The Dirt Therapy Project Gets Military Veterans on the Trail
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan Hagerman and his wife Alexandra co-founded The Dirt Therapy Project, a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to helping military veterans heal through riding. Jonathan served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2009-2013 and deployed to Afghanistan as a part of Operation Enduring Freedom.
With Veterans Day just around the corner, Matt and Jeff, also both veterans, speak with Jonathan about his experience serving and learn how The Dirt Therapy Project is connecting veterans with mountain biking.
Learn more about The Dirt Therapy Project and find out how you can get involved at tdtp.org.
✏️ A written transcript of this conversation is available at singletracks.com.
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| 0:48.2 | Hey everyone. Welcome to the Single Tracks podcast. I'm Matt. I'm the Features editor at Single Tracks. And today I'm here with Jeff, |
| 0:56.4 | our editor-in-chief. And we're here with John Hagerman, the mountain biker, US Marine Corvette, |
| 1:01.8 | who started the Dirt Therapy Project, a nonprofit founded to connect military vets with mountain biking |
| 1:07.5 | opportunities. He started the organization in 2018. Thanks for joining us, |
| 1:12.1 | John. Absolutely. Yeah. Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it. Yeah, we're super excited to have |
| 1:17.3 | you. For those that don't know, I am a Marine Corvette as well. And Jeff is actually an Air Force |
| 1:24.0 | veteran. And obviously, we both found mountain biking at some point. So it's cool to |
| 1:30.1 | kind of have that connection and then see organizations like you doing more to bring mountain |
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