Episode #341 - Julieann Hartley (Squirt)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Julieann Hartley is today's guest. She hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2015 and transformed her life. She articulates this so beautifully in our conversation, and you may be a little confused about why we laugh so much while discussing difficult topics. Yet her positivity is what pulled her through both the hike and her subsequent life.
Check her out at Instagram and TikTok, and even on Spotify at the links below.
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We also hear how Dan Whitesides, or Trumpet, ended his AT hike with FrankE, his faithful companion.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we talk the walk with shows by hikers |
| 0:05.3 | about hikers for everybody. Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:33.6 | Hey guys, thanks for coming along to listen again to Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, |
| 0:37.9 | the ultimate midlife crisis. |
| 0:39.8 | And today we're kind of going back to our usual format, though I've got a storm, |
| 0:43.7 | Hurricane Ian, heading my way. |
| 0:45.8 | And as I write and record this at about 11 o'clock on Wednesday morning, |
| 0:50.5 | I'm hopeful the power on the internet will stay on and let me release it. |
| 0:53.6 | But whatever happens, I'll get this show up as soon as my power is restored, assuming that it goes out. I've got still shutters up at all the windows, and the windows just started to pick up above 30 or 40 miles an hour. So let's get straight to it. Our main guest today is Julianne Hartley, who hiked the trail in 2015 and she seems to be in a very different place today. I will say that this is not the |
| 1:14.3 | interview that I was Julianne Hartley, who hiked the trail in 2015, and she seems to be in a very different place today. |
| 1:12.4 | I will say that this is not the interview that I was expecting when I prepared my questions. |
| 1:17.4 | Just listen in to hear a very positive young woman who has faced many crises in her young life. |
| 1:23.6 | Here's Julianne. |
| 1:27.8 | One of my listeners, Bob Ehrlichlegal, bought me this week's guest. |
| 1:32.2 | This is Julianne Hartley or Squirt. |
| 1:34.6 | Hey, Julianne. How are you? |
| 1:35.7 | I'm great. How are you? |
| 1:37.6 | Well, I'm pretty good, thanks. |
| 1:39.2 | And Barb, I don't even know what you know Barb, by the way. |
| 1:42.0 | I don't. |
| 1:43.0 | She sent me a clipping about you that noted that you had hiked the AT in 2015. |
| 1:49.9 | And she's a kind of an insistent friend of mine who wants to, who wants me to catch up with you. |
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