E2T Adventures: Explore, Experience, Thrive

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.

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.  

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. 

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_?

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.

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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You have One Body, One Life, One Playground ~ Earth. Be Adventure.

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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You have One Body, One Life, One Playground ~ Earth. Be Adventure.

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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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.

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.

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