Dispatches: Cheryl Strayed’s Wild Creativity

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2018

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

In her acclaimed 2012 memoir, Wild, Cheryl Strayed delivered a fresh take on outdoor writing—a redemption story set on the Pacific Crest Trail. The book spent seven weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List and reminded people everywhere that a grueling journey through the wilderness can help us overcome almost anything. At last year’s SXSW conference, Tim Ferriss sat down with Strayed for an episode of The Tim Ferriss Show to ask her about her creative process and philosophy. He has a way of getting remarkable people to explain their most effective habits and this conversation, on a stage in front of some 2,000 people, didn’t disappoint. We’ve been eager to share it with our audience since we heard it and this week we finally have our chance. You can also read a shortened text excerpt of the interview here

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0:00.0	Hey everybody as we get going here I want to let you know about a new podcast called
0:04.2	Dear Franklin Jones. It's by a friend of ours here at the show Jonathan Hirsch
0:08.7	Jonathan did that story a few months ago about Biosphere 2 being run by Steve Bannon and he makes
0:14.7	music and sound effects for us every once in a while.
0:18.0	He also grew up in a cult, and this podcast is a story of his re-investigation of that cult leader, Franklin Jones.
0:25.1	And what Jones really meant to his parents and to him.
0:28.9	As I write this, Dear Franklin Jones is the number one podcast on iTunes.
0:32.7	So go listen now before everyone else already has.
0:36.3	That's Dear Franklin Jones.
0:37.9	From Outside Magazine and PRX, these are dispatches.
0:45.0	Stories from our writers in the field.
0:48.0	People ask me all the time, what's the secret to a successful podcast?
0:56.0	And without hesitation, I say, interviewing famous people.
1:01.0	The American appetite for wanting to know more about people we already think we know a little bit about is astounding.
1:08.0	I don't have exact numbers because I couldn't be bothered to actually look this up, but of all the successful
1:13.4	podcasts out there, many of them are simply conversations with well-known humans.
1:19.6	We do these episodes from time to time as well. Today, however, we're outdoing ourselves.
1:25.8	Today we have famous podcast person, Tim Ferris, host of the super mega successful download
1:31.4	machine, the Tim Ferris show talking with famous writer person Cheryl Strade
1:36.6	author of the triple ultra platinum best-selling memoir
1:40.0	Wild.
1:41.1	That's twice the normal number of famous people.
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