Ep. 953: Spending Five Years Exploring the South Pacific - Revisited - Nick Watts
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Adventure Travel: Nick on Ocean Adventures, South Pacific Discoveries, and Epic Australia Journeys – Overcoming Self to Embrace the Unknown.
Originally aired October 14, 2019
Growing up in Florida, Nick had fallen in love with water and the ocean lifestyle. However, it wasn’t until studying geography at Florida State University that he discovered just how beautiful other oceans, beaches, and islands around the world really were. He quickly set his eyes on the South Pacific and ultimately Australia. His adventures are vast, his stories are epic, and his stoke for life is contagious.
He sets his compass in the direction of the unknown because he now knows that’s the best way to better your world and open up the opportunities in front of you. Nick is a strong believer that you can do anything you want as long as you overcome the largest barrier in your way...yourself.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason. Today's episode is a throwback Thursday episode. And we're talking to Nick Watts. This one was cool because Nick grew up in Florida. And if you don't know, I did as well. And he, when he went to college, he realized just how beautiful, like the oceans and beaches |
| 0:40.5 | were and began to travel the world, fell in love with the South Pacific, and ended up exploring |
| 0:46.3 | that area for a handful of years. |
| 0:48.8 | You know, what's cool about this is at the time, I'm not sure if he still is, but he was |
| 0:51.9 | involved with Occupation Wild, and we had the founder of Occupation Wilde on a few years ago. |
| 0:58.0 | And, you know, one of the common things on this show, common things we keep running into |
| 1:02.7 | is folks that take the path less traveled in life when it comes to just a career |
| 1:08.6 | and what they end up doing with their lives, myself included. |
| 1:12.6 | And, you know, if you don't know, I work for a brewery during the day in a non-alcoholic |
| 1:16.8 | brewery called athletic brewing. |
| 1:18.1 | In fact, I just got back yesterday from an experience with them. |
| 1:23.4 | We did an Ironman competition, a triathlon. |
| 1:26.5 | We sponsor Iron Man. And one of our big races, like our big |
| 1:30.6 | title race was in Lake Placid, New York. And so I went up there last week. I was there for almost a |
| 1:36.2 | week. I ended up taking my family. And it was just an incredible experience. And if you're on our |
| 1:40.8 | newsletter, you'll notice that I wrote about it how, yeah, it's not a typical adventure that we're used to in a lot of these episodes where you're out in the woods by yourself or having some unique experience. |
| 1:51.0 | There's thousands of people doing this event. |
| 1:53.0 | But it is an absolute adventure and it is something really unique. |
| 1:56.4 | And it's a strange path my career has taken me to that I never could have first seen when I first |
| 2:03.4 | started pursuing bike packing and bike touring in my college years. But here I am working for a brewery |
| 2:11.6 | that's been an incredible experience. I've been there four years. And it all started with just |
| 2:16.4 | taking the road less traveled. |
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