Ep. 43 - Jerod Foster, adventurous Husband and Father
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2020
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
I'm excited to have Jerod Foster back on the podcast, he was first on as my 3rd guest. On that episode we discuss his career as a Professor at Texas Tech University, where he teaches a class called Adventure Media. In this class he takes 16 student bikepacking and gives this real world experience capturing content in wild places. I was fortunate to go on one of these trips and see first hand the impact that this course has on the students who chose to tackle it. If you'd like to hear more about that I suggest you go back and listen to episode 3 where we discuss this and much more.
As I got to know Jerod better I started to admire him for another reason, his ability to have an adventurous life and career, while still playing an active role in his family. As a father I know the challenges of taking young kids outside and immersing them in nature, I also know the benefit. I believe it is an important role as a parent, but it's not always easy. I hope you'll enjoy this episode on being an adventurous spouse and parent as much as I did. Jerod shares some real heartwarming stories and already has me planning my first bikepacking adventure with my girls.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends and welcome back to the Bikes or Death podcast. As always, my name is Patrick and I am your host. |
| 0:06.0 | And today I am sitting down on the inner web, so to speak, with Jared Foster. |
| 0:12.0 | If you don't know Jared Foster, you may want to visit episode 3 of this podcast where I interview him for the first time. |
| 0:21.4 | And in that podcast, we talk more about him and his career and what he does with the |
| 0:29.7 | Adventure Media class at Texas Tech University. |
| 0:32.9 | But on this episode, I wanted to focus on something a little bit different. |
| 0:36.9 | In addition to all of that, he is also a husband and a father. |
| 0:42.3 | And I'm also a father to two girls. |
| 0:45.6 | And it's obviously something that's very important to me. |
| 0:49.0 | And the main topic of this conversation is basically being an adventurous parent slash husband partner, whatever. |
| 0:59.2 | If you are a parent, then hopefully you'll be able to get something out of this episode. |
| 1:04.5 | Jared juggles a lot between his work, his travel, and being an adventurous father. And I know that it's something |
| 1:15.5 | that he works at. And in my opinion, he does very well. And so I asked him if he'd be willing to come on |
| 1:21.6 | and share just his perspectives, his thoughts, how he does it, and have a conversation about being a father and being |
| 1:29.9 | a husband and also, you know, taking care of yourself, having some time carved out so you can go on |
| 1:35.4 | your own adventure or just go on a bike ride to hit that reset button. Anyway, I think it was a |
| 1:42.5 | great conversation. I got a lot out of it, and I hope you do as well. |
| 1:47.3 | And again, if you haven't listened to episode three, you might want to check that one out, |
| 1:51.4 | either before or after you listen to this one. He's got a lot going on. I feel fortunate to call |
| 1:57.4 | him a friend and somebody that I look up to and I appreciate him taking the time |
| 2:01.8 | to come and share on the podcast today. Okay, before we get to the episode, a few quick things. |
| 2:08.0 | The kick coronavirus and the teeth sale is still going on. We've had a lot of orders, so I think |
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