Ep. 1098 Isaac Kenyon - Adventure and Mental Health
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Adventure and mental health: Isaac Kenyon on the transformative power of risk-taking expeditions – swimming the English Channel, rowing the Atlantic, cycling on water, building supportive teams, nature's healing effects, and empowering wellbeing through eco-adventures.
Today, Curt speaks with Isaac Kenyon, an eco-adventurer and mental health advocate. They discuss the profound impact of adventure on mental wellbeing, the importance of taking risks, and the motivation behind Kenyon's various expeditions. Kenyon shares his experiences of swimming across the English Channel, rowing across the Atlantic, and cycling on water, emphasizing the lessons learned from each adventure. The conversation also delves into the significance of building a supportive team, the transformative power of nature, and the necessity of addressing mental health issues to foster a healthier society. Kenyon's mission is to empower individuals to connect with the environment and promote mental wellbeing through adventure.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends and welcome to the adventure sports podcast. |
| 0:12.4 | Thank you so much for joining us again today. |
| 0:14.7 | I was just visiting with our guest, and we were talking about how beneficial adventure can be. |
| 0:20.5 | When you do something that challenges you a little bit, you get out into nature, you move and get healthier and have life experiences that enhance your well-being in your entire life. |
| 0:32.3 | Our guest is Isaac Kenyon, who has made a career of doing just that. |
| 0:37.3 | Isaac is an international keynote speaker. |
| 0:39.9 | He's a philanthropic world record-breaking British eco-adventurer. |
| 0:43.7 | Now, there's a mouthful. |
| 0:45.1 | An energy transition expert communicator. |
| 0:48.3 | That's interesting. |
| 0:49.7 | A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London and the Geological Society of London and a trustee for the Mind Mental Health Charity. |
| 0:58.1 | Now, we're going to be talking about mental well-being on this episode and how it relates to adventure. |
| 1:04.2 | And I'm very, very interested to find out what Isaac has to share in that regard. |
| 1:09.3 | I think it's a very important subject that probably needs to be |
| 1:13.0 | explored a little bit more frequently. So Isaac has swam seas, climbed to mountains, road oceans, |
| 1:20.2 | cycle toured countries, and even cycled over sea. He means literally cycling on the water. |
| 1:25.9 | We're going to find out what that is. |
| 1:29.3 | Isaac, welcome to the program. |
| 1:34.1 | Thank you very much, Kurt, for a great warm introduction. |
| 1:37.2 | I mean, there's a lot in that bio, |
| 1:41.3 | but I'll just say a really simplified thing about what I'm about. |
| 1:45.4 | I just want to empower people to connect with the environment and protect the mental health of themselves and the planet. That's it. It's that simple. All those things, |
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