Redefined Life

Complete show notes can be found at redefinedlife.com/14

Fernanda Carcamo left a secure job to start a company while she was pregnant with her first child.  Surprisingly, she believes this was the perfect time to start a business. 

Fernanda grew up in Honduras, went to school in the United States, Denmark and Spain, and has settled in Belgium.  Recently, she left a secure job with great benefits to pursue her dream of owning her own company.  She turned her dream into reality when she started the food company, Nutrabel.  Currently, Nutrabel specializes in gluten free and organic biscuits and crackers but has plans to expand their product line in the future.

In this conversation we talk about key experiences that led to her success, her most valuable lessons, and her outlook on starting a business and a family at the same time.

If you would like to give Redefined Life a virtual high-five, please consider making a donation to First Descents.  Every little bit helps in a big way.

Links

Nutrabel Website

Nutrabel Facebook

La Maison de l'Entreprise (Fernanda's Business Coaches)

Contact Fernanda: [email protected]

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Complete show notes can be found at redefinedlife.com/13

Gavin McClurg is a 2014/2015 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, world record holder, paraglider pilot, Red Bull X-Alps 8th place finisher, entrepreneur...  the list goes on. 

This was a fascinating interview full of stories about how Gavin started his first businesses and how his entrepreneurial pursuits evolved, about his adventure that earned him the nod as a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year,  and how he trained his body and mind for the X-Alps adventure race.

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Complete show notes can be found at redefinedlife.com/12

You Only Always is a design studio comprised of the husband and wife team of Pan Trinity Das and Kyrie Maezumi.  They travel the world producing meaningful street art for NGOs and non-profits.

They describe their work as "spiritual pop art" and it often represents topics such as love and environmental consciousness. 

In this episode Pan and Kyrie discuss how they were empowered to live differently, the impact of their art, their lover lifestyle, life in an RV, stories from traveling the world and much more. 

Pan's Instagram

Kyrie's Instagram

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Recommended Books

Tao Te Ching

Trust Me I'm Lying

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

 Biocentrism

The Star Rover

The Exquisite Risk

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Complete show notes can be found at redefinedlife.com/11

Brad Ludden is the founder of First Descents, an organization that empowers adults with cancer through outdoor adventure experiences. 

Brad was a young professional whitewater kayaker at the top of the game when he decided to start First Descents.  He knew he wanted to start the program but had no idea it would turn into a career.

Watch this video to see just how much of an impact the programs at First Descents have on the participants.  Please consider volunteering your time or making a donation to First Descents.  Every little bit helps in a big way.

In this episode Brad shares:

• Why he started First Descents
• What effect First Descents has on participants
• What is happiness
• How he weighed the decision to start First Descents instead of going to college
• How he was able to start First Descents with no prior business experience
• The biggest challenges he faced when starting First Descents
• How he finds good people
• What he found to be the key to fundraising success
• The power of vulnerability
• How to interact with a person with cancer
• How to talk about cancer
• How First Descents has grown beyond just kayaking
• How you can help by volunteering or donating to First Descents

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Music from this episode can be found here: http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/unreal_dm/33850

Complete show notes can be found at redefinedlife.com/10

Chris McNamara is an ex-wingsuit BASE jumper, big wall climber, author of 10 books, founder of the American Safe Climbing Association, SuperTopo.com, OutdoorGearLab.com, and RentSouthLake.com.

He has built his life around chasing his passions and following them until the next big adventure calls.   He has enabled this lifestyle by building several businesses based on these passions.

In this episode Chris shares:

• The appeal and adventure of high speed travel.
• How an electric skateboard changed his life. 
• How owning a rental property added to his freedom.
• Why it’s important to open yourself to being grabbed by passions.
• How big wall climbing gave him direction in life.
• The story of how he accidentally graduated college in 7 years.
• Why college is a great thing to do until you find something better. 
• Why it can be a good thing to keep your day job.
• The key to having a beginner’s mind. 
• How he decides what business ideas to pursue.
• How he got into wing suit BASE jumping and why he got out.

Chris' Companies

• American Safe Climbing Association
• Outdoor Gear Lab
• Super Topo
• Rent South Lake

Chris' Writing

Why I Quit Wingsuit BASE

ChrisMcNamara.com

Chris Recommends

Good To Great by Jim Collins

Einstein: His Life and Universe

Chris' Travels

7 Wonders of the World in 13 Days

The Free Euro Electric Skateboard Weekend

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Music from this episode can be found here: http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/unreal_dm/33850

Complete show notes can be found at redefinedlife.com/9

Tom McElroy is a wilderness survival expert and the founder of Wild Survival.  Growing up in a wealthy town, he dreamed of escaping the common path in order to live the hobo lifestyle.  He decided to learn wilderness survival skills to enhance his ability to make it on his own and he discovered his life passion in the process. 

Tom has has taught wilderness survival skills to more than 10,000 students over the past 20 years.  He developed his knowledge by spending a year living off the land, becoming an instructor at the most famous tracking and survival school in the country, hunting with blowguns in the Amazon with the Huaorani tribe, running through Copper Canyon with the Tarahumara (Raramuri), and living with a tribal shaman in a palm thatched hut a hundred miles off the coast of Sumatra.  His diverse experiences have given him an extensive toolkit for survival in nearly any location that he now passes on to his students.

• How nobody in high school believed he could live in the woods for a year instead of going to college.
• What he learned during his year living in full survival.
• How living off the land turned changed him from a bad student to a great student.
• How he trained his brain for success.
• Why we need to experience nature and how primitive skills can enhance that experience.
• What he learned from living with indigenous people around the world.
• How he feels about his experience as a cast member on Naked and Afraid.
• What advice he would give to someone looking to lead a more fulfilling life.

More Information

Wild Survival

Wild Survival Facebook

Tom's Videos

Find all his videos here.

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Music from this episode can be found here: http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/unreal_dm/33850

Complete show notes can be found at redefinedlife.com/8

Adam Eurich is a filmmaker and producer of the upcoming documentary, Seeking Heartwood. 

In 2010, he quit his lucrative job as an engineer, took his life savings, and hit the road to explore Buddhism in America. 

With cameras in hand, he traveled across America seeking out the best teachers he could find. 

The experience forced him to reevaluate his own assumptions about truth, meaning, and happiness.

• How he used his life savings to fund a documentary project. 
• The importance of not being attached to expectations.
• How the world helped support his project. 
• How meditation forced him to face the dissatisfaction in his life.
• How he found out how to express what was true to his own experience.
• Why he felt he had to use up all his savings before accepting financial help from others.
• How to accept failure as part of the journey.
• The rewards of deeply looking at your own experience.
• The lessons from recognizing that he already had what he was looking for all along. 

Secular Buddhist Podcast Episode 188

Complete show notes can be found at redefinedlife.com/7

Liz Greene is the co-owner of Pioneer Valley CrossFit. Under her direction, PVCF has expanded to locations in Hadley and Northampton, Massachusetts. 

When Liz found herself derailed from the path she had been pursuing her entire life, she had a major decision to make.  Should she make a slight course correction and stay the path or should she follow love and passion toward uncertainty?

People who meet Liz know her as one of the most positive people they've ever met.  I speak with her about how she developed her positive outlook, the difficult decisions and subsequent experiences that shaped her world view, and the super rad choice to keep exercising throughout her pregnancy.

• How she developed her positive outlook.
• The importance of practicing gratitude.
• What happened when her dreams where shattered.
• Her story of finding love.
• How CrossFit helps people discover previously unknown capabilities in all areas of life.
• The importance of being efficient with your energy.
• How she customizes her coaching technique to each individual.
• How studying wilderness survival skills, Aikido, and CrossFit influenced her philosophy. 
• The benefits of training throughout her pregnancy.
• How CrossFit and vision quests gave her the tools to make it through 7 days of labor.
• The nutritional change that changed everything.
• How she recovered after pregnancy.
• Her artistic process and how it has evolved since giving birth.

"Our birthright is to be happy, joyus, free and healthy." - Liz Greene

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To contact Tino Specht to discuss video projects for your business or product, e-mail him at [email protected]

Watch some of his past projects at redefinedlife.com/1

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Find the complete show notes and a documentary about Nick Zammuto at redefinedlife.com/6

Nick Zammuto is a sound artist/musician/homesteader/benevolent dictator of the band Zammuto.   A cancer diagnosis during his college years forced him to reconsider his choice to pursue chemistry and initiated a transition toward a life of music.  Nick now makes music for a living and leads a homesteader's life in rural Vermont with his wife and three sons.  

Nick's creativity and perpetual experimentation have led to an ever-changing sound which is impossible to categorize.  It doesn't really "sound like" anything but Zammuto.   Stay tuned after the interview to hear his song "Need Some Sun" from his most recent album, Anchor.

• How he didn't choose music, music chose him. 
• A realization about the nature of chemistry rocked his perception of what he thought to be true. 
• Lessons from experiencing cancer.
• How he broke away from the work-a-day world and hiked the Appalachian Trail.
• The value of disconnecting from our cultural addiction to noise and inputs. 
• The value of touring for a musician.
• How struggle, or at least not doing what is easiest, can lead to greater satisfaction.
• His views on balance.
• How he gets past self-doubt.

Nick Zammuto Quotes

"I want to use tools without becoming a tool."

"I don't see how anybody could be satisfied doing what's easiest."

"The guiding principles are don't do drugs and don't let fear shut you down."

"Nowadays we confuse writing e-mails with doing work."

"What I want to do is cover as much ground as possible while I'm on this planet and try everything."

"It took me a while to figure out that it wasn't going to be someone else who was going to push me in the right direction.  It was going to be a personal choice and it was going to take some creative destruction to get there."

"I'm not going to give people the same experience twice."

More about Nick Zammuto

Zammuto Website

Zammuto on iTunes

All music from this episode is provided by Zammuto.

Intro and outro song: Don't Be a Tool

End Song: Need Some Sun

Both songs are from the album Anchor.

Get the full show notes at redefinedlife.com/5

Katie Spring is an organic farmer from Vermont.  She founded Good Heart Farmstead with her husband, Edge, in the spring of 2012 where they live in a Yurt with their toddler.  For the past three years, they have been working on building the farm of their dreams. 

Katie has developed a keen ability to see lessons in her daily experiences and her skill as a writer gives her a clarity of thought that I envy.  During our discussion, she shares some of the lessons she has learned in the process of developing the farm and doubling their business each year. 

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• How she cultivated her awareness and appreciation for the lessons in daily routines.
• Key lessons about true freedom.
• Moments of wisdom that have come from times of darkness and loss.
• How daily rhythms and habits help her get through the clouded moments.
• How freedom and being in charge of how she spends her days has brought her happiness.
• The excitement of dreaming about how her ideas can become reality.
• Why it's important to simplify in order to focus on what you do well. 
• How she rebounded after a devastating barn fire.
• The importance of getting outside perspectives to fully see just how much she has accomplished.
• How she has successfully shared her story and mission in order to distinguish her farm from a crowded market.

More about Katie

Good Heart Farmstead - Website

Katie's Blog - Website

Some of my favorite posts from Katie's blog:

Live Your Romantic Life

The Naked Winter or Becoming More Alive

Living in the Space Between

Music in this episode: I Dunno by Grapes