Don't Take 'No' for an Answer
Out There
Willow Belden
4.6 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
My mother always told me I shouldn't take "no" for an answer. If you don't get what you want, she said, keep pushing. Growing up, I took that advice to heart: whatever the task at hand, I charged forward with dogged determination. But in 2018, a bicycle accident changed my outlook on what it means to back down, and I started standing up for myself in a new way.
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| 0:00.0 | It's a sunny day, and I'm out for a mountain bike ride. |
| 0:07.0 | From the open prairie, I can see three separate mountain ranges. |
| 0:12.0 | I get out my phone and open up an app called PeakVisor. |
| 0:17.0 | PeakVisor is one of our sponsors for this episode. |
| 0:20.0 | They're on a mission to help you figure out what mountains you're looking at, wherever you are in the world. |
| 0:26.6 | Okay, so that's the Raiwas, and that's Rocky Mountain National Park. |
| 0:30.6 | Very cool. |
| 0:32.6 | The app labels all the peaks and tells me how far away they are. There's also a peak bagging feature, so if I decide to climb one of these mountains, |
| 0:42.3 | I can check in at the summit and keep track of my accomplishments. |
| 0:46.3 | Check out PeakVisor in the app store. |
| 0:49.3 | You just might love it. |
| 0:55.5 | For a lot of us, summer means road trips, which also means you're probably looking for good |
| 1:02.6 | things to listen to in the car. |
| 1:05.6 | Another one of Out There's sponsors is a podcast called Out Travel the System. |
| 1:13.7 | Out Travel the System is brought to you by Expedia, |
| 1:20.1 | and its mission is to inspire and inform about travel. That can mean anything from building your bucket list to taking concrete steps to take that next trip when the time is right. The podcast |
| 1:26.4 | finds people who are passionate about travel, |
| 1:29.5 | including a commercial airline pilot, a woman who pretty much travels year-round, |
| 1:35.7 | and a man who wants to have visited every country in the world by the end of this year. |
| 1:41.1 | When it comes to inspiration, out-travel the System is also giving a voice to people who love |
| 1:46.7 | their hometowns and want to share them with travelers, or people who love, say, lake or beach |
| 1:53.1 | life in the winter. Out Travel the System is available wherever you get your podcasts. You can |
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