Episode 101: How Curiosity Leads to Adventure with Dineo Dowd
“Having the right people who inspire you to get outside can really take you a long way.”
In this episode, Dineo Dowd, a Wife and Mom from Wisconsin who spends her days planning and writing about adventure to inspire other women and kids to get outside and enjoy the outdoors, joins us to share her story and how curiosity for adventure can help us breakthrough limiting circumstances that might hold us back from pursuing our dreams. Dineo also discusses:
2:40 - Growing up in South Africa
4:45 - What it was like growing up in that environment
7:00 - At what point did she decide she wasn’t going to accept the norm
9:55 - Being discontent at work and how it fueled her decision for more adventure
10:50 - Her feelings of curiosity and craving for adventure
13:15 - The feelings she experienced during her first hike
15:20 - What it is like growing up hearing you can’t do these things and now she is doing them
17:30 - Advice for people feeling limits in their lives and how to push through
19:50 - South Africa to Utah
23:45 - Finding a welcoming community
25:10 - How adventure led her to meet her husband
26:40 - Moving to Wisconsin
27:20 - Experiencing adventures to wanting to share them with others through writing
31:55 - Motivation for wanting to share adventures with others
33:50 - Her experience climbing Mount Kilimanjaro
36:35 - Contributing back to the community
38:30 - What’s next for her
39:20 - The libraries she is helping to build
40:30 - How others can get involved
41:20 - Advice for people who resonate with her story but are unsure of the next step
43:15 - Who’s going to play her in a Hollywood movie about her life?
You can learn more about Dineo by following her on Instagram @DineoDowd or on her website WIadventurefamily.com.
See below for photos Dineo shared from her adventures.
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