Are you itching to add a little spice to your life? To get outdoors and do something new, ambitious, and cool that you’ve never done before? Perhaps some sort of new challenge or adventure?
This podcast, ”Carpe Diem: Live Your Dream” has the simple mission of helping you, the listener, to dream up an adventure for your life - and more importantly, to inspire you to go fulfill it.
Each episode profiles an outdoor activity or adventure of a guest who entertains with their fascinating story. We explore their dream, what motivated them to action, the challenges they encountered, and how they overcame those challenges to see things to conclusion. They inspire, educate, and motivate - all to help you take on your own dream adventure or challenge.
A new episode is published each Friday to give you something to noodle on over the weekend. And check out our accompanying website at www.gocarpediemnow.com for even more stories, guidance, and motivation.
Be entertained, and learn how you, too, can Seize the Day.
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Are you itching to add a little spice to your life? To get outdoors and do something new, ambitious, and cool that you’ve never done before? Perhaps some sort of new challenge or adventure?
This podcast, ”Carpe Diem: Live Your Dream” has the simple mission of helping you, the listener, to dream up an adventure for your life - and more importantly, to inspire you to go fulfill it.
Each episode profiles an outdoor activity or adventure of a guest who entertains with their fascinating story. We explore their dream, what motivated them to action, the challenges they encountered, and how they overcame those challenges to see things to conclusion. They inspire, educate, and motivate - all to help you take on your own dream adventure or challenge.
A new episode is published each Friday to give you something to noodle on over the weekend. And check out our accompanying website at www.gocarpediemnow.com for even more stories, guidance, and motivation.
Be entertained, and learn how you, too, can Seize the Day.
This episode is a conversation with Scott Shawyer, the President and Skipper of the Canada Ocean Racing team, shortly after he and his team completed the 5,000+ mile Ocean Race Europe in their IMOCA 60 foiling ocean racer. That race was just a warm-up for Scott’s ultimate ambition of being the first Canadian to complete the Vendee Globe solo, non-stop, around-the-world race.
Do you ever have an itch for adventure? To explore? To try something new? My guest for this episode literally wrote the book on why that is (or isn’t, for some people). He also wrote the book on human endurance. What a fascinating combo of topics that helps explain what’s behind the accomplishments of my various podcast guests.
This teenage woman is on-track to be the youngest person to complete the series of marathon ocean swims known as The Oceans Seven. These are 10-25 mile swims across 7 of the world’s major ocean channels, including the English Channel, Gibraltar Straights, Moloka’i Channel in Hawaii, and the Cook Straights in New Zealand among others. She battles strong currents, cold waters, jelly fish and hours of fatigue. Few than 40 people have ever accomplished this feat. Listen to why she does it. You can’t argue with her reason.
Tyler “Mac” Fox has spent over a decade hiking the most epic trails around the world. Hear how he went from a totally non-outdoorsy guy to the king of the trail, about a sampling of his best hiking adventures, and how he has turned his love of hiking into the most comprehensive website for thru-hikers. Check it out at ”HalfwayAnywhere.com” for tons of information, including really impressive annual surveys of the Pacific Crest Trail and Continental Divide Trail from over 1,000 thru-hikers.
This is Part 2 of my episode with Jasmine Harrison, the young British woman with an amazing trifecta of ocean records. First she became the youngest female to row 3,000 miles solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She then swam 900 miles up the entire coast of the UK from the southern tip of England to the northern tip of Scotland. And now as I interview her, she is halfway through her 30,000+ mile solo circumnavigation of the world in the Mini Globe Race. That’s ”mini” as in a mini 19 foot sailboat - not a mini globe!! If you haven’t already listened to Part 1, check out Episode #43 first.
What does a young woman do after rowing a boat solo across the Atlantic Ocean? She swims the entire west coast of England, of course. And after that? She sails solo around the world in a very tiny boat. In fact, this episode was recorded via StarLink with my guest sailing across the Coral Sea towards Australia. And it is so packed with adventure, I split it into two parts, so tune in next week for Part 2 and decide which of her adventures is most awesome!
You don’t have to be a pro to experience the course and the thrill of the Tour de France stage race. My guest in this episode describes what it’s like to ride the mountain stages a few days before the pros come through. His times aren’t quite as fast, but the challenge is sure real. And he describes lots of other spectacular rides for us “regular” people to do with our families.
No female climbers had ever completed the Yosemite Triple Crown - until this amazing duo appeared on the scene and nailed it this summer. What is it? It’s speed climbing 8,000 vertical feet up three iconic big walls in Yosemite (El Capitan, Half Dome, and Mt. Watkins) in under 24 hours. Listen in. The training is intense, the risk is high, but the outcome is spectacular. And check out the photos under the Adventure Stories page of my website https://gocarpediemnow.com/ or on Instagram @gocarpediemnow.
Your host (me) was inspired to try his first 100-mile ultra marathon. It was my podcast episode #26 guest that suggested the Front Range Ultra Dayze event in Colorado as my ”hundo” debut. What an experience!! It wasn’t just the race - it was the people I met there. Such interesting and inspiring people. In this episode, I capture live from the scene of the race the perspectives of many of the participants and from the awesome race directors.
This is a great adventure story of four marine biologists who decided to row a boat across the Atlantic Ocean. 38 days at sea with a coffin-sized cabin and 12-hours daily at the oars doesn’t sound like fun, but the friendships and the learnings more than made up for the challenges. Find great photos of the journey at https://gocarpediemnow.com.
How many calories do you think you could burn in a day? My guest, Ethan Hunger, picks a day every year to go to the max on everything physical: biking, running, swimming, HIIT… and logs 12,000+ calories in 24 hours. Why? For an awesome cause of raising money for a food bank. And he has built an amazing collection of such athletics-based fund raisers under the moniker “Hunger vs. Hunger”.
Here’s a married couple that has woven their lives around endurance sports together in a unique and inspiring way. This episode is packed with so many cool adventures like riding the Race Across America (RAAM), the TransAm, a 15,000 km bicycle speed record around the circumference of Australia, and the Norseman Extreme triathlon in Norway. And the list goes on.
Could you spend 16 days non-stop in a canoe with 4 people, paddling more than 12 hours each day? That’s what it took to break the Mississippi River speed record traveling the 2,340 miles from source to sea. Hear the story (and the next big dream adventure) from one of the paddlers and his pal who supports the logistics.
Have you ever dreamed of what it would be like to compete in the Olympics, but feel like that door has closed in your life due to age? Well fear not. You can still go for it in the Senior Olympics, formally known as the National Senior Games. Here’s a guy who threw javelin and shot put in college and is back in the competition 30 years later.
Here’s someone who has walked the walk with 5 Ironman completions, but can also talk the talk on sports psychology. Rather than talking about her own athletic accomplishments, she puts a different twist on this episode. Listen in for her sports psychologist’s perspective on how best to motivate oneself, how to cultivate greater confidence, define your purpose, and improve your performance with your brain rather than your brawn.
Ever try to hold a plank for more than a minute or two? Kinda tough. How about for 5 minutes? Or 10? Well tune into this episode to hear from a planking world record holder who describes what it’s like – and what it takes – to plank for more than 10 hours. It isn’t just about the physical training.
Here’s a young woman who caught the adventure bug full force, all triggered by an unforgettable mountain top sunrise. She went on to complete the Seven Summits in record time, and then moved on to a Greenland Icecap crossing. Just wait to hear what she has planned next!
Did I make it through the 2.4 mile swim, the 112 mile bike, and the 26.2 mile marathon? And if I did, how long did it take and what was it like? This episode is Part 2 of my Ironman journey and is the post-race debrief with my coach shortly after my first Ironman.
As your host, I feel compelled to practice what I preach. Together with my coach, we tell the story of the nearly half-year journey to my first Ironman triathlon - actually, to my first triathlon of any kind. This is part 1 of a 2-part series, with this episode focused on the joys and travails of training, both from my perspective and my coach’s. The experience wasn’t exactly what I expected. The second part - coming soon - will be a post-race debrief, assuming I get to the starting line!!
Less well known, but arguably more beautiful and challenging than crossing the Greenland Icecap or skiing to the South Pole, this Norwegian guide describes what the month-long expedition across Svalbard is like. This remote arctic archipelago in the Barents Sea is out-of-this-world gorgeous. Check out some beautiful photos on my website at gocarpediemnow.com or at rostilleguiding.com. And don’t worry, there’s some good winter camping perspective for those who just want to dip a toe in the snow for a day or two.
Are you itching to add a little spice to your life? To get outdoors and do something new, ambitious, and cool that you’ve never done before? Perhaps some sort of new challenge or adventure?
This podcast, ”Carpe Diem: Live Your Dream” has the simple mission of helping you, the listener, to dream up an adventure for your life - and more importantly, to inspire you to go fulfill it.
Each episode profiles an outdoor activity or adventure of a guest who entertains with their fascinating story. We explore their dream, what motivated them to action, the challenges they encountered, and how they overcame those challenges to see things to conclusion. They inspire, educate, and motivate - all to help you take on your own dream adventure or challenge.
A new episode is published each Friday to give you something to noodle on over the weekend. And check out our accompanying website at www.gocarpediemnow.com for even more stories, guidance, and motivation.
Be entertained, and learn how you, too, can Seize the Day.
