Like a Bigfoot

This week we are sitting down with Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor Kate Ringwood to chat about all sorts of struggles athletes (and runners) face and healthy ways to face these struggles! Kate runs Serendipity Counseling and is a lifelong athlete and runner herself. In this episode we chat about all sorts of things like, the struggles of an athlete who cannot compete in his/her sport anym...

Phil Pinti is about 18 days out from toeing the start line of the Arizona Monster 300!! Once the gun goes off, he will have a week to take on this insanely long adventure that traverses the deserts of southern Arizona. This will be it's inaugaral year and is organized by the awesome Candice Burt and Destination Trails. In this episode, we talk about his mindset a month out and his training up unti...

#408: Allan Schoenberg -- "Strength in Every Hill, Vulnerability in Every Valley", Ultrarunning by Chris Ward

This week we are talking with Jesse Males - adventurer, fisherman and filmmaker behind the EXCELLENT Backwater Fly Fishing!!

This week’s episode is a special one! We are sitting down and talking to the director of the AZT bikepacking race John Schilling!! The first half of the show is more of a normal Like a Bigfoot Podcast as we dive into John’s history with bikepacking and designing amazing routes (like the Queen’s Ransom ride). In the second half of the show, co-host Thomas Mullins picks John’s brain for info about s...

This week we are chatting with Heather Moyse- 2X Gold Medal winner in the Bobsled, World Rugby Hall of Famer, Canadian sports legend, Public Speaker and Author of the book "Redefining Realistic." Heather is an elite athlete who uses her experiences competing at the highest levels in sport to help inspire people to find 100% of what they are capable of! In this episode we talk about her experiences...

This week we are chatting with Meredith Mcluckie about her very first 100 miler at Javelina!!

#403: Josiah Jones 2 -- Filming Jeff Mercier for Ice Climbing Film "Ephemeral" by Chris Ward

#402: Ray Zahab 6 -- Our Kapik1 Backpack Trip through Death Valley by Chris Ward

This week we are chatting with Cyclist Steve Herschberger! Welcome to 2025 and to the new season of the Like a Bigfoot Podcast!! This week's episode is a very open discussion about a healthy mindset, the obstacles we face, and how to recover from trauma (both physical and emotional). Steve Herschberger is an extremely accomplished cyclist- having raced all over the world. A year ago he was hit by...

HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE!!! In honor of the shortest day of the year and the coldest season of the year, we are releasing two conversations with one of the coolest (literally) guys I've met, Ryan Wanless!! The first half is a conversation after Ryan survived the coldest Arrowhead 135 and the second half is years later after he completed the 1,000 mile Iditarod on foot!! Enjoy the episode!! Happy Holi...

This week’s BIGFOOT REPLAY is with adventurer, polar explorer, environmentalist, Minnesotan, and wonderfully nice guy Paul Schurke!! Paul is a legend in the adventure world- completing multiple expeditions to the North Pole (including an unsupported trip in the 80s), dogsledding across Siberia (to convince the US and Soviet Union to open the Bering Strait to help out Inuit families), following in...

This week we are revisiting a conversation from 2019 with ultrarunning's absolute phenom Courtney Dauwalter!!

"That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run." - Forrest Gump I'm extremely excited to welcome Rob Pope, the real life Forrest Gump, to this week's show! Over the last few years, Rob has taken on the EPIC challenge of recreating Forrest Gump's famous run. Over 15,000 miles across the United States 5 times, he tested the limits of his own endurance and experienced the U.S....

BIGFOOT REPLAY!!! This week’s guest is the incredible ocean rower Lia Ditton! Lia is a sailor, rower, adventurer with a lifelong passion for ocean travel. In this week’s episode we chat all about what it was like to spend 87 days alone on a record setting row across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Hawaii. Lia dives into her mindset, what it was like to spend so much time with herself, how...

Clips from Episode 189 and 372 with my friend and wisest man I know Paul Scheuring!!

This week we are celebrating EPISODE 400 with my good friend Phil Pinti!!!! Topics covered: Wrapping up season 2 and plans for season 3, future projects, Phil's prep for Gila Monster 300, Life of Phil post "A Long Way From Nowhere", Route 66 Ultras, and much more!! Thank you so much for supporting the show over the last 400 episodes! This whole project has truly been life changing for me!! Leave a...

This week we are chatting with one of the hosts of the EXCELLENT "Bush and Banter" Podcast, Jennifer Mabus!! Jen was a guest on this show a few years when she backpacked the entire Pacific Crest Trail, an adventure of a lifetime. Now she's started a family and dives deep every week on her podcast with a wide variety of adventure guests. It truly is one of my favorite adventure podcasts of all time...

This week we are joined once again with the best leadership coach in the country John Petersen!!! In this episode John talks about Trust, teaches us what to do after you've identified your core values, shares some tales from adventure - biking from Cali to Chicago, bring back and rowing across the Monterey Bay, and rowing to Antarctica! This is a fantastic episode that I am going to listen to mult...

#397: Adam Casey 5 -- Adventure Life and the Connections We Make Along the Way by Chris Ward

#396: Nic Chiri 3 -- The Highest of Highs and Lowest of Lows at Booneville Backroads 100 by Chris Ward

This week we are celebrating our 8th year of the podcast by taking a walk down memory lane with my lovely wife Lindsey Ward!! In this episode, Lindsey blatantly rips off Brett Goldstein (Roy Kent from Ted Lasso) and his podcast "Films to Be Buried With!" by stealing his format to ask me about some of my favorite adventures. We talk adventures and I also give a recommendation for a past Like a Bigf...

#394: Cody Taylor 3 -- The Bruce Trail Unsupported FKT, 900Kms Through Ontario by Chris Ward

This week we are chatting with Alan Tenta from Season 10 of "Alone"!! MORE FROM ALAN: "Tenta Outdoors" Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@alantenta9825 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alan_tenta/

MORE FROM JASON: Website: https://jasonromero.net/ "Running into the Dark": https://jasonromero.net/running-into-the-dark "Success Cycle": https://jasonromero.net/the-success-cycle-book