Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. This is the 200th episode. What a journey it's been.

It's been so incredible to talk with authors and leaders who have really impacted my own mothering.

But here we are with really for me the

woman I talk about the most, the very very very most, Angela Hanscom, author

of Balanced and Barefoot and founder of Timbernook, welcome.

Thank you so much for having me and wow 200 episodes.

That's incredible.

That's exciting and you are on right near the very beginning and I would say Angela that when I talk to other people if I'm on another interview or some other situation like that

You're the name that comes up the most this balanced and barefoot book. I mean and I talk about other authors here and there

But yours is every time pretty much every time is Angela Hanscomb this book balanced and barefoot. I tell everyone it is a book that every

parent and every educator should read. It's comprehensive but it's an easy read too.

It's interesting. It's fascinating. And so I've gone back to it so many times over the past years but in

preparation for this interview because this is the second time we've talked I

actually read it twice so I read it again and there is so I mean I read it for the first time from the perspective of a

parent I just picked up your book I wasn't doing 1,000 hours outside I wasn't doing any

of this I just picked your book up and it was so validating to me. I learned so much from it and now

I'm reading it from the perspective of preparing for an interview and I really cannot sing its

praises enough and the work that you've done to help children.

So thank you so much for this and for taking the time to be with us.

What a treat!

I know, yay!

I never would have thought! I got to meet you now a couple of times so what a cool thing I'd love to focus on this one and I don't know I think it's hard sometimes to talk about the negative things

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