If you want to revel in the wonder of the natural world, while still asking tough questions about our place in that world,

I'd like to tell you about another podcast you might enjoy.

It's called Outside In.

Hosted by Sam Evans Brown, Outside In tackles a broad range of subjects.

From the environmental movement's troubling

links to the eugenics movement, to the fraught history between hydropower development and indigenous

rights in Canada. Outside In tries to capture the joy that attracts so many of us to the outdoors in the first place.

The show has taken listeners under the ice of frozen lakes, to peat bogs in the Arctic, and up close to patches of moss in your own backyard.

Outside In features deeply investigated stories and the deliberately goofy.

It makes you think and makes you laugh.

You can find Outside In in your favorite podcast app and at outsideinradio.org.

Hi, I'm Willow Belden and you're listening to Out There, the podcast that explores big questions through intimate stories outdoors.

For the first time this year, I'm not with family for the holidays.

I'm guessing many of you are in a similar situation.

2020 is a year of profound isolation.

But as difficult as it may seem right now, being alone is not always a bad thing. Today's episode is a story about something that happened to me back in 2015.

It takes place in the desert in Utah, and it's about how something that initially seemed sad and lonely turned out to be a really good thing.

I'd been feeling anxious and overworked for what seemed like ages.

I'd just launched this podcast, and even though it was exciting, the process had been pretty exhausting.

Work days were brutally long, and I hadn't had a weekend off in months.

So I was exhausted.

But the bigger thing that was bothering me, the thing that was really getting under my skin, was this. I felt like I'd lost my spark, my passion, my drive, the excitement that had always defined me. And so I planned to get away for a bit and join some friends on a trip to Puerto Rico.

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