“ You know, they didn’t have a toy that that looked like them. And a couple of things that we’ve found that have made this work so rewarding is that the moms of two of the kids immediately took the toy from helping the child understand their own experience to taking this to school to help their peers understand what’s going on.”
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#63: Jewish Outreach Initiative with Rabbi Menachem
“ You know, traditional Jewish learning is this relentless questioning. It’s this process of just asking and asking and asking. And, you know, we study so much of the wrong answers on purpose because through the wrong answers, we learn more about the truth.”
#62: Showers For All with Jenn Kloeppel
“ And they would say, Jen, I can find food if I’m hungry. There are places I can go for food. I can find a shelter bed if I need it, but I haven’t had a shower in six months or eight months or nine months, and so the idea of having mobile trailers meant that we could go directly to people.”
#60: Colorado 14ers Initiative with Brian Sargeant
You’re looking at, it could be 12,000 – 15,000, years of soil deposition that’s being washed away or eroded by hiker footsteps and the impacts that our footsteps cause. With snowmelt and rain and how it rapidly increases erosion.
#59: Huts For Vets with Erik Villaseñor
“We weren’t having like a group therapy session. We weren’t talking about this one time in Iraq or this one, you know, that’s not what the program is. We were talking about Robert Frost and two roads diverge into what all of a sudden we’re having these discussions and some of them, you know, do reflect on our past in the military and most of them do, that’s kind of the framework.
Right. But it was this like intentional, very deliberate way for us just to get talking and sharing some emotions, being vulnerable.”
#56: Body Positivity with Callie Vinson
I think just discovering that the more I shared my story and my journey and the adventures I go on and found out that it was helping others or inspiring others or making people rethink what they’re capable of, that then became the motivator to keep doing it.
#55: SheJumps with Claire Smallwood
SheJumps is an organization founded by Claire Smallwood that aims to increase the participation of women and girls in outdoor activities. They offer a variety of programs and events ranging from outdoor education to community initiatives. The organization focuses on addressing inclusion and representation in the outdoors, with a special emphasis on providing opportunities for women and girls from diverse backgrounds. Their Snowpack Scholarship, which offers avalanche education certifications to women, is one of the largest scholarship programs of its kind. Overall, the organization seeks to create a sense of community, empowerment, and connection to nature for all participants. You can learn more and get involved with SheJumps by visiting their website and following them on social media.
#54: Hiking My Feelings with Sydney Williams
“And I don’t think I’ve ever sat with that and reflected on it as I have sitting here with you today. Like it was so… it was a transformative experience that I didn’t even know how to articulate.”
#53: Suffer Better with Peter Downing and Bob Africa
“They might be younger, faster, or have a bigger engine…. but you can Suffer Better.”
#52: Rising Hearts with Jordan Marie Whetstone
“I think anyone will have their own definition of what that means to them and I think for me and for Rising Hearts it really embodies, you know, the passion and the commitment to what you love and care about the most that truly makes it the work that’s coming from the heart.”
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