To introduce our book, The Dirtbag’s Guide to Life, we are sharing five, 10 minute presentations from our Seattle launch event by experts who are living their dirtbag dreams in a variety of unexpected ways.

Adventure Storytellers:
Angel Mathis, Noa Nadeem, Tom and Jessica Kelley, Troy Nebeker, Heather "Anish" Anderson

From: Seattle, WA

Music: Maricz

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This week's featured adventure stories
Managing money, career, and relationships, finding meaning in life, and what it means to be a dirtbag.

Angel Mathis's Adventure Story:
Money

Angel Mathis sharing expertise about managing money for a life centered on adventure.

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Angel Mathis

• Founded Boldly Went and came up with the original idea for The Dirtbag's Guide to Life.
• Has managed to organize finances to live a life of adventure from the time she was a penniless college kid through adulthood in  variety of financial situations
• She tells us how she's figured it out, and how her upbringing played in to her approach to money.
• Follow her right here at Boldly Went Adventures!
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• Facebook

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Noa Nadeem's Adventure Story:
Career

Noa Nadeem discussing how he's managed to visit close to 100 countries and all 50 states while also working a full time job.

Noa Nadeem

• Has visited between 85 - 95 countries (depending on how you define a country!)
• Will visit his 50th state this year.
• Has always worked a full time job and travels primarily on the weekend
• Manages to do it all without bragging
• Not doing it for the Instagram fame (but you can follow him anyway).

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Tom and Jessica Kelley's Adventure Story:
Relationships

Jessica is a hardcore adventurer, Tom is "Normal Outdoorsy." They share how they've managed to maintain a healthy marriage and family.

Tom and Jessica Kelley

• Jessica is the founder of Evergreen Endurance Coaching
• She was the recipient of the Kyle Dempster Solo Adventure Award in 2018, and used the money to fund a 1300 mile biking/packrafting adventure in Alaska that you can read about in this article that she wrote or listen to the long form interview that she did with Angel Mathis on Patreon.
• She was featured in this episode of The Dirtbag Diaries
• Tom Kelley is the founder of Four Leaf Spirits, an award winning distillery in Woodinville, WA.
• He holds down a real job as well.
• Somehow they manage all of this while also raising a young daughter. 

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Instagram @jessi_goes

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Troy Nebeker's Adventure Story:
Finding Meaning

Troy Nebeker, who started a grassroots movement that's raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for families with cancer, talks about finding meaning through outdoor pursuits.

Troy Nebeker

• Following a family bout with cancer, Troy founded a gear brand - Monster and Sea - and a 24 hour paddling relay called The 24
• The 24 started as six friends in 2015 paddling to raise a bit of money. The idea spread, and in 2019, teams in 40 cities raised approximately $250,000 to give directly, in $1000 increments, to 250 families dealing with cancer
• Troy is an excellent photographer and a graphic designer by trade
• Follow him @MonsterandSea on Instagram
• Listen to his new podcast, "Go Because You Can"

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Heather "Anish" Anderson's Adventure Story:
What it means to be a dirtbag

Heather "Anish" Anderson holds multiple long distance hiking speed records and knows what it means to be a dirtbag.

What it means to be a dirtbag.

• Heather Anderson holds the overall self-supported Fastest Known Time on the Pacific Crest Trail, and the women's self-supported Fastest Known Time (FKT) on the Appalachian Trail (AT) and the Arizona Trail (AZT)
• In 2018 she became the first woman to complete a "Calendar Year Triple Crown" - hiking the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, and Continental Divide Trail all within an 8 month period
• She was named a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year in 2019
• She is also a total dirtbag and features as the most important lifestyle inspiration in The Dirtbag's Guide to Life
• In 2019 she also published a successful book about her Pacific Crest Trail record - Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
  • You can buy it lots of places, but I say buy an autographed copy directly from her site because that's how she'll get the most financial benefit
• Follow Heather "Anish" Anderson on Instagram and Facebook

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Music

Maricz. Ukelele Jam

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