Ep. 440: How a Lyft Ride and a Trip to Disney Led to Starting a Himalayan Trekking Company - Mark Johnson
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
When most people go to Disney World they're not really inspired to go and start a trekking company halfway around the actual world. As you'll learn from this episode, Mark is not most people. In fact, that trip to Disney coupled with a Lyft ride was enough for him and his wife, Holly, to totally transform their lives to pursue a dream that seemed impossible, especially to the folks around them in rural Tennessee. I hope you're as inspired as I am after hearing about this amazing adventure that should prove to us that anything is possible from anywhere, you just have to start moving.
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| 1:03.1 | Hey everybody, welcome to the show. Today I have Mark Johnson of Hobnell trekking. |
| 1:14.3 | And yeah, it's a really cool founder story. |
| 1:18.3 | It's all started with a lift ride, like a ride share. |
| 1:24.3 | It's going to be crazy how it goes from a lift ride to trekking in Nepal. |
| 1:26.5 | But welcome to the program, Mark. |
| 1:29.2 | Thank you very much, Mason. I was happy to be here. |
| 1:34.8 | Awesome, man. Where are you coming from today? Coming from Kingston Springs, Tennessee, which is about 15 miles west of Nashville, just a little tiny, wooded, eclectic community. |
| 1:46.0 | Oh, yeah, it's eclectic? It's very eclectic. |
| 1:48.0 | A lot of musicians and artists out here, and everybody kind of lives in the woods and log cabins and stuff like that. |
| 1:57.0 | And it's cool. It's kind of the Wild West out here. |
| 2:00.0 | Yeah, now I read that you're from |
| 2:03.5 | north carolina and uh that's right also a former musician that's right what part of north |
| 2:09.1 | carolina well i was i was born in raleigh uh but i was raised um mostly in the northwest |
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