The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca Ploener

The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca Ploener

Hosted by: Becca Ploener

Welcome to the wild woman podcast, on this podcast I bring to surface the conversations we have in private about the outdoor community. My hope is that by sharing these challenging topics, I can break the ice, promote...

Episodes

E14: Paddling Upstream: Surviving the Culture of Sexual (Mis)Conduct with Holly Joh

Episode #14

TRIGGER WARNING: SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ASSAULT ⁠Schedule a session with Becca⁠⁠⁠ ------------------------------------------------------------ Holly Johanna Winters is 42 and an educator, farmer, musician, and proud...
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E13: Wet, Wild, and Woman: Fertility Awareness Method within the Whitewater Lifestyle with Chloe Skerlak

Episode #13

⁠Schedule a session with Becca⁠⁠ ------------------------------------------------------------ Chloe Skerlak is wildly passionate about the menstrual cycle! A Full Spectrum Fertility Awareness Educator and Holistic...
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E12: How to be Taken Seriously As a Woman in Whitewater with Stacy Gold

Episode #11

Schedule a session with Becca⁠ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Award-winning adventure romance author, Stacy Gold would rather be in the middle of nowhere than almost...
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E11: 7 Days Notice with No Experience Down the Grand Canyon with Dan Regalado

Episode #11

Schedule a session with Becca --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Regalado is out to spread kindness and love to all. Whether he’s sharing his passions for the arts...
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E10: Pregnancy Scares and Menstruation on Multiday Expeditions with Anna Harrison

Episode #10

Anna is an Atlanta-based outdoorsperson who has been guiding folks in the outdoors since 2014.Ā  She has taught a variety of classes including wilderness survival, map and compass skills, kayaking, stand up...
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E9: How the River Shapes Us: 3 Generations Deep with Mindfulness Coach, Jessica Thayer

Jessica Thayer works around presence and accepting what is. Her youth as the daughter of a single mom involved in whitewater has been an integral part of her journey so far. She grew up living an alternative life...
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E8: Humility, Perseverance, and How to Be the Best at Being the Worst with Jen Colon

Jen’s life is fueled by adventure, travel, laughter, life lessons and doing the things people tell her she can’t do. She thrives on meeting new people and hearing their stores and using them to help motivate and drive...
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E7: It's Not Always Easy Being Green - A Look into Asheville Area Boating Culture with Kelly Holland

Kelly Holland is an educator living and teaching in Asheville, NC. Her 9-5 is in art education - teaching visual art to K-12 students with severe and profound disabilities. In the summer and on the weekends, she is a...
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E6: An Alternative Way to Leave No Trace with recent Yale Graduate, Mara MacDonnell

Mara MacDonell has a Masters of Environmental Science from Yale, where she grew her interest for community development, natural resource management, science education, outdoor recreation and environmental justice,...
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E5: Affordable Health Insurance for broke dirtbags with Carrie Soulliere

Carrie Soulliere is a South Eastern rafter and insurance agent who serves the whitewater community nationwide. Carrie focuses on affordable health insurance. Most members of the guiding and tourism communities qualify...
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E4: The Flipside of Misogyny — A Woman's Guide to Righting that Raft with Morri Stewart

Morri Stewart has been a whitewater river guide for 30+ years, navigating rivers in the Western United States and the world, from the Colorado River to the Tatenshini/Alsek, the Tuolumne and Kern Rivers, California,...
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E:3 Damsels in Distress, Caretakers, and Being Socialized as Female in Whitewater with Matty Alpert

Matty Alpert, they/them is newer to the whitewater kayaking world, but has been a part of the outdoor industry for the past 6 years. They started working for their university's outdoor program and now works for NCOBS...
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