Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason Gravely. Today we're starting this week off with a throwback. I remember this episode with Renata being just so inspiring. There's an amazing backstory that we'll get into, and I just really

enjoyed this conversation. I'm still doing a lot of interviews for new episodes, but I wanted

to build up my pool of new episodes a little more before we start playing them, just because I'm

just getting back into the swing of things after some hurricanes. And I'll actually

be changing jobs next week, which is exciting. I'm leaving the brewery I've been working at for

five years, athletic brewing. I'm going to be going into full-time conservation work, which is super

exciting. It's landscape conservation, wildlife conservation.

And what's exciting about that is, you know, the places we like to adventure,

the places with trails, the places with, you know, everything from beaches to rivers to,

the medium of which we have adventure, things like through hiking and bikepacking and national parks and all that happen on places that have been protected a lot of the times, not all the time, but a lot of these adventures we talk about on this show are in places that people set aside the land to protect for nature to thrive.

And I've been fascinated more and more with

that process as I've gotten older and I want to have a hand in helping shape these places and

make more of them. And so that's what I'm doing. So I'm super excited. It's a direct connection

to this podcast and the inspiration with these stories and who we

talked to on this show.

So I'm very excited.

And that'll be next week.

So I imagine there might be a few more hiccups in the podcast schedule as I get used to that new job.

But it is going to be an adventure itself.

That's for dang sure.

So, all right, let's go ahead and dive in.

All right, folks.

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