✨ Support these videos and join as a member ✨ Today’s guest has dedicated her life to helping others. She’s spent 18 years teaching leadership on backpacking, rock climbing, and canyoneering courses for the non-profit NOLS, the National Outdoor Leadership School. She’s a certified life coach, dog lover, bikepacker and all around badass who has forged a new path after suffering a traumatic brain injury in 2019 that upended her life. ---------------- https://lindsaynohl.coach https://www.instagram.com/lindsay.nohl/ https://www.instagram.com/dirttown_adventures/ https://www.nols.edu/en/ ---------------- Amazing Products/Companies I Use Squirrel's Nut Butter - https://squirrelsnutbutter.com; Use code "Timberfriends" for 10% off! @squirrelsnutbutter6307  Kahtoola - https://kahtoola.com @kahtoola Dispersed Bikepacking Gear - https://Dispersed.bike @dispersed.bikepacking  ---------------- Interested in sponsoring or advertising on the podcast? Contact me at: [email protected] ---------------- (00:00:00) Intro (00:01:13) Amazing Products/Companies (00:02:55) Different Ways You Can Support This Podcast (00:04:19) Lindsay Nohl Bio (00:04:46) Lindsay's Origins and Early Life; Competitive Soccer Career (00:16:23) Transition From Soccer to NOLS (00:21:20) Injuries; Indoor Soccer; Gender and Sports; PRP and Healing; STEM Cells (00:32:14) Carrying Heavy Packs and Water; Arizona Trail Race 300 Stuff (00:36:51) NOLS History, Early Years and Culture; Changing Identity From Soccer to Outdoor Leadership (00:41:49) How Was NOLS effected by COVID? General Effects on the Outdoor Industry (00:49:38) Existing in the World Without Phones; Outdoor Group Dynamics (00:59:51) NOLS Working With NASA Astronaughts; Bikepacking and Outdoor Leadership (01:06:30) Bikepacking as and Introvert and Extrovert; Grand Depart vs. Independent Time Trial (01:12:39) 2023 Pinyons and Pines; 2021 Pinyons and Pines (01:31:13) Bike Crash; Traumatic Brain Injury; Suicidal Thoughts and Other Side Effects (01:48:47) First Behavioral Health Hospital Experience (01:55:12) Second Treatment Facility (02:02:05) Overcoming Suffering and Fear; Signs of Suicide; Journaling (02:08:30) Chiropractors Working on Nervous System; Different Antidepressants and Medications; Leaky Gut and Diet (02:16:14) Finding a Solution with Wellbutrin; Upward Spiral; Depression; Prescription Drugs Usage (02:34:03) Stigma About Depression and Suicide; Taking Brain Injuries Seriously; Journaling; Intrusive Thoughts (02:40:59) Gratitude; Keeping a Mission; Legacy; 24 Hours In Old Pueblo Race (02:55:38) Not Having Kids; Alcoholism; Bidet (03:05:12) Leadership Skills and Roles; Challenges and Solutions; Decision Making Styles; Real World Learning (03:30:56) Personal Mission Statement; Life Coaching; Mountain Bike Coaching; Organizing Life For Happiness (03:44:12) Rapid Fire Questions ---------------- #endurance #enduranceracing #enduranceathlete #endurancesports #adventure #mentalhealth #tbi --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-endurance-studio/support