Ep. 622: The Reality of Getting Paid to Do Adventure Sports - Caitlin Giddings
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
When Caitlin fell in love with bike touring after an accidental solo adventure across the American West, she knew she needed to find a way to make money to keep her doing what she loved. What she realized is that getting paid for your passion isn’t always what it seems. Today we’ll hear her story of the triumphs and trials of working in the outdoor industry and doing “adventure” for a living.
Her Article in Outside Online: https://www.outsideonline.com/2407239/bike-touring-dream-job-nightmare
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you love the Adventure Sports podcast, I'm confident that you're going to love Armchair Explorer. |
| 0:04.7 | It's a new podcast by a recent guest, Aaron Miller, who is an award-winning London Times and |
| 0:09.6 | National Geographic Travel Rider, who basically sits down with some of the world's biggest |
| 0:14.8 | explorers and adventurers and lets them tell their favorite story of all time. |
| 0:19.8 | We're talking Olympic gold medalists, |
| 0:21.7 | who's backcountry ski in Alaska, to award-winning travel riders who walk across Antarctica |
| 0:27.2 | in the footsteps of Shackleton, guerrilla trekking with leading conservationists, great white shark |
| 0:33.1 | diving with some of the best in the industry, as well as interviewing astronauts about spacewalking |
| 0:39.2 | above Earth. It's honestly a condensed version of our show taking the best of the best stories |
| 0:45.1 | and letting those explorers tell them. If you're interested to hear more, I highly encourage you |
| 0:50.9 | check out armchair-explorer.com or just looking up armchair explorer |
| 0:56.5 | anywhere you find podcasts and let it inspire you to get out there and do something fun and do |
| 1:01.8 | something epic. ASP listeners, you can get 50% off your first order of CS Instant Coffee by using |
| 1:10.3 | the code adventure. Check them out. They've been a |
| 1:12.9 | supporter of the show for a while, so it would really mean a lot if you went and supported them. |
| 1:17.1 | Thank you. On the last tour, I had a really bad experience with someone who I think was just |
| 1:24.8 | going through a really rough time in their life and unfortunately took it out on the group and then on me when I tried to ask him to lead the tour. |
| 1:38.6 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast where we hear stories of adventure from every corner of the planet. |
| 1:44.4 | We interview all sorts of folks who are using their sport to explore the world around them |
| 1:48.7 | and give you the inspiration you need to get out there and have some fun. |
| 2:09.0 | Happy Monday, folks. I hope you're doing well. I hope you're staying healthy. I hope that you aren't going crazy if you're stuck at your house. I kind of am, so I decided to go out in the |
| 2:15.1 | woods, do a little social distancing this weekend, and just reflect on what is important and how we can continue getting through this together. |
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