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I'm Gail Straub and you're listening to a special episode of She Explorers highlighting

the recent Virtual Women's Outdoor Summit.

I live in debt to those who came before me and an obligation to those who will come after.

When we have a baby, we have this vision and then as we're growing we need to let go. We need to let that baby run and to actually

empower our team to step in and to help us.

Yeah, sometimes you trip and you have to brush the gravel out of your pumps, but at least you're moving forward.

The opportunity to just kind of pause and listen, pause and engage, take full advantage of an open mind and what that can generate as far as learnings and empathy and applied action in the future, I think it reinforced for me personally how valuable it is to make sure that you dedicate time to learning.

Before I share more highlights, let's talk about the first Women's Outdoor Summit.

It took place in the summer of 2017 at the Presidio, a beautiful park in San Francisco. There were close to 200 attendees and the two-day

event was the brainchild of Teresa Baker. Here she is.

People have asked why I came up with this event.

Back in 2017, I had a lot of women reach out to me to ask for help.

They were concerned with matters of sexual harassment within their workplace and the National Park Service itself was dealing with matters of sexual harassment.

So when the fire chief at Yosemite went before Congress to testify on sexual harassment in the National Park Service,

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