Extreme Family Adventure with Ben Crawford
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Imagine hiking for 5 months straight, covering 2,000 miles of harsh terrain. Now imagine doing it with your wife and 6 kids. Yes, 6 kids. Today's guest is Ben Crawford who set the record for the largest hike through the Appalachian trail with his family. His book, 2,000 Miles Together tells the story of this extreme family adventure, the physical challenges they faced, as well as the public ridicule threatened their journey.
Ben explains how incorporating kids into our adventures teaches them ownership, cooperation, and pride in contributing to a shared goal. He shows us how to challenge the status quo and raise our family according our values. He also talks about how to keep the family morale up when all the chips are down.
This story is as insane as it is inspiring. Get ready for extreme family adventure!
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| 0:00.0 | We are men. We are warriors. We are dads with a purpose. Dad's with an edge. We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. |
| 0:14.0 | We have one shot in life to be a dad. |
| 0:20.0 | Why not make it epic? |
| 0:25.0 | Gentlemen, what's going on? |
| 0:29.0 | Gentlemen, what's going on? Welcome to the Dad Edge Podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Larry Hagner, your host and founder of this show. |
| 0:34.4 | I hope you guys are having an amazing start to your 2020. |
| 0:37.8 | I've got a show for you today that is unlike anything you've ever heard in your life and unlike anything |
| 0:46.0 | we've ever featured on this show let me tell you that most of us can't even |
| 0:50.2 | fathom what it would be like to take our kids to Disney for five straight days, more or less hiking |
| 0:58.6 | the Appalachian Trail with not one kid, two, three four kids but six kids because that is what my |
| 1:07.3 | guest did with his wife and his six kids back in 2018. |
| 1:14.0 | Wow, I almost couldn't believe |
| 1:16.3 | when I saw the email come through |
| 1:19.0 | for this particular request to come on the show. |
| 1:22.1 | I had to read it twice, maybe even three times, because I |
| 1:25.5 | couldn't believe that this man, this family, did what they did back in 2018. |
| 1:31.5 | So today I'm interviewing Ben Crawford. |
| 1:35.0 | He's an entrepreneur. |
| 1:36.0 | He's an influencer and he's the best-selling author of 2,000 miles together |
| 1:40.0 | who along with his wife, Cammy, and their six children set the record in 2018 for the largest family to through hike the Appalachian Trail. |
| 1:51.0 | On his YouTube channel, Fight Forward Together, Ben aims to challenge existing perspectives |
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