Walking & Cold Plunging as a Meditative Practice with Libby DeLana

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Libby DeLana began walking every day at age 50, while juggling her role as co-founder of an ad agency and parenting two teenage boys. What started as a one-month experiment became a 13-year streak of daily walks. Alongside walking, Libby embraced cold plunging as a way to reset her mind and body. These rituals helped her reinvent herself as an author, podcast host, model, and inspiration for others seeking clarity and transformation through movement.

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0:00.0	Sometimes the wildest ideas have nothing to do with lengthy expeditions or unbelievable physical feats.
0:09.7	They can be as simple as walking out your front door.
0:13.4	That's what Libby Delana discovered in 2012, when she committed to walking every day for a month.
0:19.6	At the end of that month, Libby decided to keep going.
0:23.2	For the past 13 years, she's gone for a mindful walk every single day,
0:28.3	and it's completely transformed her life.
0:31.0	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is Wild Ideas Worth Living,
0:34.6	an REI Co-op Studios production presented by Capital One and the REI Co-Op MasterCard.
0:42.8	When Libby first laced up her walking shoes, she was 50 years old, juggling her work at an ad
0:48.7	agency that she co-founded while parenting two teenage boys. Nowadays, things look a little different.
0:55.7	Walking gave Libby the clarity in space to reinvent herself as an author, a podcast
1:00.9	host, a model, and an inspiration for countless others to discover their own path,
1:07.1	one step at a time.
1:11.5	Libby DeLana, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.
1:15.1	We have been very excited to speak with you.
1:17.2	So thanks for coming on the show.
1:18.9	Oh, it's my pleasure.
1:20.1	Well, let's talk about this transformative practice that you've developed in the last
1:23.4	years.
1:23.7	So when did you start this practice of daily walking?
1:29.0	First off, thank you for having me and thank you for asking because honestly I feel at age I'm about to be 63, which is
1:34.6	just honestly mind-blowing and fabulous. Seems like incredible privilege. But sort of the opportunity
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