Guides Gone Wild

Carter's XC Ski Center Wooden Ski Day Jes Carter on Guides Gone Wild - October 2020 WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE?!?!?!! You’ve probably noticed something different - different day, short little pod, weird title, yada yada yada. Long time listeners might remember the Guide's Gift Guide lists I’ve done in the past around the holidays... well, as is my usual approach, I’ve waited until the last m...

Today we turn our focus to everyone’s favorite four-legged adventure partners! My guest is Traci Bisson , the founder of Golden Dog Adventure Company based in Barrington, New Hampshire. I think we all know someone (or LOTS of someones!) who got a new puppy during lockdown….. Traci Bisson noticed that trend as well, even while the pet care business she ran was wilting on the vine while everyone was...

Today we are both getting the benefit of some amazing connections I made at the recent Maine Outdoor Economy Summit hosted by the Maine Office of Outdoor Recreation and Maine Outdoor Brands. It was a fantastic event, and I finally got the opportunity to meet (in person!) several of the women I’ve talked to for this pod in the past, which was so, so awesome! I also got connected to some new friends...

Today we’re checking back in with Jackie Lastinger from The Girls Trip Adventure Co . If you’ve been dropping in on this pod from time to time, you might remember my first conversation with this through hiker turned shuttle driver turned snowmaker, back in March. At the time, Jackie had just launched her dream company, which she aptly named The Girls Trip Adventure Co. (because she’s a girl, she w...

Be part of the next Guides Gone Wild experience - register for the (Cast) Iron Chef Weekend here ! -- Back at the end of September, we hosted the very first Guides Gone Wild live event at Evans Notch Lodge in Gilead, Maine. Despite crazy weather and unexpectedly chilly temperatures, we had a fantastic time! Thanks to our unflappable guide 'Tall' Ashley Leedberg of Two Loons Guide Service...

Today I am fan-girling hard on an emerging rock star of the outdoor industry sustainability movement, Meg Carney , the author of Outdoor Minimalist (the book), and the host of The Outdoor Minimalist Podcast . You’ve probably heard of Leave No Trace, and the words Reduce-Reuse-Recycle have probably crossed your lips more than once, but how often do you stop to really consider the meaning of those p...

Serene Cusack is the huge smile, infectious laugh and indomitable spirit behind Fatty on the Fly and Outcast Anglers . Serene’s hero’s journey kind of started like many others we talk about on the pod - she started looking around while she was doing her favorite outdoor activities, and realized that no one looked like her, and decided she could do something about it, or at least try to show up mor...

Hey, I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but there are SO MANY awesome outdoor resources available to us here in New England. Have you ever stopped to wonder how those amazingly mapped and maintained trail networks or hut systems or water access points come to be? Probably no surprise, there are a LOT of people and organizations hustling in the background, because big projects like those usually requi...

Welcome to the second installment of our special Rooted Mountain Bike Festival recap! I hope you’ll check this one out even if you’re not really into biking, because these conversations I had with other attendees of Rooted are more about what it means to be part of a women-centered event than anything else. Sure, we talk bikes, but we also celebrate how awesome it is when you get together with peo...

I've got another two-parter for you this week, because every time I go to a women's outdoor event I get SO STOKED. In today's first installment, Trish and Jen are back together on the road, and you know what that means - we did something awesome and we feel the need to tell everyone about it! Back in July, we trekked all the way across Mass and New York to the lovely hamlet of Bemus...

Today we are traveling to the White Mountains of New Hampshire to chat with another one of my new favorite people, Alexandra Roberts of Alexandra Roberts Photography . If you love the outdoors and participate in basically any visual digital media, the Big Brother algorithms have no doubt fed you tons of gorgeous images of well-dressed couples posed in dramatic backdrops - in the middle of giant bo...

Ari Leach is THE guide you’re going to want to call to help you survive the zombie apocalypse, let’s just start with that. Today we are getting back to the roots of this very podcast by talking to brand spankin' new Registered Maine Guide, Ari Leach of Blackbird Guide Services . I discovered Ari when lovely friend of the pod, Nancy Zane , posted a congratulatory note on her North Star Adventu...

This week I’m back to in-real-life interviewing (woohoo!), and taking you with me to the ultra cool and vintage headquarters of the Mahoosuc Land Trust at Valentine Farm in Bethel, Maine, where we'll be chatting with Abby Bennett - aspiring ultra runner and conservationist in training. As you’ll hear, I first started trying to get Abby on the pod because she had a little online business selli...

This week has been a mentally tough one for many of us who saw the anticipated roll-back of Roe v. Wade become the new reality. We’re pissed off that this handful of people can make decisions that strip us of civil liberties. We can’t believe that the government can turn on us this way, that one group of people can be singled out and systematically denied agency and autonomy and the ability to mak...

Today I’m joined by one of the most fun and inspiring mother/daughter teams around, Charlotte and Georgia Clews . Charlotte is a Registered Maine Guide, Wilderness First Responder, ultrarunner, twin, grad student, thru hiker, business owner, all.the.things. Oh, and the mom of two teen girls, so at least we have one thing in common…. Charlotte has done a lot of adventuring with her daughters, but r...

Today I’m thrilled to be talking to Lindsey Lapointe , aka The Freelance Adventurer , and the brilliance behind the Seacoast Hikes Instagram page.  The struggle can be oh-so-real when you’re trying to get little kids outside with you (and simultaneously trying to salvage some sliver of fun for yourself). Even the most experienced outdoorswoman can find herself struggling on a new-to-her trail when...

Today I have the distinct pleasure to bring you my new friend Ashley Waters of Ashley Waters Yoga . I was introduced to Ashley through another new friend, Shay Bellas of Navitour -- which is awesome enough for someone who loves the whole women-supporting-women thing. And then when I started talking to Ashley and she copped to failing out of Jazzercise , I knew she was my people! Ashley’s based in...

As someone who prides herself on being a try-er of all things (and mistress of none), I’m fired up to bring you today’s guest, Alice Bean Andrenyak of Alice’s Awesome Adventures . Because Alice not only tries it all, she masters it all, and then finds 10 people to teach it to! There’s really not much that falls outside the guardrails of Alice’s power alley. She’s a Maine Master Guide, which means...

My guest today, Anyssa Lucena of Genuine Climbing , is a FIRE BALL! Anyssa’s story starts out as a familiar one - high achiever spends decades checking off all the boxes of what she’s been taught is a ‘good life’, just to wake up one day wondering who she’s become and how the heck she got there. But unlike a lot of folks who then spend decades more using life as an excuse not to have one, Anyssa s...

Today my guest is Hillary Pride , RDN, LD, NASM-CPT... we’ll get into what the alphabet soup is all about, but what’s important to know up front is that Hillary is a surfer, runner, knitter, weaver, recipe creator, wooden spoon drummer - just an overall cool person with a refreshing perspective on food, fitness, and the integral role that just plain fun should play in all of it. Hillary drops some...

Today we’re heading back over to the Green Mountain State to talk to my new multi-passionate friend, Cail Casserly . Cail was one of the women who acted as ‘caboose’ at the Vertical mountain biking event my friend Trish and I went to back in September. So needless to say, we had some great interactions with Cail, since Trish and I were proudly bringing up the rear on our hardtails all day. She&apo...

My obsession with travel continues this week with my return guest, Tiffany Soukup . I've had the distinct pleasure of talking to some fantastic adventure tour leaders over the last few weeks - if you haven’t already, make sure you tune in to the episodes with Jana Olenio from SUP Yo Adventures and Jackie Lastinger of The Girls Trip Adventure Co . But what if you want to solo travel, or DIY yo...

My recent obsession with water sports and adventure tours (preferably at the same time) continues with today’s guest, Jana Olenio . Jana is the wizard who spent the last decade growing SUP Yo Adventures from a handful of women doing yoga on a weird floating thing most people around here had ever seen before, to a four-season adventure excursion operator and 10-location SUP yoga mobile studio… oh,...

As promised, come along for a row with Nicolle Littrell of DoryWoman Rowing ... Listen in as we tour Belfast Harbor, talk technique, and enjoy a beautiful winter day on the water! Send a text

Aaaand we are back! This is Part 2 of my conversation with Nicolle Littrell of DoryWoman Rowing . Yesterday in Part 1, we talked about how Nicolle got into rowing in the first place, how she found herself the proud owner of Sorcière , her Swampscott Dory, and how her son almost disowned her in the process - if you haven’t listened yet, load it up, we have some fun there! Today, we pick up our stor...