Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast.

I'm your host, Mason.

Today is a throwback Thursday episode, and we are talking to Belinda Kirk.

She is an explorer and a leading campaigner promoting the benefits of adventure on well-being.

And for the past 25 years, she has led dozens of international

expeditions to remote filming trips. She's walked through Nicaragua, sailed the Atlantic,

searching for camels in China's desert of death. She's discovered ancient rock paintings,

gained, gotten a Guinness World record for rowing unsupported around

Britain she's led dozens of youth development challenges pioneered inclusive expeditions for

people with disabilities managed scientific research missions and expeditions all across the

world and in 2009 she established explorers Connect a nonprofit organization connecting people

to adventure that has encouraged around 30,000 people, ordinary people, to engage in outdoor

challenges and adventures. This is right in the heart of what we love to do here at Adventure

Sports Podcasts. Encourage more people to get outside doing adventures.

And in 2020, she launched her first conference to explore the adventure effect.

And if you'd like to read her book, Adventure Revolution,

The Life-Changing Power of Choosing Challenge.

You can find it on Amazon or anywhere you get books. It's all

about the transformational power, why we explore, why we do adventure and why it's essential to

our well-being and to living a healthy, happy, and purposeful life. I was very inspired, very

excited about this conversation.

I hope you will be too.

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