Guides Gone Wild

I purposely picked this conversation with Anne Parmenter to kick off the year, because I need to hear so much of this right now. For someone who was told by a middle school teacher that she wasn’t going to amount to much, Anne has done pretty ok for herself. She will blow you right off your feet. Literally! Anne is a Hall of Fame field hockey coach that took her team to the NCAA tournament multipl...

Welcome to the very last episode of Guides Gone Wild for 2022!   I’m still recovering for the crazy pace of stoke we had going on here a few weeks back, but rather than take a week off, I decided to squeeze in one more inspiring guide - today I’m talking with Lisa Holcomb of Wander the Whites . If you plan to listen to this in the car on your way to the North Conway area for a long New Year's...

Adventuring for Two Podcast on Apple, Spotify , Google , or listen online here Canyon Wren Coaching @trailrunningbabycatcher on Instagram Sacopee Midwives - on Instagram Acadia Gantz on Guides Gone Wild (August, 2021) One last shorty for you today, and it’s a good one, because my lovely podcast friend Acadia Gantz , aka the Trail Running Baby Catcher, has started her OWN podcast - yay! Acadia is a...

She Summits Co. - on Instagram - on TikTok Keep an eye on the site for the release of 2023 Women’s Week dates in the new year! New summer camp offering this year, four weeks on the Maine portion of the AT for 9th/10th graders (totes jelly, much?!?) Amanda Hatley on Guides Gone Wild (September, 2020) Amanda Hatley talks small business excellence on LinkedIn too! Can I just tell you how amazing the...

Rooted MTB Festival - July 21-23, 2023 (NY) Cosmic Dirt - get in on the Zodiac Pant pre-sale ! Heather Kinal on Guides Gone Wild (January, 2022) Jen & Trish’s Rooted MTB Festival Recap - Voices of Rooted Who’s ready for a road trip? You would be if you’d gone to the Rooted MTB Fest last summer with me, Trish and our 26” hardtails of doom ! Today we’re getting a quickie update from the doyenne...

Mooney Mountain Guides Laurie Watt on Guides Gone Wild (in her previous life!) We are back on the ropes again today with Laurie Watt , the Women’s Program Director at Mooney Mountain Guides in New Hampshire. Laurie was a full-time PT and a part-time climber when we first chatted back in April of 2021, but she has totally flipped the script since then and gone all in on her dream, moving to the Whi...

Genuine Climbing - on Instagram Confident Climbers Club Empowered Women’s Goal-Setting Workshops - January 8th (NJ), 11th (Zoom), 15th (MA) - not just for climbers! Just because these episodes are short, doesn’t mean the guests aren’t bringing the FIRE! Anyssa Lucena of Genuine Climbing has had one hell of a year, which she’s going to come back and talk to us more about soon (if I have anything to...

Maine Yoga Adventures - on Instagram and Facebook Holly Twining on Guides Gone Wild Washington Baths (Portland, ME) Variety is the spice of life, as they say, and by that definition Holly Twining of Maine Yoga Adventures has been LIV-ING. Based on her update, I’m thinking she needs to change her business name to 'International Yoga Adventures' - wait until you hear about all the amazing...

Follow Skyline Maine Adventures on Instagram and Facebook #LoveMaineAdventures DD + Co Danielle Dorrie on Guides Gone Wild Shorty short for you today, I caught up with Danielle Dorrie and her partner Chris Francis when they were out of town sipping bloody marys before heading out on a hike - girl knows how to live! Danielle's was one of our first ten episodes way back in 2020, and at the time...

Spirals of Wellbeing Women’s School for Spiritual Warriors - starting in January, one spot left! Swan’s Island Vision Quest Canoe Coaching in a gorgeous wooden canoe (treat that bum right!) Jen Deraspe's first visit with Guides Gone Wild It’s the Jen Team - Guides Gone Wild Jen and Jen Deraspe of Spirals of Wellbeing , née Nurture Through Nature - dropping into your ear buds at the end of a l...

Mahoosuc Guide Service (Newry, ME) @mahoosucguideservice - on Facebook too Polly receives the 2022 Legendary Maine Guide Award! Today we’re bringing back the legend, that’s right, the 2022 Legendary Maine Guide Award Winner Polly Mahoney of Mahoosuc Guide Service in Newry, Maine. Polly and her partner Kevin guide single and multi-day dog sledding trips in the winter, and canoe trips in the summer....

Two Maine Mermaids - Winter Solstice Double Dip on December 21st! @twomainemermaids Ebb and Flow on Guides Gone Wild (May, 2021) Help Ebb and Flow fill Willard Beach with 381 cold water bathing beauties in honor of International Women’s Day - Saturday, March 4th! We are exactly one week away from the shortest, darkest day of the year, also known as Winter Solstice, so what better time to check in...

Leadership Rising 2023 Retreat Northstar Adventures Adriana Bellerose & Associates Mystica Costa Rica Nancy Zane on Guides Gone Wild (first time) Nancy Zane talks Leave No Trace on Guides Gone Wild OG listeners will probably remember NancyZane from Northstar Adventures , she first graced our airwaves way back around episode 3 , and then we invited her back for a deeper dive on Leave No Trace p...

Great Mountain Guide Service Check out fun photos from 2022 trips with Great Mountain Guide Service on Instagram or Facebook Great Mountain Guide Service on Guides Gone Wild Today we’re getting our great mountain stoke on with Jes Lucarelli , the founder of Great Mountain Guide Service in Millinocket. If a Katahdin ascent is on your 2023 to do list, Great Mountain Guide Service might be the partne...

DoryWoman Rowing Nicolle’s Jingle Rows start today! Solstice Row on December 21st DoryWoman Rowing calendar or note cards are the perfect stocking stuffers for that friend who’s always daydreaming about being out on the water! Join Nicolle for her next rowing live stream on Instagram or Facebook Today we’re catching up with Nicolle Littrell of DoryWoman Rowing , who has had an absolutely action pa...

Peaks and Poses - @PeaksandPoses on Instagram Living in Rhythm Sētu Retreat Center (VT) Nancy Wind on Guides Gone Wild (February, 2021) Another pandemic rebound stoke story today, hooray!! Nancy Wind is the owner of Peaks and Poses based in Massachusetts. Nancy originally founded Peaks and Poses to combine her loves of yoga and hiking into something she could share with the world, and over time, e...

Axe Women Loggers of Maine - 2023 Show Schedule Axe-Kickin’ Sauces and Merch for the holidays! Alissa Wetherbee on Guides Gone Wild (August, 2021) I love myself a good post-pandemic redemption story, and Alissa Wetherbee of Axe Women Loggers of Maine is delivering an epic one today! (And yes, in case you’re left wondering, I DID order my shirt, along with some axe-kickin’ surprise gifts for my adv...

ConfluenceCollective.org Community Building for Guides - Join Bri & Serene on Zoom December 7th to share ideas around inclusive practices for experience facilitation Storytelling with Confluence Collective - join other fishy folks on December 14th! Today we get a double dose of stoke from dynamic duo Bri Dostie and Serene Cusack of Confluence Collective . If you’ve been toying with the idea of...

Notch Hostel Summits in Solidarity Fireside Chats - don’t miss the first one with Lyla Harrod, this Saturday, December 10th at 7:30pm!! (Can’t be there in person? You can sign up to sit by the virtual fire via Zoom!) Me and White Supremacy 28-Day Challenge Hey, it’s Jen coming back at you with another week filled with stoke! Today we catch up with Serena Ryan , owner extraordinaire of the Notch Ho...

HikingMyFeelings.org Sydney Williams on Guides Gone Wild - a two-parter !! You can listen to me try to counsel Sydney about the dump dumps to come… ;-) Wellness in the Wilderness on the Voice America Empowerment Channel - tune in every Tuesday at 1pm Pacific, 4pm Eastern OK, this one is more a mini-sode than a STOKE SHORT, because Sydney is my squirrel-brained-fast-talking match, and I just love t...

We're back with a full-on convo with one of my new favorite people, Meg Pierce ! Meg was one of the leaders of the Inclusive Ski Touring Women’s Program I did with some friends last March, and we all came away from that morning feeling so fortunate that we’d had Meg, and her co-leader Torey Brooks, on our team for the session. Meg and Torey were tireless cheerleaders - and more importantly, t...

NaviTour.com NaviTour on Instagram , Facebook , TikTok Become a NaviTour guide! Shay's first appearance on Guides Gone Wild  - hear all about the earliest days of NaviTour! Today Shay Bellas of NaviTour crushes the concept of the STOKE SHORT! with the shortest stoke we’ve brought you so far! I caught up with Shay as she was on the run (literally hours before Thanksgiving) to hear about all th...

TeensToTrails.org Life Happens Outside Challenge ® - check out the 2022 winning schools! Alicia Heyburn - the OG Guide Gone Wild! Hey there Wild Ones, today is Giving Tuesday - what better day to take it way, WAY back to the literal first interview I ever did for this podcast - yes, that’s right, today we are checking in with Alicia Heyburn , the Executive Director of Teens to Trails . If you have...

East Mountain Designs website @east_mountain_designs on Instagram Mischa’s original Guides Gone Wild episode Hope you all managed to get out there and support a few small businesses over this past weekend, like East Mountain Designs , the micro-business my friend Mischa Ostberg has created, selling beautiful pieces of art that she crafts from recycled climbing rope and gear. Mischa’s first time on...

Step away from that cash register, Wild Ones! Just kidding (kind of).... It’s Black Friday, which means Cyber Monday is right around the corner, so I’m back with another Stoke Short, this one from my recent guest Meg Carney, The Outdoor Minimalist . Tune in for a quick update on her book , her newly nomadic life plan, and a few tips to help us keep our heads on straight even as we dive head-first...