Jon Totten // Sailing Therapy at Dogsmile Adventures
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2022
⏱️ 129 minutes
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Summary
#354. Jon Totten is an outdoorsman, educator, sailor, and all-around great person. He spent 12 years leading outdoor adventures in Northern Idaho before he found a path as a professional sailor. Jon led sailing charters in the San Juan Islands and the Caribbean until life forced him to change paths. After an absolutely epic adventure in 2020, he went back to Idaho where he founded his nonprofit, Dogsmile Adventures. His organization is now in its second year creating therapeutic sailing opportunities for everyone. Check it out at dogsmileadventures.org and be sure to watch their Youtube videos to hear more stories from the folks who sail with Jon.
In this episode, Emma and Jon discuss the path that led Jon to Dogsmile Adventures. They talk about addiction, mental health, the healing power of the outdoors, and how to make sailing available to more people.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of On the Wind. A quick business update. Andy, Vilma, and Philippa are all down on Ice Bear right now in Antigua. Andy's about to hand over the boat to Chris, who is from the company Seized to Summits. |
| 0:18.7 | Him and his wife make some amazing videos and have done a lot of |
| 0:23.1 | very long distance, high latitude, cool, cool, cool sailing. So Chris will be skippering the next |
| 0:30.1 | couple of trips. And then Andy and myself will rejoin Ice Bear in Bermuda to take the boat |
| 0:36.1 | back across the Atlantic. August is getting East |
| 0:39.4 | Bjorn ready up in Norway to be taken north by Jan Amtrip, one of our new skippers on East |
| 0:45.7 | Bjorn. And then August and I will be doing the Spitzbergen Adventure trip up in Svalbard, which I'm |
| 0:52.4 | super excited for. So there's a lot of good sailing on the |
| 0:55.9 | horizon and we will be filling you in on that here and there as the podcast season continues and as |
| 1:02.8 | we start going sailing. Today's episode is a long one, as you can see, but I highly recommend |
| 1:09.8 | you stick with it, take a break if you need. |
| 1:13.1 | I had so much fun talking to John about his life and sailing, and yeah, we got really deep, |
| 1:20.4 | and I appreciate John's honesty and openness, and hope you guys enjoy it. |
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