The Everyday Adventure Podcast

Send us a text Moose has over 30 years of traditional and alternative education experience around the globe. His experiences include course directing 58-day Outward Bound instructor trainings in Appalachia, working as a deputy headmaster in the Kalahari Desert and juggling as a street performer in too many cities to mention. He has more than 2000 days of field instruction in a wilderness setting a...

Send us a text Charlotte Ditchburn is a Countryside Access Officer and  passionate advocate for access to outdoor spaces. Through her blog, Public Rights of Way Exploer, she shares posts on access campaigns as well as advice, guidance and her own experiences of spending time in the outdoors - and how this has benefited her both personally and professionally. She is also an ambassador for Ordnance...

Send us a text A former mountaineer and Army Reservist, at the age of 26  Darren Edwards was involved in a serious climbing accident which paralysed him from the chest down. After searching for ways to continue living adventurously, Darren took up kayaking, founding Kayaking 4 Heroes. In 2021, he organised and led an adaptive team kayaking 1400 kms from Land’s End To John O’Groats raising over £11...

Send us a text  Kelly Smith is a sustainability and flood prevention enthusiast with over 10 years experience in the construction industry.  Kelly has an active and passionate relationship with nature and believes that these two sectors should have ever-more intersectional relations as this would improve progress in the built environment sector. Kelly is the regional lead for Black Girls Hike Suss...

Send us a text Kitty Dimbleby is a writer, editor and best-selling author with over 20 years experience of writing for national newspapers and magazines.  I first came across Kitty's work on her Instagram account and was immediately captured by her wonderful poems and the photos of her everyday adventures, wild swimming and paddleboarding. She is a proud feminist and having battled with serio...

Send us a text Jocelyn (Floss) Cockle is the founder and CEO of Freefloski. She started skiing at nine years old as a recreational skier and went on to become an internationally recognised ski teacher and race coach by the time she was 30. She is a fitness, mindset and adventure coach and as one of the few British female ski coaches in France, she has helped hundreds of people to build their skiin...

Send us a text Gina Allsop is a military veteran and adventurer who was supported by the charity SSAFA following a series of traumatic events including the death of her brother to cancer. Inspired to  give back, she undertook a challenge to complete 100 miles for each week of the year, raising over £10000 for the charity in the process. As a way of navigating her grief, Gina also sought solace in...

Send us a text Keri Wallace is the co-founder of Girls on Hills, the UK's only guided trail, fell and skyrunning running company, designed specifically for women. Their guided runs take place in the Glencoe area of the Scottish Highlands and are aimed at women who want to break free from the road and take their running into the mountains. Girls on Hills also recently supported Black Trail Run...

Send us a text Frit Tam is an award winning adventure filmmaker and founder of Passionfruit Pictures and between May and July 2021, he travelled 1000 miles across England by rollerblade and bicycle.  The aim of the journey was to experience and showcase LGBTQIA+ stories and narratives through interviews and visits to historical places of significance for the community.  Frit was accompanied throug...

Send us a text On the Outside is a new podcast focused on sharing diverse views on outdoors news. The show is for anyone who spends their time outdoors in the UK and wants to engage in the wider outdoor community. In each episode, a diverse panel of enthusiasts and experts from a range of outdoors sports discuss the news stories that matter to them. In this bonus episode, host and founder, Frances...

Send us a text Tom Hewitt, a lifelong surfer, first went to South Africa in 1990 on an anti-apartheid fact finding trip with local activists. He also spent time with peace activists in Maputo, Mozambique during Mozambique’s civil war. It was here that he met street children for the first time. Inspired by the movement against apartheid, Tom stayed on in South Africa to volunteer further. Shocked a...

Send us a text Annabel Abbs is an award winning author whose fiction and non-fiction has been translated into over 15 languages. Her recent book "Windswept - Walking in the Footsteps of Remarkable Women" is a part wild walk, part memoir that follows Annabel's own walking experiences, interwoven with the stories of six incredible women whose lives were partly defined by their love of...

Send us a text Belinda Kirk is an explorer, author and speaker who draws on her experience of two decades of leading groups on adventures across the globe. She is the founder of Explorers Connect and in 2020 she founded the inaugural Adventure Minds conference exploring the links between psychology, resilience and adventure. She has recently published her first book "Adventure Revolution&quot...

Send us a text At the age of 35, Emma Gray’s husband was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Not only was she faced with losing the love of her life, but overnight had to come to terms with the reality of bringing up two children alone, becoming the family breadwinner and the carer to her partner. Emma found the experience isolating and lonely as she battled with her demons whilst everyone else appear...

Send us a text Francis Benali will be a very familiar name to football fans and supporters of Southampton FC in particular. Born and raised in the city, he played over 400 games for the club, retiring in 2004. More recently he has completed a number of endurance challenges culminating in 2019 with a challenge undertaking 7 ironmans in 7 days, raising over £1m for Cancer Research UK. He has receive...

Send us a text Ash Alexander-Cooper is a former specialist unit Colonel in the British Army, disabled veteran, international athlete and musician, business leader, mental health campaigner and speaker on leadership, resilience, performance and adaptability.  In June 2021, whilst in quarantine in Australia, where he had travelled to see his daughter for the first time in 12 months, he decided to ru...

Send us a text Kwesia is the founder of City Girl in Nature, a movement she created as a way to give back to her community. Having grown up in Deptford in SE London, she experienced many of the challenges that come with living in an area, and with people, who have often been neglected, excluded and marginalized. An opportunity to be part of a British Exploring Society’s expedition to the Peruvian...

Send us a text Sally Orange is a physiotherapist, veteran, charity fundraiser, endurance runner, Invictus game medallist, inspirational speaker, ambassador for the Army Cadets  and mental health advocate. She holds multiple world records including being the only person to complete a marathon on every continent dressed as a piece of fruit! Having faced her own challenges with severe depression and...

Send us a text Emma Kingston is a mountain biker turned bikepacker, adventurer, writer, teacher and self-confessed map-geek! She is  also the author of the recently published "Bikepacking England" which contains 20 great multi-day mountain bike adventures across England. In this episode, Emma shares how she started bikepacking and what inspired her to write the book. She talks about the...

Send us a text Catie Friend is a presenter, commentator, mother of two and host of the brilliantly named podcast "Chatting to a Friend." In her podcast, she speaks to incredible women about their lives and adventures, but she also has some pretty impressive adventure credentials of her own. In 2018, she competed in the Patrouille des Glaciers from Zermatt to Verbier and she has also comp...

Send us a text For many who love adventure, Sarah Williams will be a very familiar voice. As founder of Tough Girl Challenges and the host of the Tough Girl podcast, Sarah has given voice to an incredible range of women adventurers. Tough Girl is now in its 6th year, having received over a million downloads and Sarah herself has undertaken a number of impressive adventures along the way including...

Send us a text Yvette Curtis is the founder of Wave Wahines CIC, a surf and fitness club based in North Devon which aims to provide affordable and accessible surf training for women and girls. She has also recently launched a diversity programme funded by Sport England and Active Devon, introducing a group of Syrian girls to the joys of surfing and the ocean, some for the very first time. In this...

Send us a text Shadi Ganjavian-Connor is a philanthropist, adventurer and public speaker who has undertaken some extraordinary challenges. In 2016, she climbed Mont Blanc to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust despite her fear of heights and hatred of the cold. She has since gone onto scale the Matterhorn and Mount Elberus and is currently planning to be part of an all female team aiming to s...

Send us a text Jay Worthy is an experienced Executive and CEO turned Life Coach and host of the 28 Summers Podcast. Racing up the career ladder just like everyone else, he got to the top, tookup his spot in the corner office and had an epiphany. He had been climbing the wrong ladder and the view wasn’t at all what he expected! Later, after moving back to the UK, Jay struggled with depression and a...

Send us a text Lesley McKenna is a former professional snowboarder, 3 x Olympian, coach, mentor, mother and yoga teacher. She has recently launched Wandering Workshops with photographer and sports journalist, Hannah Bailey, offering split boarding and ski touring adventures which combine expert coaching with creating a holistic and embodied connection with the natural environment. In this episode,...