Episode #409 - Alyssa Whoaa (Rainbow Brite)

Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis

Steve Adams

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The uniquely named Alyssa Whoaa is our main guest today. She came to me as a member of the TSX team and she is widely experienced in a variety of different adventures that have taken in many countries and even led her to the South Pole, with the North Pole her next great adventure.

Alyssa has shared several links that may be of interest to listeners having heard her on the podcast. As she says, they are links to "interesting things."

Jobs in the US antarctic program (USAP): The USAP Portal: Science and Support in Antarctica - Jobs and Opportunities

'ai pono hawaii, residential eating disorder treatment facility that i work for (eating disorder coaching is separate from 'ai pono): Residential Eating Disorder Treatment Center

TSX website: TSX Challenge - Guided Backpacking Challenges

Northwinds expeditions, polar trainings in Baffin island: NorthWinds - Northwinds Expeditions

Ventiventiventi project (haven't mentioned this yet, but it's a project I'm supporting in the spring: The Project | Venti Venti Venti

Joanne has had a couple of months to reflect upon her own epic hiking year, and we catch up with her today on the show. The memories are all about "the people."

I often ask listeners for ideas on who to interview, and I'm sure several of you say, "I could do that. I've got an awesome story to tell." You're the person we need to hear from. If you'd like to be interviewed on the podcast, just register as a guest on the link below, and I'll be in touch. Come on the show!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we taught 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.
0:33.5	Hey everybody, welcome back to the podcast. You're listening to the episode number 409 of Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis. And we've got another one of those amazing young women on the show today as our main guest. Alyssa Woe has not only a unique name, but she possesses that, I don't know, thing that we all need to endure tough times, both physical and mental.
0:58.7	She's only 30, but her experiences have been more than enough to satisfy even the most ardent adventurer.
1:04.4	But she's still not finished, and I think you're going to love hearing about what she's done so far, as much as what she's currently planning to do.
1:29.3	Alissa will be on in a moment. Then, in the third of our Mighty Blue Class of 20203 debriefs, we meet up once more with Joanne Flagg, and she reflects upon the year that she had last year. Joanne will follow Alyssa. Before we move on, I'd like to thank those of you who reached out to me to inquire after Dana's health last week. We discovered that she had, as the doctor told her, a boulder-sized kidney stone.
1:35.3	Hyperbole aside, that is one big stone.
1:38.3	She had to spend three nights in hospital and most of this week in pain and a lot of discomfort but she's heading back
1:45.1	to the hospital this Friday to get the boulder removed once again thanks for all your good
1:49.9	wishes now i'm sure most of you recall chris casado on the show he was a guy who eventually got me
1:56.1	to the top of mel whitney with his tsex challenge i've come to regard him as a friend and when he messages
2:01.5	me that somebody has something special about it, then I listen and Chris, as ever, was
2:06.9	absolutely spot on. I'd like you all to meet her now. This is Alyssa Wool or Rainbow Bright.
2:16.4	Our guest today was suggested to me by my friend, in fact a mutual friend of ours, Chris Casano of TSX Challenge.
2:24.3	He said that there was something special about her in his email to me.
2:28.6	She is, I mean, the name's special straight away.
2:31.1	She is Alyssa.
2:33.1	Hey, Lisa, welcome to the show.
2:35.2	Hi, Steve. Thanks so much for having me.
2:38.5	Now, Woe, and it's spelled W-H-O-A-A, it's not just the one, not just the one A, is a name
2:45.8	you to me. Where did that come from? The name is entirely my own.
2:51.3	So growing up, I had a really challenging relationship with my family.
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