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Thanks for adventuring with us as we discover what incredible athletes and outdoor enthusiasts are doing all over the world.

Hello everyone and welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. This is Caleb. In this

revisited episode we have Mason interviewing Heidi Ducek. Before having kids, Heidi was an avid adventure

traveling all around the world. She loves the outdoors. She loves epic adventures. And so as you can

imagine the prospect of having kids, she was a bit apprehensive about how it would affect her

adventurous lifestyle. And once she became a mom, she felt like she had to give up a lot of that.

But through this process, Heidi has made it a priority in her life

to continue adventuring with her family and to pass on the love for adventure to her kids.

It's a great episode. I hope you enjoy it. Here's Mason.

Hey folks, Mason here. You might see this title of this episode

and think, you know, I'm never going to have kids or I'm never planning to start a family. So does

this episode even apply to me? And I would say yes, it does. Even if you don't plan on having

kids, there may be a time where your responsibility gets in the way of your plans to be an adventurer

or plans to do big long-term trips, whether that's a job or taking care of someone,

maybe an aging parent or a partner or even animals.

You get a pet, for instance.

Personally, I feel like our dogs were more of an adjustment from, like, you know,

no dogs to dogs were more an adjustment to my adventure plans than no kids to kids were.

Because the dogs, it was like, oh, total freedom.

You can go wherever you want.

Then dogs, it's all the sudden, oh, you got to think about feeding them, letting them out. You can't be gone all that long, and you can't just throw that responsibility on anyone.

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