Caroline Paul: Outdoor Adventure for Healthy and Happy Aging
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Caroline Paul is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure and Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology, which has been translated into fifteen languages. She is also the author of the memoir Fighting Fire, the middle-grade book You Are Mighty: A Guide to Changing the World, and the novel East Wind, Rain. Her TED Talk, “To Raise Brave Girls, Encourage Adventure,” has been viewed over 2 million times. A longtime member of the Writers Grotto, she lives in San Francisco. Her latest book, Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking, How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age came out in March.
We absolutely love the importance Caroline puts on ADVENTURE for healthy and happy aging. She makes it really clear that adventure is everybody regardless of your interests and tastes, and provides purpose, novelty, community and so many things that benefit our brain health, durability, and mental well-being.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:06.8 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:08.3 | And you're listening to The Ready State Podcast. |
| 0:12.4 | We're excited to welcome Caroline Paul to the podcast. |
| 0:20.1 | Caroline is the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Gutsy Girl, Escapades for |
| 0:25.1 | Your Life of Epic Adventure, and Lost Cat, a true story of love, desperation, and GPS technology, |
| 0:31.8 | which has been translated into 15 languages. |
| 0:34.7 | She's also the author of the memoir, Fighting Fire, the middle grade book You Are Mighty, |
| 0:39.7 | A Guide to Changing the World, and the novel East Wind Rain. |
| 0:43.7 | Her TED Talk to Raise Brave Girls Encourage Adventure has been viewed over two million times. |
| 0:49.5 | A longtime member of the writer's grotto, she lives in San Francisco. |
| 0:52.9 | Her latest book is Tough Broad, from boogie boarding to wing walking, how outdoor adventure improves our lives as we age |
| 1:00.1 | and came out in March. Caroline, in full disclosure, is an old friend of ours. And what I loved |
| 1:07.2 | about this conversation was sort of approach and perspective on things to think about as we age to have a healthy, happy body and mind as we get older. |
| 1:17.2 | Yeah, you know, so much of the conversation around longevity feels like it's become very quantified. |
| 1:22.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.7 | I take this. |
| 1:23.6 | I take this. |
| 1:24.4 | I get this blood panel. |
| 1:25.3 | I do this thing. |
| 1:26.6 | And I think what I love about this is that |
| 1:29.1 | she leads with, let's go have adventure. And she's specifically talking about women in this book. |
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