How To Do What You Love

The Dirtbag Diaries

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Runner, writer, illustrator and all around human Brendan Leonard made a career of doing what he loves. Yes it’s passion and wild creativity, but it’s also the unheralded traits of persistence, thoughtful compromise and perspective that keeps him doing what he loves. Support comes from Kuat Racks Oboz Terns Use code DIRTBAG to save 25% off your first order Diaries+ Members-- Their support is powering the Diaries- thank you! You can join today. Our book, States of Adventure, 30 stories adapted from The Diaries, is out in the wild. See if it's available on your local shelves or order it here: geni.us/StatesofAdventure

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0:00.0	Stay tuned after the episode to hear our latest edition of And Then What?
0:04.0	All right.
0:05.4	Brendan, the other day I saw an Instagram post from a work acquaintance named Griffin Mims.
0:13.6	And he'd had a big moment.
0:14.9	He'd just climbed Mount Everest as part of his journey as a storyteller.
0:19.0	He's taking photos up there. And he was reflecting about how he began.
0:23.8	And he remembered being in a dorm room and seeing a film by Chris Burkart and Renan Ozturk
0:28.8	and thinking, geez, I want to do that with my life.
0:31.8	Like, that looks awesome.
0:33.1	And I want to tell stories in wild places.
0:36.4	And then he's like, how does one do that?
0:40.1	And like sort of becomes paralyzed by the whole thing.
0:43.1	And then he has this moment, which he was shared in his Instagram post, of taking a step
0:46.7	back and being like, well, there's two clear hurdles right out of the gate.
0:51.8	One is I don't own a camera.
0:53.4	And two is I don't know how to use a camera.
0:56.3	And I actually have control over those hurdles.
0:59.6	And that's how he started.
1:00.9	Like he didn't worry about all the craziness that would go between being like, I want to
1:05.6	do this and not knowing how to do it and being like on top of Mount Everest taking photos
1:10.2	for work.
1:11.6	He just started with the basics.
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