin.com/

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Haley Tepavac spent seven years working on cruise ships around the world. Her Divergent Path started while working at a jewelry store in Minnesota. After a rough breakup she saw an advertisement for a job in Juneau, Alaska. So she packed her bags and moved to the far north.

Little did she know that decision would be the first domino in a chain of events that would send her careening around the world on a ship. She eventually met her husband Mirko onboard and now they've settled down in Las Vegas, where they were married by Elvis.

Read more about Haley's story here: https://www.rolliepeterkin.com/working-on-cruise-ships

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Ted Alexander is the founder of Sierra Andina, a very popular and large microbrew in Peru. He also started a guiding company called Skyline Adventures, which leads climbing expeditions in the Andes Mountains out of Huaraz, Peru. Ted has lived in Peru for 20 years and has lived so many adventures.

More than all of those things, Ted is an extremely thoughtful guy. He is a deep thinker and a compassionate purpose. When he first launched Sierra Andina, he wanted to create a product that Peru could be proud of. He works tirelessly to give back to his local community. He organizes activities in his local community, where he regularly organizes events and even helped found a school.

In this episodes he talks about the challenges of living in Peru and how he learned to shift his mindset and learned to love the little things. He is so insightful and it was an absolute pleasure speaking with him.

Brewery: https://www.sierraandina.com/

Skyline: https://skyline-adventures.com/

To read more about Ted, check out this blog post: https://www.rolliepeterkin.com/ted-alexander-sierra-andina-brewery

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Sam Sheridan is the author of three books: The Fighter's Heart, The Fighter's Mind, and The Disaster Diaries. Recently, he wrote and produced a miniseries called I am the Night.

Sam traveled the world and trained martial arts. He interviewed the greatest minds in MMA about the mental game. And he worked with top survival experts in order to learn how to prepare for the end of the world. But Sam also spent years traveling the world working as a sailor. He was a firefighter who battled forest fires. And he worked on a research station in Antarctica.

Read more about Sam here: https://www.rolliepeterkin.com/sam-sheridan-fighters-heart

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Dr. Lorenzo Valterza is a scholar on Dante Alighieri and the Italian language. He holds a PhD from Rutgers and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Notre Dame. Lorenzo's doctoral thesis was about the impact of torture and Roman law in Dante.

In this episode we discussed many things about the Italian language. He grew up hearing different dialects and then went on to study and teach it later in life.

We talked a lot about Dante and how every generation will interpret his works through the prism of their times. For instance, the nature of torture, fate vs free will, or justice.

But most importantly, we discussed the many ways that Dante was like Regina George from Mean Girls. Hint: he the Inferno as a sort of Burn Book.

Read more about Lorenzo here: https://www.rolliepeterkin.com/lorenzo-valterza-phd-dante-inferno-italian-language

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Dave Hinkle played professional basketball overseas for 11 years. While most of his career was in Mexico, he played all over the world from Germany to Taiwan to Bolivia.

Dave didn't even start playing basketball until late in high school when he hit a growth spurt. He attended University of San Francisco and played basketball on their club team. On the podcast, Dave jokes that he learned how to play basketball while in college. He grew to be 6 foot 8, and started finding some success. A chance encounter with a coach who offered an opportunity to play pro basketball overseas changed everything.

Read more about Dave here: https://www.rolliepeterkin.com/dave-hinkle-playing-pro-basketball-overseas

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