This episode of She Explorers is brought to you by Outdoor Research.

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35 years later, they are still driven by providing innovation and inspiration for the relentless

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They're more than just the gear they build.

They're part of a community whose lives are connected

by their common need to be outside.

Their tribe is devoted to exploring their outdoor passions and challenging themselves in the mountains, water, and deserts of the planet that we love so much.

Join the adventure at www outdoor research.com. I gravitated towards she explores because of its vibrant sense of community.

And we'd been traveling for a bit so I still felt fairly new but fairly confident

in sharing my story and I just really wanted to be a part of that platform.

I was excited to be a part of She Explores because I admire the holistic approach that it takes to modern

women in the outdoors.

I felt that a little flutter of excitement and

anticipation that you get when you're invited to share in something that you're

really passionate about. What really

interested in and passionate about, which was the outdoors being a woman and creativity.

And I think that why I chose to write for She Explores why I chose to contribute to She

Explores has a lot to do with ideas behind my own blog about living with passion, living fired up, living deliberately

and being super vulnerable which is not easy for anybody.

And what I saw she explores doing was sharing stories of women that were doing just that.

I choose to be part of She Explores because I want to be a part of the growing community of women

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