Lessons from Extreme Adventures with Jerry Holl, Julie Hotz, and Ryan Higginbotham

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 12 August 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Jerry Holl, Julie Hotz, and Ryan Higginbotham are three ordinary people who decided to drop everything and pursue extraordinary adventures. Each of them wanted to shake themselves free from their routines, push themselves to extremes, and become the best versions of themselves. Setting off on bike, foot, and on paddleboard to travel the length of the west coast of the U.S., these three proved that there is so much we can learn from doing something that pushes our limits in the wild.

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0:00.0	For some people, deciding to pursue an adventure, it's about doing something that hasn't been done before.
0:06.0	But for others, it's about shaking things up from their day-to-day routines.
0:12.0	Sometimes adventures are more about the process of getting there
0:15.0	than accomplishing the feed itself. These days it's easy to find yourself living a life of
0:20.4	busyness or just complacency.
0:23.3	So today I'm talking to three people of varied ages and backgrounds who all decided to shake themselves
0:28.8	out of their own life by pushing themselves to complete an extreme adventure.
0:34.0	I'm Shelby Stanger and this is wild ideas worth living.
0:44.0	Have you ever had the desire to leave your whole life behind,
0:47.0	even if just for a week or maybe a few months,
0:50.0	to forget about the emails, the traffic, the obligations, and just think about survival.
0:57.0	Today I'm talking to three people who did just that.
0:59.8	At age 57, Jerry Hall wrote his bicycle from Alaska to Mexico.
1:05.0	It took him 51 days and 3, 364 miles.
1:10.0	After finishing graduate school, Julie Hotts hiked the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada.
1:16.0	Ryan Hagenbotham and his twin brother Casey, they decided to also go along the Pacific Northwest,
1:22.0	but they decided to hold their adventure in the Pacific Ocean,
1:26.1	starting in Alaska and ending in Mexico, but on paddleboards for over seven months.
1:32.0	Each of these people put their lives on hold to complete a journey that would have a huge impact on who they are as a person.
1:39.0	I talked to them about the decisions that led them to go on these adventures, some of the unexpected moments that happened
1:45.3	within these grand journeys, and the lessons they learn that are influencing the lives
1:50.4	they lead today.
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