Ep. 240: Humanitarian Adventure - Zach Smith
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Ever want to see the world, meet the people, and make a difference that really matters? Zack Smith shares this very inspiring story of how simply going to where the hurt is can develop into a lifelong journey of adventure and caring around the world. It all started when Zach and some colleagues traveled to Haiti to help after the earthquakes there. Next came travel around Africa in a Cessna to remote villages to assist with surgeries. One thing led to another and now they have built a clinic in Nigeria that is caring for people from dozens of villages in the area. Real lives touched. Real impact. Real adventure that matters.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the adventure sports podcast brought to you by 180Tack. |
| 0:22.9 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:25.3 | Episode 240, Zach Smith on Real Adventure, |
| 0:30.9 | humanitarian work that makes a difference. |
| 0:33.4 | Thank you. Hello and welcome to the adventure sports podcast. This is your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 0:50.8 | Hey, I've got a great guy on the on the horn here today to interview for you. This is Zach Smith, and Zach grew up in the Los Angeles area, and he got involved working with firefighters, and that developed into all sorts of amazing things. He was a firefighter for about 16 years, and he really got into tech rescue and eventually became a paramedic. |
| 1:13.5 | That led to humanitarian work overseas in Nigeria, which started out in 2012, and that's going |
| 1:20.2 | to be the main focus of our show today. |
| 1:22.2 | The adventurous side of humanitarian work, where you get to do kind of the adventure travel |
| 1:26.7 | and engage with people |
| 1:28.0 | and make a difference in the world. So I'm really excited to visit with Zach about that. And |
| 1:33.1 | about a year ago, Zach started Core Third. So some of the needs that he saw for humanitarian |
| 1:38.8 | work in Africa led him to coming up with some solutions. And so we're going to visit about that, too, really neat stuff. |
| 1:46.2 | Zach, welcome to the program. |
| 1:48.0 | Hey, thanks for having me. |
| 1:50.2 | Yeah, man, it's my pleasure. |
| 1:51.7 | I want to talk about humanitarian work, but first, let's kind of get a little background on who you are. |
| 1:57.1 | So you grew up around California. |
| 1:58.7 | What's your story there? |
| 2:00.5 | Yeah, so definitely a |
| 2:02.5 | Southern California kid, like North Orange County, South L.A., Long Beach area, really was part of the |
| 2:11.3 | surf crowd scene, played water pole and swam, and it was really into aquatic sports and stuff, |
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