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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…
Episodes
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE43: The Secret to Satisfaction as an Outdoor Enthusiast: Becca's 4 Step Process
Download the Own Your Shit Resource ---- Are you constantly trying to improve, but never feeling satisfied? Do you feel self conscious…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE42: What Are You Trying to Prove? With Lauren Bond
Download the Own Your Shit Packet ---- Lauren Bond is a transformational canoe guide and owner of The River’s Path. She has offered women’s rites of…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE41: 4 Ways to Get Started with Whitewater Kayaking
Download the Own Your Shit Packet Are you interested in learning to whitewater kayak?? In today's episode, I share 4 ways to get started! I discuss…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE40: 25 Ways to Build Your Outdoor Community (mostly free!!)
Download the Own Your Shit Packet Do you want to expand your social circle? Are you looking for friends or adventure partners? Don't know how to make…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE39: Mindset Series Pt 4: Is your relationship status affecting your outdoor mindset?
Valentines Day Special! Are you curious how your relationship status could be affecting your outdoor sports? Maybe you're single and actively mingling... maybe…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE38: Mindset Series Pt 3: Are you really a burden? Maybe... here's what to do regardless.
Have you ever felt like a burden while participating in an outdoor sport? Maybe when you swam and your crew had to pick up the pieces or when you took a few…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE38: Mindset Series Pt2: How to Take Up Space (and feel good about it)in the Climbing Gym
Do you ever get talked over, cut in line while climbing, or feel like you just don't fit in? In today's episode I talk about why it's important to take up…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE37: Mindset Series Pt 1: How "I'm not enough" May Be Affecting Your Outdoor Skills and How to Fix It!
Do you ever feel like you're not enough? Good enough, skilled enough, strong enough, extroverted enough, etc? In today's episode, I go over what scarcity…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE36: Staying Sane While Chasing Rain as a Southeast Paddler
This episode is all about the emotional and social challenges that come along with chasing rain in the southeast. Becca shares her three main challenges with…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE35: Adventure Inheritance: How My Mom Influenced my Adventures with Martha Ploener
Schedule a session with Becca ---- Martha Ploener is a mother to 3 adventurous kiddos and wife to Randy Ploener. She’s been an ER and radiology…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE34: Imposter Syndrome as an Intermediate Paddler with My Sister Sarah Ploener
Schedule a session with Becca ---- Sarah Ploener is my “favorite” (and only… lol she wrote this) sister and has been paddling for 4 years - 3 of…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE33 WTF is a Boof? Secret Language of Whitewater with nonpaddler, Caroline Elizabeth
Schedule a session with Becca ---- Caroline is a certified life & health coach who specializes in supporting introverted entrepreneurs. Through her…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE32: Expedition Planning with Pro Packer, Abby Taylor
Schedule a session with Becca ---- Abby was born in Northeast Georgia to displaced Northerners in a backwater town called Toccoa, and has since moved…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE31: Mental Agility, Plan B, and Emotional Release with Anna Levesque
Schedule a session with Becca ---- Anna Levesque is a distinguished leader in the outdoor industry as a mental agility and white water kayak coach. What…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE30: Setting Boundaries without Gatekeeping in Whitewater with Bonnie Maughan
Schedule a session with Becca ---- Bonnie Maughan considers herself your "friendly neighborhood recreationalist." She grew up camping, skiing, and…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE29: Cycles, Rituals, and Living with the Seasons in Paddling with Valerye Woodruff
Schedule a session with Becca ---- Valerye is a transformational coach and an adventurer. She feels enthused about supporting other adventurous women…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE28: Pregnant while Paddling with Sandy Hess
Schedule a session with Becca ---- Sandy Hess is joining us from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She's a whitewater guide of 8 years and spent the last…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE27: Why Should I Pay for Paddling Instruction? With Brittany Schruefer
Schedule a session with Becca ---- Brittany Schruefer (Schree-fur) believes that the best place to learn is outside of our comfort zones. After five…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE26: Racing, Friend Crushes, and Competition with Alex Horne
Schedule a session with Becca ---- Alex Horne is an optometrist and whitewater kayaker practicing and paddling in West Virginia. Raised in northern New…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE25: Trans Women, Hormones, and How It Affects Kayaking with Cici Cambron
Schedule a session with Becca ---- Cici Cambron (she/her) is a whitewater paddler and instructor currently living in Asheville, NC. She’s been paddling and…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE24: Coaching, Guiding, Instruction, Therapy-ing - Where They Collide and Diverge with Dan Horseman
Schedule a session with Becca ---- Dan Horseman is a Certified Professional Life Coach and ACA L4 WW kayak instructor living in Asheville, NC. He recently…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE23: River Tattoos, Tattoo Taboos, and How to Take Your Art on the River with Candice Caldwell Day
Schedule a session with Becca ---- Candice Caldwell Day is an innovative fine art tattoo artist and is based in Sylva NC at Parlor & Co Salon at her…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE22: Processing Trauma and Reclaiming Joy through Whitewater with Alissa Gardner
Schedule a session with Becca ---- Alissa Gardner is a mother of two, an ICU nurse in Western NC, and a long-time outdoors lover. She’s been whitewater…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE21: Raising a River Family with Jeremy Anderson
Schedule a session with Becca ---- Jeremy lives in Truckee, CA with her beloved husband of 30 years and her 2 teenage daughters. Her passion for nature…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE20: Who is Becca Ploener? with guest, Nicky Murphy
Schedule a session with Becca --- Becca Ploener is a whitewater kayak instructor and authenticity coach based out of Asheville, NC. She works with folks…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE19: Why Community is So Important with Ladies of the Whitewater Creator, Andrea Newton
Schedule a session with Becca --- Andrea Newton started the Ladies of the Whitewater Community Group on Facebook. Originally the idea stemmed from a…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE17: Embodiment and healing through whitewater with Massage Therapist, Christina Cunningham
Schedule a session with Becca --- Christina Cunningham is a trauma sensitive massage therapist & coach with 25 years of experience in the field of…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE16: Preventing Self Sabatoge On and Off the Water with Trauma Awareness and Energy Coach, Candace Bethel
Schedule a session with Becca --- Candace Bethel is a Trauma Awareness & Energy Coach. She has been working in the alternative energy medicine industry for…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE15: How to Access Skills While Scouting Whitewater with Sports Psychologist, Sarah Connelly
TRIGGER WARNING: DEATH ON THE RIVER Schedule a session with Becca --- Sarah Connelly is a mental skills coach living in Pacific Northwest. After receiving…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE14: Paddling Upstream: Surviving the Culture of Sexual (Mis)Conduct with Holly Joh
TRIGGER WARNING: SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ASSAULT Schedule a session with Becca ------------------------------------------------------------ Holly Johanna…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE13: Wet, Wild, and Woman: Fertility Awareness Method within the Whitewater Lifestyle with Chloe Skerlak
Schedule a session with Becca ------------------------------------------------------------ Chloe Skerlak is wildly passionate about the menstrual cycle! A…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE12: How to be Taken Seriously As a Woman in Whitewater with Stacy Gold
Schedule a session with Becca --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Award-winning adventure romance author, Stacy…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE11: 7 Days Notice with No Experience Down the Grand Canyon with Dan Regalado
Schedule a session with Becca --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Regalado is out to spread kindness and love…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE10: 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…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE9: 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…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE8: 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…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE7: 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…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE6: 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…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE5: 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…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE4: 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…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE: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…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE: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…
The Wild Woman Podcast with Becca PloenerE1: 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…