#792 Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking—How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age Caroline Paul
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
4.7 • 107 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking—How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age
The Not Old Better Show, Art of Living Interview Series
Welcome to The Not Old Better Show on radio and podcast. I'm Paul Vogelzang and today's show is brought to you by TalkSpace. Today, we dive into the heart of bravery with New York Times bestselling author Caroline Paul, an extraordinary woman whose life reads like an epic saga of resilience, courage, and boundless curiosity. In her latest masterpiece, "Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking—How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age," Caroline Paul shatters the stereotypes that confine women as they grow older, from extreme outdoor adventure to high impact walking with Dot Fisher Smith
That, of course, is our guest today, Caroline Paul reading from her new book, "Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking—How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age,"
I assure you, you'll want to hear more from Caroline Paul. LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE IF:
- You want to cultivate bravery.
- You want to overcome fear or look at it from a new perspective.
- You want to become a firefighter, writer, or just live with more adventure.
- You want to listen to an amazing story-teller and one badass woman.
New York Times bestselling author, Caroline Paul beckons us to reconsider what it means to age. Through her eyes, we meet unsung heroines of the outdoor world, like —women who defy gravity, and expectations, to embrace life with every breath. This episode is not just a conversation; it's a call to action. A challenge to redefine our relationship with fear, to step outside our comfort zones, and to ignite a spark of adventure that burns brighter with each passing year. If you've ever felt the tug of the wild, the lure of the unknown, or the simple joy of a fresh challenge, this is your anthem. Join us as we explore how to live not just longer, but larger. This is not just about aging gracefully; it's about aging powerfully. This is not just about aging gracefully; it's about aging powerfully. Prepare to be inspired, to rethink the possible, and to embark on your own adventure, no matter the number on your birth certificate. Welcome to the episode that changes the narrative on aging and adventure. Welcome to "Braving the Age" with Caroline Paul.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Not Old Better Show, the show covering all things health, wellness, culture, and more. |
| 0:09.5 | The show for all of us who aren't old were better. |
| 0:12.6 | Each week we'll interview superstars, experts, and ordinary people doing extraordinary things, |
| 0:18.7 | all related to this wonderful experience of getting better, not older. Now here's your host, the award-winning Paul |
| 0:25.9 | Vogel-Zang! Welcome to the Not Old Better Show on radio and |
| 0:31.8 | podcast. I'm Paul Vogel-Zing and today's show is brought to you by Talk Space. |
| 0:37.0 | Today, we dive into the heart of bravery with New York Times best-selling author Caroline Paul an extraordinary woman whose life |
| 0:46.2 | reads like an epic saga of resilience, courage, and boundless curiosity in her latest masterpiece, her new book, Tough Broad, from boogie-boarding |
| 0:56.8 | to wing-walking, how outdoor adventure improves our lives as we age. |
| 1:01.7 | Caroline Paul today will shatter the stereotypes that confine women as |
| 1:07.1 | they grow older. |
| 1:08.7 | All of us really, from Extreme Outdoor Adventure to High impact walking with Dot Fisher. |
| 1:15.0 | Dot Fisher Smith and I are on a walk and at this moment she is cutting across someone's |
| 1:19.3 | suburban front yard. |
| 1:21.0 | She has already told me she doesn't like sidewalks or any sort of |
| 1:23.7 | asphalt, but she needs to feel the feel of the earth under her feet and this is the |
| 1:28.5 | umpte piece of private property she has tromped across without an ounce of hesitation. |
| 1:34.3 | In other countries like Scotland say there are right to ramble laws promising that no |
| 1:38.9 | well-intentioned flinor can be stopped for trespassing. |
| 1:42.8 | But this is not Scotland. |
| 1:44.6 | It is the good old US of A where fences and walls |
| 1:47.6 | are considered sacrosanct. |
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