The Everyday Adventure Podcast

What is an Everyday Adventure? - Introduction (solo episode)

May 17, 2020 Nicola Bass Season 1 Episode 1
The Everyday Adventure Podcast
What is an Everyday Adventure? - Introduction (solo episode)
Show Notes

This episode is an introduction to my motivation in launching the Everyday Adventure Podcast. 

I have always loved adventure and getting into the outdoors. Whether this was travelling, both with friends and alone or spending seasons working in the Alps, adventure has been a huge part of my life. As a former Army Officer, I was fortunate to have opportunities for adventurous training as well as taking part in my favourite sports of snowboarding and surfing. I have also always found adventure to be hugely important in terms of developing my resilience and confidence.

However, as I got older and found myself juggling the responsibilities of work and a family, I found that the opportunities - the freedom and the funds! - for the adventures I previously enjoyed were far more limited. Summer holidays were now more typically spent in a resort with a pool and my life was revolving around school pick ups and after school clubs! And whilst I was still inspired by the people I saw who were doing amazing trips and having wonderful adventures, it suddenly felt very far removed from my daily reality. 

As a result, I started to feel as if I was losing a bit of myself - this lack of time and energy started to correspond with a questioning of my identity. Could I really identify as a surfer on the basis of a couple of sessions in small, mushy Cornish surf? Yet every time I did get in the water or on my board, regardless of the conditions, I felt my old self come flooding back. And I started to realise that it didn't matter about the size of the waves or the depth of the powder - I was getting as much joy from watching the sunlight glint on the water and those few precious minutes of reconnecting with what I needed. 

I started to adopt this principle more widely in my life - every dog walk became a chance to notice something new or explore a path I hadn't been down before. The result was that instead of feeling frustrated about what I couldn't do or where I couldn't go, I started to embrace the adventure in the everyday. Ultimately what this reinforced was that adventure is a state of mind - a way of looking at the world. And whilst I knew this intellectually from my background in psychology, experiencing it in reality was fundamentally life changing. 

As I started to discover this approach, I was having more and more conversations with friends and colleagues who were experiencing the same frustrations as I was. They found themselves in a life that was predominantly about managing other people's needs - and whilst they wouldn't change this, they were also starting to wonder where the "old me" had gone and question whether there was space for their own adventures in amongst their other responsibilities. 

And so that was where the idea for the Everyday Adventure Podcast was born - to inspire people in a similar position or phase of their lives, and help them reconnect with their adven

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