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Happy New Year, everyone.

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

intimate stories outdoors. So I have a favorite to ask. I'm putting together our next season,

and we have some really wonderful stories in the works. But creating those stories is expensive.

We spend months crafting each narrative, and producers need to get paid. We also have costs for music, editing software, audio hosting, and a lot of other things.

If out there brightens your day at all, please consider joining me in investing in our next season.

Your dollars will go straight to work funding stories.

There are several easy ways you can contribute.

Just go to out therepodcast.com slash support or click the link in the episode description.

And now, on to our story for today.

The New Year is all about new beginnings. It's a time for starting fresh and putting

failures behind you. It's a chance to become the person you want to be. But, of course, New Year's resolutions don't always pan out.

So what then?

What do you do when you have a really important life goal for the new year, but things go horribly awry?

In this episode, Maya Croh takes us snowboarding near Lake Tahoe and tells a story about trying to gain

confidence. There's a saying that how you spend New Year's is how you're going to spend the

rest of the year.

I didn't expect to spend New Year's Day 2022

in the emergency room of a remote

rural hospital.

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