Ep. 680: Bringing Adventure Stories to Life Through “Out There” - Willow Belden
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Thru-Hiking: Follow one woman's life-changing journey on the Colorado Trail that sparked a reinvention and a top-ranked outdoor podcast.
After quitting her job at NPR to thru-hike the Colorado Trail, Willow was filled with confidence and a desire to help tell stories of adventure to the world. The job at NPR wasn’t satisfying her desire to do something outside the box and the recent passing of her mother was enough for her to reset the path she was going down.
To say the least, the 5-week thru-hike ultimately changed her life and after getting back she quickly began working on her new project, a podcast, Out There.
Today we’re going to hear Willow’s story of reinvention and self-discovery that led her down a path less taken.
Out There was recently listed as the #1 outdoor podcast in iTunes, has made appearances in media throughout the world and is considered one of the best outdoor and adventure podcasts out there...
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| 0:00.0 | the symbolism and the and the metaphors and looking at what these experiences in nature can |
| 0:07.1 | teach us about ourselves and our lives and the world around us and and and so I said, |
| 0:14.5 | all right, well, let's let's make a show that does that does that, that weaves all those |
| 0:18.3 | things together. And so that's how we got to out there. |
| 0:26.2 | This is the Adventure Sports Podcast, where we hear stories of adventure from every corner |
| 0:31.2 | of the planet. |
| 0:31.8 | We interview all sorts of folks who are using their sport to explore the world around |
| 0:35.9 | them and give you the inspiration you need to get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:53.3 | Hey folks, welcome to another episode of the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:57.8 | I'm your host, Mason Gravely. |
| 1:00.3 | And today's a brand new episode. |
| 1:01.8 | We're talking to Willow Belden, who quit her job with NPR to through hike the Colorado Trail. |
| 1:09.5 | And not just that, because that's not an extremely long experience, |
| 1:13.0 | you know, five weeks or so, but she used the adventure to kind of be a pivotal moment in her life |
| 1:18.8 | to kind of have the before the Colorado Trail and after the Colorado Trail experience. |
| 1:25.1 | And so she used this adventure to give her life some space and see what she could |
| 1:30.5 | create with it next. And so what came after that was finding and starting the Out There podcast. |
| 1:39.5 | And so you may have heard of Out There. It's a really big show. It's a great show. |
| 1:49.9 | And it's more storytelling rather than interviews with guests like we do on this show. |
| 1:52.7 | So I really encourage you to go check out out there. |
| 1:54.4 | It's a great show. |
| 1:56.2 | I really enjoy listening to it. And I think you'll really enjoy listening to Willow's story. |
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