Episode 119: Adventure Moms – Getting Out There With (and Without) Your Kids
Episode 119: Adventure Moms
Getting Out There With (and Without) Your Kids
Sponsored by OtterBox
Becoming a mom doesn’t mean you stop going outside. We pulled together five incredible adventure moms to talk about getting out there with (and without) your kids.
We ask questions like: how do you know which trails are age-appropriate? How do you make time as a single mom? Where can you find affordable gear? How can you use the outdoors as a place for education?
Continuing the conversation from a panel at Outdoor Retailer, we teamed up with OtterBox to highlight all the “cans” of motherhood when it comes to the outdoors.
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Featured in this episode: Shon’t Savage, Brooke Froelich, Heather Balogh Rochfort, Melody Forsyth, and Jessica Carrillo Alatorre.
Hosted by Gale Straub
Music is by Lee Rosevere, Kai Engel, and Josh Woodward using CC by A license.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- How the moms’ outdoor lives change (or didn”t change) shape when they had kids
- Why Shon’t wanted to maintain a self outside of mother when she had her son
- How Adventure Mamas helps mothers with self care in the outdoors without their kids
- Tips for making time outside solo (even if you’re a single mom)
- Advice for getting out there with your kids on the trail and the ski slope
- About Hike It Baby and their new age-appropriate Family Trail Guide
- Tips for hitting the trail with special needs kids from Melody Forsyth, aka @downwithadventure
- How to find affordable used gear for growing kids
- Ways to keep your kids engaged as they grow older
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Shon’t Savage: Instagram
- Brooke Froelich: Instagram
- Heather Balogh Rochfort: Instagram
- Melody Forsyth: Instagram
- Hike It Baby
- Adventure Mamas
- Women Who Hike Book
- Hike It Baby Trail Guide
- Join us in our She Explores Podcast Facebook Group!
Sponsor Websites & Promotions
- OtterBox: Sign up for the elevation 14 mug waitlist!
Panel at the OtterBox booth at Outdoor Retailer
Melody Forsyth and family of Down With Adventure
Shon’t Savage is on the board of Adventure Mamas and mother to a 12 year old son
Jessica Carrillo Alatorre is the interim Executive Director at Hike it Baby
Brooke Froelich and her two little ones
Heather Baloch Rochfort and her daughter, Liliana
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Love the adventures… and sharing two favorite adventure quotes… (-:
“Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.”
–Karen Gibbs
“Christopher Robin was sitting outside his door, putting on his Big Boots. As soon as he saw the Big Boots, Pooh knew that an Adventure was going to happen, and he brushed the honey off his nose with the back of his paw, and spruced himself up as well as he could, so as to look ready for Anything.”
–A.A. Milne