Adventure Made Podcast

Paul Lewis is the founder of FHF Gear, a high quality brand of hunting, fishing, and tactical outdoor gear. He is an avid fly fisherman, bow hunter, and retired law enforcement officer and SWAT Team Leader from Bozeman, MT. He has a bachelor of science degree in wildlife management from Montana State University. He started FHF Gear as a side gig by hand making gear for himself, teammates and hunting partners, which eventually turned into a full time business that was recently acquired by Meat Eater.
Quote:
"Always be willing to look at both sides of an opinion"
Topics Discussed:

• How Paul started FHF Gear
• His creative process for gear design
• How they test new gear
• How the company has changed and grown over the years
• What it was like getting acquired by Meat Eater
• Where Paul gets his creative inspiration for new gear
• How their popular bino harness differs from others in the market
• Why conservation is so important
• Paul's thoughts on predator reintroduction
• Why changing one's mind is a sign of intelligence
• His craziest adventure flipping a canoe
• Essential gear when venturing into the wilderness

Resources Mentioned:

• FHF Gear
• Instagram: FHF Gear
• Facebook: FHF Gear
• YouTube: FHF Gear
• Paul's personal Instagram
• Argali Outdoors
• Seek Outside
• Sparten Precision
• Marsupial Gear
• Weatherby
• FirstLite
• Book: Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
• Book: Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
• Book: The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt
• Book: Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage by Dan Crenshaw
• Book: The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
• Book: American Buffalo by Steve Rinella
• Podcast: The Joe Rogan Experience
• Podcast: Meat Eater
• Podcast: Bear Grease
• Podcast: Andy Frisella

The Adventure Made Podcast is sponsored by Rewild Gear. Essential gear built for the great outdoors, designed to fuel your next adventure. Come find your wild at RewildGear.com!

Megan "Belay" Taylor is the owner of Belay Expeditions . She is a mountain climber, long-distance expeditionist, and extreme minimalist. Once entirely nomadic living only on the open road with her bicycle, She now calls Lake City, Colorado home.
Belay turned full-time entrepreneur at the age of 35 even though her love for the great outdoors has been ironclad since she was 23. Her entrepreneurial endeavors came after the tumultuous yet life-changing decision to exit a life-long career in academia.

Megan lives by and operates BELAY EXPEDITIONS by three values: BE Outside, BE Simple, and BE in Pursuit. She believes these three values coalesce for a life lived better. Hence the BE motto: BE You. Better.
Belay credits her achievements and happy life to these three guiding values and motto.
Quotes:
"Where there is interest there is education"
"If you don't care about something you're not going to preserve it"

Topics Discussed:

• How Megan got into mountain guiding
• How she became an extreme minimalist
• Why she considers her expeditions to be a "journey"
• Why her nickname "belay" has nothing to do with rock climbing
• How challenging experiences in nature contribute to a higher quality life
• Why she wants to own nothing
• How her personal values of be outside, be simple, be in pursuit affect everything she does
• Why schools should require a field trip to landfills
• Why ecopsychology is so important for us all to understand
• How epigenetics affect people's interest in the outdoors
• Why the best gear makes all the difference in your outdoor experience
• What the "3 day effect is"
• Her required expedition gear
• Why Belay quit social media

Resources Mentioned:

• Belay Expeditions
• Big Agnes Copper Spur tent
• Sea to Summit
• Big Agnes
• Jet Boil
• Patagonia
• Book: Wild New World
• Book: Let My People Go Surfing
• Book: The Man Who Quit Money
• Book: The Outrage Machine

The Adventure Made Podcast is sponsored by Rewild Gear. Essential gear built for the great outdoors, designed to fuel your next adventure. Come find your wild at RewildGear.com!

Reuben Bolieu shares about his many travel adventures over the years and how it's shaped his outdoor lifestyle and work. He also shares some woodsman hacks, favorite gear, knives, and why we should care about spending time in nature.
Reuben is an adventurer, writer, photographer, musician, world traveler, and survival instructor for Randall's Adventure & Training, the makers of ESEE knives. He's spent most of his life hiking and backpacking through the wildernesses of the world. He's traveled abroad in extreme environments, from the cold climate of Alaska to the desert heat of Egypt & Jordan and the humid conditions of Southeast Asia & South America.
Reuben continues studying survival techniques, construction, and use of knives and edged tools from South America, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, New Zealand, and numerous countries in the South Pacific and Scandinavia. He's a part-time knife designer and created the TOPS Knives C.U.B. and ESEE Knives RB3. He has published many articles on survival, knife and tool use, woodcraft, shelters and remains a lifetime survival student.

Quotes:

"Like laughter, the next best free medication for anything is to be outside, to be outdoors."

Topics Discussed:

• Getting into the outdoor industry
• "Peak Bagging"
• The glory days of Forums
• Knives & the backpacking community
• The necessity of signaling
• Altitude sickness & preparation
• Packing your fears
• Trail runners & moccasins
• Thin polyester dress socks for hiking
• Having strong ankles
• Rewarming cold extremities
• Breaking the gear rules
• Avoiding the "ugly American" stereotype
• Climbing mountains
• Knife preferences

Resources Mentioned:

• Adventure Ready Brands
• Gossamer Gear
• Tuff Possum Gear
• Wazoo Survival Gear
• Uberleben
• Victorinox
• Platypus
• Morakniv
• TOPS Knives
• Asolo Boots
• S.O.L.
• Wilderness Athlete
• Coalcracker Bushcraft
• Randall's Adventure & Training
• ESEE Knives
• Reuben Bolieu
• Adventure Food Guy
• LMNT
• Dave Canterbury
• James Gibson
• Book: The Ultralight Backpacker by Ryel Kestenbaum
• Book: Beyond Backpacking by Ray Jardine
• Book: S.A.S. Survival Handbook by John Wiseman
• Book: Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties by D.C. Beard
• Book: Camping and Woodcraft by Horace Kephart
• Book:

The Adventure Made Podcast is sponsored by Rewild Gear. Essential gear built for the great outdoors, designed to fuel your next adventure. Come find your wild at RewildGear.com!

Tim Corcoran is the founder of Purpose Mountain, where he offers Nature-Based Purpose Guidance to support people with a love for wild nature who feel a deep yearning to discover their purpose. Tim also serves as co-Director of Twin Eagles Wilderness School, an organization he co-founded with his wife, Jeannine Tidwell, in Sandpoint, Idaho, in 2005, dedicated to facilitating deep nature connection mentoring, cultural restoration, and inner tracking.

A leader of vision quests, holistic rites of passage, and men's groups, Tim has been facilitating spiritual initiations in the wilderness since 1999. Healing the cultural rift between the mainstream and indigenous cultures, transformational consciousness work, the spiritual journey, ancestral work, deep nature connection, family, and health are all deep commitments in his life. Tim is a heart-centered father of two brilliant sons and husband to a magnificent wife, and lives in pristine Sandpoint, Idaho.

Quotes:

"A healthy connection to nature is essential for us as human beings."

"We can't be in the container and be the container at the same time."

Topics Discussed:

• Being in the woods as a child
• Finding one's purpose in life
• Embracing sensitivity
• The "sacred wound" becoming the "sacred gift"
• The importance of being connected to the earth
• Experiencing inner peace
• Assessing life & leaving a legacy
• Discovering our gifts and serving others
• Vision Quest & its purpose
• Transitioning from childhood to adulthood
• Utilizing mentors
• Transformations & integrations
• Facing jealousy, abuse & bullying
• The journey of fatherhood
• The idea of "getting back to nature"
• Living in an urban environment
• Community being artificially manufactured
• Learning to deal with conflict

Resources Mentioned:

• Book: Black Elk Speaks
• Purpose Mountain
• Twin Eagles Wilderness School

The Adventure Made Podcast is sponsored by Rewild Gear. Essential gear built for the great outdoors, designed to fuel your next adventure. Come find your wild at RewildGear.com!

Brad Brooks is the owner and General Manager of Argali Outdoors, a backcountry hunting gear, and equipment company. Brad is an adventurer, conservationist, and family man hailing from Boise, ID.

Topics Discussed:

• How Brad stumbled into starting an outdoor equipment company
• His background in environmental economics and working in public lands conservation
• The first backpacking tent bought in high school
• The inner draw to the outdoors
• How being in wild country helps to recenter life
• Brad's interest in business and entrepreneurship from an early age
• The origination of Argali
• Early days of technical clothing
• Calculating risks
• Storytelling about wild places through film
• The importance of timing in life and business
• Family bonds in working together
• The daily struggle of work-life balance
• The importance of being a present father
• Spending 75 nights in a tent per year
• The biggest threats to conservation today
• The effects of westward expansion
• Brad's reflection on death while rock climbing
• Getting lost while hunting at age 15
• Product development and scratching an itch

Quote:

• "The loss of the ability to get lost in wild country is a tragedy."
• "Figure out something that interests you in your life and figure out how to make that your job."

Resources Mentioned:

• Argali
• Argali Instagram
• Wilderness Society
• North Face
• Patagonia
• First Lite
• Sitka
• KUIU
• Sportsman Channel
• Outdoor Channel
• The National Wildlife Federation
• Backcountry Hunters & Anglers
• Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership
• EXO MTN Gear
• Vortex Optics
• Feathered Friends
• Book: A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
• Book: Rebel Yell - The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
• Author: Terry Tempest Williams
• Podcast: Hidden Brain
• Podcast: The Meateater

The Adventure Made Podcast is sponsored by Rewild Gear. Essential gear built for the great outdoors, designed to fuel your next adventure. Come find your wild at RewildGear.com!