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The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

1000 Hours Outside

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcastis the megaphone for the global 1000 Hours Outside movement, created to help people embrace hands-on living in a tech-saturated world. Hosted by bestselling author and founder Ginny Yurich, each episode explores the countercultural idea that kids - and adults - thrive when they choose real-world options over virtual ones. Featuring conversations with leading voices in parenting, nature, education, mental health, neuroscience, faith, and free play, and rooted in

kids & family parenting

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59:49

1KHO 740: Our Lives Go Where Our Eyes Go | Wendy...

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2026/03/16

Wendy Speake joins Ginny Yurich for a rich, honest conversation about the quiet ways modern distractions shape our homes, our attention, and our souls. Drawing from The 40-Day Social Media Fast, The 40-Day Sugar Fast, and Triggers, Wendy shares why a wanting life never leads to a satisfied life, how putting down our phones helps us lift our eyes to God and the people right in front of us, and why small acts of self-control can change the whole atmosphere of a family. This episode is thoughtful,

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1KHO 739: Hope for the Hard Road | Brittany Price...

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2026/03/15

Brittany Price Brooker never imagined becoming a widow at 25 with three boys under the age of three, but what followed is a story of grief, resilience, community, and unexpected redemption. In this deeply moving conversation, Brittany shares how sudden loss reshaped her life, how faithful friends and family stepped in during the darkest days, and how hope slowly grew again in places that once felt impossible to heal. From remarriage and a blended family of six kids to homeschooling, ministry, and

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55:41

1KHO 738: You Are Not Ruining Your Kids | Abbey...

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2026/03/14

In this honest and deeply comforting conversation, Ginny Yurich sits down with author Abbey Wedgeworth to talk about the hidden shame so many mothers carry and the hope that real change is still possible. Drawing from her new book Help! I’m Ruining My Kids, Abbey offers a tender, practical, gospel-centered word for moms who feel frazzled, regretful, overwhelmed, and stuck in patterns they wish they could break. This episode is full of relief: you are not alone, you are not beyond repair, and even

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53:16

1KHO 737: Friendship Is Eroding | Dr. Tracy Brower,...

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2026/03/13

In this thoughtful and surprisingly hopeful conversation, Ginny Yurich sits down with sociologist Dr. Tracy Brower to talk about why so many people feel disconnected right now—and why friendship, belonging, and real-life community matter more than ever. Drawing from her new book Critical Connections, along with The Secrets to Happiness at Work and Bring Work to Life by Bringing Life to Work, Tracy shares practical, memorable insight on loneliness, work, friendship, empathy, optimism, and the small

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1KHO 736: Surprise Stretches Time | Dan Heath, The...

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2026/03/12

Dan Heath has spent his career helping people think more clearly about change, decisions, and what makes life memorable, and in this conversation with Ginny Yurich, he brings that wisdom straight into family life. Drawing from The Power of Moments and his podcast What It’s Like to Be…, Dan makes a compelling case that childhood, work, school, and family rhythms don’t have to blur together into flatness—we can intentionally create moments that lift, surprise, connect, and last. This episode is full

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1KHO 735: Walking a Road With Very Few Footprints |...

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2026/03/11

In this deeply moving conversation, Ginny Yurich sits down with author, mother, and midwife Amanda Lancaster to talk about what it looks like to build a life around the things that matter most: birth, family, faith, food, home, and the kind of community that carries people through both joy and hardship. Drawing from her memoir A Time to Be Born, Amanda shares a beautiful vision of sustainable relationships, generational wisdom, home-centered life, and the bonds that happen when people are truly

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1KHO 734: Resist the Temptation of Security | William...

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2026/03/10

This conversation with William Deresiewicz, author of the bestselling Excellent Sheep, gets to the heart of a question so many families are quietly carrying: what does it actually mean for a child to flourish? Ginny and Bill talk about the way college admissions can cast a shadow backward over all of childhood, turning kids into performers instead of people, and why playtime, downtime, family time, books, boredom, risk, and real freedom are not extras but essentials. It’s a deeply thoughtful episode

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1KHO 732: Anxiety Can Be the Biggest Challenge in a...

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2026/03/09

In this deeply personal and illuminating conversation, Ginny Yurich sits down with Dr. Russell Kennedy—author of the bestselling book Anxiety Rx and the founder of The Anxiety MD —to explore why anxiety has become one of the defining struggles of our time. Drawing from decades as both a physician and someone who personally battled crippling anxiety, Dr. Kennedy explains why so many traditional approaches fall short and why lasting healing requires addressing not just the mind, but the body and the

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57:54

1KHO 732: Stories That Shape a Life | Geoff and Janet...

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2026/03/08

Books entertain us but they also build us into the people we are. This conversation with Geoff and Janet Benge is about the kind of books that can change a family for good. In this warm and deeply encouraging episode, Ginny talks with the husband-and-wife team behind the bestselling Christian Heroes Then and Now and Heroes of History series about how true stories form courage, imagination, resilience, and faith, often in ways we don’t even notice until years later. Their own story is remarkable too:

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1KHO 731: Protein Changes Everything | Rachael...

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2026/03/07

Protein isn’t just for athletes or people tracking macros, it’s one of the simplest ways to feel fuller, steadier, and more energized in everyday life, and this conversation with registered dietitian, certified personal trainer, and bestselling cookbook author Rachael DeVaux makes that feel wonderfully doable. In this episode of The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, Ginny Yurich talks with Rachael about why so many women and families feel stuck in the snack spiral, how front-loading protein can calm

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55:49

1KHO 730: Get Your Light Right | Sarah Kleiner Wellness

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2026/03/06

Sarah Kleiner joins Ginny Yurich for a fascinating conversation about why so many modern health struggles may have less to do with willpower and more to do with rhythm—light, sleep, hormones, timing, and the simple healing power of getting outside. Sarah shares her deeply personal story, the long road that led her into circadian and quantum health, and the small changes that helped her body begin to heal when nothing else seemed to work. This episode is thoughtful, hopeful, and practical—especially

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56:35

1KHO 729: Give Children Freedom to Learn Without...

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2026/03/05

Kerry McDonald makes a calm, compelling case for something many parents can feel but struggle to name: kids don’t need more pressure—they need more trust. In this conversation with Ginny Yurich on The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, Kerry (author of Unschooled and Joyful Learning, and host of the LiberatED Podcast) unpacks how modern schooling became increasingly standardized—and why families are steadily walking toward homeschooling, microschools, hybrid models, and learner-led environments that bring

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1KHO 728: Choose to Be Free | Jennie Allen, The Lie...

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2026/03/04

Jennie Allen is back on The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, and this conversation goes straight for the thing most of us can’t name—but feel every day: the hidden “core lie” running beneath our thoughts. With warmth, honesty, and that signature Jennie clarity, she helps us spot the patterns that keep showing up (striving, spiraling, numbing, isolating), trace them back to what we’re really believing, and start fighting for actual freedom—especially because our kids are absorbing more than we realize

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59:01

1KHO 727: We Deserve Better Than Netflix | Michaeleen...

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2026/03/03

We weren’t built to live in a constant state of “what’s next.” Yet that low-grade restless hum has become normal in modern family life. In her third appearance on The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, Michaeleen Doucleff — author of Hunt, Gather, Parent — returns with a powerful conversation about her new book Dopamine Kids and the science behind why screens and ultraprocessed foods leave us chasing instead of satisfied. This episode unpacks the overdrive of wanting, the illusion of pleasure, and the

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1KHO 726: Deliberate Rest | Alex Pang, Rest

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2026/03/02

Ginny Yurich sits down with writer and researcher Alex Soojung-Kim Pang to reclaim something our culture keeps treating like a reward: real rest. Drawing from Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less and his work on the four-day workweek, Alex makes the case that rest isn’t what you do after life finally calms down—it’s the engine that makes good work, good parenting, and a good life possible. You’ll hear why history’s most creative people didn’t grind nonstop (they worked in focused bursts,

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1KHO 725: Living Ready | John Bevere, The King is Coming

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2026/03/01

John Bevere joins host Ginny Yurich on The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast with the kind of story that wakes you up—in the best way: a kid who struggled with writing (his SAT English score was a 370) becoming the author of 25 books… because he couldn’t shake the sense that God was asking him to put something on paper. From an unexpected college conversion to a decades-long reluctance to talk about end-times, John explains why his newest message isn’t about charts, dates, or fear—it’s about preparation,

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1KHO 724: The Long Game of Youth Sports | Britt Lee,...

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2026/02/28

Youth sports can feel like a treadmill you can’t step off—more time, more money, more pressure, and a nagging fear that if you don’t start at age six, you’ve missed your chance. In this episode, Ginny Yurich sits down with Pure Athlete co-founder and Parenting the Pure Athlete author Britt Lee to zoom out and ask the question parents rarely get to ask: what is this really all for? Britt unpacks why most kids quit organized sports by early adolescence, why “early dominance” doesn’t predict much

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54:05

1KHO 723: Uncertainty Has So Much to Teach Us |...

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2026/02/27

Anne-Laure Le Cunff—founder of Ness Labs and author of Tiny Experiments—joins Ginny Yurich to offer a freeing alternative to the ladder-climbing, goal-obsessed script so many of us are living by. Drawing from her own pivot from Google to startups to neuroscience, she explains why uncertainty isn’t a problem to solve—it’s a place where you can learn who you actually are, one tiny experiment at a time. This conversation is super practical and it's hopeful—especially for parents raising kids in a world

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1KHO 722: We've Sucked the Joy Out of Parenting | Dr....

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2026/02/26

In this warm, science-backed conversation, Ginny Yurich sits down with developmental researchers Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Dr. Roberta Golinkoff—the longtime collaborators behind the newly revised Einstein Never Used Flashcards—to name what so many parents feel but can’t quite put into words: childhood has been sped up, pressured, optimized, and drained of joy. They unpack why “earlier” doesn’t mean “better,” how screens and constant distraction are reshaping family life and even college campuses,

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1KHO 721: Anybody Can Have an Extraordinary Memory |...

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2026/02/25

Ginny Yurich sits down with neurologist and neuroscientist Dr. Majid Fotuhi to flip the script on what most of us assume about memory: it isn’t something you either “have” or “lose”—it’s a skill you can build. Drawing from decades of work with brain health, ADHD, concussion recovery, and cognitive decline, Dr. Fotuhi explains why everyday forgetfulness is often normal (and not an automatic sign of Alzheimer’s), then gives a clear, doable framework for getting sharper at any age through his five

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