Ever feel like you need the perfect plan before you can start anything? This conversation might change that. In this episode of The Discomfort Zone Podcast, Anna sits down with Chris Baer, a raft guide and whitewater kayaker who lives half the year out of a converted school bus and spends his winters chasing first
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I was in the eddy at the local play wave, and my inner critic was going off. The wave felt fast and dynamic, but I was feeling nervous, hesitant and wobbly. My heart was beating fast, and I was stuck in a vicious cycle of nerves, negative self-talk and feeling off in my skills. Instead
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What if the language you’ve been using to help people is actually underselling them? In this solo episode of The Discomfort Zone Podcast, Anna Levesque shares a perspective shift that stopped her in her tracks: after 25 years of building a brand around “empowering women,” she’s retiring the phrase. Sparked by Emma Grede’s book Start
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What does it take to help someone do something they’re afraid to do? In this episode of The Discomfort Zone Podcast, Anna sits down with Casey Bryant Jones, Director of the Ottawa Kayak School, for a conversation that gets into the real inner game of learning whitewater kayaking. Casey has spent years teaching paddlers of
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