The Will to Wild with Shelby Stanger

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Wild Ideas Worth Living's host Shelby Stanger gives us a behind the scenes look at her wild journey to becoming an adventure journalist, host of an REI Co-op podcast, and now author of her brand new book, Will to Wild.

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0:00.0	One common denominator with wild ideas is that they all have scary components, but we
0:08.7	have to pursue them anyway.
0:11.5	Failure is often our biggest fear.
0:13.6	For many of us, it's rare that our wild ideas will take us to the side of a cliff or swimming
0:18.3	across water known for having an abundance of great white sharks.
0:22.0	We are usually more afraid of going broke, leaving the familiar behind, embarrassing ourselves,
0:28.6	not being accepted, or even failing at the thing we told everyone, including ourselves,
0:33.8	we wanted to do.
0:37.7	That's our very own Shelby Stanger, the creator and voice of wild ideas worth living.
0:43.7	She's reading from her new book, Will To Wild, which comes out TODAY!
0:49.5	It's a total page turner with great stories and practical advice, so to celebrate the
0:54.5	book launch, we're flipping this script and interviewing Shelby.
0:58.5	I'm Sylvia Thomas, and I'm Annie Fassler.
1:01.7	Sylvia and I produce write and edit wild ideas worth living.
1:05.6	I've been working on this podcast alongside Shelby for six and a half years.
1:10.3	The first episode I ever edited was episode 12, back in January of 2017.
1:15.4	The show has grown and changed a lot since then.
1:18.2	I've heard Shelby interview some of the most fascinating people, Conrad Anchor, Rue Map,
1:22.9	Chris McDougall, Emily Ford, and many, many more.
1:26.3	Even though Shelby has helped so many people share their stories, we've never gotten a behind-the-scenes
1:31.6	look at her wild idea, to become an adventure journalist and an author.
1:36.7	So let's get the show on the road.
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