Ep. 932: How to Be a Wildpreneur - Tamara Jacobi
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Born in Vermont and raised in Quebec, Tamara’s wild inspiration was sparked by family expeditions that included bikepacking the USA’s Continental Divide, kayaking the Sea of Cortez and mountaineering Mexico’s volcanoes. This unusual upbringing prompted Tamara to look beyond the status quo, write a business plan while at Middlebury College (VT) and head to the Mexican Pacific with her parents. In 2007, they created the Tailwind Jungle Lodge, an adventure lodge and retreat center. Today, Tamara and her family are still in the jungle; surfing, hiking and exploring alongside her parents, husband and 2 adventurous little kiddos.
Life and business in the jungle has been a wild ride and Tamara shares her experience in Wildpreneurs (HarperCollins Leadership 2020)--a guidebook for turning passion into business. The book tells Tamara's story, alongside guidance and inspiration from dozens of other free-spirited Wildpreneurs who are blazing their own business trails. Tamara's adventures have continued as her book fell into the hands of the team at Thermal, who invited her to join them to create epic surf trips with legendary local guides around the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host Mason. Today we're talking to some of the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host Mason. Today we're talking to |
| 0:24.7 | somebody that I reached out too. A lot of times guests reach out to us, but I reached out to |
| 0:29.3 | Tamara because I loved her book, Wildpreneurs, so much. Wildpreneurs is basically the word |
| 0:36.0 | entrepreneur with Wild in front of it, kind of, you know, smashed together. |
| 0:41.3 | And what it is, it's about, it's a, her book, by the way, it's a practical guide to pursuing your passion as a business. |
| 0:49.3 | And for Tamara specifically, her family would take her on these big adventures, her mom, dad would take her and her brother on these huge adventures every year. |
| 0:56.6 | They eventually wanted to do something adventurous career-wise together. |
| 1:01.0 | So they opened up this lodge down in Mexico after an awesome trip down there, |
| 1:07.7 | kayaking, sea kayaking. |
| 1:09.6 | And it's the tailwind jungle lodge. |
| 1:11.3 | They've been doing it for almost, gosh, 20 years now. |
| 1:14.5 | And after just learning about this experience, how long it took, how many challenges there |
| 1:19.1 | were, she wrote a book about it. |
| 1:20.4 | And I love the idea of taking what you love and it becoming what you do. |
| 1:24.6 | It's very hard to do that. |
| 1:25.9 | I've been honestly attempting and trying to do that for the |
| 1:28.8 | last well ever since I got a of college. And in a weird way, it's led to what I do now here at |
| 1:34.1 | Athletic Brewing. I still do this podcast on the side. And it's just an ever-changing journey and |
| 1:39.6 | experience of learning. And I really enjoyed this book. uh to celebrate the book and to help get it |
| 1:45.5 | out there to listeners hands we are giving away three copies of the book Tamara was gracious enough |
| 1:50.9 | to give us three copies um by the way Tamara happy mother's day it's mother's day yesterday |
| 1:55.6 | if you want a copy of the book be listening to this episode for a secret word that we're going to |
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