The Wild Woman Podcast with 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 positive change, and empower people to be more informed, aware, and intentional with their actions. I’m an adventure life coach, and whitewater kayak instructor based out of Asheville, NC. I specialize in empowering outdoor athletes and enthusiasts to overcome the mental side of adventure so that they can feel safe, secure and satisfied with their adventures and their life. Check out my website www.wildwomanbecca.com for more on what I do.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 111
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
E31: Mental Agility, Plan B, and Emotional Release with Anna Levesque
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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 …
E30: Setting Boundaries without Gatekeeping in Whitewater with Bonnie Maughan
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Bonnie Maughan considers herself your "friendly neighborhood recreationalist." She grew up camping, skiing, and snowboarding. Later, in college, she picked u…
E29: Cycles, Rituals, and Living with the Seasons in Paddling with Valerye Woodruff
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Valerye is a transformational coach and an adventurer. She feels enthused about supporting other adventurous women who struggle with self-worth, communicati…
E28: Pregnant while Paddling with Sandy Hess
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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 …
E27: Why Should I Pay for Paddling Instruction? With Brittany Schruefer
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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 st…
E26: Racing, Friend Crushes, and Competition with Alex Horne
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Alex Horne is an optometrist and whitewater kayaker practicing and paddling in West Virginia. Raised in northern New Hampshire, Alex was a three sport athlete …
E25: Trans Women, Hormones, and How It Affects Kayaking with Cici Cambron
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Cici Cambron (she/her) is a whitewater paddler and instructor currently living in Asheville, NC. She’s been paddling and teaching kayaking for about 3 years, an…
E24: Coaching, Guiding, Instruction, Therapy-ing - Where They Collide and Diverge with Dan Horseman
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Dan Horseman is a Certified Professional Life Coach and ACA L4 WW kayak instructor living in Asheville, NC. He recently became a new dad and is excited to share…
E23: River Tattoos, Tattoo Taboos, and How to Take Your Art on the River with Candice Caldwell Day
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Candice Caldwell Day is an innovative fine art tattoo artist and is based in Sylva NC at Parlor & Co Salon at her private studio. A native to North Carolina, sh…
E22: Processing Trauma and Reclaiming Joy through Whitewater with Alissa Gardner
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Alissa Gardner is a mother of two, an ICU nurse in Western NC, and a long-time outdoors lover. She’s been whitewater kayaking for over 25 years and grew up padd…
E21: Raising a River Family with Jeremy Anderson
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Jeremy lives in Truckee, CA with her beloved husband of 30 years and her 2 teenage daughters. Her passion for nature brought her across the country and into the …
E20: Who is Becca Ploener? with guest, Nicky Murphy
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Becca Ploener is a whitewater kayak instructor and authenticity coach based out of Asheville, NC. She works with folks who are feeling burntout, tired, and like…
E19: Why Community is So Important with Ladies of the Whitewater Creator, Andrea Newton
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Andrea Newton started the Ladies of the Whitewater Community Group on Facebook. Originally the idea stemmed from a conversation about menstrual cycles on multi-…
E18: Hookup Culture and Sex Positivity in Whitewater with Brie Goodman
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Brie Goodman seamlessly blends her roles as a public health nurse and a retired professional raft guide. Her years in Glacier National Park as a whitewater rafti…
E17: Embodiment and healing through whitewater with Massage Therapist, Christina Cunningham
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Christina Cunningham is a trauma sensitive massage therapist & coach with 25 years of experience in the field of embodied spirituality. She was compelled to s…
E16: Preventing Self Sabatoge On and Off the Water with Trauma Awareness and Energy Coach, Candace Bethel
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Candace Bethel is a Trauma Awareness & Energy Coach. She has been working in the alternative energy medicine industry for over 20 years specializing in childhood…
E15: How to Access Skills While Scouting Whitewater with Sports Psychologist, Sarah Connelly
TRIGGER WARNING: DEATH ON THE RIVER
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Sarah Connelly is a mental skills coach living in Pacific Northwest. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Kinesiology…
E14: Paddling Upstream: Surviving the Culture of Sexual (Mis)Conduct with Holly Joh
TRIGGER WARNING: SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ASSAULT
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Holly Johanna Winters is 42 and an educator, farmer, musi…
E13: Wet, Wild, and Woman: Fertility Awareness Method within the Whitewater Lifestyle with Chloe Skerlak
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Chloe Skerlak is wildly passionate about the menstrual cycle! A Full Spectrum Fertility Awareness Educato…
E12: How to be Taken Seriously As a Woman in Whitewater with Stacy Gold
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Award-winning adventure romance author, Stacy Gold would rather be in the middle of no…