Ep. 556: Being a Creator in the Adventure Industry - Brendan Leonard
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Brendan is the creator of Semi-Rad.com, which is a blog for folks who love their adventure sport, but aren’t sponsored athletes and don’t take themselves too seriously. They’re still rad, sort of.
He started the website in 2011 and has been steadily carving out a corner of the outdoor/adventure industry with his humorist essays and writings about all things adventure. His stories have appeared in Backpacker, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, Men’s Journal, Sierra, Adventure Cyclist, and other publications.
All of his books including, Bears Don’t Care About Your Problems are available here.
Instagram: @semi_rad
Facebook: @semiradmedia
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| 0:00.0 | If you're needed a great coffee to go into the backcountry or places you can't take a typical coffee maker, |
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| 0:20.6 | giving athletes the ability |
| 0:21.7 | to train hard and still feel good about enjoying a tasting craft beer after a long training |
| 0:27.1 | session. Use the code adventure at checkout for 15% off. I think that my sense of being sort of |
| 0:34.7 | tired of the stuff that was out there and like trying to create something fresh |
| 0:38.4 | sort of maybe grabbed a few people and you know when you see that come through your feed |
| 0:42.7 | maybe you do pause as opposed to photos of lattes or whatever we're looking at on a daily basis. |
| 0:50.4 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:53.1 | Trying to help you find adventure every day in any stage of life. |
| 0:56.7 | You're going to hear from explorers, adventures, business owners, and anyone living their life |
| 1:02.4 | a little more out of the box than usual. |
| 1:15.3 | Hey. Hey, y'all. |
| 1:17.6 | Today we're interviewing Brendan Leonard. |
| 1:20.3 | He is the founder of the website, |
| 1:25.2 | Semirad.com, which is S-E-M-I-R-A-D.com. |
| 1:32.0 | It's basically a website for folks who love the outdoors, love adventure, but aren't, you know, professionals. |
| 1:36.1 | We're not, you know, all out all the time. |
| 1:41.9 | We love our sport and we love doing what we're doing, but we're not taking ourselves too seriously. |
| 1:49.1 | And he's a humorist, blogger, and yeah, he's also a very well-known author. |
| 1:54.1 | He's written a number of books, one that just came out on August 1st, which is Bears Don't Care About Your Problems. It's basically a collection of his 80 best blog posts put together. |
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