Ep. 301: Conquering 30 Years of Anxiety Through Adventure - Paula McGuire
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2017
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Paula ‘Must Try Harder’ McGuire isn’t exactly your average adventurer. She doesn’t even own a sleeping bag. In fact, Paula spent her early years hiding from life and seeking better places to hide, eventually finding her world shrinking to the confines of her own home without an escape route. Thirty years of crippling social anxiety will do that to a girl. Adventure became Paula’s personal therapy in 2012 and, ever since, she has terrified herself daily in the name of recovery. So far, it’s working.
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| 0:00.0 | Next April, I am planning to attempt to be the first person ever to have swam the entire way around the coast of mainland Britain. |
| 0:09.9 | And I only learned to swim three weeks ago. |
| 0:12.6 | Episode 301, conquering 30 years of anxiety through adventure with Paula Maguire. |
| 0:18.5 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast, brought to you by 180 Tech. |
| 0:22.6 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation you need |
| 0:27.1 | to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. |
| 0:30.9 | Now here's your host, Kurt Linville. Hello again, friends. Thanks again for listening to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:50.1 | And while I have a fun show that I think is going to be very beneficial for a lot of us today. |
| 0:57.0 | I have Paula McGuire from Scotland, and Paula has such an amazing story to tell about how she used adventure to overcome some extreme anxiety issues that were debilitating. |
| 1:08.8 | And it's given her a new life and so much hope and encouragement |
| 1:13.2 | and inspiration for so many others. So Paula McGuire is on the phone today, and I'm really |
| 1:19.7 | excited to hear her story. Paula, welcome to the program. Thank you so much for having me, |
| 1:24.4 | Kurt. I'm really excited to talk to you. Well, we're excited to hear what you have to share. I know that what you've been doing has been so wonderful. |
| 1:32.3 | Setting the example for so many others on overcoming adversity. |
| 1:36.3 | And I love shows like this because the reality is, I forget who the artist was, like 20 years ago, |
| 1:42.3 | who had a song called Equal Scary People. Did you ever |
| 1:45.3 | hear that? No, I don't know that one. Well, the message of the song was exactly that. It was just that |
| 1:50.6 | everybody has their own challenges. And it's completely normal for people to have challenges. That's |
| 1:56.8 | what life is. But when someone like yourself comes out and says, hey, this was my particular challenge and this is what worked for me, I think that it helps so many people. |
| 2:06.8 | So I'm really excited. |
| 2:08.4 | Yeah, yeah, it's going to be fantastic. |
| 2:10.3 | But we've got to start with Scotland. |
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