It's Women's History Month, a love interviewing strong adventurous women with a story to tell.

This month on Wild Ideas worth living are episodes highlight women from around the country.

These powerful, risk-taking creative ladies are chasing their wild ideas and doing incredible

things.

Diana Helmeth is the author of How to Suffer Outside, a beginner's guide to hiking and

backpacking.

But like the backpacking is it's a radical encounter with your body, positive and negative.

Like look you can do this or like whoa you better not do that you know where you're going

to do this slower than you thought you were going to do and by the way it's all okay.

Because if you want you can just sit on that rock and cry about it or you can just keep

going.

Chef Maria Heinz is a James Beard Award winner, an author of Peak Nutrition.

A book all about the food we can use to fuel our bodies for outdoor adventures.

And I was like hey this book doesn't exist there's no sports nutrition cookbook for the

mountain athlete.

Let's write this thing I'll do all the recipes for it because I'm already you know like

eating clean and I'm you know dialing in recipes for me personally for when I am having

multi-day events in the back country and let's share this knowledge and use this as

a way to give back to the outdoor community that has enriched our lives and given us so

much.

Erin Parisi is on her way to become the first openly trans person to climb the highest

mountain on each continent.

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