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

E38: Mindset Series Pt2: How to Take Up Space (and feel good about it)in the Climbing Gym

Do you ever get talked over, cut in line while climbing, or feel like you just don't fit in? In today's episode I talk about why it's important to take up space, how it can impact your climbing, and ways to practice...
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E37: Mindset Series Pt 1: How "I'm not enough" May Be Affecting Your Outdoor Skills and How to Fix It!

Do you ever feel like you're not enough? Good enough, skilled enough, strong enough, extroverted enough, etc? In today's episode, I go over what scarcity mindset is and how it could be affecting even more than just...
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E36: Staying Sane While Chasing Rain as a Southeast Paddler

This episode is all about the emotional and social challenges that come along with chasing rain in the southeast. Becca shares her three main challenges with making plans and boating in floods as well as her three...
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E35: Adventure Inheritance: How My Mom Influenced my Adventures with Martha Ploener

⁠⁠⁠Schedule a session with Becca⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Martha Ploener is a mother to 3 adventurous kiddos and wife to Randy Ploener. She’s been an ER and radiology nurse for over 30 years and has done her own fair share of...
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E34: Imposter Syndrome as an Intermediate Paddler with My Sister Sarah Ploener

⁠⁠Schedule a session with Becca⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Sarah Ploener is my “favorite” (and only… lol she wrote this) sister and has been paddling for 4 years - 3 of which she guided on the Lehigh River in PA. Right now she...
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E33 WTF is a Boof? Secret Language of Whitewater with nonpaddler, Caroline Elizabeth

⁠Schedule a session with Becca⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Caroline is a certified life & health coach who specializes in supporting introverted entrepreneurs. Through her personalized process, she helps clients craft a vision...
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E32: Expedition Planning with Pro Packer, Abby Taylor

⁠Schedule a session with Becca⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Abby was born in Northeast Georgia to displaced Northerners in a backwater town called Toccoa, and has since moved across the country, worked in 8 states, and gone on...
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E31: Mental Agility, Plan B, and Emotional Release with Anna Levesque

⁠Schedule a session with Becca⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Anna Levesque is a distinguished leader in the outdoor industry as a mental agility and white water kayak coach. What differentiates Anna is her approach to physical and...
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E30: Setting Boundaries without Gatekeeping in Whitewater with Bonnie Maughan

⁠Schedule a session with Becca⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Bonnie Maughan considers herself your "friendly neighborhood recreationalist." She grew up camping, skiing, and snowboarding. Later, in college, she picked up climbing,...
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E29: Cycles, Rituals, and Living with the Seasons in Paddling with Valerye Woodruff

⁠Schedule a session with Becca⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Valerye is a transformational coach and an adventurer.  She feels enthused about supporting other adventurous women who struggle with self-worth, communication and...
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E28: Pregnant while Paddling with Sandy Hess

⁠Schedule a session with Becca⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Sandy Hess is joining us from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She's a whitewater guide of 8 years and spent the last season guiding while pregnant with her first baby! She's here...
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E27: Why Should I Pay for Paddling Instruction? With Brittany Schruefer

⁠Schedule a session with Becca⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---- Brittany Schruefer (Schree-fur) believes that the best place to learn is outside of our comfort zones. After five months of chasing summer around the world studying comparative...
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