EP 253: April Davidson (yeahapril) — Living With a Blind Man, a Decade of Addiction, and Seeking Your Fullest Life

The Nugget Climbing Podcast

Steven Dimmitt

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4.0 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

April Davidson (yeahapril) is a rock climber and content creator. We talked about what it is like living with her blind fiance Justin Salas, growing up and moving to LA, losing her mom, opiate addiction, finding climbing, her Instagram career, health issues and adrenal fatigue, her experiment with the carnivore diet, responsible meat eating, chocolate cake, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, and welcome to the Nugget Climbing podcast. This is Stephen Dimett. I've been sick the
0:07.8	past few days, which is why my voice sounds like this, but it's time to put out this episode, so
0:12.4	the show must go on. I'll try to keep this intro short today. My guest today is April Davidson.
0:19.7	April is a rock climber and content creator.
0:22.6	You might know her as, yeah, April on Instagram.
0:25.6	She's got about 100,000 followers and is always posting beautiful photos and great captions over there on Instagram.
0:33.0	I encourage you to follow along with her.
0:35.5	Last week, I had Justin Salas on the podcast, The Blind
0:38.7	Climber, and April is his fiance. So we talked about what it's like living with a blind man,
0:44.7	and it was really fun to get to know April as well. She's got a wild story. We talked about
0:49.6	loss, losing her mom at a young age. We talked about opiate addiction. We talked about health struggles,
0:55.5	and we talked about breaking free of all those things and seeking her fullest and richest life,
1:01.7	which was really beautiful. So I really enjoyed this one. I hope you all do as well. And without
1:07.2	further ado, here is April Davidson.
1:32.4	Cause, cast, no one can do it like And without further ado, here is April Davidson. So I wanted to start by talking about Justin. So I wanted to start by talking about Justin. I just had Justin Salas on the show, your amazing fiancé, and I want to spend most of our time today talking about you and your life and getting to know you, but I just had him on.
1:37.1	And I thought it would be, I was thinking about this while I was talking to him, and we talked
1:40.7	about you, and it was beautiful.
1:42.5	He's a very big fan of you, April,
1:44.8	in case you were wondering. I'm a very big fan of him. But I loved hearing just what his
1:52.3	experience is like, right? Being legally blind, what his visual experience is like, how it affects
1:57.5	his day to day, how he's able to go climbing and all these things. And when we talked about you, it just kind of hit me that, man, like this, this affects everyone
2:07.6	in his orbit. And obviously, Justin is incredibly capable, just an amazing guy and the things
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