Ep74 - Sydnie Wells: Barstool Outdoors, Burnout, & Keeping It Real
Dive Bomb Squadcast
Ashur Tolliver
4.9 • 561 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sydnie Wells of Barstool Outdoors opens up about the challenges of full-time content creation, from burnout and life on the road to staying authentic in an ever-evolving digital space. She shares her journey from growing up in a hunting family to building a career in outdoor media, her passion for bass fishing, and the importance of introducing new people to the outdoors. Along the way, she reflects on memorable hunts and the personal moments that shaped her. It’s a raw, honest conversation about purpose, passion, and finding balance between work and personal life.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone? Welcome back to the dive bomb squadcast, episode 74 coming at you. |
| 0:13.7 | Today's guest is somebody who has been living and breathing the hunting and fishing |
| 0:18.0 | lifestyle, her whole life, keeping it real and glad you could come on how we |
| 0:22.4 | doing i'm glad i could snag you from your busy busy lifestyle you've got we're doing good uh |
| 0:28.6 | this is so excited i'm glad to be able to hop on the podcast yeah hell yeah we just met this past |
| 0:34.5 | year and it's like now i know everybody's just mad Judy. Listen to him and talk. I could say the same about you after meeting you at NWTF. I was like, dude, I feel like I've known you for like forever. Yeah, I don't know. It's just because like it's like no introduction. We just start talking to each other. Speaking of introduction, give the listeners just a little bit of background on Sydney. |
| 0:55.4 | Yeah, so a little bit of background on Sydney Wells. |
| 0:57.9 | I am from Illinois, from, you know, Central Illinois, Midwest, grew up in the outdoor industry |
| 1:03.9 | just because of my dad, Tim Wells, was engulfed into the hunting world, more so than fishing. |
| 1:09.7 | And then I landed my gig at Barstall Sports |
| 1:13.1 | and the host of Barstall Outdoor. I love to hunt fish, do the whole thing, a typical redneck |
| 1:18.4 | from central Illinois that honestly all we could do for fun is to do outdoor stuff. So I think |
| 1:25.5 | that if you're from the, you know, small town Midwest, like you grew up outside. |
| 1:31.3 | So that's a little bit about me. |
| 1:32.7 | It's a pretty much like overarching idea of what I do. |
| 1:35.9 | Hell yeah. |
| 1:36.7 | Just running in the outdoors game nonstop. |
| 1:39.8 | You might be the busiest person I think I have ever seen in my life, honestly. |
| 1:45.9 | Honestly, like, I will, honestly. Honestly, like, |
| 1:51.3 | I will agree with that because, like, you know, my schedule and like, dang, I don't stop. |
| 1:58.5 | No, it's insane. Relax a little bit. But, yeah, it's on the go 24-7, but so much fun. Yeah, it looks fun. How's life right now? I know you just got done fishing for the |
| 2:02.6 | day and just recording, just going at it. Yeah, so today, a little sneak peek, I guess, because you |
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