E2T Adventures: Explore, Experience, Thrive
By Marci Nault
www.e2tadventures.com/tell-us-what-you-need
E2T Adventures: Explore, Experience, ThriveMar 25, 2021
Nutrition in the Outdoors with Alora Frederick
Media has made us believe we need to be less, eat less, and control our diet through rules and regulation. Functional and Integrative Nutritionist Alora Frederick debunks the myths and gives us the information we need in order to thrive in our bodies, minds, and our outdoor adventures.
Alora Frederick is a Registered Dietitian focused on applying integrative and functional nutrition models, which examine the root cause of issues rather than just addressing the symptoms. Alora loves to help people feel their best and has a special interest in GI health and mental health (depression & anxiety). She strives to motivate individuals on their health journey and enjoys facilitating an understanding and practical application of nutrition science. She is also passionate about holistic lifestyle practices such as mindfulness, joyful movement, and intuitive eating. Alora aims to create a warm and inviting space where individuals feel empowered and inspired.
www.naturalcompounder.com/alora
Instagram @stateofmindnutrition
Diversity & Inclusion in the Outdoors with Mardi Fuller
Mardi Fuller has hiked all 48 of the New Hampshire White Mountain 4000 footers, twice, once in three season (spring/summer/fall) and once in winter. But being a Black woman raised in New England, it hasn't always been an easy journey to simply get outside and experience her passions.
On this episode of the podcast, Mardi shares her experiences as a Black woman in the outdoors. She speaks to the historic invisibilization of Black people in outdoor recreation, breaks down the notion that Black people “just don’t do that,” and talks about finding community and getting into hiking.
To hear more of Mardi’s voice and her thoughts on connection with the outdoors, find her NRDC.org article, “A Place of Freedom and Belonging in the Great Outdoors,” here: https://www.nrdc.org/stories/place-freedom-and-belonging-great-outdoors?utm_source=in&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=Nature
Cover photo by Joe Klementovich
Period Solutions for the Outdoors with .Pac Founder
Has your period ever held you back from experiencing the outdoors fully? Are you afraid to hike, kayak, camp, or plan that week long trip during your period? Many women accept these limitations because they’ve been conditioned to believe the outdoors is not a place for women on their periods . . .especially since there has never been gear created for personal hygiene during menstrual cycles in the outdoors.
E2T is on a mission to challenge this, because women belong in the outdoors, PERIOD.
On this episode, Marci talks with .PAC (“Period Pac”) founder, Jasmine Oeinck, a gear designer who broke into the industry to create a product specifically designed for periods in the outdoors. Unsatisfied with the lack of gear made for adventurous women who get their periods, she made .PAC, an ultralight, compact kit designed to make it easy to travel with and pack out your period needs.
Tune into E2T’s conversation with Jaz as we talk about breaking into the ‘boy’s club’, share our period stories, and find empowerment as women who explore.
You can get Jasmine’s .PAC in our store on e2tadventures.com
Instagram: lets_go_.pac
All In with Colleen Minuik ~ How to go with life's flow and live by your own rules, so that you enjoy life deeper while having more adventures
Pull up a chair, pour a glass of wine or tea, and relax as we talk creating your own rules for success and taking big risks.
After graduating college with a Business Administration/Computer Information Systems degree, Colleen Miniuk did what she thought was expected of her: she worked as a software engineer for Intel Corporation for almost 10 years. While the cube walls—and the paycheck—were safe, that’s not what she was built for. She walked out of Corporate America on February 28, 2007—a day she considers her Independence Day and celebrates like her birthday.
Now as a full-time outdoor photographer, writer, publisher, speaker, and instructor, Colleen spends over 100 days a year hiking, camping in her Alaskan Camper, stand-up paddleboarding, or rowing down a river—an unexpected course for a woman who spent 40 years checking all the boxes for the American Dream and fearing swimming in water where she couldn’t see her feet!
Through her photography, writings, and adventures, she hopes to help people, especially women, enjoy the Great Outdoors safely and comfortably. She’s written three guidebooks, including Photographing Acadia National Park: The Essential Guide to When, Where, and How after serving three times as an Artist-in-Residence with Acadia National Park. She writes an online photography advice column called “Dear Bubbles” and teaches photography workshops, women’s photography retreats (called “Sheography™”), webinars, and online critique sessions for camera clubs, organizations, and private clients across the U.S.
Learn more about Colleen and her work at www.colleenminiuk.com"
Social Media Links:
Website: www.colleenminiuk.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ColleenMiniukPhoto
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/colleenminiuk/
Sheography: www.sheography.com
My books: www.analemmapress.com
Going with the Flow of Your Menstrual Cycle Instead of Fighting Against It in Outdoor Adventures
For centuries women have hidden, suppressed, and been ashamed of their periods. Society has taught us to ignore our natural cycles of hormones and constantly stay in a stress zone. Furthermore there hasn't been any gear for handling your period in the outdoors. On this podcast Angie and Marci talk about how to work with the ebb and flow of hormones in a healthy and super power way so that all women can feel their best, avoid burnout and find empowerment in their cycles instead of shame.
Buy Your .Pac to have the right gear to store your period supplies.
Angie Madsen is your hormone hype girl and hiking partner with the best snacks. As a fertility awareness educator with an adventurous edge, she helps athletic and outdoorsy people interpret their bodies and use the menstrual cycle to feel strong and confident as they get after their goals. Angie teaches people to harness their natural physiology to boost performance and strengthen the mind-body connection through courses @www.TheHormoneHacker.com.
Instagram: @hormonehacker
Facebook: @hormonehacker
Free and private community Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/hormonehacker
How Two Women are Disrupting the $25 Billion Bra Industry Because Women Have Settled For Too Long
Over 100 years the bra hasn't changed much. Women spend $25 Billion/ Year on their bras and yet 80% are in the wrong size and are uncomfortable. For women in outdoor sports the struggle to find a bra that supports and is comfortable has been one more place that the gear industry has failed women and made them an after-thought.
Catherine Betts, a mom of two small children, who spent her athletic life frustrated and settling with her bras, set out to change the problems women face. With a sewing machine, old sports bras, ace bandages, and saran wrap she made her first prototype. Now the Betts Fit bra is the first of it's kind and with her business partner Danielle Rees they are on a mission to change the way women are supported.
Marci Nault discusses with both owners what it takes to try to change an industry being self-funded, and why women should no longer settle for a bra that hurts their backs, necks, and that makes them uncomfortable.
Click here to buy Betts Fit Bras and support these incredible women while you support yourself and more female gear designers. 10% of all E2T profits go to the Pay it Forward Grant.
TedX Talk on Bras: You'll Never Look at the Bra the Same Way Again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrxJ-9_qXeM
Shop:
https://www.e2tadventures.com/gear-store?category=Betts%20Fit%20Products
Supporting Women in White Water Kayaking with Instructor Amanda Major
E2T Adventures talks women in the outdoors and white water kayaking for women with Amanda Major. For many years white water kayaking was dominated by men. Things are rapidly changing as more women find a love for the river, running rapids, surfing waves, and finding peace in the calm of an eddy in the middle of the river. Amanda Major came to the sport and quickly became an instructor. She explains how her love for the outdoors became her career, and how she overcame fear and an old school boys club to do what she loves. You can take white water kayaking lessons with Amanda through Zoar Outdoor
A More Comfortable Way for Women to Pee in The Woods with Zip Hers Founder Debbie mercer
Buy Zip Hers on E2T Adventures Website and help fund other innovative products from female gear designers.
It's a fact that it's harder for women to pee when hiking in the woods, running marathons, mountain biking or just going for a neighborhood walk. Debbie Mercer created Zip Hers to empower all women to have more comfort and privacy while peeing by creating a pant that's designed for women in the outdoors. Having the ability to unzip from belly button to lower back makes peeing easier for all women. She talks about the journey to bring the product to market and how we need to consistently listen to women's needs in order to create the right gear.
These pants are built for women on the go who need to go.
Debbier Mercer is the owner of USA FIT, national marathon training org; founder of Zip Hers athletic pants with a unique zipper design that allows a woman to "answer the call of nature" outdoors without pulling down her pants. Convenient, discreet, comfortable and empowering for all women.
Breaking Body Image and Size Barriers in the Outdoors with Ashley Manning of Ashley Adventures
For too long the outdoor industry has shown and supported one body type - that of a thin white woman. Listen in as Marci Nault and Ashley Manning try to disrupt the industry's dysmorphia about what a woman should look like in the outdoor world, and how the gear industry has made women feel wrong in their own bodies instead of helping them to discover the world in a comfortable and safe way with appropriately sized gear. This conversation is for any woman who has ever tried on gear and thought, "If I just was taller, shorter, thinner, less muscular, etc, when she tried on gear. It's time to change the conversation and the image of what a woman should be in the outdoors or really anywhere.
Ashley Manning is an outdoor professional that promotes body diversity, inclusion, and equity in the industry and the natural world.
She's commercially guided on whitewater since 2015 and has been in the outdoor industry for almost a decade. Her feet have taken her 982 miles of the Appalachian trail, while her hands have gripped oars that lead her on 2 different expeditions on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon.
"My love for the outdoors grew when I was young, being raised in the Appalachian Mountains of Northeast Georgia and only continues to grow as I continue to travel."
You can find Ashley on social media:
https://www.instagram.com/ashleysadventure/?hl=en
https://www.tiktok.com/@ashleysadventure_?
Click here to purchase Kula Cloths or Ziphers
Let's change the outdoor gear industry together. The outdoors belongs to all women. Please share the podcast and take the survey so that all women can have a safer and more comfortable experience in the outdoors.
The PPP - How to Poop, Pee, and Period for Women in the Outdoors with Guest Anastasia Allison of Kula Cloth
For many women the outdoors hasn't been a comfortable place for one reason - being able to poop, pee and have their periods while on extended hiking, boating, biking, and camping trips. Anastasia Allison the inventor of the Kula Cloth explains to women how to do all three comfortably in the outdoors so it never has to hold you back from any adventure you desire. Learn how and why she invented the innovative Kula Cloth, a piece of gear you won't want to pee in the woods without ever again.
Get Your Kula Cloth on E2T Adventures Website and help fund other innovative products from female gear designers.
You Have to Be Willing to Live Outside the Norm ~ E2T Morning Ignite
On this episode of E2T Adventures Morning Ignite, Marci Nault, discusses the Dirtbag climbers and how they paved the way for others to live a life outside what society deemed proper in the 1950's. She goes into how while some fear living outside of the norm of society, others look to it for a life well-lived and that only by following our deepest desires and dreams can we know what is right for us.
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White Water Kayaking Champion Anna Levesque Talks About Overcoming Fear and Listening to Fact Over Story
Anna Levesque was on the Canadian National Freestyle Kayak Team (five-time member), earning a podium spot at the Freestyle Kayak World Championships, while paddling and competing in over twelve countries on five continents. She's been named one of the Most Inspirational Paddlers Alive by Canoe and Kayak Magazine and voted the Most Inspirational Outdoors Person in the Blue Ridge by Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine.
She produced the first whitewater kayak instructional DVD for women and called it Girls at Play and has toured all over the country helping more women enter the amazing sport of white water kayaking.
Teaching, inspiring and empowering women on whitewater became her passion. She's produced several more instructional DVDs for women and leads women specific trips in Canada, the US, Mexico and Costa Rica. Through www.mindbodypaddle.com she inspires women of all ages and interests to embrace not only paddle sports, but to have healthier minds and bodies as they build their confidence and overcome fear.
Find Your Line ~ E2T Morning Ignite
Have you ever noticed how much advice you can get in a day?
From commercials that tell you what will make your house cleaner, to the people around you helping you with decisions, we get more advice than we even notice.
Some of it helps us greatly, while other advice tends to lead us astray.
Over Labor Day, I was following some advice, well truthfully, I was actually following someone in a river as we kayaked a rapid I hadn't run.
I saw the line I felt I wanted to take, but circumstances caused me to follow someone else. What was right for him, turned into a bad swim for me, and some serious bruising to my leg.
I realized that oftentimes, I look to others for advice when I feel uncertainty instead of trusting my own path and that I needed to change this.
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Why the Hero's Journey is Never Easy ~ Don't Quit ~ E2T Morning Ignite
On this episode, Marci Nault discusses the hero's journey and how struggle may just be where you're supposed to be. If you look at every story ever written, and history in general, for anyone who's accomplished great or new things, they all went through the hero's journey.
Truth, no one would go to movies if the hero didn't have to struggle a bit, grow, learn, and become the super being they were always meant to be.
So if today, or any day, you're feeling like you're never going to make that goal, or improve, or find the path to happiness, know this. . . you may just be on the hero's journey. Look at what you're learning, how even the hero sometimes wonders if they will be able to get up from the hardest blow, and know that if you keep on going, something somehow will work out.
Maybe you're exactly where you're supposed to be. . . learning all that you need to learn.
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You have One Body, One Life, One Playground ~ Earth. Be Adventure.
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To start your Bucket List Life and live a life going from one magnificent dream to the next go to www.marcinault.com
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Enjoying Life Through All Five Senses ~ The Lessons of Living In Florence, Italy ~ E2T Morning Ignite
What if we had the power to feel ultimate bliss anytime we wanted?
That's right. The ability to simply fall into a state of Nirvana?
We think this pure bliss comes from a spiritual awakening, prayer, or in mediation. But what if it came directly from life itself?
Think about it. All around us is this intoxication beauty, from tastes, to smells, to the feeling of touch, to what we hear, and the experiences these create.
On this episode, Marci Nault discusses how in Italy, she realized, that if she became lost in her surroundings, and in the things that brought her joy, she could experience a state of Nirvana. A pure bliss of present moment.
You can read more on Medium.
So how do you reach it? Try today's exercise.
Today's Exercise: Think about three of your favorite ways to enjoy life. It can be anything you truly love. Then today, immerse yourself for a moment in all three activities paying attention to the sights, sounds, smells, physical feelings, letting them overtake you.
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What a Sloth Taught Me About Living Life ~ E2T Morning Ignite
On this episode of E2T Morning Ignite, Marci Nault explains how her encounter with a sloth taught her a great lesson, that it’s in the slowing down that we recognize how beautiful life can be. It’s in the moments when we recognize our surroundings and breathe them in, noticing the small details that we honor the gift of this incredible world and life.
It’s in the slowing, that we have time to restore, to feel gratitude, and to know that it isn’t the checking off of what we see or experience, but how to be more present in those moments.
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You have One Body, One Life, One Playground ~ Earth. Be Adventure.
To join the community go to: www.e2tadventures.com
To start your Bucket List Life and live a life going from one magnificent dream to the next go to www.marcinault.com
Play the E2T Adventure Game and join our Coffee Club @ www.e2tcoffee.com
It's Never too Late to Live out Your Dreams ~ Aviva Cantor talks about adult figure skating, writing, and how failures can be starting points.
Have you ever wanted to go after a dream and either felt that you were too young, too old, or had been rejected? Have you ever been knocked down so hard you felt you would never get back up? On this episode of E2T Explore, Experience, Thrive, Marci Nault speaks with Aviva Cantor, a published children's book author, competitive figure skater and the U.S. Figure Skating Adult Skating Committee's youngest Chair. Aviva speaks to what it means to pursue your deepest passions and schedule your dreams as if they were as important as your work meetings. Listeners will learn how to take on your dreams at any age, even if you've fallen down 100 times (and in front of an audience), and how a little silliness can make things so much easier.
Bio:
Aviva Cantor is the ninth and youngest-ever Chair of the U.S. Figure Skating Adult Skating Committee. This committee oversees the Adult Skating Program, which offers meaningful opportunities for skaters throughout the United States. As a lifelong skater, Aviva’s goal is to continue to guide the committee and the sport in a direction where longevity is a top priority. As a competitor, Aviva particularly enjoys theatrical events where bizarre and flamboyant props are encouraged. Off the ice, Aviva is a self-published children’s book author with professional expertise in fashion e-commerce, branding, marketing, and search engine optimization. If she isn’t skating with unusual objects or writing a catchy tagline, it’s highly likely that Aviva is knitting, cooking, or listening to a true crime podcast.
U.S. Figure Skating Adult Skating Program
http://usfigureskating.org/adultskating
Adult Skating Committee Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/USFSAdultSkatingCommittee/
Adult Skating Committee Instagram
@adultsk8usfs
"I Can Understand" Book (Aviva is happy to sign and personalize!)
The Courage to Follow Your Passion with Liliana Jimenez
Have you ever wondered what life would be like if you followed your passion and left behind the 9-5 job? Listen in as Liliana Jimenez, the co-director of Rumba Y Timbal Dance Company shares her journey of 1000 falls to meet with success as a director, performer, choreographer, and teacher.