The Everyday Adventure Podcast

Send us a text In 2011, Zoe set off to backpack solo along 630 miles of the South West Coast Path. Wild camping solo and wading across rivers terrified her and therefore she had put it off for 15 years. When she finally did it, it changed her life. Since then she has been long-distance walking every year and last year she started her new venture, HeadRightOut, to encourage resilience in others by...

Send us a text Joyce Osei is a business analyst and champion for diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Her career has seen her working in global publishing companies, as well as working with clients across a wide range of industry sectors. Earlier this year, she published her first children's book ‘The Adventures of Amma and Kwessi - In Barbados’ and it is her journey to becoming a publis...

Send us a text Francesca Turauskis is the host of "Seize Your Adventure", a podcast focused on exploring the narratives of people who adventure with epilepsy. After being diagnosed with epilepsy in 2015, Fran hiked the Camino de Santiago solo two years later and last year, she took on a number of adventure challenges including a 100km Race to the Stones trail run. During her hike in 2017...

Send us a text Heather Sharp is the founder of Forces Wives Challenge, a charity that aims to inspire partners of serving Armed Forces personnel to participate in and set up their own adventures. Heather served 10 years in the Army before leaving due to the pressures of bringing up a young family. On leaving, she found her preconceptions of military spouses shattered by the diverse, dynamic and re...

Send us a text Rhiane Fatinikun is the founder of Black Girls Hike, a charitable organisation she set up following a train ride through the Peak District which inspired her to take up hiking.  Since her first post on Instagram in January 2019, asking for other black women to join her, her community has skyrocketed. She now has regional groups including London and the Midlands and is providing oppo...

Send us a text Amanda Tutton is a snowboard instructor, mountain bike guide and ski patroller based in Queenstown, New Zealand. When her relationship ended 9 years ago, Amanda took the life changing decision to leave her job in the UK and head off travelling in search of adventure. She ended up in New Zealand on a working holiday visa, retrained as a snowboard instructor and has not looked back si...

Send us a text In this week's episode, I speak to Jo Moseley of Healthy Happy 50. I first discovered Jo on Instagram a few months after setting up my own business. I instantly connected with her love of everyday adventures, whether that was out on her paddle board or picking up litter on her daily walks and runs. But even more than that, it was impossible not to be swept up her infectious joy...

Send us a text I have long been appalled at the way in which adventure sports are framed with such a narrow lens (predominantly white, young and blonde) - the sports I love the most - surfing and snowboarding - are some of the worst perpetrators. However, I should have spoken sooner and louder about the barriers this creates and the repercussions that reach far wider than participation in the spor...

Send us a text Last year, Rachel Forbes completed a 100km run across a frozen lake in Mongolia, on 4 months training and despite never having even run a marathon! As a result of this life changing experience, she realised that it was possible to find time for her own adventures - even working full time and as a mum to 3 boys - and has made "finding time" her mantra ever since. She has go...

Send us a text Kim Willis is a journalist, writer and hiker who is never happier than when out in the mountains. Two years ago she took the brave decision to launch The Heroine's Journey - a speaker series to give a platform for women's stories. Since launching in 2018, she has welcomed a wonderful variety of speakers, whose stories have ranged from cycling across Scandinavia to founding...

Send us a text In this episode, I talk to Liz Lowe, a freelance journalist and mother of two young children, about her adventures in taking up first wild swimming and then triathlon.  Liz is someone I have known for a while, but I became really inspired following her outdoor fitness journey on social media. She has gone from being unable to swim front crawl a couple of years ago, to completing the...

Send us a text This episode is an introduction to my motivation in launching the Everyday Adventure Podcast.  I have always loved adventure and getting into the outdoors. Whether this was travelling, both with friends and alone or spending seasons working in the Alps, adventure has been a huge part of my life. As a former Army Officer, I was fortunate to have opportunities for adventurous training...