What if your wild idea no longer brings you joy?

Retired pro skier, Grace Miller, is intimately familiar with a change of course. Grace grew up in Alaska and started skiing at a young age. Before she was out of high school, she was recruited to compete at the highest level, but at age 23 after competing on the world stage, Grace decided to leave skiing behind to pursue some new wild ideas.

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• Instagram

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Alastair Humphreys is an author and adventurer who has walked 600 miles across Southern India, ran an ultra marathon through the Sahara Desert, and hiked and rafted across Iceland. Alastair's newest wild idea is to embrace the concept of "microadventures," an adventure that is short, easily accessible, and affordable while still being fun, challenging, refreshing, and rewarding. 

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• Website
• Instagram
• Order Alastair's new book, Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness

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What if you had an opportunity to travel around the moon? Christina Koch has worked at NASA for the last 10 years, and has been a part of groundbreaking missions in outer space. In 2019, Christina embarked on a 328-day stay on the International Space Station, setting a record for the longest single space flight by a woman. Now Christina has a new assignment on the horizon. She was selected to join a crew that will travel around the moon.

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• Instagram
• Christina's NASA bio 
• NASA Artemis Instagram

If you enjoyed this episode: 

• Listen to Studying the Cosmos with Sarafina El-Badry Nance and How To Become An Astronaut And Get A New Perspective On Earth From Space with Shannon Walker

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Travis Rice has been pushing the envelope of what's possible in snowboarding for over 20 years. He has won prestigious awards for his riding, and completely recreated what it means to host a winter sports competition. Travis has also built new businesses like Sendy and changed the way action sports films are made.

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• Instagram
• SENDY
• Natural Selection Tour

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Dudley Edmondson is a legendary outdoorsman and birder, nature photographer, cinematographer, speaker and an author. In 2006, he published a book called Black and Brown Faces in America's Wild Places. He hopes that his books, photos and film work will inspire the next generation of Black, Indigenous and other people of color to get outside.

Connect with Dudley: 

• Website 
• Instagram 
• Dudley's book, The Black & Brown Faces in America's Wild Places 

If you enjoyed this episode: 

• Listen to For the Love of Birding with Corina Newsome

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What if swiping on a dating app led you to your partner and an epic bike ride the length of Latin America? This was the case for Erin Azouz and her now-husband Mehedi. The bike trip profoundly shifted Erin's relationship with her work, her husband, and most importantly with herself.

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• Website 
• Instagram

If you enjoyed this episode: 

• Listen to Adventure and Business with David Sacher and Walking Around the World with Tom Turcich

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Kanoa Greene was born into a family of surfers in Hawaii, but for a long time she didn't feel like she belonged in the ocean. She'd never seen a plus size person out in the water and she struggled to find gear to fit her body. Eventually when she was in her 30s, she stood up on a wave for the first time and it opened up a new world for her. Now Kanoa's goal is to help other people, no matter their size, discover their own sense of adventure.

Connect with Kanoa: 

• Website
• Instagram & TikTok
• NAKOA Adventure website & Instagram 

If you enjoyed this episode: 

• Listen to Cycling is for Every Body with Kailey Kornhauser and Business in a Bikini: Sharing the Stoke of Surfing with Izzy Tihanyi

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Over the past few years, Moondog Roop has done three major thru-skates. First in 2021, he spent 45 days on the 1,100 mile Florida Trail. In 2022, he thru-skated across the entire state of New Mexico, and in 2023 he skateboarded 444 miles on the historic Natchez Trace, a trail which passes through parts of Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi.

Connect with Moondog: 

• Instagram

If you enjoyed this episode: 

• Listen to Cindy Whitehead - Stories From a Female Skateboarding Pioneer 

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What if your life revolved around leading groundbreaking polar expeditions? In 1986, polar explorer Ann Bancroft became the first woman to ski to the North Pole after a chance encounter with Will Steger. 

Connect with Ann: 

• Website 
• Ann Bancroft Foundation Instagram
• Ann Reed website & featured song

If you liked this episode: 

• Listen to Chris Fagan: South Pole Quest

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In September of 2022, at 39 years old, Chad Vanags was diagnosed with stage 4 terminal lung cancer. Chad is a surfer, runner, and all-around athlete. In the year and a half since his diagnosis, Chad has been living his wildest most authentic life as he faces his own mortality. Cancer isn't the message, but it's been the vehicle that's pushed him to become what he calls physically and mentally elite. 

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• Website
• Instagram 
• Teaquilafarm Instagram
• Contribute to Chad's GoFundMe

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