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🗓️ 10 January 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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0:19.1 | I'm April Vokey and you are listening to Ancred. My chance to speak with some of the most influential people involved in the outdoors today. Join me as I sit down with my guests to learn more about their careers, opinions, history, |
0:26.9 | relationships, and life both indoors and out. |
0:29.9 | Caitlin Barnhart and Jess Westbrook are the founders of the Mayfly Project, an organization |
0:38.8 | that uses flyfishing to help mentor and support children in foster care. |
0:43.0 | The Mayfly Project introduces children and foster care to their local fisheries with the hopes that |
0:47.4 | it will connect them to a rewarding hobby, ultimately providing them the opportunity to have |
0:51.5 | fun, build confidence, and develop a meaningful |
0:54.4 | connection with the outdoors. |
0:56.1 | In this episode of Ancard, we discussed the project, how it works, and how you can help. |
1:02.1 | So just let's start with you. |
1:03.6 | What is your, briefly, what's your story, where were you born and raised? |
1:08.6 | Okay, so my name is Jess Westbrook and I'm from Benton, Arkansas, and I'm founder of the Mayfly Project. |
1:14.3 | So for me, I've grown up fly fishing, so I fly fishing nearly my entire life. |
1:19.7 | I've done everything from guiding in Alaska, guiding in Arkansas, and it wasn't until like six years ago that I started |
1:25.2 | using fly fishing as a healing tool. |
1:27.7 | So in 2014, my first son, Case was born, and when Case was born I started having anxiety attacks so and that was the |
1:34.8 | first time I'd ever had anxiety attacks and so that was the first time that I realized that |
1:38.8 | fly fishing could be used as a healing tool so I had a buddy that started taking me fishing with him and it was a |
1:46.2 | guy that I really looked up to he had like a TV show and you know I was I was younger and so I really |
1:51.2 | looked up to Chris and and so I want to be around him so every time he |
1:54.8 | asked me to go fishing I'd go and so I noticed every time I was on the water that you know that my |
2:00.0 | anxiety seemed to disappear and so you, you know, one Sunday at church, |
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