I'm Gail Straub and you're listening to She Explorers.

I never would have imagined that I would have gone from like the girl in a city that never did anything

outdoorsy at all to someone that now is like I want a winter hike and I want to

camp in the winter and I want to like well I want to camp all year round if I can. This is Kristen Berkeley, founder of Amplify Outdoors.

Kristen reached out to me last fall because she wanted to share her story of turning her life upside down and moving to the sub-artic.

When we first connected, I realized that I didn't know anything about the Northwest Territories

in Canada, what it's like to recreate there, or the kind of wildlife you might stumble across.

Kristen didn't know a whole lot either.

So how did you come to live in Yellowknife?

I think that's like the famous question everyone asks me all the time like what

happened how did this happen.

The short answer, Kristen was offered a job opportunity to work in the sub-artic, but the longer

answer speaks more to her nature.

It wasn't just about the job. She ended up deciding between an offer in her hometown of Toronto and one in yellow knife

One would totally change her life and she wanted to see what was out there.

It just seemed like one of those things where you just figure,

let's try it out, let's give it a chance,

because like how often are you going to get the opportunity

to work in the sub-arctic?

So I jumped out the chance. you're going to get the opportunity to work in the subarctic.

So I jumped at the chance.

I really didn't even think about it, to be honest.

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