1KHO 460: When We Didn't Think We Could Go Another Day | Will Acuff, No Elevator to Everest

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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What happens when life veers completely off the path you expected—and there’s no guidebook for where you're headed? In this deeply moving episode of The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, Ginny Yurich is joined by Will Acuff, author of No Elevator to Everest, to talk about the transformation that unfolds when we shift from surviving to thriving through spirit-led self-awareness. Will opens up about his raw, honest journey as a husband and father navigating complex PTSD, disabilities, scarcity mindsets, and burnout, while also leading a thriving nonprofit in Nashville. With humor and humility, he shares how learning to ask new questions—like what if we decided to live differently?—radically reshaped his home, his faith, and his future. From parenting through exhaustion to planning a leap-of-faith summer in the Costa Rican jungle, Will brings the hope-filled message that joy can be cultivated—even when nothing on the outside changes. Listeners will be inspired by his practical tools for healing, the spiritual power of play and curiosity, and the gentle challenge to rethink what we believe about success, provision, and purpose. This episode is a gift for anyone who's ever felt like they couldn’t go another day. There is a way forward—and it may just start with the question, What would it look like if...? ** Get your copy of No Elevator to Everest here Check out Will's nonprofit work Corner to Corner here Check out Will's Substack here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.8	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny Erich. I'm the founder of 100 Hours Outside.
0:36.4	And I have a wonderful guest here today.
0:38.3	He just read a book. It came out two days ago. What an honor to get a chance to talk with the author,
0:42.6	The Week of Book Launch. The book is called No Elevator to Everest. Shift from Survive to Thrive
0:48.4	through Spirit-led Self-awareness. The author, Will Aykuff is here. Welcome, Will. Hey, thank you so much for having me. What a joy to be with you this morning.
0:57.0	I am really honored to have this conversation. I have a lot of people. I mean, the premise here is just getting outside.
1:03.3	That's the premise, and it solves a lot of modern day parenting problems, and it sort of helps families to slow down.
1:09.7	However, I get a lot of messages from families
1:11.7	that say, we're really struggling with X, Y, and Z. We're struggling with this behavior issue with our
1:16.7	child. We're struggling with this ability situation. Can you have on guests that would be able to
1:22.4	speak to our situation or that would relate to us and things like that? And so you wrote this
1:26.9	incredible book about your life at home
1:29.9	and struggling with family members with depression and different disabilities
1:34.0	and how you sort of moved out of this survival state.
1:39.0	So it's very honest.
1:40.6	I mean, it's a very, very honest book.
1:42.7	At what point were you like, I'm going to take my life and put it out for everybody to read?
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