[Music]
there wasn’t really a job description
for what I wanted to do you know people
don’t hire storytellers much less
adventure storytellers that was my dream
I mean I was that six year old kid you’d
see with his face buried in national
Geographics I knew there was magic in
life on the road
I loved climbing I loved being outside I
would load all this stuff up into my car
read the city and I’d spend a couple
months out on the road and then I’d come
back home and I’d write it all down but
I wound up with all these stories I’d
gathered from my time on the road and I
just I couldn’t sell them anywhere I was
about to give up when I had this
realization that nobody was gonna give
me this job I had to go create it once I
realized that it was like the horizon
opened up I started a radio show in my
closet I went on to make films
we found our community it’s seven years
later and I’m still basically doing the
same thing I’m loading up here putting
it in the car and hitting the road to go
spend time with the people that inspire
me in places that inspire me that
process has come full circle right back
to where my dream started
when National Geographic asked me to
help with adventures of the year the
six-year-old boy and me kind of chuckled
we pulled together 10 incredible stories
10 incredible feats from people who live
life on their own terms I think it can
be easy to put these people up on a
pedestal they think of them as heroes or
almost superhuman and well talent plays
a role and these people’s feats and
their successes it’s not what makes
their ideas of the allottee it’s grit
creativity passion kindness and love
that’s the human spirit
I know my heart I could be an adventurer
of the year but that’s not what I want
to do I want to tell stories spend as
much time as I can outside and pass that
love for it belong to my son
my struggles to make my dreams a reality
I’ve taken just as much commitment as
paddling into a big wave or climbing a
peak in the Karakoram there’s a lot of
ways to take risks in life that’s that’s
the magic
I know this you have to do the thing
that makes you tick you have to do it on
a daily basis you have to do it
unapologetically do it fluff
there wasn’t really a job description
for what I wanted to do you know people
don’t hire storytellers much less
adventure storytellers that was my dream
I mean I was that six year old kid you’d
see with his face buried in national
Geographics I knew there was magic in
life on the road
I loved climbing I loved being outside I
would load all this stuff up into my car
read the city and I’d spend a couple
months out on the road and then I’d come
back home and I’d write it all down but
I wound up with all these stories I’d
gathered from my time on the road and I
just I couldn’t sell them anywhere I was
about to give up when I had this
realization that nobody was gonna give
me this job I had to go create it once I
realized that it was like the horizon
opened up I started a radio show in my
closet I went on to make films
we found our community it’s seven years
later and I’m still basically doing the
same thing I’m loading up here putting
it in the car and hitting the road to go
spend time with the people that inspire
me in places that inspire me that
process has come full circle right back
to where my dream started
when National Geographic asked me to
help with adventures of the year the
six-year-old boy and me kind of chuckled
we pulled together 10 incredible stories
10 incredible feats from people who live
life on their own terms I think it can
be easy to put these people up on a
pedestal they think of them as heroes or
almost superhuman and well talent plays
a role and these people’s feats and
their successes it’s not what makes
their ideas of the allottee it’s grit
creativity passion kindness and love
that’s the human spirit
I know my heart I could be an adventurer
of the year but that’s not what I want
to do I want to tell stories spend as
much time as I can outside and pass that
love for it belong to my son
my struggles to make my dreams a reality
I’ve taken just as much commitment as
paddling into a big wave or climbing a
peak in the Karakoram there’s a lot of
ways to take risks in life that’s that’s
the magic
I know this you have to do the thing
that makes you tick you have to do it on
a daily basis you have to do it
unapologetically do it fluff
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