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E8: Humility, Perseverance, and How to Be the Best at Being the Worst with Jen Colon
Jenās life is fueled by adventure, travel, laughter, life lessons and doing the things people tell her she canāt do. She thrives on meeting new people and hearing their stores and using them to help motivate and drive...
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E7: It's Not Always Easy Being Green - A Look into Asheville Area Boating Culture with Kelly Holland
Kelly Holland is an educator living and teaching in Asheville, NC. Her 9-5 is in art education - teaching visual art to K-12 students with severe and profound disabilities. In the summer and on the weekends, she is a...
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E6: An Alternative Way to Leave No Trace with recent Yale Graduate, Mara MacDonnell
Mara MacDonell has a Masters of Environmental Science from Yale, where she grew her interest for community development, natural resource management, science education, outdoor recreation and environmental justice,...
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E5: Affordable Health Insurance for broke dirtbags with Carrie Soulliere
Carrie Soulliere is a South Eastern rafter and insurance agent who serves the whitewater community nationwide. Carrie focuses on affordable health insurance. Most members of the guiding and tourism communities qualify...
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E4: The Flipside of Misogyny ā A Woman's Guide to Righting that Raft with Morri Stewart
Morri Stewart has been a whitewater river guide for 30+ years, navigating rivers in the Western United States and the world, from the Colorado River to the Tatenshini/Alsek, the Tuolumne and Kern Rivers, California,...
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E:3 Damsels in Distress, Caretakers, and Being Socialized as Female in Whitewater with Matty Alpert
Matty Alpert, they/them is newer to the whitewater kayaking world, but has been a part of the outdoor industry for the past 6 years. They started working for their university's outdoor program and now works for NCOBS...
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E:2 Fat Shaming within the Whitewater Kayaking Community with Claudia Behringer-Smith
Claudia Behringer-Smith(she/her/hers), works for Camp Merrie-Woode as their Adventure Program Coordinator and has been working in the Outdoor Industry since she was 18. Claudia's been recreating outside her entire...
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E1: Whitewater War Stories and Why We Glorify Trauma with Stress Injury Expert: Julia Yanker
Julia Yanker is an adventurer and paddler, as well as a coach for outdoor enthusiasts. She specializes in treating stress injury after a traumatic incident, and also coaches adventurers with everyday problems like...
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