Transforming the "Insta-Huntress" Culture

03/20/22 • 83 min

Maranda Hough is a multi-passionate, lifelong Montanan who has spent almost 30 years of her life enjoying the outdoors, fitness, health and beauty. From the time she was 3 years old, she accompanied her father in the duck blind, fishing boat, and later progressed into big game hunting. Since shooting her first mule deer buck at age 12, she has strung together over 15 seasons of Montana big game harvests, to even include a solo archery elk harvest in 2020. Although she is a marketing professional for the outdoors industry these days, she has a huge passion for helping women and youth girls get confident outdoors. She plans to re-launch her company Rocky Mountain Women Outdoors this year in an effort to create hands-on hunting education experiences for women that actually help them become proficient hunters on their own.

Topics Discussed:

Growing up in a hunting family and culture.
Finding solo success in the field.
Failing and Rising in the outdoor industry.
Examining how and why you present yourself on social media
The use and need of the term “huntress.”
Changing the narrative to being about proficiency and confidence.
Hunting with your significant other.

Chasing Rabbits:

Maranda Hough Website

You can find more about Everett Headley, your host, at his website or Instagram.

Intro Music: Jason Shaw- Back to the Woods
Outro Music: Bumy Goldson- Keep Walking

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Topics Discussed:

Growing up in a hunting family and culture.
Finding solo success in the field.
Failing and Rising in the outdoor industry.
Examining how and why you present yourself on social media
The use and need of the term “huntress.”
Changing the narrative to being about proficiency and confidence.
Hunting with your significant other.

Chasing Rabbits:

Maranda Hough Website

You can find more about Everett Headley, your host, at his website or Instagram.

Intro Music: Jason Shaw- Back to the Woods
Outro Music: Bumy Goldson- Keep Walking

Support the show

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Elevate Your Ethics: Where to start?

Elevate Your Ethics.
Because whether you’ve hunted for a single day or a lifetime, we never stop trying to elevate the hunt.
(These shorts will share new ideas, people, and issues within the larger topic of Hunting's Culture and Ethics.)
Where to start?
-An introduction to Jose Ortega y Gasset and his book. Make your experiences personal, relatable, and shareable.

“One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted.”
“A Good Hunter’s way of hunting is a hard job which demands much from man: he must keep himself fit, face extreme fatigues, accept danger. It involves a complete code of ethics of the most distinguished design; the hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witnesses or audience other than the sharp peaks of the mountains, the roaming cloud, the stern oak, the trembling juniper, and the passing animal.”
~Meditations on Hunting by Jose Ortega y Gasset, Twentieth Century Spanish Philosopher.

Intro Music: Jason Shaw- Back to the Woods
Outro Music: Bumy Goldson- Keep Walking

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