The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca Ploener

⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Download the Own Your Shit Resource⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Have you ever drank a beer out of your shoe? This is essentially what the river community calls a Booty Beer and it's purpose is to prevent future swims, show your respect to your rescuers, and pay dues to the river gods. I personally have participated in this practice and I actually have pretty strong feelings associated with it. In today...

⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Download the Own Your Shit Resource⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Have you ever had the ability to go out and adventure, but couldn't find the people to do it with so you didn't get to go? That's where I'm at today as I record this episode. During today's episode I'm sharing my tips for managing FOMO and cultivating a sense of excitement regardless of the activity - no matter how mundane. From the wild w...

⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Download the Own Your Shit Resource⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Have you ever wondered if your menstrual cycle affects your athletic/adventure performance? Well I'm here to tell you it DOES. On today's episode I talk about the 4 different phases of our cycles and how we can alter our adventure strategies to support our cyclical health and maximize our adventure potential. Give this episode a listen to...

⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Download the Own Your Shit Resource⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- We’re all busy, but what if I told you there was a way to get everything done, probably faster and more efficiently WITHOUT feeling rushed. Well… Here I am and I’m telling you exactly that. Check out todays episode for 8 tools to do RIGHT NOW to boost your productivity, efficiency, quality, AND to do all of that while feeling ground...

⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Download the Own Your Shit Resource⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Have you ever done something outside and then realized that it was far from the norm? Do you sometimes miss social cues? Do you wish there was a handbook for "how to act" in the outdoor community? Wellllll here's your first stop! Today's episode lists out 30 unwritten social rules based on real people's responses from mountain biki...

⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Download the Own Your Shit Resource⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Today's episode is all about giving yourself love, kindness and compassion through self embrace. Self Embrace is intentionally touching yourself and becoming aware of your own physical touch. I share more about what self embrace is, how it helps us in our adventure sports and in life, and I guide you through three exercises to incorporate it int...

⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Download the Own Your Shit Resource⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Are you constantly trying to improve, but never feeling satisfied? Do you feel self conscious, afraid, embarrassed, intimidated, maybe even ashamed in groups of people with more experience than you? Do you want to feel self sufficient, emotionally regulated, proud, excited, fulfilled, and like you OWN YOUR SHIT? In this episode, I share m...

Download the Own Your Shit Packet⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Lauren Bond is a transformational canoe guide and owner of The River’s Path. She has offered women’s rites of passage canoe journeys for a decade and partners with well known musicians, writers, and poets for river based retreats through Labyrinth Canyon in Utah. Some of her past collaborators include authors Craig Childs and David Abram, musicians Ma...

Download the Own Your Shit Packet⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Are you interested in learning to whitewater kayak?? In today's episode, I share 4 ways to get started! I discuss emotional and physical safety, efficiency, and privilege. I also share how I got into whitewater in 2017 and 5 things I would have done differently so that I progressed safer, eliminated anxious tendencies, and avoided injury. You don't want to...

Download the Own Your Shit Packet⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Do you want to expand your social circle? Are you looking for friends or adventure partners? Don't know how to make friends as an adult? You're in exactly the right place! On today's episode, I share 25 ways that I have build my own community from the ground up. Some of these tips are geared towards extraverts and some are for introverts, some are free, so...

Valentines Day Special! Are you curious how your relationship status could be affecting your outdoor sports? Maybe you're single and actively mingling... maybe you're in a long term relationship and feeling stable. I believe these all play a role in how we interact with the world and our outdoor activities. In today's episode, I ramble and explore what that means for me, what it might mean for you...

Have you ever felt like a burden while participating in an outdoor sport? Maybe when you swam and your crew had to pick up the pieces or when you took a few breaks on the climbing wall? On todays episode, I share a recent story from when I felt like a burden and I also share what I did about it through 4 different tools. I hope you enjoy! This is the third episode in a 4 part series that includes...

Do you ever get talked over, cut in line while climbing, or feel like you just don't fit in? In today's episode I talk about why it's important to take up space, how it can impact your climbing, and ways to practice it literally starting NOW! This is the second episode in a 4 part series that includes how to overcome feelings of "I'm not enough", "I take up too much space", "I'm a burden", and fin...

Do you ever feel like you're not enough? Good enough, skilled enough, strong enough, extroverted enough, etc? In today's episode, I go over what scarcity mindset is and how it could be affecting even more than just your mindset. I also explain how to overcome it so be sure to stick around through the end of the episode!! This is the first episode in a 4 part series that includes how to overcome fe...

This episode is all about the emotional and social challenges that come along with chasing rain in the southeast. Becca shares her three main challenges with making plans and boating in floods as well as her three solutions and affirmations for coping with it. You are not alone in feeling frustrated amongst the choas of winter creeking season! ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Schedule a session with Becca⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ --- Bec...

⁠ ⁠⁠Schedule a session with Becca⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Martha Ploener is a mother to 3 adventurous kiddos and wife to Randy Ploener. She’s been an ER and radiology nurse for over 30 years and has done her own fair share of traveling including visiting 49 of the 50 states, living out of her car (before it was cool), and sharing the state of Montana with her family since the kids were 1 year old. One of...

⁠ ⁠Schedule a session with Becca⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Sarah Ploener is my “favorite” (and only… lol she wrote this) sister and has been paddling for 4 years - 3 of which she guided on the Lehigh River in PA. Right now she works full time as an engineer for the company that makes GORE-TEX. Her next project is using scrap gortex to make her “cool big sis” a homemade splash top. --- Becca Ploener is a whit...

⁠ Schedule a session with Becca ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Caroline is a certified life & health coach who specializes in supporting introverted entrepreneurs. Through her personalized process, she helps clients craft a vision that aligns with their introverted nature, rediscover joy in their work, and leverage their natural strengths. This empowerment enables them to build sustainable and profitable busin...

⁠Schedule a session with Becca⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Abby was born in Northeast Georgia to displaced Northerners in a backwater town called Toccoa, and has since moved across the country, worked in 8 states, and gone on countless expeditions. She has over a decade of trip planning and expedition leading experience with a variety of clients, environments and sports. Currently, she is based out of Boise, ID...

⁠ Schedule a session with Becca ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Anna Levesque is a distinguished leader in the outdoor industry as a mental agility and white water kayak coach. What differentiates Anna is her approach to physical and mental wellbeing and how this is tied to success on the water and in life. Anna is the author of the book Yoga for Paddling, was named one of the most inspirational paddlers alive by Can...

⁠Schedule a session with Becca⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Bonnie Maughan considers herself your "friendly neighborhood recreationalist." She grew up camping, skiing, and snowboarding. Later, in college, she picked up climbing, canyoneering, rafting, and kayaking. She guided whitewater rafting on the Colorado and Salmon rivers for a couple years while in school and also spent time volunteering as a trip leader for...

⁠Schedule a session with Becca⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Valerye is a transformational coach and an adventurer.  She feels enthused about supporting other adventurous women who struggle with self-worth, communication and relationships. People who work with Valerye free themselves from self limiting beliefs. They experience greater confidence, direction, and closeness in relationships. People can find her at...

⁠Schedule a session with Becca⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Sandy Hess is joining us from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She's a whitewater guide of 8 years and spent the last season guiding while pregnant with her first baby! She's here to talk about the joys and challenges that face women in this industry, with the additional stressor of carrying another human along for the ride. --- Becca Ploener is a whitewater kay...

⁠Schedule a session with Becca⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Brittany Schruefer (Schree-fur) believes that the best place to learn is outside of our comfort zones. After five months of chasing summer around the world studying comparative human rights and social change, she took a career 180 and found herself working as a veterinary nurse at an equine hospital specializing in emergency and critical care. An avid horse...

⁠Schedule a session with Becca⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Alex Horne is an optometrist and whitewater kayaker practicing and paddling in West Virginia. Raised in northern New Hampshire, Alex was a three sport athlete from a young age and found whitewater while looking for a new sport in college. In the past seven years Alex has pursued several aspects of whitewater kayaking and paddled in several different countrie...