Salomon asked runners from around the world to share their #runningdreamtrip. Over 3000 people applied but only one was chosen. Katie Adams, of Sandpoint, Idaho. Katie took the trip with Emelie Forsberg and Ida Nilsson. They explored the Norwegian fjords and mountains by boat before setting off on foot and spending their days running from hut to hut.
Katie joins us today to tell us how, encouraged by her husband Gwen LeTutour, she applied for a won, and what it was like to go on the trip of her dreams. We also get into the love and awesomeness of trail running and finally talk a bit about the work they are doing to raise awareness about important causes and help people on their journey to find happiness through being outside and eating better.
Where to find Katie and Gwen
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About Lisa Gerber:
Lisa advises CEOs and senior level management on how to use the power of storytelling and effective communication to influence action and bring ideas to life.
She guides companies through the digital maze of constantly changing tools to build discovery, loyalty, and ultimately help them achieve their own big leaps.
When she is not in her office, she might be out skiing or trail running. This is where she does her best creative problem solving.
To learn more about booking Lisa for consulting, speaking or workshops, visit www.bigleapcreative.com.
It can take young adult cancer survivors a decade to get back into life after treatment. David Victorson is the founder of True North Treks. He, along with his family members and team at TNT want to help young adults reconnect not only with themselves but also with nature after the most unnatural of treatments.
David is an associate professor at the Department of Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University in Chicago. He is licensed in clinical psychology and a PhD. One area of his research focuses on the health benefits of mindfulness meditation and yoga and their stress reducing and quality of life enhancing effects for people with cancer.
Some ideas start off as a whisper and grow into a shout or a scream. Today is yet another story of making ideas happen so let’s listen in and gear up for what’s next:
Three things are left out of the healthcare equation when it comes to cancer treatment:
At True North Treks, they take kids into the outdoors and keep them safe, dry, warm, and well-fed and connect them with others, drop in some mindful training, and not be too support group like.
Here is the poem written by his grandmother shortly after she lost her son.
Forest Cathedral
By Delilah Victorson
Oh how I love to walk out in the woods
In it's calm and still beauty I have long understood
As I look at the wonders our creator has made
All the hustle and bustle of this world seems to fade
Down in the meadow you hear the call of a lark
While high on the hill some deer feed on bark
There's winter green berries and wild onion shoots
An abundance of flowers and trailing green roots
Now if you go in the forest with the world you're off key
And you're quiet and still and you sit and you see
Here you know of God's love and you know by his grace
Of all worldly issues you're able to face
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There has to be a certain kind of crazy to do some of the things Mark Gibson has taken on. He’s done things like skateboarded from capital to capital (Washington DC to Ottawa, Canada) with his son. He ran 276 miles across the state of Pennsylvania from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia in (ten days - averaging over a marathon a day).
He’s run the rim to rim to rim in the Grand Canyon and a 100-mile run along the entire length of the Florida Keys from Key Largo to Key West straight through) to name a few.
Mark is formally a member of the British National Gymnastics Team. He went on to become assistant coach to the U.S. Junior Olympic Team in Colorado Springs and now, teaches gymnastics to kids at his own gymnastics center in Pennsylvania. He is a keynote speaker and author of "Going For It” and “It’s Not About What You Can’t Do. It’s About What You Can’t Do Yet.”
This isn’t necessarily to inspire you to concoct some strange thing to take on. It’s to inspire you hopefully to do the thing you want to do, whether you are 100 percent prepared or not, whether the time is right or not, whether you might fail or not. Mark quit his job one month before his son was born to launch his speaking and writing career. He has a lot to share:
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Let’s listen in gear up for what’s next.
About Lisa Gerber: Lisa advises CEOs and senior level management on how to use the power of storytelling and effective communication to influence action and bring ideas to life.
She guides companies through the digital maze of constantly changing tools to build discovery, loyalty, and ultimately help them achieve their own big leaps.
When she is not in her office, she might be out skiing or trail running. This is where she does her best creative problem solving.
To learn more about booking Lisa for consulting, speaking or workshops, visit www.bigleapcreative.com.
Backcountry Lifeline was founded in August 2015, following a crash on Stage 3 of the Big Mountain Enduro Series and Enduro World Series in Crested Butte, CO, in which 40-year old Will Olson died. Will was an expert rider favored to win the series, and to those who founded backcountry lifeline, he was a respected fellow rider, friend, and beloved fiancé. His death rocked the bike community, and support poured in from around the globe.
Today, his fiancé Bonnie McDonald joins the show to discuss loss and how to make some sense out of it with some purpose and drive.
Bonnie and the team at Backcountry Lifeline would like to help lead the way and shift the conversation on safety and medical support in the mountain biking community in general. There is no standard in mountain biking events and quite honestly, the mountain bike industry is behind others. It’s time to change that.
Be sure and stay to the end. Just as I was about to wrap up and say good bye, Bonnie shared some of the unintended beauty, collateral beauty as it’s known, in this tragedy. It’s heartbreaking and beautiful. I considered editing and bringing this piece of the conversation forward into the episode but it goes exactly where it is, a fitting end.
Let’s listen in gear up for what’s next.
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About Lisa Gerber: Lisa advises CEOs and senior level management on how to use the power of storytelling and effective communication to influence action and bring ideas to life.
She guides companies through the digital maze of constantly changing tools to build discovery, loyalty, and ultimately help them achieve their own big leaps.
When she is not in her office, she might be out skiing or trail running. This is where she does her best creative problem solving.
To learn more about booking Lisa for consulting, speaking or workshops, visit www.bigleapcreative.com.
When you get a new lease on life, you stop checking boxes and do things differently. Randy Milanovic is the CEO and founder of Kayak Online Marketing. In 2009, a tough year for most of us, he had an even tougher year. He was diagnosed with cancer and I don’t mean to spoil the story but he’s here to tell us about it and how it changed the way he does business and does life. We’ll learn how he reinvented his business on the heels of an economic downturn with a fresh outlook on life and … listen to the end because you’re even going to get an invite to go kayaking.
Hope you find today’s episode inspiring.
With that, let’s listen in and gear up for what’s next.
Where to Find Randy
About Lisa Gerber:
Lisa advises CEOs and senior level management on how to use the power of storytelling and effective communication to influence action and bring ideas to life.
She guides companies through the digital maze of constantly changing tools to build discovery, loyalty, and ultimately help them achieve their own big leaps.
When she is not in her office, she might be out skiing or trail running. This is where she does her best creative problem solving.
To learn more about booking Lisa for consulting, speaking or workshops, visit www.bigleapcreative.com.