Ep. 358: Kayaking in Africa on the Blue Nile and Maranon Rivers - Amie Begg
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
After achieving her own sobriety, Amie became a substance abuse counselor. She turned her focus to kayaking and shortly into her paddling career, she suffer hit her head and suffered a brain injury during a rapids run. Amie spent time recovering and learning to read, walk and talk again. After a successful recovery, she conquered those same rapids proving she had what it took to continue her love for kayaking.
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| 0:00.0 | Episode 358, kayaking down the Blue Nile and Marignan Rivers with Amy Begg. |
| 0:13.5 | I think the biggest thing with adventure sports is you have skill and you have experience. |
| 0:19.8 | And, you know, one thing that I learned with when I hit my head is I had the skill to run the rapid. |
| 0:24.6 | I didn't have the experience to know what to do if things went wrong. |
| 0:29.6 | And that's the difference in, you know, any adventure sport that I think a lot of people fail to recognize. |
| 0:38.0 | You have to be prepared and you have to know what to do when everything doesn't go right. |
| 0:45.8 | You're listening to the Adventure Sports podcast brought to you by 180 Tech. |
| 0:50.2 | We talk with adventurers from around the globe to bring you the inspiration and motivation you need to get started in the outdoors or to keep you moving if you're already there. |
| 0:58.5 | Now here's your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 1:15.1 | Hi, Frick. Hi friends. |
| 1:18.5 | Welcome again to another episode of the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 1:24.2 | Today I have Amy Begg with us, and Amy is such a great gal. |
| 1:30.5 | She is the first female to go down the source of the Amazon, the upper Amazon called a Rio Moranian, I had to say that right. Marnion. Marnion, right on. And she's also the first |
| 1:37.2 | female to do the Blue Nile, the source of the Nile, as well kayaking. But not only that, |
| 1:43.3 | she's a substance abuse counselor working with adolescents |
| 1:46.7 | in Charlotte, North Carolina, and I want to hear about that too because it's super cool. So Amy, |
| 1:53.1 | welcome to the program. Thanks. I'm glad to be here. So wow, how do you become the first female |
| 1:59.0 | to do these two crazy big rivers? |
| 2:01.4 | I mean, everyone knows the Nile and everyone knows the Amazon. |
| 2:05.4 | I mean, these are the rivers of the world. |
| 2:08.3 | And you're the first female to start at the source of these things, I guess. |
| 2:11.7 | Tell us about that. |
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