Ep. 146: Entrepreneur and Adventure Travel Guide Jessica Pociask
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2016
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Jessica is the owner of WANT Expeditions, and has been to almost 80 countries leading expeditions all over the world. She holds a B.S. in natural resource management from Michigan State University. Dedicated to conservation, she has worked extensively with The Nature Conservancy and the Wildlife Conservation Society. In addition to leading expeditions, Jessica is also a travel writer, nature photographer and holds a research position at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian.
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In this episode we explore what it takes to create a business like WANT Expeditions as well as how to create your own adventure-based lifestyle.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the adventure sports podcast brought to you by 180TAC. |
| 0:22.9 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:26.6 | Episode 146, Jessica Poseiac, entrepreneur, and adventure traveler extraordinaire. |
| 0:34.1 | Thank you. extraordinary. |
| 0:49.4 | Hi, friends. |
| 0:51.1 | Welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:52.0 | This is Kurt. |
| 0:55.9 | Hey, today's show is a little bit different from our standard format. Not a lot different, but a little. You know, often when we're speaking to our guests, |
| 1:00.5 | we find out that they have found a way to build a career around the adventure sports that they love. |
| 1:06.7 | And we thought, wouldn't it be fun if we took kind of an entrepreneurial swing from time to time and interviewed people and asked them specifically, how did they get there? |
| 1:15.7 | What did they do to create their adventure sport focused lifestyle? |
| 1:20.7 | And so today's show is going to be one of those. |
| 1:23.9 | We obviously will continue to have our regular shows as well. But we just thought it might be fun to throw in some brand new questions and an angle more about how people can find a way to do the work that they love or play the work that they love, as the case may be. |
| 1:42.9 | And so today's show is the first, hopefully of several, |
| 1:46.6 | of this style. You know, I was looking at the stats about the show today, and it's beginning to |
| 1:52.0 | become apparent that we are one of the leading adventure-based podcast in the world today. If you |
| 1:57.3 | search for adventure in the podcast world, you will find the adventure sports podcast there. |
| 2:02.1 | It's exciting to see the growth. |
| 2:03.6 | And I want to say thank you because we know that growth is due to you sharing about the show with your friends. |
| 2:10.8 | And I'm asking a special request, please continue to do that. |
| 2:14.9 | The number one thing that you can do to help grow the Adventure Sports |
| 2:18.6 | podcast is to tell others about the show. If you know people that love adventure, hey, direct |
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