In episode 472, I chat with Darcy Gaechter, the 1st Woman to Kayak the Amazon River From Source to Sea and author of Amazon Woman.

Listen as she talks about loving the outdoors her whole life, how she got into kayaking at age 19, why at age 35 she decided she wanted to kayak the Amazon river and who influenced her to do it, how she trained for this trip and why mental and emotional training is equally as important as physical training, what her 148 day trip was like, how to work as a team, how she felt accomplished but lost at the end of it all, what she's learned about herself and why she encourages everyone to say yes more often in life.