Ep. 978: Adventure & Philanthropy - Seth Quigg
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Adventure and philanthropy: Seth on blending international adventure travel with philanthropy – boosting cultural understanding through immersion, building global connections, and making adventures more meaningful for communities.
For a lot of folks adventure is about self-discovery and growth. However, as we’ve seen with hundreds of guests, there are ways to make your adventure more impactful to the communities around you.
Seth joins us today to talk about his new endeavors in combining the worlds of adventure and philanthropy and how you can make your adventures more impactful as well. Seth believes the end goal of international adventure travel should be increasing cultural understanding and learning through cultural immersion, which leads to a world that feels more connected.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 0:23.7 | I'm your host, Mason. |
| 0:24.9 | Today's episode, we're talking to Seth Quig. |
| 0:28.5 | Seth has been on the show before, talking about adventures in Tanzania. |
| 0:33.9 | But today we're talking about what he does for work, which is take people on adventures |
| 0:40.5 | all over the world and tries to instill in them a sense of philanthropy and a sense of, |
| 0:46.7 | you know, what kind of difference can you make? |
| 0:49.1 | And his newest project, he is not only taking people to a location to experience it, but the people in the |
| 0:56.7 | location are also coming home to the homes of the people who go on the trip in the first |
| 1:02.8 | place. So, you know, say a group out of Colorado goes to Nepal, well, to visit a group in |
| 1:09.2 | Nepal. Well, that group in Nepal, you know, school kids or some |
| 1:12.5 | sort of community goes and visits the original community in Colorado. So they swap cultures. And it's |
| 1:19.6 | this really cool, immersive idea that he's launching into. But it's from this career in |
| 1:25.1 | understanding how adventure and travel can affect the world |
| 1:29.8 | and how it can have a positive effect on the world and not just, you know, taking, take, take, |
| 1:34.4 | take and, you know, pop in and out of an area and then leave. |
| 1:38.3 | But how do you become part of a place and, you know, it be a reciprocal relationship? |
| 1:43.9 | So we're going to talk about that and talk |
| 1:45.2 | about how you can make your own adventures more impactful for the world because that's one thing |
| 1:49.6 | I've learned is that a lot of times these big adventures that you do, if you post about them or |
| 1:55.6 | talk about them, they're going to garner a lot of attention. And I've always wanted to direct that attention to something bigger than |
| 2:02.6 | myself, some sort of cause, some sort of mission. And although I haven't done a big adventure in a while, |
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