The Woman Angler & Adventurer

If you are a guide, have a friend who guides, or enjoy hiring guides, this is a must-listen episode! This week you get to meet the lady behind two essential tools to help support anyone who guides, Mollie Simpkins. There is little support, as most guides are considered independent contractors. While the lifestyle may sound like a dream job to many, there are a lot of challenges, including long day...

Welcome to 2023! My guest, on the first episode of the year, recently had a pivotal experience in her fly fishing career. She shares it with you, and it will impact and inspire you going into the new year to step out of your comfort zone and try some things you might feel anxious to do. Sometimes the most extraordinary experiences in our lives come out of those moments. Meet Stephanie Spell, a nat...

Happy Holidays from The Woman Angler & Adventurer Podcast! In this special year-end edition of the show, I make several announcements going into 2023 and share with you clips from my recent visit to the studio with Captain Debbie Hanson on Southwest Florida's ESPN Radio. We recap 2022, discuss what's coming up, including our upcoming inshore women's kayak fishing meet-up, and have...

This week on The Woman Angler & Adventurer podcast, Taylor Bright is giving us a glimpse into off-shore fishing in South Carolina and much more! By day she's living her dream life working for a creative, marketing, and communication services agency centered around the outdoors. It's a perfect fit because Taylor is a well-rounded outdoorswoman with a passion for duck hunting, bird hunti...

What do you get when you combine a love of rock climbing (and ice climbing!), skiing, hiking, and camping with a passion for helping brands improve their social media presence? You get my guest on this week's podcast, Lauren Loria!  We talk about Lauren's takeaways from the 2022 Outdoor Media Summit, what she does for brands via her company Lauren Loria Creative, her various outdoor advent...

A Canadian Native, Chelsea has traveled to many different parts of the world to discover all our planet's outdoor wonders. She wants to help you do the same! I was pleased to meet and get to know her at this year's Outdoor Media Summit in Incline Village, North Lake Tahoe, this fall, and I'm excited to bring her story to you. Please click the links below to help support Chelsea along h...

This week's episode is the 1st in a series featuring some extraordinary ladies I met at this year's Outdoor Media Summit in Incline Village, North Lake Tahoe. They jam pack a lot of information and events in a concise amount of time, so no sooner did I check into the hotel than I met up with Mari Bodensteiner with Space Trailers and Tracey Brown from Parakito. We'd never met before, bu...

On this week’s episode of The Woman Angler & Adventurer podcast, we’re celebrating the release of my new favorite sunglasses, Costa Del Mar’s Jose PRO- and the inspiration behind them, Jose Wejebe. I chatted with Jose’s daughter, Krissy, who is carrying on his legacy through the Jose Wejebe Memorial Foundation. The organization's mission is to honor Jose’s legacy by matching his passion fo...

The wildly successful Alabama Bass Trail will be celebrating its 10th season next year. On this week's episode of The Woman Angler & Adventurer podcast, you'll meet the WOMAN behind it all, Tournament Director Kay Donaldson! Lady Anglers aren't strangers to the trail either. The likes of Pam Martin-Wells have fished it, and even an all-female team in Captain Betty Stahl and Linda S...

Welcome back to an all-new episode of The Woman Angler & Adventurer Podcast! This week I am super excited to welcome Melissa Bachman back to the show. Last time we chatted about bowfishing. This time around we are talking about the amazing pheasant hunting opportunities in the state that Melissa now calls home, South Dakota. You are certain to be fired up to book your family a trip for a pheas...

As we wrap up the Revisited Series on Women in Hunting this week, you're about to hear one of my favorite conversations... Are you an outdoorswoman who wants to broaden your horizons and experience new adventures, but you don't want to go it alone? On today's episode, we profile a woman who is creating opportunities for women just like you. Meet Amy Ray, owner of an organization called...

On this revisited episode of The Woman Angler & Adventurer podcast, I feature another female podcaster with a passion for hunting, fishing, and other adventures. Her name is Carrie Zylka and she hosts the award-winning  Hunt Fish Travel Podcast , which is the 1st female-hosted hunting podcast out there. You are going to love her inspiring just do it attitude! She's even done some do-it-you...

Welcome to the 2nd installment of our short "Revisited Series" centered around Women in Hunting. This week we're bringing you a blast from the past from back on Episode 35! Avid bowhunter April Dawn Willis was my special guest, and she talked about some great health and fitness tips to perform your best out in the field! I think the majority of us can use a little help in that area,...

Welcome to the 1st in a short series of special "revisited" episodes centered around women in hunting! This week, I went way back in the archives all the way to episode 13! Meet Dawn Freeland from Women Hunt, Fish, and Camp too. If you're a woman who loves hunting, fishing or camping and are on social media, you've likely come across Woman Hunt Too or Women Fish Too at one time o...

This week I thought it would be fun to introduce you to my wife and partner who makes this show and my tournament fishing possible! Meet the amazing Dana Scott! Full episode notes available at thewomanangler.com/257

Her Instagram bio says it best, "Adventures of a girl, a griff, and a saltwater skiff." On this week's episode of The Woman Angler & Adventurer podcast, meet outdoor lover Kelsey Dick! She loves fishing because it puts her out in nature, she has an adorable first mate, Darwin, a Brussels Griffin (who has an uncanny knack for fishing), and lives her passion through her career in m...

This week, I'm happy to introduce you to Hanna Robbins, half of the talent behind Half Past First Cast! She and her husband Pete are dedicated to providing you with the tools and information to keep fishing fun and make the most of your remaining casts, through travel hacks, equipment advice, trip reports, and unfiltered options. They have A LOT of great information and content for you to enjo...

On this week's episode of The Woman Angler & Adventurer Podcast, you're going to meet a fascinating outdoorswoman who does a little bit of everything from wildlife biology to hunting to fishing and competing in tournaments and much more. Needless to say, Mandy Uhrich is the real deal! Originally from Grand Forks, ND, she now makes her home in Brainerd, MN which is also the home of past...

Captain Lori Hall is one busy lady! Between guiding trips in the Tampa (Apollo Beach) area down in Florida, hosting workshops for Finn's Fishing Club and Reel Ladies Fishing, as well as being Co-Founder and Director for a non-profit called Hooked on Hope raising money for uninsured and underinsured patients, it's a wonder she had a few minutes to carve out some time to be on the podcast! I...

As one of the few female fishing guides in the Charleston, SC area, Captain Tanya Dowdy is on a mission. She started Reel Chica Charters with a mission to help get more lady anglers out there and experience the amazing fishing opportunities in the Charleston area. Hear all about it, what she is doing to help improve boater safety, some of her exciting adventures, and more on this week's episod...

She grew up on a cattle ranch on the Knife River in North Dakota. The outdoors has been in her blood from the beginning- hunting, fishing, training horses, raising cattle, you name it, she has probably done it!  Meet my guest this week, Rebecca Wanner a.k.a. Bec. Bec is now a radio and podcast host of multiple shows including "The Bend" and "Ranch It Up." Her personality will b...

Wow! Hard to believe we've hit 250 episodes! This week I'm excited to welcome Captain Debbie Hanson back to the show. Debbie was a part of putting the 2022 Women in Fishing Meetup together at iCast along with other past podcast guests Bebe Harrison and Dee Kaminski. I thought it would be fitting to wrap up with a series of episodes from iCast with a recap of how the event went and to discu...

This week I am featuring the final interview I did from this year's iCast down in Orlando. It was an honor to get to sit down "backstage" with Costa Sunglasses Vice President of Marketing John Acosta to talk about the Compete + Conserve program, the new Pro Series lineup, and more! Later that evening Costa hosted a huge party at Top Golf and it was a major highlight of the week for m...

"Live the Passion" and "Network. Eat. Sleep. Repeat." are two mantras of iBass360, an organization dedicated to promoting the sport of bass fishing all the way from the everyday amateur angler on up to the seasoned pro.   What drew me to iBass360 was its relentless support for female anglers. I kept seeing their posts pop up on my social media feed time and time again, most if...

It's a hot topic these days across industries and workplaces but perhaps more important than ever in the outdoors world for many reasons...D.E.I. which stands for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. That's were Camber Outdoors steps in with a long history of expertise. My special guest on this week's episode of The Woman Angler & Adventurer podcast is the CEO of Camber Outdoors, Tiff...