In this episode, Allison will be telling you part one of her personal adventurous reinvention story and how she went from being a city girl from Texas to becoming outdoorsy and adventurous through backpacking.

Key Points Discussed:

• FIRST Backpacking Experience: Allison's first challenging hike from Happy Isle to Little Yosemite Valley, marking the start of her outdoor journey.
• Adventurous Transformation: A "year of yes" led to solo travels, new adventures, and meeting her second husband.
• Life Path Changes: Overcame life challenges, including depression, divorce, and a move to California, sparking a shift in personal identity.
• Empowering Others: Creation of She Dreams of Alpine (her now business) and the "Backpacking Badass" program to teach and inspire women in the outdoors.

Where to learn more about Allison:

• She Dreams of Alpine Blog
• Instagram @shedreamsofalpine

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You're listening to the Adventurous Reinvention podcast. I'm

Alison Boyle AKA She Dreams of Alpine and this is the

show that's dedicated to all the adventurous spirits out there who have either

been transformed by the outdoors or interested in what it

looks like to step into a new adventurous and courageous kind

of identity in their life. It doesn't matter what your background is in the

outdoors, what age you're starting at, or where you grew up. If

you're curious about the outdoors and using adventure as a way to

reinvent yourself, you're in the right place. I'll be

sharing all kinds of personal adventure stories, lessons I've

learned from the mountains, teaching what I know about the outdoors and leadership,

and interviewing some amazing adventurous women all along the

way. I've been coaching women on becoming safe, confident, and

self sufficient backpackers and leaders of their own adventurous lives

since 2018. And I know exactly what

big fears and self doubts can pop up along the way. I have

so much to share with you, so let's dive in. Okay.

Welcome, my friends, to episode 2 of

our adventurous reinvention podcast. I'm

so excited to share this story with you. Some of you may have heard this

or you may have heard versions of this story, but I'm excited

to kinda share it here on this podcast so it has a place to live

and can be revisited. And this is essentially my

part 1 of my adventurous reinvention, my own

personal adventurous reinvention story. And,

basically, there have been a few really key pivotal moments in

my life where I can look back now and see that I

completely reinvented myself. And so today, I wanna share with

you part 1 of that story. And this is

the literal story about how I went from being the girl

from Texas without a single outdoorsy bone in her

body to being the kind of woman who spent literally

almost every single weekend, like, hiking, climbing,

backpacking. I got into mountaineering, a little bit of canyoneering. I

was just obsessed with being outside and being that

kinda woman who did those kinds of things. So

I reinvented myself by first becoming a

backpacker, and now my life is completely different

than what it was like before I kind of was introduced to the

outdoors. So today, I wanna walk you through this

concept of how backpacking has played a huge role in my life and

making me the woman I am today. So I

want you just to just allow this conversation to be

kind of like a seed of possibility for yourself.

Like, it's an idea. Let it be a curiosity.

Open up to if you're brand new to the outdoors maybe you

are just a hiker or, like, you're just starting to even get into that.

Let this be something that opens up possibility that

could happen for you. Right? There's all these ideas and

possibilities floating out there, like, ways of being, these

different career options that we have, ways that we could live our life,

adventures that we could go on, experiences we can have,

things that we can create and bring to life. There's so many

possibilities. Right? And maybe you floated into my

world here at she dreams of alpine for whatever reason,

and maybe that reason is that I'm here for you

and your life as a way to present a new idea

and a new possibility or a new way of being that maybe you

haven't considered before. So for

me, that thing that literally drives me every

day is sharing the message and the idea that the outdoors can

literally change your your life. So,

my favorite way to teach somebody a new way of

being or more appropriately like an adventurous

way of being is by teaching them how to be

reinvented by becoming a confident and self sufficient

backpacker. And I remember my dad when I first started my

business back in 2018. I remember he asked

me, won't I get tired of talking about backpacking?

And I knew really confidently then when I started my

business that that answer would be no because it's

so much more than just backpacking.

For me, backpacking was one of the pivotal ways that

I personally reinvented myself way back in

2013. It was absolutely a

turning point in my life, and you could consider it kinda like my

butterfly effect. Right? So if you've

never read the book by Elizabeth Gilbert, it's

called Big Magic. I highly recommend it if you've never listened to it

before or read it before. She talks about creative

living beyond fear in that book. And I even if you don't

consider yourself a creative type, I think this book is worth

everyone should read it. It's just a fantastic book. And I love the way

in this book how she talks about curiosity and she talks about

ideas. So in her book, Big Badgic, she talks

about how ideas and for the purposes of this

podcast, let's extend that to possibility,

and how ideas and possibility just exist,

and they are, and they exist in this world. All kinds

of possibilities for our lives just exist. Right? And

sometimes the way we're introduced to them is through an idea,

a curiosity, listening to a podcast or somebody

else's story. Right? And in these moments, we have a

choice to partner with that idea or that curiosity

or that possibility and bring it into reality into our

own life, or we can dismiss the idea and move

forward with what we're doing. Right? It's a partnership. But

the idea or the possibility will move forward regardless

to find another partner to bring it into reality if you choose to

ignore it. So I love this concept of partnering with

ideas, and I think about it a lot.

And she talks about this concept in relation to relationship to

creation and ideas and creative pursuits, but I think it's equally

as applicable to possibilities and ways of being in our life.

So these are all there are all these,

like, ways that we can be and exist and

identify in this world and this this life that we're living.

Right? And it's I think it's really fascinating

because there's all these different career paths and life

paths that all of us humans can take.

I remember when I was, like, 1st listening to

podcasts for the first time, and I was, like, listening to Tim Ferris podcast or

something like that. And I kept seeing these interviews, and I was,

like, wow. These people live wildly different lives than I am, and I just

never even considered these as options for myself.

So when I stopped to think about it, like, people

show up and exist and live in this world in so many wild and

unique ways, and that's, like, very exciting. And

what I didn't realize though until backpacking entered

my life is that I actually had some say

about which possibilities came true in my life, and not even that.

I actually could create whatever I

wanted in my life. So I think when I

was younger, I originally thought, like, I am who I am.

Like, I identify how I identify. I'm not outdoorsy. Like, these are

the cards I've been dealt. Right? I can't just change who I am.

And that's how I kinda operated my life. Like, I'm just

a, I'm just a perfectionist, and I'm just this, and I

could never do that, and I'm not brave enough for that, and I'm just a

scared person, and I'm just really shy. Right? I just had these

identities that were so solidified in me that I just thought were

things you couldn't change. But what I began to

realize through backpacking is that I can be different

than who I thought I was, and I can be someone I

never imagined was possible for me. So

I wanna back up a little bit and tell that

story. So So when I was younger, I was

definitely a box checker. I was, you know, type a and a

plus student. I was born and raised in

Texas. I grew up there my whole childhood,

in the Houston, Texas area, and, you know, I actually

got married really young. I got married at age 19,

and then I went to college because that's what you

do. You go to college, and I got into

a career path as an engineer to do something

respectable, and I was just anticipating I'd be an engineer for the rest of my

life, and that's just what I thought you were supposed to do,

checking off all the boxes that I thought I needed to do to check

off to live the right kind of life, right,

as if there were a right or wrong way to live, a life

that was completely mine. But when I was younger, I just felt like

you're presented with your, like, sort

of basic options of life plans, and then you just

kind of follow it without bothering to question, like, is this what I want?

Is this the path that I wanna go down? And even being open to the

idea that you can change your mind, that was something that was

also foreign to me. Like, I just thought, thought, I've made my decision, and this

is the path that I'm on. Right? A solid career path, a

strong retirement plan, kids, a house, a marriage,

and old age. Right? Check, check, check. That's kind of

where I was headed. But in college

excuse me. In college, life kinda sorta threw

me a curve ball. And to make

that story a little shorter, I basically started to

question things. I was really frustrated by who I

was. I mean, I think college kinda brings this out of all

of us a little bit. Like, we're questioning everything. We have a lot of

curiosities start to bubble up. And all these things I had

not experienced, I felt like I had missed out already

on so much of my life even though I was so young then, and I

was feeling unfulfilled and I was, like, sad about things,

and that's when I started to kinda, like, look for those quick

dopamine hits. Right? And so I started to, like, party and drink a

lot, and, you know, that's what I was living for. I would

go steady, and then I would go party with my friends, and it

was, like, a temporary relief to all the questions and tension

that I was resisting to answer about myself and who I wanted to be at

the time. And I think when I was younger, my

brain, when it was presented with all those questions, like, who am I? What do

I wanna be? It was like, no, Allison. Don't mess this up. We have

boxes to check. You can't just change your mind. You've picked your path, and

that is that. Right? And this question of,

did I actually want that? Was I on the path that

I wanted? That question was messing everything up for me. It was

messing up my marriage at the time,

all the things. Like, my brain was a mess, messing up my plans. It was

highly uncomfortable, and it was, like,

reckless because I just resisted answering those questions

honestly, and I was just kinda, like, numbing myself with

partying and drinking and just not avoiding all my

problems, basically. And long story short, it ended

in divorce. So at the end of college, I got divorced from my

first husband, and I also found myself moving

out to California because I had taken an engineering job in

California, and that was kinda like a little glimmer of me trying

to, like, answer questions of who I wanted to be, and I knew

I wasn't gonna find those answers sticking around in Texas. I knew that

understanding what I wanted out of life meant shaking things up,

and California seemed like the place to do that. So I was

around age 22 or 2023.

So I was in I found myself in California. I was newly

divorced, which was not part of my original plan, but okay.

I was back on track, checking the boxes, being an

engineer. You know, I had my solid career choice working for me. I

was working on that retirement plan. But then

I also continued down that rabbit hole of

denial and partying, and I was trying to make friends. You know,

I had no friends, and I was really

resisting the big questions. Right? It's so hard to answer the

big questions sometimes. So I basically just

would go to work, and then I'd try to go out drinking. And then I

made drinking friends, so we were, like, always just doing something,

partying, drinking, repeat every weekend. It was just that

was my life after college. And I

definitely went through a bit of a depression. I I

recall this when I I remember I called my

dad, one day after work, and

I had been sleeping a lot, you know, in addition to when I

wasn't, like, out with people. I had been drinking or, sleeping a lot, and I

called him and I told him. I was like, I'm just tired all the time.

And I was probably, like, a bit, you know, just sad

sounding or something. I I don't remember this stuff very well,

well, that period of my my life, but I remember he said to

me, Allison, I think you're depressed. And I

that, like, had never occurred to me. That had never really happened

to me in that way before. And I was like, oh

my goodness. Like, maybe I am.

And that was kind of a point where I started

to kinda open up to, like started opening up to the

questions a little bit. And I had been a little bit

tired of doing the thing that I was doing, drinking. You

know? I I had these friendships, and some of them were good

friends, and I still, like, really appreciate their friendships. But then some people, I

was just like, I don't know why I'm hanging out with these people. All we

do is drink and party, and

it's just it didn't feel like this was the way my life was supposed to

continue going. So, eventually, I

decided at the beginning of the new year of after

I'd been there, I think, in California for maybe a

year or something, I decided to embark on

what I now I now call this my year of yes, but I don't think

I had that terminology back then. But I was

basically I basically made a pact to myself that that

year, I was going to get out of my comfort zone,

do new things, shake it up. Like, I also

had identified with being pretty shy, so alcohol felt like

this way of me getting out of my comfort zone of being shy.

But what I was going to try to do is not rely on

drinking so much to not be shy and just say yes to things that were

uncomfortable regardless if alcohol was involved or

not. So my year of yes, I entered it,

and what happened is

1 so I was saying yes to all these things, going to new things, meeting

new people. It felt like it was working. I was getting some momentum.

And then I remember one day, very specifically,

I was at the water cooler at my work, and

and these coworkers of mine were talking about this hike

called Half Dome. And I was listening to them

talk about it, and they were all really excited. And I was like,

oh, that sounds so cool. Like, that sounds like it'll

be a cool trip. I've never heard of it before. And one of

them told me, hey. We actually have an

extra permit. You should come with us.

And I was kind of kicking myself. I was like, oh, no. I'm in

my year of yes. Like, I'm supposed to say yes to this.

But in my mind, I was kind of freaking out because I

wasn't a hiker. I wasn't a backpacker. I

literally I was terrified. I was I was like, these people are gonna

invite me on this thing. They just invited me on this thing. I'm gonna be

so slow. They're gonna regret they ever invited me. They're gonna

not wish I was there. I'm gonna ruin their trip. This trip, they're very

excited about. But that was the little voice in the back of

my head that was, like, scared of all the things, and I

leaned in onto my year of yes. And I was, like, panicking on the inside,

but I was just like, okay. I mean, I was honest with them. I was

like, I've never backpacked before, and I don't have any gear,

really, and I'm gonna need some help understanding, like, some

things. And they had enough experience

to at least guide me in the direction, the right direction at the time,

and I said yes. So that point on, I

remember, I think, I got a little list

from one of my friends who was kinda leading the trip. And I went

to REI, and I got a bunch of things. And I also cobbled

together a bunch of things with with my clients now in our our backpacking

badass program. We we call this getting scrappy. I got real

scrappy. I didn't have, you know, down jackets or anything. I

just, like, I just brought a bunch of stuff, and my

backpack weight spoke for that. It was about

£45 on that very first backpacking trip, maybe

even a little bit heavier, for a I think we only spent

2 nights at camp. So it was, like, a 2 night, 3

day backpacking trip. So £45 £45 bag is way too

heavy for that. But that was my first experience.

Right? So what happened basically is I didn't know

what I was doing at all, but I I got the things, and I showed

up on that trip. And I had

the most incredible it was the most

hard thing I had ever done, and I was

so incredibly proud of myself. It was a

life changing experience. I I

remember so the trail that we did was the typical one

that you take from little, from Happy

Isle is the trailhead up to we camped at

Little Yosemite Valley, which is one of the campgrounds that's really

close to the Half Dome area. So we hiked up

from Happy Isle to Little Yosemite Valley, and then the next

day, we did the Half Dome hike up the cables and

then back down to camp, and then we hiked out the last day.

But what's what's wild is that

that hike from Happy Isle to Little Yosemite

Valley, I don't remember the mileage and elevation gain off the top of my

head right now. I should've looked that up before I was recording this. But what

I remember is that the first time that I ever did that

for this trip, this backpacking trip that I got invited on, it took

me, like, 7 or 8 hours to hike from the

trailhead to Little Yosemite Valley with my

45 pound pack and having, like, never backpacked

or hiked, hardly ever hiked in my life.

And that is so it's what's wild about that is

I've gone back and done this trail several times in, you

know, future sessions,

trips and stuff that I've done with friends, and that same

portion takes me about 2 hours now. So it's it

just really shows you, like, I was very beginner. I was

slow. I fortunately got invited with a group of people who

were very patient and very, like,

encouraging of me to keep going because I could see that experience

have gone a different direction. I could have been with people that were, like, you're

taking way too long, and you should probably

turn around, or, I don't know, guilt trip me about that or whatever. But they

were very encouraging, and that

trip was absolutely

an amazing experience. And I was so excited that I had

said yes to that. And what I realized after that

trip was I I got back down and I was so excited,

but I was like, oh, shoot. Like, I didn't really know what

I was doing at all, like, safety wise. I didn't know the

answers to, like, any of those questions. Like, what do you do when you run

into a bear? Or, like, what if I had gotten lost from my

group? You know? These were all the things that were kinda running through my mind

because after that trip, I wanted to do more trips, but I was like, I

don't know how to plan my own trip. I don't know how to, like I

I I just, like, kinda followed people, and those people, I

found out, you know, down the line, they didn't even really have that much backpacking

experience either. So we were just kind of lucky a little bit playing with

fire. We didn't have any issues on our trip, but we

totally could have. And so that's when I I

knew that I needed to learn more. I wanted to be self sufficient. I wanted

to be self reliant, and be a little bit safer

about all of the things that I wanted to do. But the biggest

thing was that I knew that I wanted to do

more. I knew that backpacking,

this experience that I had had backpacking had something

to do, like, a pivotal thing to do with getting myself out of my

rut. And I really, really liked that version of me that was

on that Half Dome trip that finished that hike. I

really liked that version of me that did hard things because before

that, I really didn't identify with somebody that could do

scary things, that could do hard things, and I wanted to get

to know her more. And so after that trip, I

put I put all of my energy into becoming that woman because I

think I was really at a point where I was like, I can no longer

continue down this path that I'm headed. I need

something to shake up my life. Like, I need to feel this way

more. I wanted to feel more alive and excited about my life, and this backpacking

trip had ignited all

physically hard, but it just lit

this fire in me that I was meant to do more.

So I wanted to explore what did

it mean to step into an identity, like, be the

woman who was adventurous, who was outdoorsy, who

was brave, who was confident, who was resilient, and

who was strong. These were things that I

had never really seen myself as being, and backpacking opened

up that possibility for me because I literally did it. It was this physical

representation. I was like, oh my gosh. I did that. And it

was so hard, and I just couldn't believe it. So I realized

at that point that I was gonna do whatever it took

to become that person and just go all in.

And that that is kinda when I realized I had a say in

my future and who I was and who I could become.

So I dove in headfirst into learning everything I could

about being self sufficient, you know, being safe, learning how not

to get lost. I was a lot self taught, and I had a lot of

mentors. It was a mishmash of everything. I had a lot of drive,

and I I did make it at that time. Like, I made it my

mission to spend almost every single weekend

outdoors, as much outdoor time as possible because that's where I

felt most alive. So I was, like, a hardcore weekend warrior

at that point. I would go to work Monday through Friday, and then

I would drive. And California I lived in Bakersfield at the

time, so it wasn't like I could just go from my front door

to trails. But we were 3 hours from the

Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains and had so much

opportunity when living there. So it was

a great place for me to be to kind of explore this new phase

in my life. But I don't I definitely wanna, like, caveat

that here because you don't have to live somewhere like that

to to step into this new identity for yourself either.

And this is something we talk about with our clients all the time. It's just

you might have to do a little bit more planning and your adventures

might look a little bit different each weekend or, you know, when you have

time, if you're a busy mom or something like that. This is still totally something

that is possible for you to reinvent yourself in the

same way. It will just look a little bit different. This is just kinda like

my story and how that manifested. So I I became

obsessed with becoming a woman who went on adventures, who didn't miss

out because she was too scared, who saw herself as

brave and confident. I wanted to be the woman who planned the

trips because what I was discovering, like, shortly after

that Half Dome trip, I remember telling those friends that invited me.

I was like, I wanna do more of this. We should do more. And everyone

would say yes, and then nobody would plan anything.

And I got really tired of waiting around on other people

to plan epic things. It's like I could go plan myself a day hike

somewhere, but I wanted to go backpack. I wanted

to rock climb. I wanted to do these things that were

hard and challenging, and I was in that era where I really just wanted to,

like, see what I was made of and test my

myself, and I needed to learn the skills to confidently plan

my own trips and understand what was involved in that. So it took a lot

of work, but I just slowly learned these skills.

And each step forward, it for me was like it was like

a compass. It felt like the right direction, and I just kept showing up

for that person. And I

loved who I was becoming, And that was a first for me in a long

time. It felt really right. Right? And

so for me, kinda looking back at that that

phase in my life, that transition from kind of being lost,

being depressed, going through a divorce

to kind of entering this year of yes, it

opened up so much for me and had such a ripple effect in my

life. You know? If I had never entered that year of yes, I would

have never said yes to backpacking Half Dome when my

coworkers invited me at the water cooler. I probably would've counted myself

out. Right? If I had never entered my year of yes, I wouldn't have

gone all in on living an adventurous life.

I never would've met my best friend, who

lived in Bakersfield at the time through hiking, and, like, we forged a

lifelong friendship, through hiking and backpacking in the

outdoors. Now we don't live in the same place, but she's still consistently a best

friend of mine. We go on adventures together still.

And I also like, I ended up signing up for

going on a solo travel rock climbing trip in

Thailand for 3 weeks. I also met my now

husband, my my second husband. We

met at the climbing gym because we were talking about climbing in Thailand,

and then we began dating, like, several months

after that. So we met at the climbing gym. I, you know, went

backpacking on the Trans Catalina trail, and that's where I came

up with the idea to take a year off to travel. And

that's when I decided to save up for a year off of travel, and I

bought a van, and I decided to start my blog, she

dreams of alpine. And that's when I decided to

teach about backpacking because I remember that's the thing that changed my

life. And I was like, I want to to help other women

quickly and not so, like, having to navigate

so many of the questions and the unknowns about what it takes to be the

person who plans and executes their own trips and does it confidently and

feels safe and and doesn't worry about getting lost in the outdoors.

That's why I wanted to create that program. I'm like, this needs to exist. I

did not have mentors like this, and there were not

programs out there like this when I got started, and I desperately

wanted something like that. And, you know, all these things,

they led me to where I am today, which is an outdoor educator,

full time running the backpacking badass program, running

retreats. My life completely changed. Now

that didn't happen overnight. Like, I mean, the backpacking trip in

the Half Dome felt like that kinda looking back feels like this overnight moment,

but that all took time. And, you know, I was

honing this adventurous identity for well over 7 years

before I ever started, you know, started thinking about,

like, the blog and my business and stuff like that. But all of these

things have led to this immense ripple effect in

my life. And I know now I know that, like, even

that is only the beginning. So I know that, like, 10 years

from now, I'm gonna look back at even these moments that I'm having right now,

and there's just gonna be this amazing, like, possibilities that I haven't even considered yet

now that are gonna open up as a a a reaction to that very first

decision to go on that backpacking trip. So every year, I think

about that, like, how one decision in your

life can change literally everything. Right?

So for me, teaching the skill set of backpacking to others

is is way more than just teaching the skill set of backpacking to

others. For me, backpacking can be this

really powerful tool for reinventing your

life. Because I think the thing that I love about

backpacking the most is that it helps us connect, like,

this tangible thing, right, which is getting out there

physically and backpacking, doing this this hard thing.

And you learn through that skill, like, how to navigate kind

of the 5050 experience. Like, things are

hard and they're awesome, and you start to realize there's

all these similarities between life and your experiences

out on the trail and your experiences backpacking. Backpacking taught

me so much about, like, how I can do

so much and that I can handle things

that are harder than I ever thought. And it showed me that I can be

strong and that I can be resilient. Right? It showed me that I

don't have to be fearless to do things. There are so many lessons

that I got from backpacking that are, I think, literally the

reason that I was able to make other steps in my life

for changing what I did for a living and how I

showed up and where I lived, all the things, right? I think

backpacking, it really helps us

question the anxieties and thoughts that

we have about ourselves, the thoughts we have about others and what we want

in our life. And in order to make feeling confident

backpacking a reality, like, in order to step into

your adventurous identity, you have to confront some

of those things in order to take on a new identity. So I think

backpacking is just, like, a really beautiful way to kind of

uncover these different sides of yourself. So I love teaching it this

way. It's like a partnering with a curiosity that

you might already have. You're probably listening to this podcast because

there's part of you that wants to be adventurous or is

or identifies that way. Maybe you're trying to create some other new possibility in your

life. That that feeling that you get from the trail, that aliveness that you

feel from the trail, you wanna have that in your

life as well. And I just think, like, you're in the right place. Like,

keep leaning into that and see where these different

ideas and curiosities are going to take you. And for

me, especially if you're brand new to backpacking and you're thinking about it,

it's like worst case scenario, if you lean into that

curiosity, like, could I do this? Like, is this something that I could do?

Worst case scenario, you go on some pretty badass hikes.

But, like, the best case scenario, which I hope I've, you

know, shown you here with my own personal story, is that

it can literally change your life. So I had no

idea, when I said yes at that water cooler that day to

go on that backpacking trip in Half Dome, I had no idea that it

would become such a important part of my story and

my reinvention. And I'm so, so grateful

for the backpacking and the outdoors. I'm really

grateful that I chose to say yes and partner with that possibility for my

life because it opened up a whole new way of

being and thinking and living for me. So I share all

of this today because I want you to consider that for yourself,

consider that backpacking. On the outside, it might just seem like

this weekend hobby hobby thing that you can do, right, but it could also be

the thing that opens up your world and your possibilities and a new way of

just existing and being in this world, and that

could be really exciting for you. Right? It did for

mine, and I've I for mine,

and I've I've seen it, like, since what's really cool about

being an outdoor educator and, like, in this space and teaching other women is that

I get to see this happen all the time for my clients as well

in so many various wild and beautiful

unique ways. Like, people seeing that

they can transform themselves, that they can be leaders,

that they can do hard things, that they can do scary things when they

never thought they could be that person and then what that opens up for them.

It's it's incredible. And so

just coming back to, like, what I said at the beginning of this talk, I'm

just a person who is offering you an idea, a possibility, a

way of being, and it's up to you to decide if you

wanna explore that and partner with this idea. And if you

don't, there's tons of other ideas and curiosities and

possibilities out there. I hope just, like, at a minimum

that I've opened your eyes to this concept of that

you can create whatever you want to in your life. And if you're feeling that

rub against

my my reinvention story. I am going

to drop another episode next week about the

part 2 story. So this was basically, like, how did I go

from, you know, being this adventurous person into creating

like, what caused me to create the she dreams of alpine business,

how did that unfold, and, how kind of

backpacking still plays a role in that so much. So I'm gonna talk about

that even more in my next episode,

and I look forward to talking to you more there.

Okay. Bye bye. Hey. I wanted to

thank you real quick for tuning in to the show and listening all the way

to the end. If you love this episode and you want deeper support in

becoming a safe, confident, and self sufficient hiker and backpacker, then head

over to shedreamsofalpine.com/waitless to

learn more about our backpacking badass coaching program, where I teach you

absolutely everything you need to know to be self reliant on the trails

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So I'd love to help you more in your journey of stepping into your

adventurous identity, and that program is the absolute

best place for us to start working together. So again, that's she

dreams of alpine.com/waitlist, and you can learn all

about it there. So that's it for today, folks. I hope you get to spend

some time outside this week, and I'll be back very soon with a brand

new episode. Bye.