29 Mar 4 ways you can get paid to hike.
Have you ever caught yourself saying, "I wish I could get paid to hike for a living!"? This post will get your wheels turning - maybe it isn't just a pipe dream. ...
Adventurepreneurship
09 Jan Frequently Asked Questions with The Musical Mountaineers!
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A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. -Leopold Stokowski [caption id="attachment_2738" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] The Musical Mountaineers, Rose (piano) and Anastasia (violin)[/caption] I never imagined that I would be one half of The Musical Mountaineers. Even now, when I watch our videos or look at the photographs from our adventures, I have to pinch myself - "Is this real life?". When I decided to jump in and blaze my own trail, I knew it was going to be beautiful, but I never imagined...
07 Jan A few tips for writing beautiful, adventure-inspired poetry!
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My official “poetry training” is as follows: I started writing poems as a child on an old, manual typewriter. That’s it. I’ve never taken a class on how to write a poem. I vaguely remember learning something about, “iambic pentameter”, but I would need to use Google to remember what it means. I know what a haiku is, but otherwise, if you are looking for some sort of definitive poetry training, I have no clue what I’m talking about – and I’m so incredibly thankful...
04 Jan How a fraction of a second changed my life forever.
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“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?” - Rumi One year ago today, I almost lost everything. My mom and my husband and I were driving home from the most incredibly wonderful day of snowshoeing, when our truck hit a patch of black ice and went spinning across the highway - directly into the path of an oncoming semi-truck. To this day, I cannot explain why I am still here. There is no feasible explanation for how we did not get struck...
29 Dec You are enough.
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I wrote this poem for any girl who has ever questioned herself...
21 Dec How I learned to follow my heart and TRUST the trail.
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One day, before I believed that everything was possible, I wrote, “You can’t force magic” on the back of my hand. I didn’t even know what it meant – I just knew that I needed to understand it. I had been living in a world of “can’t, shouldn’t, won’t, will not, don’t” for so long. I was trapped in place by fear of the unknown. I believed that every “what-if” scenario in the world was involved in a giant conspiracy to prevent me from being...
01 Nov Blazing a Trail to Impact Millions
On July 20th of this past year, I wrote the following:
My dreams are laughable. Seriously, laughable. ⠀⠀
I am going to be the much (much) smaller, female version of Tony Robbins for people who love the mountains and adventure. I am going to write a NY Times best seller about my experiences in the mountains and how they have translated into massive success in my life (NOTE: I almost deleted this sentence out of fear of failure, but I caught myself and am admitting it to...
15 Jul The Adventure-preneur Diaries, Episode 1: How I am going to get paid to hike (and, in general, have adventures).
I have a confession to make: I’ve been playing it safe. All along, I’ve known that I wasn’t living up to my true potential, and I was too afraid to change my situation. I was too afraid to leave my job: my fear of poverty and of being “irresponsible” was oppressively restricting. I was worried about what people would say – that I’m being silly, ridiculous and reckless. I was terrified of failure. These fears kept me trapped in...