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
- 112
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
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…
E11: 7 Days Notice with No Experience Down the Grand Canyon with Dan Regalado
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Dan Regalado is out to spread kindness and love to all. Whether he’s sharing his passio…
E10: Pregnancy Scares and Menstruation on Multiday Expeditions with Anna Harrison
Anna is an Atlanta-based outdoorsperson who has been guiding folks in the outdoors since 2014. She has taught a variety of classes including wilderness survival, map and compass skills, kayaking, st…
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 alt…
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 …
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 w…
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 environm…
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 c…
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 Riv…
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 no…
E:2 Fat Shaming within the Whitewater Kayaking Community with Claudia Behringer-Smith
Claudia Behringer-Smith(she/her/hers), works for Camp Merrie-Woode as their Adventure Program Coordinator and has been working in the Outdoor Industry since she was 18. Claudia's been recreating outs…
E1: Whitewater War Stories and Why We Glorify Trauma with Stress Injury Expert: Julia Yanker
Julia Yanker is an adventurer and paddler, as well as a coach for outdoor enthusiasts. She specializes in treating stress injury after a traumatic incident, and also coaches adventurers with everyday…