Redefining Outdoor Media with Dani Reyes-Acosta

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Dani Reyes-Acosta is a runner, a snowboarder, a climber, and a filmmaker who is intentional about the why behind her adventures. She’s currently in the middle of making her first independent film series, called OUTLIER. The series tells the stories of boundary breaking Latina athletes as they explore their own identities and the great outdoors. Dani’s path to adventure film started in corporate America, but eventually she decided to quit her job and pursue a life of storytelling.

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0:20.7	What is the mindset with which you are approaching any particular adventure or moment or step of an adventure like what's the vibe and is the is the vibe driven by someone's bad day at work or is it motivated by the desire to bag a peak or is it deeply rooted in someone's need to prove
0:26.3	themselves?
0:29.3	Danny Reyes Acosta is a runner, a snowboarder, a climber, and a filmmaker who is intentional
0:36.6	about the why behind her adventures.
0:39.2	When she's out in nature, Danny thinks a lot about self, community, and connection with the land.
0:44.0	These themes fuel her mission to redefine sports media.
0:48.0	She's currently in the middle of making her first independent film series called Outlier.
0:52.0	The series tells the stories of
0:54.2	boundary-breaking Latina athletes as they explore their own identities and the
0:58.5	Great Outdoors. Danny's path to adventure film started in corporate America, but eventually she decided to quit her job and pursue a life of storytelling.
1:07.9	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is wild ideas worth living, an REI co-op studios production brought to you by Capital One.
1:19.0	Daniel Catalina Rea Costa, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living.
1:24.6	I have been so excited to speak with you.
1:26.9	Thanks for having me.
1:29.2	So I want to start a little bit from this Wild Idea to quit a corporate job and pursue sports media and mountain sports
1:38.5	which are your like biggest passions and somehow you have made this
1:41.6	beautiful career out of it.
1:43.0	I would like to know the backstory,
1:45.0	like what were you doing in the corporate world
1:48.0	when you quit and when did you decide to quit?
1:51.0	Oh gosh, after I got out of college, my friend Christie and I wanted to drive her old truck
1:58.1	down through Central America surfing along the way and we're going to go work at this nonprofit and then start our own and then sidebar I was going to go do this human rights work in Chile because I did my senior thesis on
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