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Hot Drinks - Stories From The Field

Leading students on wilderness adventures make for some of the best stories. Join former National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) instructor and author of TEAMS ON THE EDGE Shawn Stratton each week as he interviews fellow outdoor educators from NOLS, Outward Bound, and other organizations to hear their most entertaining stories from leading expeditions with students around the world. Take a listen to these professional adventurers as they entertain you with stories of misadventures, wildlife

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59:03

Jesse Pierce: Outward Bound Canada - Reflections on...

Hot Drinks - Stories From The Field ·

2021/07/30

Born in Guelph, Ontario, our guest today, Jesse Pierce, grew up cross country skiing and hiking with her family. She remembers camping in Tobermory near Georgian Bay, Ontario as a teenager and having the tingling feeling that this is what she needed to be doing in the future. So after high school, she went on to earn a degree in Outdoor Recreation at Lakehead University. After university, she ended up working at Outward Bound Canada year-round for six years from 1998 to 2003 – leading white-water

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Ian Pineau: NOLS - Adventures Paddling with Students...

Hot Drinks - Stories From The Field ·

2021/07/23

Ian Pineau has spent the past 45 years learning about and working in the Outdoor Education field. From a small PEI farm; close to the coast, his first outdoor education experience would be in a fishing boat with his grandfather. Ian’s first paid job in the field came at 18 when he was a facilitator with at-risk youth. As a student at the University of New Brunswick, he took extracurricular outdoor skills courses, including Hiking; Canoeing; and Winter Camping. These courses set Ian up to help teach

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01:04:12

Mark Hamlin: NOLS - Behaviour Challenges Can Be The...

Hot Drinks - Stories From The Field ·

2021/07/15

Today, I speak with NOLS Instructor Mark Hamlin, from small-town Indiana and living in Lander, WY, full time for the past decade. He completed a NOLS student course in 1987, mountaineering in the North Cascades of Washington state and led his first backcountry trip at the age of 18 in 1988. Mark took his NOLS Mountain Instructor Course in 1990 and led his first course in the Absorkas mountain range of Wyoming in 1991. Over the years, he has worked predominantly whitewater canoeing, backpacking, and

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55:34

Marianne Dawson Alexander: NOLS/Outward Bound Canada...

Hot Drinks - Stories From The Field ·

2021/07/08

Marianne Dawson Alexander started working in outdoor education in 1995 at a YMCA summer camp in Ontario, leading two-week canoe trips in Temagami. From 2000-2005 she worked for Outward Bound Canada in Ontario and on the west coast of Canada, mostly leading hiking and canoeing course with youth at risk. She came to NOLS in 2004, taking a River Instructors Course. Before the course, she had canoed and kayaked a lot but had never rafted. She quickly fell in love with rafting and enjoyed transferring

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50:33

Jaret Slipp: NOLS - Stepping on a Crocodile, Skinning...

Hot Drinks - Stories From The Field ·

2021/07/01

Jaret Slipp was born in Edmonton, Alberta and raised in Nova Scotia and Ontario. He believes that anyone can be a leader and that as instructors, it’s our role to provide the environment and training to help people discover their full potential. He is currently living on a sailboat in the Caribbean with his wife and two adorable daughters for a couple of years, while his home base is in Whitehorse, Yukon. Jaret has worked in outdoor Ed for about 20 years. For NOLS, he has taught canoeing,

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01:23:34

Erica Lorenzen Lengacher: NOLS - Legendary Epic on...

Hot Drinks - Stories From The Field ·

2021/06/24

Our guest, Erica Lorenzen Lengacher grew up in the Seattle area and has been a bit of a nomad since her high school years. Along with her husband, 8-year-old daughter, she is now happily settled in Whitefish, Montana. She took a NOLS semester in the Rockies in 1993 (during a year off from college) and was immediately smitten with all that NOLS had to offer. Erica took a Mountain Instructors Course the following year and started working for the School in Alaska in the summer of 1994. During her NOLS

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01:05:41

Marc Randolph: Netflix Founder On Leadership Lessons...

Hot Drinks - Stories From The Field ·

2021/06/17

Today, our guest is a former NOLS Instructor and Chair of the NOLS Board of Trustees, but he is best known as the co-founder and first CEO of Netflix, Marc Randolph. His incredibly successful career as an entrepreneur span more than four decades. He's founded or co-founded half a dozen other successful startups, including, most recently, Looker Data Sciences, which was sold to Google in 2019 for $2.6B. He is currently mentoring a handful of other early-stage companies, has advised hundreds of other

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01:01:54

John Able: NOLS - High Highs, and (hilarious) Low Lows

Hot Drinks - Stories From The Field ·

2021/06/10

Originally from Southern California, John Abel has worked in outdoor education from 1984 to 2019. He has worked in many different roles such as administrative, instructional, consultative – but the bulk of and the best of his work was as a field instructor for NOLS. John has been a NOLS instructor since 1991, mainly working hiking, climbing, and mountaineering courses. He has a Master's in Leadership and Organizational Development from the Leadership Institute of Seattle. Since 2010, he has worked

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01:08:35

Andy Blair: NOLS - Reflection on NOLS Kenya

Hot Drinks - Stories From The Field ·

2021/06/03

This week on the pod I speak with Andy Blair is a simple man with a craving to be outside. He completed his NOLS Instructors Course in 1992 and his Wilderness Medicine Instructor Training Course in 2001. He has acquired over 250 weeks in the field and taught over 50 Wilderness Medicine courses. His fieldwork includes mountaineering, rock climbing, backcountry skiing, winter camping, canyoneering, whitewater canoeing, outdoor educator, and instructor courses. He maintains a National Registry EMT

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01:15:07

Atila Monteiro: NOLS - Pushing the Edge on Personal...

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2021/05/27

Born in Boston, raised in New York City suburbs, our guest today, Atila Monteiro, went to the University of California Berkeley to study in 1984 and instantly fell in love with outdoor adventures. He worked for Cal Adventures and guided with ARTA river trips before taking a white water Instructors Course with NOLS in 1992. Atila mainly worked paddling (raft, white water kayak, canoe, sea kayak), hiking and Spanish language courses. He started teaching wilderness medicine in 2002 with WMI. Atila

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Matt Deines: NOLS - How A Co-Instructor Prank Led To...

Hot Drinks - Stories From The Field ·

2021/05/20

MATT DEINES Hey everyone, welcome to the Hot Drinks podcast I am your host Shawn Stratton. Each week I sit down with an outdoor educator to hear some of their best stories leading students on wilderness expeditions around the world. This week’s guest, Matt Deines grew up in western Nebraska and completed his Bachelor’s degree in Natural Science from the University of Wyoming. He worked at NOLS for 12 years (1999-2011), leading backpacking and mountaineering trips in Alaska, backpacking courses in

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01:03:43

Roger Yim: NOLS - Runaway in Vegas, Coffee Delivery...

Hot Drinks - Stories From The Field ·

2021/05/13

Our guest today, Roger Yim, has over 430 weeks of leading and instructing wilderness-based expeditions, focusing on leadership, wilderness skills, personal development, environmental stewardship, and expedition behaviour. He started working in outdoor education in the early ’90s. In 1996 Roger began working for the Canadian Outward Bound School, and it 98; Roger took his NOLS River Instructors course and work 18 years with the school. He mostly worked on ski, mountaineering, rock climbing,

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01:18:46

Jen Klewitz and Aboriginal Australian Family, the...

Hot Drinks - Stories From The Field ·

2021/05/06

We have a very special show for you this week on the Hot Drinks podcast! In this episode, I am joined by NOLS Instructor Jen Klewitz and 3 Abagrigional Austrailna’s from the Bardi community who used to work with NOLS students during their cultural section semester courses. They are Irene Davey, a Bardi Elder, and leading voice in the Kimberly region, her son Russell Wasi Davey (goes by Wasi), and Irene’s Nephew Koji AhChoo A few weeks after I started the podcast Jen, who I had not known before,

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01:03:14

Ray Zahab: impossible2Possible - Pushing Youth to the...

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2021/04/29

Ray Zahab is a Canadian explorer, runner and founder of the impossible2Possible. A recent recipient of the Meritorious Service Cross of Canada, Ray is an Explorer in Residence of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He was named one of Canada's best explorers by Canadian Geography in 2015. He has run 17,000+km across the world's deserts and unsupported expeditions in some of the coldest and hottest places on the planet, including the South Pole,

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01:13:12

Rebecca Raynord and Gary Thompson: NOLS - Running Out...

Hot Drinks - Stories From The Field ·

2021/04/22

This week on the show we have our first NOLS co-instructor interview. Shawn speaks with Rebecca Raynord and Gary Thompson who worked two epic canoeing courses together, one in Utah and one in Yukon.Rebecca started whitewater kayaking with a program at our high school on the Potomac River near Washington DC. She began teaching kayaking during the summer in college. After graduating from college with no firm plans, Rebecca decided to take a NOLS semester as a student in search of wilderness skills and

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David Yacubian: NOLS - Doing CPR When Teaching CPR,...

Hot Drinks - Stories From The Field ·

2021/04/15

David Yacubian has been working in Outdoor Education for more than 20 years and has over 15 years of risk management and emergency preparedness experience. He has worked with NOLS as an instructor and advisor on four different continents around the globe. Dave has also run over 100 NOLS Wilderness Medicine courses in the San Francisco Bay Area through his company, Ready SF. Ready SF also offers risk management consulting and emergency preparedness training to schools and businesses in the Bay Area

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01:21:41

Elizabeth Hammond: NOLS - Backpack with Satellite...

Hot Drinks - Stories From The Field ·

2021/04/08

This week I am thrilled to speak with my friend Elizabeth Hammond Born in California and raised in Washington State, Elizabeth (also Liz or Lizzie!) has led expeditions on land and sea in Mexico, the Western U.S., Alaska, and India. She sails, backpacks, sea kayaks, and often migrates like whales and birds – spending most of the year with her partner Carlos in Baja Mexico and heading north to Alaska during summers. She has worked in outdoor education since 2005 and in the field since 2008 - with

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Oscar Manguy: NOLS - Close Encounters with Orcas,...

Hot Drinks - Stories From The Field ·

2021/04/01

Our guest today Oscar Manguy was born in Baja, Mexico, and grew up exploring the Sonoran desert. At the age of nineteen, he participated in a 15-month long photography expedition where he developed a passion for outdoor photography. The "adventure life" led him to Alaska, New Zealand, Patagonia, USA, and Scandinavian Arctic leading expeditions for NOLS. Oscar is an outdoor educator and spends most of his time in nature. Nowadays, he lives in a remote cabin in Eastern Finnish nature. Today, we will

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01:12:28

Sarah Harvie: NOLS - Monkey's in the Amazon, Mammoth...

Hot Drinks - Stories From The Field ·

2021/03/25

Being the Talk of the town for her professional diversity and multi-faceted spirit, today we present you our amazing guest Sarah Harvie. (she spent a decade of work with the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), leading month-long backpacking, backcountry skiing, whitewater canoeing, and rafting expeditions internationally. Seeking the road less traveled, Sarah found great healing and wisdom on her long wilderness journies and in the practice of deep inner yoga. Today she lives in Canmore,

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Jaclyn 'Crackers' Nicholl: NOLS - Orcas, Bulls,...

Hot Drinks - Stories From The Field ·

2021/03/18

Today we have someone who is well-known for her thrills in the oceans. She is one of the most qualified ocean sports instructors in Australia. Our guest Jaclyn 'Crackers' Nicholl today has worked in outdoor education for over 15-years in many remote and isolated regions of the world. Some of her previous employers include; the Astrailas Department of Education, David Wirrpanda Foundation, and(NOLS). Jaclyn is a true believer that passion is key to showing students how 'fun and exciting' learning in

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