Crossing It Off The Bucket List

It has been a great Season and Year for the show! Thanks to all of our listeners for the support and encouragement to put in the hard work of dropping a full weekly season of episodes this year. Guest host Reena Friedman-Watts turns the tables on Roger asking all the questions in this episode. Roger talks about the podcast, some of his choices for most memorable episodes of this season and some ex...

The say that the journey is more important than the destination. In Nickie-Jean's case it has been absolutely true. It was a long time after a life altering experience traveling through Jamaica before Nickie-Jean restarted her journey of crossing visiting Italia off her bucket list. Learn how a heartbreak turned into a life giver. To connect with Nickie-Jean and learn more about her: FB: https://w...

Can you imagine having an item on your bucket list for nearly twenty years? Lu can speak on that. At nine years old, living in Venezuela, all it took for Lu to get inspiration to put visiting Vietnam on her bucket list was an image of Ha Long Bay on her screen saver. Twenty years later she was swimming in that image. Join us as Lu describes her experience in crossing off an item that had been on h...

In a world . . . (J/K) Welcome to the Crossing It Off Podcast! Here you will find examples of the amazing stories we capture from guests just like you about how they have crossed one item off their bucket list. Our hope is you will find inspiration and empowerment to live your life full of joy through a bucket list lifestyle. The trailer offers great examples of our guests and a message from our h...

Did you find any upside to lockdown? When it hit, she was in New York City, but not being a United States citizen she was asked to leave. She went home to Italy and decided to pursue her long-time bucket list item of living in the woods. How did she do it? What were the new skills she would need to learn? Listen and learn how Federica Bresson left the "chaos' of the city to find peace in the woods...

Carrie had scuba dived in one of the most desired dive sites in the world: The Great Barrier Reef. What scuba experience could ever live up to that? Then she found the Blue Corner in Palau. Way off the well traveled trail of honey pot destinations that attract hundreds of thousands, the Blue Corner was far less trafficked and equally stunning as the GBR in it's own right. You can hear in her voice...

When the "honey pot" bucket list destinations are jam packed with hundreds of people, all attempting to get the same photo to share on social media, how do grab a unique picture that speaks directly to your personal adventure? Don, a professional photographer, shares how he went about crossing photographing Yosemite National Park in a unique way. Don shares that it is all in the small details. To...

It isn't easy getting to check visiting Antarctica off your bucket list. Greg Stramm, a seasoned cruiser, added another dimension to the item by adding "cruise to Antarctica" on his list. During this episode you will learn about many of the differences between a "party" cruise and taking a ship to one of the hardest continents to visit in the world. Greg has traveled the world on over 50 cruises....

Bucket list items can some times seem like impossible goals. Competing in an Ironman endurance race could easily fit that description. In this episode, Veronica llorca-Smith describes how she used SMART goal philosophy to tackle competing in her first Ironman Triathlon. She shares that once she put it down on her bucket list, crossing it off was the only outcome she could see. Everything is possib...

When do you make your bucket list item about you and your goals? Marques had a father and brother that played football at some of the highest level. Marques Ogden was surrounded by football as he watched his older brother get drafted into the NFL. But that is when he decided to add play pro football to his bucket list. Hear how wonderful it was to have such great mentors for achieving your goals a...

Kanoe has been surfing all her life, but never like this. While visiting family in Oregon she and her son crossed another surf location off her list in extremely cold conditions. Listen as how this one time pageant participant turned TV personality turned mom has taken on the role of being a leader and example to her children on what it means to embrace life. Even when the water is almost freezing...

What drives someone to challenge themselves to bike 1500 over mountains and through deserts, by themselves? Keith shares his adventure of biking down the Baja Peninsula and crossing the item off his bucket list. And does the strategy of "Just Do It" really work? Don't miss this special episode about a dude, his bike and the open road. To connect with Keith and see all his bucket list adventures: F...

There is much mystery surrounding the Burning Man festival. Yet still many have it on their bucket list without fully understanding what it is. David walks us through living in the desert with 70,000 other people and his daughter, at the age of 60. He shares what a gifting economy looks like and how the radical inclusion of this festival has shaped the way he looks at the world. LEGAL DISCLAIMER:...

Powerful! Margarita's interview this week is a powerful statement on the triumph of overcoming resentment. Not only does this raw interview get the "E" for language, but gets a TRIGGER WARNING for content. One, if not the most important episodes of this season. I teared up while editing it, it's that good. If you have ever held resentment towards another Margarita's story will change you! To conn...

Everyone loves an epic road trip! Or do they? Hear Scott's story of taking ten days to cross "drive the Pacific Coast Highway" off his bucket list with two close friends. Learn how Scott stacked and crossed off multiple items on his bucket list to create the trip of a life time. Did the friendships survive? Find out in this weeks episode! Scott's tools used to cross drive the pacific coast highway...

Traveling with a conscious has not only become a big business, but good business. Elisha tells us all about starting her own ecotour business after stacking her bucket list items of travel and protecting the environment. Her company, Chasin Clean Coasts, survived 2020 and is now host travels from all around the world to make a difference on their vacation/holiday. Learn all about how by crossing t...

How do you stay motivated while you are crossing items off your bucket list? There is an app for that! Listen in on how Larisa saw a need for motivation in all our lives, so put on her bucket list to create an application for our phones that sends us just the motivation we are looking for. Hear how with no prior experience in app development Larisa crossed create a motivational app off her bucket...

Do you have major sporting event like the Super Bowl, the Olympics or even WrestleMania on your bucket list? Today these events are so large they attract global attendees. The FIFA World Cup that happens every four years is no different. Listen to Rob's story of how a beach side conversation with his friends turned into six week trip to Brazil to support his beloved English national team. To conne...

In Jules Vern's story it took 80 days to circle around the world. In our modern times with air travel being readily available you could to it in a couple of days. It took Nick Cooper seven months and he is excited to let us know why. This week we follow Nick's journey to cross circumnavigate the planet and how taking slow in a fast paced world meant so much to him. Nick describes how meeting a new...

As a watcher, YouTube is easy. As a creator? Urmi Hossain takes us through some of the technical and emotional aspects of starting a YouTube channel from scratch. Listen to Urmi's story of start her own finance channel on the worlds largest Internet video platform. What does it take for someone that is in the midst of building her public speaking abilities to get the courage to put herself out the...

Who was that person that gave you that first break? What if after twenty years you could sit down with them to say thank you? What if that talk was recorded and listen to by thousands of people? What if that person was the mega-talk show host and entertainer Jerry Springer? Reena Friedman-Watts started her entertainment career on the Jerry Springer Show and twenty years later has her own very succ...

Opening a restaurant is a scary enough proposition as it is. How about doing it a civil war torn country? Lya Badgley takes us on an amazing adventure of her experience of opening a restaurant as a foreign entity to the country. But Lya was not completely foreign to Myanmar, she was born there to American parents. Learn how her being an outsider and insider to the Burmese culture helped her and he...

Got something to say about your passion or career? Start a podcast. Everyone is doing it. But if you put this on your bucket list what can you expect? What are some of the most important aspects of this item should you know before you start? Helen V Hicks tells us her story of taking the leap to share her therapy practice to the next level through starting her own podcast with a unique twist. To c...

The bucket list lifestyle can be more than traveling to exotic locations or participating in an event known around the world. It can be about relational items, learning a new skill or like this weeks guests helping the environment thrive. Grazyna looked around her neck of the planet, saw a need and educated herself to do something about. Listen how she helped native grasses in Australia flourish o...

The constant pain of fibromyalgia was crippling this world class athlete. The prescribed medicine from the doctors was making her feel like a "zombie." So she took matters into her own hands to cross healing from fibromyalgia off her list. Join us as Mariana Cadore shares with you about her journey of healing and self discovery that led to her healing not just physically, but emotionally as well....