Ep. 954: Will to Wild - Shelby Stanger
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Adventure Travel: Shelby Stanger on Wild Ideas Worth Living Podcast and New Book Will to Wild – Using Adventure for Mental Wellbeing, Overcoming Fear, and Living Without Compromise. Shelby Stanger is passionate about how we can use the power of adventure to improve our mental wellbeing and live without compromise. The journalist-turned-podcaster’s work has appeared everywhere from Outside Magazine and CNN to ESPN and The San Diego Union Tribune.
In 2016, Shelby started the Wild Ideas Worth Living Podcast to dive deeper into stories of how adventure and nature changes us. The podcast is now owned by REI Co-op Studios, and Shelby, who has interviewed hundreds of adventurers, remains the host and creator of the show.
Shelby’s new book, Will to Wild is an instruction manual to adventure, inspired by all the lessons she has learned from guest of her podcast and personal adventures over the years. It’s the book she wishes she’d had when she’d first felt the urge to leap from familiar to wild terrain. The one that takes you step-by-step from the first inkling of inspiration for your own wild idea through fear and self-doubt and on to the finish line.
Learn more about Shelby:
@ShelbyStanger on Instagram
Wild Ideas Worth Living Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wild-ideas-worth-living
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:25.2 | Today I'm talking to Shelby Stanger. |
| 0:29.3 | If you don't know Shelby, she is the host of one of the other really big outdoor podcasts called Wild Ideas Worth Living, |
| 0:39.3 | if you've ever looked up the same category of podcast that my show is, |
| 0:44.1 | which is Wilderness in Apple Podcast, you will have seen Wild Ideas Worth Living. |
| 0:49.8 | It is Shelby Show. |
| 0:51.5 | She started it 2016, and she eventually, it got picked up by REI. So it's like literally |
| 0:59.6 | REI's podcast. And that's what she does. It's so cool. And she talks about wild ideas that people |
| 1:06.2 | have around adventure in the outdoors. And so we're going to sit down and talk about her experience, |
| 1:12.0 | how she got to this point, |
| 1:13.2 | how she started off on Vann's Warp Tour, |
| 1:16.3 | which is kind of like a punk rock and metal tour |
| 1:20.6 | that I used to go to a lot as a high schooler in college age, |
| 1:24.0 | so we probably crossed paths and didn't even know it. |
| 1:26.5 | But her show, Wild Ideas Worth |
| 1:28.9 | Living, has led her to some really cool understandings and kind of this knowledge base that she |
| 1:35.7 | has now turned into a book called Will to Wild that she's just released. You can find it anywhere |
| 1:42.3 | you find books. Just Google it. There's links in the show |
| 1:46.0 | notes. Find it on Amazon. I have a couple copies at home. I've gifted a few copies to friends. |
| 1:51.1 | And what we're going to do is we're going to give one of her books away Will to Wild. |
| 1:58.0 | I've already gifted it because it's a really cool how to guide on how to adventure. |
| 2:02.6 | It's like a manual on how to adventure, like everything from the idea to steps to funding it, |
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