She Explores
Come find inspiration with women in the outdoors. Interviews, in-the-field recordings, and listener submissions make up a tapestry of episodes covering themes such as solo hiking and camping, entrepreneurship, outdoor equity, aging, conservation, motherhood, chronic illness, and more as they intersect with outdoor experiences. Hosted by Gale Straub.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 252
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2023
Part 1: Adventuring with Kids
What moms don't talk about enough: adventuring while pregnant, postpartum, and beyond. For the first part of a two part "Adventuring with Kids" series, we talk with moms about pregnancy and getting o…
After the PCT: Karen Wang
Injury, community, and gratitude. We interview Karen Wang two weeks after she left the Pacific Crest Trail just shy of Crater Lake in Oregon. There's a lot out there about what it's like to hike a fa…
Alone on the Trail
This episode is about going it alone in the outdoors. As women, we're often advised to exercise extra caution when we go solo. We wanted to create an episode that is motivating to other women to get …
Fresh Air on the Job
Profiling women who work or who have worked for the National Park and US Forest Service. We've always been curious about what it's like to work for the agencies - we hear about real women's experienc…
Women Outdoors, Online
The best part about the internet? Real communities and businesses are built there. It's one place that movements can be made visible. While the "outdoors" and "online" can seem like an oxymoron, soci…
Creatives on the Road
Creativity is a big part of #vanlife. Many of the women on the road we've featured are photographers, writers, filmmakers, and visual artists. One reason for this is that a road trip is incredibly in…
Origin Story
What is the backstory of She-Explores.com? Host Gale Straub explains why she started She Explores with the help of some contributors, including:
Emily King, Liz Song, Nikki Frumkin, Erin Sullivan, Ko…
Micro Episode: Listeners Answer the Question - How do the outdoors make you feel?
We compiled listener submitted voice memos that describe how the outdoors make them feel. Some adjectives used include: inspired, energetic, connected, healed, calm... The list goes on.
Thanks to Aly…
"Being Here": How the Outdoors Make Us Feel
Interview with adventure writer Hilary Oliver about her short film, "Being Here." We talk about her motivation to create the film, how she felt about sharing it with the world, and how she sees adven…
On Fear #2: Human Powered Travel
Interview with Julie Hotz, a videographer and photographer in favor of human-powered travel. She bike-packed from Los Angeles, CA to Glacier National Park and then hiked the Pacific Northwest Trail t…
On Fear: Beginner Backpacking and Kickstarters
On Fear: Beginner Backpacking and Kickstarters. Interviews with Liz Song, founder of Snowqueen and Scout, and Rachel Goldfarb of @IdleTheoryBus. We talk about the fear associated with taking big lea…
About She Explores
An introduction to the motivation behind She Explores podcast from host Gale Straub.
Featuring the voices of:
Hiranya de Alwis Jayasinghe,
Sheri Tingey,
Beth Bradley,
Katie Boué, and
Rahawa Hailey.
L…