Podcast appearances and mentions of sue aikens

Sue Aikens is the warden of Kavik River Camp, a remote, self-sufficient outpost on Alaska's North Slope. A collection of bunkhouses, fuel tanks, generators and equipment set against a wide, treeless, and unforgiving landscape defined by wind, cold, and distance. Just open ground, shifting weather, and a constant awareness that survival depends on preparation and respect for the elements. Hunters, scientists, photographers, and adventurers all travel there for work and pleasure, and it's Sue's job to help them navigate the landscape and prepare for whatever they came there to do. She's spent nearly 30 years of her life here, long enough to know it down to the smallest detail. Every rock, every barrel, every bend in the river. And for more than a decade of that time, she's shared her life with the world in Life Below Zero, a reality show that gives people a glimpse into what it takes to live in the Arctic. In her new book, North of Ordinary, she writes about a difficult upbringing, abuse, abandonment, resilience, and the unlikely path that led her to Kavik. And what emerges from that story isn't just about survival, it's a way of thinking. About solitude, about fear, and about what it means to rely on yourself when there's no one else around. Like the time she was attacked by a grizzly who was trying to assert dominance around Kavik, at one point biting down on her head so hard she could hear her skull crack. After the bear left her for dead, she crawled back to camp and lay there for days until help eventually arrived. The injuries that resulted from that attack left her rebuilding her body piece by piece. It's the kind of experience that would send most people running. But rather than pushing her away, it seemed to root her even deeper in that place. She had survived. And for Sue, survival isn't just relief — it's proof that she belongs in Kavik.

In this one, I talk to Sue Aikens — the warden of Kavik River Camp, a remote, self-sufficient outpost on Alaska's North Slope. A collection of bunkhouses, fuel tanks, generators and equipment set against a wide, treeless, and unforgiving landscape defined by wind, cold, and distance. Just open ground, shifting weather, and a constant awareness that survival depends on preparation and respect for the elements. Hunters, scientists, photographers, and adventurers all travel there for work and pleasure, and it's Sue's job to help them navigate the landscape and prepare for whatever they came there to do. She's spent nearly 30 years of her life here, long enough to know it down to the smallest detail. Every rock, every barrel, every bend in the river. And for more than a decade of that time, she's shared her life with the world in Life Below Zero, a reality show that gives people a glimpse into what it takes to live in the Arctic. In her new book, North of Ordinary, she / Sue writes about a difficult upbringing, abuse, abandonment, resilience, and the unlikely path that led her to Kavik. And what emerges from that story isn't just about survival, it's a way of thinking. About solitude, about fear, and about what it means to rely on yourself when there's no one else around. Like the time she was attacked by a grizzly who was trying to assert dominance around Kavik, at one point biting down on her head so hard she could hear her skull crack. After the bear left her for dead, she crawled back to camp and lay there for days until help eventually arrived. The injuries that resulted from that attack left her rebuilding her body piece by piece. It's the kind of experience that would send most people running. But rather than pushing her away, it seemed to root her even deeper in that place. She had survived. And for Sue, survival isn't just relief — it's proof that she belongs in Kavik.

This week, Patti welcomes Sue Aikens of National Geographic's Life Below Zero to discuss her new memoir, North of Ordinary. Sue recounts being moved from Chicago to Alaska as a child and later abandoned by her mother, learning self-sufficiency and finding comfort and guidance in ravens—especially one she called George—who led her to a cabin she still owns. She describes living in extreme isolation near Kavik on Alaska's North Slope, relying on hunting, medicinal plants, and improvisation for survival. Sue shares the story of a grizzly attack, how she treated her injuries alone, and returning to the Arctic despite ongoing risks. She reflects on spirituality, energy, and staying connected to nature, and explains writing the book for her descendants, available through outlets including Mystery Control. @SourcebooksInc #sueaikens #lifebelowzero #northofordinary

Episode 97 - Mike Kondus - Alaska Outdoor Mentorship ProgramMike Kondus joins us this week to talk about the Alaska Outdoor Mentorship Program; a non-profit organization aimed at educating outdoorsmen/women of all levels in Alaska to have a safe, ethical and successful experience in the backcountry. Today's discussion includes:A wrap for bear baiting seasonBuilding the outdoor community Dipnetting safety tips & storiesHard lessons learned in AlaskaConnect with Mike and the Alaska Outdoor Mentorship Program at:Instagram: @AlaskaOutdoorMentorshipProgramFacebook: @AlaskaOutdoorMentorshipProgramWatch the video of the caribou hunt in Kavik at Sue Aikens camp!https://youtu.be/OS4XIt1mSiw?feature=shared

Imagine living 500 miles from the closest town, relying on your grit and skills in hunting, fishing, and foraging to find food and medicine to survive. Now, imagine doing all of this at the edge of the world, deep in the Arctic, beyond the tree line where there are no roads and no neighbors nearby to help in an emergency. Our guest this week is Sue Aikens, star of the eight-time Emmy-award-winning show Life Below Zero on National Geographic TV. Sue recounts lessons learned from her 23 years living at Camp Kavik, including how she survived a bear attack and found fresh frozen fruit by analyzing patterns in the snow drift. #Arctic #Forager #BearAttack #Survival #Alaska #Hunting #foodiepharmacology #sueaikens #kavik #livebelowzero #natgeo

We had the honor and privilege to sit down and chat with Sue Aikens from the Rad tv show , Life Below Zero. We had a really fun conversation chatting and laughing with Sue , She has lived an amazing life in one of the most inhospitable places in the world . this was a huge pod for us! 

National Geographic’s multi Emmy award-winning series Life Below Zero follows the extreme lifestyles of tough residents living off the grid in Alaska, fighting for survival in one of the most far-flung regions in the world. Continuing the Life Below Zero adventure is the brand new spin-off series Life Below Zero: Next Generation, which follows all-new and less experienced Alaskans who’ve tried contemporary life and rejected it in favor of freedom in the brutal Alaskan bush. Meet Sue Aikens and Brittany Rowland, two daring and inspiring women – with similar, yet very different backgrounds: Sue Aikens, Life Below Zero series subject: Sue owns and operates Kavik River Camp, a base of refuge on the North Slope, which she calls home. Her address is a GPS coordinate, and her closest neighbor — besides the 80-something grizzly bears within a 10-mile radius — is more than 300 miles south. Although she considers the area’s arctic foxes her friends, she is aware that, if something bad were to happen, there is no one around to help her. Brittany Rowland, Life Below Zero: Next Generation series subject: Unlike Sue, Brittany considers herself a city girl and is less experienced with the outdoors. She’s raising two young children with her husband, Kaleb, and they’re currently making the transition into living a full-time remote and self-sustaining lifestyle in the Alaskan bush. She’s hoping to provide her young children with the unique and rewarding experience of being raised in nature, instead of the hustle and bustle of a city.

National Geographic’s multi Emmy award-winning series Life Below Zero follows the extreme lifestyles of tough residents living off the grid in Alaska, fighting for survival in one of the most far-flung regions in the world. Continuing the Life Below Zero adventure is the brand new spin-off series Life Below Zero: Next Generation, which follows all-new and less experienced Alaskans who’ve tried contemporary life and rejected it in favor of freedom in the brutal Alaskan bush. Meet Sue Aikens and Brittany Rowland, two daring and inspiring women – with similar, yet very different backgrounds: Sue Aikens, Life Below Zero series subject: Sue owns and operates Kavik River Camp, a base of refuge on the North Slope, which she calls home. Her address is a GPS coordinate, and her closest neighbor — besides the 80-something grizzly bears within a 10-mile radius — is more than 300 miles south. Although she considers the area’s arctic foxes her friends, she is aware that, if something bad were to happen, there is no one around to help her. Brittany Rowland, Life Below Zero: Next Generation series subject: Unlike Sue, Brittany considers herself a city girl and is less experienced with the outdoors. She’s raising two young children with her husband, Kaleb, and they’re currently making the transition into living a full-time remote and self-sustaining lifestyle in the Alaskan bush. She’s hoping to provide her young children with the unique and rewarding experience of being raised in nature, instead of the hustle and bustle of a city.

"Man Kisser" Matt interviews Sue Aikens and Brittany Rowland from the Emmy-Award winning show and asks about life in isolation, how the pandemic has hit them, and what they miss most about "normal" life See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Todays Guest is Sue Aikins.  Sue the sole resident of the Kavik river camp in Northern Alaska. The camp is located directly adjacent to the Kavik River, 197 miles North of the Arctic Circle. Her motto is "If it hurts, don't think about it. She is the star of a TV show called Life Below Zero  which is a documentary television series which illustrates the daily and seasonal activities of subsistence hunters as they make their living in remote areas of Alaska. Produced by BBC Worldwide, the show airs on National Geographic. The show follows people who live in the remote areas of Alaska, trying to survive in the below-zero conditions, demonstrating their everyday struggles as they hunt and depend only on themselves and survive using the resources they have. With all of the isolation, you’d think the scariest things Sue has to worry about are weather conditions, ample food and water and wild animals…but what about ghosts and the paranormal?? Turns out there are plenty of paranormal things going on in Alaska as well, and she is going to tell us all about it!  http://www.kavikrivercamp.com   Ghost Magnet Facebook Group:  https://www.facebook.com/Ghost-Magnet-with-Bridget-Marquardt-2480154975336666/   Bridget Marquardt Bridget Marquardt is best known to television audiences and pop-culture connoisseurs as the sweet and brainy star of E! Networks’ wildly popular reality show “The Girls Next Door.” After moving out of the Playboy mansion in January 2009, Marquardt hosted “Bridget’s Sexiest Beaches,” a sixteen-episode series on The Travel Channel in which she traveled the globe searching for the world’s best surf, sand, and sun in countries including Croatia, Jamaica, Thailand, Spain, Australia, and the United States.  Instagram: @BridgetMarquardt Twitter: @Bridget  Facebook: @BridgetMarquardt   Lisa Morton - Ghost Reporter Everyday is Halloween to award winning horror author and Ghost Reporter Lisa Morton. She has published four novels, 150 short stories, and three books on the history of Halloween. Her most recent releases include the anthologies Haunted Nights (co-edited with Ellen Datlow) and Ghost Stories: Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense (co-edited with Leslie Klinger). www.lisamorton.com

Life Below Zero star Sue Aikens, who is famous for living off the grid, shares her thoughts about what it's like to live in isolation, especially during COVID-19, and offers advice to the cast of Life Below Zero Canada, the Cottage Life channel's newest hit show. If you spend time in the wilderness, you might meet an otter—a silent and stealthy creature, until it's not. Find out what sounds the otter makes and what they mean. One sound every cottager is familiar with is the buzz buzz of a particular pesky insect. We share a classic essay about taming the mosquito. Special thanks to:Sue Aikens, Life Below ZeroYou can find Sue on Twitter: @sueaikens Articles referenced:“This Mortal Coil” by David Zimmer (Cottage Life magazine, June 2006)An ode to mosquito coils Related resources:River otter sounds courtesy Wild Otter Acoustics, a non-profit group studying vocalizations and behaviors of North American river otters.  Connect with Cottage Life:cottagelife.comFacebook: www.facebook.com/cottagelife/Twitter: @cottagelifeInstagram: @cottagelifePinterest: www.pinterest.ca/cottagelife/YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/CottagelifeMagazine/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

National Geographic’s “Life Below Zero” has been an Emmy®-winning crowd pleaser for more than 100 episodes. The only people tougher than the Alaskans the show follows are the tough crews who brave crazy weather and below zero temperatures to capture the incredible stories. Joining journalist Stacey Wilson Hunt are showrunner Joseph Litzinger, director of photography Michael Cheeseman and one of the series’ fan favorites, Sue Aikens. For more information on “Life Below Zero” and all of National Geographic’s 2020 Emmy® eligible programs, visit www.natgeotv.com/fyc. For Your Emmy® Consideration for: Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program Outstanding Cinematography for a Reality Program Outstanding Picture Editing for an Unstructured Reality Program And all other eligible categories NOTE: This podcast was pre-recorded before the civil unrest and social justice reform movement taking place now in our country. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode of Growing Bolder is getting you out into the wild. An elite mountaineer, who is one of only 9 Americans to summit both Everest and K2, shares how the lessons he's learned on the mountain can be applied to your everyday life. Plus, meet a woman who lives 200 miles NORTH of the Arctic Circle and wouldn't have it any other way. Their message? It's time to explore the world, and in the process, your own life.

Digital entertainment program BUILD Series takes its popular and extensive live interview show to the next level, adding a new, daily morning talk show “BUILD Brunch," as BUILD Series continues its commitment to bring its fans closer to culture. Airing weekdays at 11am live on BUILDseries.com/Brunch, it will feature a roundtable of diverse, young and influential personalities speaking to breaking news, hot topics and the latest in entertainment. Actress Imogen Poots & director Vladimir De Fontenay joined the table to talk about their new film, "Mobile Homes." Also joining the table is Sue Aikens of "Life Below Zero."

Morphmom Moments radio show with Sue Aikens- star of National Geographic TV show Life Below Zero and Monica Ferguson and Becca Brown -co-founders of The Solemates! aired 4/7/16

Star of the hit TV series "Life Below Zero" Sue Aikens, joins us this week.

Today on the Jane Wilkens Michael Show...Better Than Before...Jane's guest is Sue Aikens, star of National Geographic's wildly popular series, Life Below Zero, who will talk about what it takes to live all by herself, 197 miles north of the Arctic Circle, subsisting off the rugged Alaskan bush while surviving freezing temperatures, penetrating winds and savage, man-eating carnivores. Jane will also discuss simple ways to conquer anxiety with Jon Tsilimparis, renowned therapist and family expert, best-selling author and star of the A&E documentary series, Obsessed.

Today on the Jane Wilkens Michael Show...Better Than Before...Jane's guest is Sue Aikens, star of National Geographic's wildly popular series,Life Below Zero, who will talk about what it takes to live all by herself, 197 miles north of the Arctic Circle, subsisting off the rugged Alaskan bush while surviving freezing temperatures, penetrating winds and savage, man-eating carnivores.  Jane will also discuss simple ways to conquer anxiety with Jon Tsilimparis, renowned  therapist and family expert, best-selling author and star of the A&E documentary series, Obsessed.

Today on the Jane Wilkens Michael Show...Better Than Before...Jane's guest is Sue Aikens, star of National Geographic's wildly popular series, Life Below Zero, who will talk about what it takes to live all by herself, 197 miles north of the Arctic Circle, subsisting off the rugged Alaskan bush while surviving freezing temperatures, penetrating winds and savage, man-eating carnivores. Jane will also discuss simple ways to conquer anxiety with Jon Tsilimparis, renowned therapist and family expert, best-selling author and star of the A&E documentary series, Obsessed.

Sue Aikens is a woman living in Kavik, 197 miles North of the Arctic Circle in extreme isolation. Her motto is "If it hurts, don't think about it." Check out on the new season of "Life Below Zero" on NatGeo November 4th.

Sue Aikens is a woman living in Kavik, 197 miles North of the Arctic Circle in extreme isolation. Her motto is "If it hurts, don't think about it." Check out on the new season of "Life Below Zero" on NatGeo November 4th.

Today, on the Jane Wilkens Michael Show...Better The Before, Jane is talking to Sue Aikens, the breakout star of the National Geographic Channel's cult hit series, Life Below Zero, which has just started its second season. Hear how Sue, who lives 197 miles north of the Arctic Circle at the Kavik River Camp, where nine months of the year she is the sole resident, with only a family of foxes and a retired sled dog to keep her company, deals with the extreme isolation, bitter cold, hungry wildlife and the never-ending challenges to survive. More at BEMajor.org and listen via http://www.iheart.com/

Today, on the Jane Wilkens Michael Show...Better The Before, Jane is talking to Sue Aikens, the breakout star of the National Geographic Channel's cult hit series, Life Below Zero, which has just started its second season. Hear how Sue, who lives 197 miles north of the Arctic Circle at the Kavik River Camp, where nine months of the year she is the sole resident, with only a family of foxes and a retired sled dog to keep her company, deals with the extreme isolation, bitter cold, hungry wildlife and the never-ending challenges to survive. More at BEMajor.org and listen via http://www.iheart.com/