The Bucket List Traveler
Out There
Willow Belden
4.6 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Many of us assume that self care is inherently selfish — that we either focus on ourselves, or we help others.
But what if that's a false dichotomy? This story explores how self care can end up being good for the greater community.
The story follows a woman named Linda Mohammad, also known as the Bucket List Traveler, who set out to visit all the national parks in the United States. When she started the project, she was just trying to get in shape and unplug from her hectic life. But the experience snowballed into something much bigger, and much more beautiful, than that.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Jessica Taylor and I am the advertising manager at Out There podcast and I'm actually in the middle of the Grand Canyon right now. |
| 0:12.7 | And I'm out at Plateau Point. So I'm right above the Colorado River and I've opened up my PeakVisor app. |
| 0:21.1 | PeakVisor is our sponsor for this episode. |
| 0:24.6 | Their app helps you figure out what you're looking at when you're out on adventures. |
| 0:29.3 | Let's say you're in a national park and you see a mountain in the distance, and you want to know what it is. |
| 0:34.8 | PeakVisor will tell you. |
| 0:36.9 | It'll show you the name of the summit, how tall it is, how far away it is, plus loads more info. |
| 0:44.0 | It's really cool to be able to see every single point and every single elevation of the entire canyon all the way around me. |
| 0:53.1 | If you'd like to have your own personal mountain guide, |
| 0:56.6 | check out Peak Fizer in the app store. |
| 0:59.2 | You just might love it. |
| 1:06.5 | Hi, I'm Willow Belden, and you're listening to Out There, |
| 1:10.5 | the podcast that explores big questions |
| 1:13.4 | through intimate stories outdoors. Before we get started today, I wanted to let you know that we are |
| 1:20.6 | currently accepting pitches for our upcoming season. The theme for the season is Things I Thought I knew. If you're an audio producer or writer |
| 1:30.9 | and you'd like to pitch us a story, head over to our website, Out Therepodcast.com. We have all the |
| 1:37.2 | details on what kinds of stories we're looking for, as well as how to pitch us under the contact tab. Pitches |
| 1:43.8 | are due July 30th. |
| 1:52.2 | One of the things I think about a lot these days is the boundary between self-care and doing good |
| 1:58.9 | for others. How much self-care is appropriate, and when do you stop |
| 2:03.5 | thinking about you and focus on the greater good? Where's the balance? Today's story offers a new |
| 2:11.2 | twist on that question. It explores this division between self-care and acts of service, and asks whether we're looking at it the wrong way. |
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