The Adventure Cure: life changing stories and tools for more meaningful living, features interviews with people who have gone through paradigm shifts in their lives, as well as mental health experts, exploring questions like "what billboard would you put up for the world to see? " and "how do you define success?" The show takes listeners on an emotional journey as we learn about tools and experiences that can help us find more meaning and improve our mental health.
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“Love is Stronger than Fear - Stage 4 Cancer w/3 young kids” with Caitlin Bomar
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I know I know I haven’t put out an episode in a while, please forgive me. Since my last episode I have moved to another state, South Carolina, started a new businesses, and continued to father my three little girls, which turns out to me quite a task. Needless to say, I’m coming out of my hiding hole to release this episode. It was too special not …
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"How To Bring Child Soldiers Back into Society" with Johnson Bohr
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"How To Bring Child Soldiers Back into Society" with Johnson Bohr Many of you have likely seen the movie Blood Diamond and are familiar with the concept of child soldiers that were recruited to fight in various wars in Africa. Have you ever wondered what happens to these kids when the war is over? How do they go back and interact with their communi…
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Today's guest has a story that is about as raw as they get. Steve Labse is a skydiving enthusiast, a business owner and someone who has become extremely self aware through a series of challenges and experiences over the past decade or so. Steve has an amazing perspective about how we spend our days and what it also looks like to waste forty years o…
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"Finding a Normal Life After Losing My Feet & Hands at 18" with Elizabeth (Garrett) Esthay
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Imagine yourself at age 18, a freshman in college, your whole life in front of you and suddenly you are struck with an illness out of nowhere and it soon takes both of your feet and parts of your hands with it. This was and is the reality for our guest today, Elizabeth Esthay. All of us find ourselves with various challenges dumped into our lives, …
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“How Writing My Memoir Saved My Life” with author Ally Fallon
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During today’s episode, we sit down and get to hear some incredible tips and lessons from a best selling author, Allison Fallon. Ally is also a sought after public speaker, and nationally recognized writing coach. She has coached hundreds or perhaps even thousands of writers - from NYT Bestselling authors to total beginners to help them finally get…
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“Ditching the American Dream for a Calling to Africa” with Jenny Nuccio
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Social Enterprise: an enterprise that is created around solving a social problem, taking an idea and making sure it is solving a social problem, for the good. It all started with one sentence printed in a church bulletin “If you want to go to Mombasa Kenya, call Chris Boyd.” Today's episode is a conversation with an incredibly brave and inspiring f…
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“How to live without a Bucket List: A Story of Adventure, Tragedy, and Resilience” with Ashley Bugge
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"And so I just kind of started thinking, this is how we would live our lives if Bryan was here, and how can I make that happen even though he's not here but still honor him and the way he wanted to raise our babies also. So I started planning this trip. I needed something to look forward to and plan and take my mind off the right now. I needed some…
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''Chasing the American Dream (Part 2/2)”: From Border Crossing To Citizenship with Orbin G.
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Welcome to part 2 of Chasing the American dream with Orbin. I must say, if you have yet to listen to the previous episode, #23, I highly recommend listening to it first, as these build on each other. Ok, moving on, so this continues Orbin’s story starting from freshly crossing the US border, and now we’ll listen along and see what his fate will be.…
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''Chasing the American Dream (part 1/2): A Near Deadly Border Crossing in Search of a Better Life" with Orbin G.
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Giddy up because this episode is one hell of a ride! Its seems like every day on the news we hear numbers like 5000 migrants crossed the southern U.S. Border today and x number of migrants did x or y and applied for asylum. For many of us, living our comfortable lives as American citizens, these are just statistics that baffle us, but in reality, e…
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“Surviving a Mother Who Kept Trying to Kill Me” with author Leslie Ferguson
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Before we get rolling, I’d like to give another trigger warning for this episode. This one is quite visceral and, per the name, involves some violence and attempted harm between mother and child. Leslies story is about her struggle to survive and navigate a childhood with a psychotic dangerous paranoid schizophrenic mother who was convinced the com…
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“ Take Your Shit Seriously: How Ignoring Cancer Symptoms Almost killed Me” with Michael Hackett
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“There is something about being content…we talked about us being neighbors, I have outgrown my house but I’m not moving. I appreciate having coffee on the front porch on Saturdays when its just my wife and I. That… does it for me.” Hello my faithful listeners, welcome to Episode #21! Thanks for sticking with me! I have so much good stuff in the pip…
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“Using Zen/Meditation to See the Ordinary life as Plenty” with Zen Master Henry Shukman
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It seems as if the speed at which we live our lives presently, especially in the western world is one at which we cannot sustain. It appears that we are in a mental health crisis, especially in America. With depression, suicide, violent crime, and even gosh mass shootings on the rise, there has perhaps never been a more relevant time to discuss way…
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“Practical Tips to Ditch the 9-5 and Live your Dream Life: From the Most Interesting Man in the World” with Josh Koerpel
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Todays show might just make you rethink the way you live your daily life. Today we will hear from my friend Josh Koerpel, who, if you listen to him, can teach you how to, as he calls it, live dangerously. Josh is a digital nomad, meaning he can work from and live anywhere while also making a good living and experiencing the adventure that travel al…
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"The Secret Society of Success" with author Tim Schurrer
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Tell me this, do you ever get caught in a cycle where you start telling yourself, “you know, I really deserve more credit than I am getting, I should be the one getting that promotion, I should be the one getting the credit? I know I certainly have plenty of times. There is a tension that I think we need to live in where we have aspirations and goa…
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“Never Give Up on Your Life, Breaking World Records with 2 Autoimmune Diseases,” with adventurer Traci Martin
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“You can choose to sit at home and allow life to pass you by and feel sad and depressed that you’re not a part of it, or you can choose to get up and become a part of it.” - Traci “If I was to die tomorrow, I would die knowing I made a difference in this world, and so I would die with no regrets” - Traci “When you are sitting at home and you have y…
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“Learning to Love Ourselves:(Part 2/2) using Reparenting, Writing and other tools” with Ruthie Lindsey
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"Depression is just a check engine light." "This is not the end of your story, this is literally the invitation to ultimately bring you back to yourself, to awaken... it's loving even though it's brutal." Ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the adventure cure. For today, episode #16, we will continue the conversation with my dear friend Ruthie Lin…
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"Learning to Love Ourselves: (Part 1 of 2) Using Mushrooms" with Ruthie Lindsey
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Welcome to Episode #15! This one is short, but it is pretty loaded. In this episode we will be talking with my dear friend Ruthie Lindsey. Ruthie and I grew up in the same small town of St. Francisville, and have been friends for quite a while. Ruthie, how to describe her, well, to take it right off of her instagram bio, she is, among other things,…
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“Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running with My Dog Brought Me Back from the Brink” with author Nita Sweeney
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Welcome episode # 14! Today We are continuing on a theme we have touched on quite a bit this season which is mental health, and specifically today we will focus on depression. According to the scientists, at least 300 million people worldwide struggle with depression, and its only getting worse. And here is another interesting stat for you, scienti…
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“Why Everyone Needs Therapy” with Onsite’s Miles Adcox
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This episode's guest is Mental Health Guide Miles Adcox. He is a speaker, thought leader, advocate, advisor, and entrepreneur in the emotional wellness space. Some of you may have heard of the famous Onsite treatment center near Nashville. Well, this is Miles’s brainchild. He is the Proprietor & Chairman of Onsite, which is an internationally known…
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''Life Lessons From my Friend with Terminal Cancer'' with Liz Dabney (Rainey)
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Welcome to episode #12 of the Adventure Cure Podcast. What would you do if someone told you that you had a terminal illness and likely would not survive more than a year or two? Today, we are diving headlong into a conversation with one of my friends who had just been given a death sentence. My dear friend Liz Dabney was diagnosed with stage 4 Meta…
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“Say Yes More” with Adventurer Dave Cornthwaite
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I am absolutely jazzed for to meet my friend Dave Cornthwaite! Dave is truly a professional adventurer, and I think you’ll find one of the most fascinating people you will ever learn about or hear from. I met Dave over 10 years ago while I was kayaking the Mississippi River with friends, and he was breaking a record stand-up paddleboarding. Meeting…
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“If we are not humble we will be humiliated” with author Kevin Barhdyt
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Alright yall, this next one is intense. I want to give you a trigger warning, this one dives into things like sexual abuse, drug addiction, and the like. But it is well worth it to hear the story out. Whether you have experienced the challenges of addiction or not, I promise you will come away encouraged and with some nuggets of wisdom and living l…
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“Investing Simplified” with Financial Expert Drew Hall
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“Investments don't make you rich, you can behave yourself into wealth.”- Drew Hall Welcome to part 2 of my conversation with financial advisor Drew Hall. Today we are going to talk about money money money! But first, a little recap! In the first part of the conversation we dove into how Drew got to where he is now, his internal journey of failure, …
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“Creating Your Professional Utopia” with Financial Expert Drew Hall
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“If you’re listening and wondering what you've got to do to break yourself out of the hell you've dug yourself in I would say the first thing you've to got to do is put yourself in a position to be rejected. If you do not allow the people who are vital organs in your life to reject you then you do not give them an opportunity to accept you.” - Drew…
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“Letting Go of Performance and Coming Home to Yourself” with Former NFL Player/Army Officer Caleb Campbell
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Today's story is pretty intense. Ya'll know I like to go deep and ask the really hard questions. And Caleb Campbell is here, bringing his A game. Caleb is a former United States Army officer and graduate of West Point as well as a former NFL football player. His story is one I think many of you will be able to connect to. Caleb’s journey takes us i…
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“Facing Fear & Evading a Father Who Wants to Kill You” with Author/Speaker Dima Ghawi
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Dima Ghawi is a Jordanian American award-winning author, leadership keynote speaker, and executive coach. She is the founder of Dima Ghawi, LLC, and the author of Breaking Vases: Shattering Limitations & Daring to Thrive - A Middle Eastern Woman's Story. Her story is a heartbreaking but inspiring journey of escaping from the clutches of a repressiv…
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“Building Margin and Redefining Success” with entrepreneur & MS River paddler Max Zoghbi (PART 2 of 2)
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An interview with entrepreneur & MS River paddler Max Zoghbi (PART 2 of 2) I have a few spots left in my executive coaching business, Treppendahl Consulting. www.robtreppendahl.comBy Rob Treppendahl
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“Life Lessons Learned Paddling the Mississippi River” with filmmaker Max Zoghbi (PART 1 of 2)
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““It's so easy to compare someone's act 3 or act 5 to your act 1 or 2.” - Max Zoghbi In the summer of 2011, Max Zoghbi, Rob Treppendahl, and Bowman hitchens kayaked the entire Mississippi River to raise money for two charities. Now, over 10 years later, best friends Max and Rob sit down to discuss the hard but important lessons they learned on this…
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“You Have Permission” with author/speaker Bob Goff
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“You are really just a quarter of a twist away from being where you want to be.” Bob Goff is the king of one liners like this that can really make all of us stop in our tracks and pause for a minute, thinking about our lives. Bob is a New York Times bestselling author of three books: Love Does, Everybody Always, and Dream big, with his new book, Un…
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“The Christian Magician” with author/speaker/magician: Taylor Hughes
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At 33, Taylor found himself as the young pastor of a church, and realized he was not living the life he had hoped for. He quit his job and did anyone of us would do, became a magician! Taylor had fallen in love with magic at an early age and now, with kids, wife, mortgage decided to take the leap and see if he could pay the bills and live his life'…
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Podcast Trailer: How this Podcast Fits into Your Life
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Hello everyone and welcome to the Adventure Cure Podcast! My name is Rob Treppendahl, and this is my little treasure trove of fascinating and inspiring people who have and continue to inspire me to become who I am. People who challenge the way I think and see the world, and most importantly, people who help me find as much meaning in this life as p…
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“You Don’t Need it” with author David Magee
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“Family is the root of civilization but also the root of our pain,” David Magee tells us in this interview. All of us have struggled in our lives with identity, purpose, and our place in the world. What does it take for us to figure out our true identity? How does a family respond to the tragic unexpected death of a child? How does a family that is…
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