Carpe Diem: Live Your Dream
Are you itching to add a little spice to your life? To get outdoors and do something new, ambitious, and cool that you’ve never done before? Perhaps some sort of new challenge or adventure? This podcast, ”Carpe Diem: Live Your Dream” has the simple mission of helping you, the listener, to dream up an adventure for your life - and more importantly, to inspire you to go fulfill it. Each episode profiles an outdoor activity or adventure of a guest who entertains with their fascinating story. We explore their dream, what motivated them to action, the challenges they encountered, and how they overcame those challenges to see things to conclusion. They inspire, educate, and motivate - all to help you take on your own dream adventure or challenge. A new episode is published each Friday to give you something to noodle on over the weekend. And check out our accompanying website at www.gocarpediemnow.com for even more stories, guidance, and motivation. Be entertained, and learn how you, too, can Seize the Day.
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Episodes
Wednesday May 14, 2025
Wednesday May 14, 2025
This middle-aged mother of two found open-water swimming to bring solace to life’s challenges. Listen to how one thing led to another until – much to her own great surprise – she ended up swimming the English Channel. It took over 19 hours, but proved a world of confidence for her and set the path for more great dreams to pursue.
Thursday May 08, 2025
Thursday May 08, 2025
A middle-age working mother who does ultra-distance winter racing by foot, bike and ski in the depth of winter in the coldest parts of North America. There's the Arrowhead 135 that she has completed nearly a dozen times, and the Iditarod Trail Invitational where she's pushing her bicycle for days through the snowy Alaskan trail used by the Iditarod dog sled race. Her grit is admirable, and her explanation of how these challenges benefit her everyday life is noteworthy. It might make you want to bundle up and try a winter adventure race!
Thursday May 01, 2025
Thursday May 01, 2025
As we age, it becomes easier and easier to fall into a sedentary lifestyle as the body gradually atrophies. But it doesn’t have to be that way – at least not as soon and fast as we tend to allow. Listen to this man in his 70’s, how he went about qualifying for the Ironman World Championships, and how he deals with the challenges of aging. He's quite inspiring.
Thursday Apr 24, 2025
Thursday Apr 24, 2025
The best kind of adventure is one you make up on your own. This active, outdoor-loving retiree designed his own 1,700 bike-packing adventure with a unique twist that gave him a whole new appreciation of his home state. He also gives a beautiful explanation we can all use for defining what an "adventure" is, and he describes the slightly modified "Carpe Diem" philosophy that he and his wife have lived by for years. Listen in, and come away with creative ideas for your own self-designed adventure.
Friday Apr 18, 2025
Friday Apr 18, 2025
The 2,190 mile Appalachian Trail. The 2,653 mile Pacific Crest Trail. And the 3,100 mile Continental Divide Trail. These three epic trails traversing north-to-south across the U.S. are known collectively as the Thru-Hiking Triple Crown. The guest for this episode is a young woman who accomplished all three trails and she shares an amazing perspective on her adventures and on humans’ connection to nature.
Thursday Apr 10, 2025
Thursday Apr 10, 2025
Listen to a short summary of each of the 17 episodes from Season #1 of the Carpe Diem: Live Your Dream podcast. It will remind past listeners of the great adventures and lessons they heard once already, and provide new listeners a guide to the entire season. My guest's adventures included summiting Mt. Everest, sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, Swimming the English Channel, cycling across America, racing down the Yukon River, mushing in the Iditarod dog sled race, canoeing the length of the Mississippi River, competing in an Ironman triathlon and the Leadville 100 ultra-marathon, and much more.
Thursday Apr 03, 2025
Thursday Apr 03, 2025
Listen to how this world #4 ranked freestyle highliner cured her fear of heights and rose to the top of this rapidly emerging sport. The tricks are amazing and you’ll learn a lot about this fascinating world of balancing high in the air.
Thursday Mar 27, 2025
Thursday Mar 27, 2025
A coast-to-coast bicycle ride across America was just the beginning of this PhD student’s passion for cycling adventures. He then added the Tour Divide ultra-distance mountain bike race, a Guinness world record, and more.
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
This episode is a little different than my norm. An outdoor adventure to be sure, training and serving with the Navy Seals. This story exemplifies the bright, hardworking men and women pursuing their dream (in this man’s case, 2 dreams) in the service of our nation, and provides a simple formula for anyone’s success in life.
Thursday Mar 13, 2025
Thursday Mar 13, 2025
The Yukon River is out there – like really out there. Which, of course, attracts serious adventurers. My guest on this episode describes his 7-day journey traveling 1,000 miles of raw wilderness through Canada and Alaska, and explains why he chose to be the first to race it by standup paddle board.