Podcasts about team river runner

As Hurricane Milton heads straight for Florida, and we pray for the people in its path, our guests on the podcast this week is a family that took a trip from East Alabama up to Western North Carolina to use God's love and kayaking...to help with search and rescue, meeting basic needs like food, and more in the wake of the devastation from Hurricane Helene. Subscribe to "Run the Race" for inspiring stories of faith and fitness. (5:13) That includes a world class kayaker who turned pro at age 15. Now 21 years old, Mason Hargrove talks about what he and a few others are doing in kayaks, going to hard-to-reach places to find survivors from Helene and bring things they can for storm relief. He's got some amazing stories! And the missions in his second home of the NC mountains will only continue. (16:13) Mason also talks about the mental fatigue that can happen for volunteers, first responders. He's also using his passion for kayaking to help others in distress, teach the sport too, and dispel misconceptions about kayakers. (23:58) Back in Columbus GA, this young pro kayaker and his family also help active duty military and veterans get on the water for free, teaching them kayaking through the nonprofit Team River Runner. He talks about how the water can be therapeutic for anyone. The 3 time Team USA competitor was in the world championships in his hometown, and will continue competing in the future, as he hopes things will get better and better in NC. You can learn more about their Hargrove Adventures at https://www.instagram.com/hargroveadventures/. (36:00) His mom Melissa Hargrove is also helping in storm ravaged West NC and East TN, from delivering food to teaching camping...to just giving love as the hands and feet of Jesus. (50:31) She is also the Fort Moore Columbus chapter coordinator for Team River Runner: https://www.teamriverrunner.org/get-involved/chapters/columbus. She talks about what they do to help the military and others find community and confidence, while learning how to kayak. And I close out the episode in prayer. Thanks for listening to the #RunTheRace podcast! Also, write a quick review about it, on Apple podcasts. For more info and all past episodes, go to www.wtvm.com/podcast/.

Dayne Law is a Coast Guard veteran, social worker, queer/transgender man, kayaker, and a member of Move United's DEI task force. In 2002, Dayne was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and found that his passion for paddling could help him on his journey to healing and wellness. He is also an instructor and volunteer with Team River Runner, a Move United member organization, and will be presenting a session at the Move United Education Conference May 17 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Jonathon Stone was a three sport athlete in high school. After being severely injured in the Marine Corps, he thought his days as an athlete were over. Then he discovered adaptive sports through Team River Runner, a Move United member organization. Now Jon is enjoying the sport he loves as a member of the Cleveland Browns Wheelchair Football Team.

Join us for S5:EP10 of the #SportsPhilanthropy #Podcast as Joe Mornini, Found and Executive Director for Team River Runner, sits down with our host Roy Kessel.

Mt. Carmel welcomes a new Certified Financial Planner to the team offering free financial coaching to ALL veterans and their families while mortgage partners are guiding military and veteran home buyers with monthly VA Home Buying Workshops.  Finally, if you're interested in paddle sports, Team River Runner is an active local chapter just for veterans and their families.

Jester and co-host Austin Wallis continue their conversation this week centered around Post Traumatic Stress. Before you listen to this week's episode, be sure to listen to Episode #100, where Austin shared with all of us his definition of PTS, who PTS affects, and some examples of what PTS is. This week you will hear how planning section hikes, paddling trips, and adventures help Austin cope with PTS and make him a better person to be around at home and at work. He also shares some valuable resources that are shared below in the show notes. Thanks for listening and Happy Section Hiking! Why do we go to the Wilderness?: https://youtu.be/wsf6DKUrZ9E PTS Resources: Military One Source: https://www.militaryonesource.mil/ Team River Runner: https://www.teamriverrunner.org/ Warrior Expeditions: https://warriorexpeditions.org/ Reboot Recovery: https://rebootrecovery.com/ Connect with Austin Wallis: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClx1T8H95n2cli-uHkeSwIw Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sidetrailadventures/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SideTrailAdventures Connect with Julie "Jester" Gayheart: Email: jester@jestersectionhiker.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jestersectionhiker/ Website: https://solo.to/jestersectionhiker Music for the Podcast provided by: The Okee Dokee Brothers - "Through The Woods" http://www.okeedokee.org/

Jester and co-host Austin Wallis are back this week and next week for a two-part series of conversations centered around Post Traumatic Stress. Austin shares with us about his career in the military and his current role of serving in the National Guard and working as a First Responder. Austin defines what PTS is for him, who can suffer from PTS, and begins to share how section hiking, paddling, and being in the outdoors have helped him in his daily life cope with PTS. Thanks for listening and Happy Section Hiking! Why do we go to the Wilderness?: https://youtu.be/wsf6DKUrZ9E PTS Resources: Military One Source: https://www.militaryonesource.mil/ Team River Runner: https://www.teamriverrunner.org/ Warrior Expeditions: https://warriorexpeditions.org/ Reboot Recovery: https://rebootrecovery.com/ Connect with Austin Wallis: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClx1T8H95n2cli-uHkeSwIw Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sidetrailadventures/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SideTrailAdventures Connect with Julie "Jester" Gayheart: Email: jester@jestersectionhiker.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jestersectionhiker/ Website: https://solo.to/jestersectionhiker Music for the Podcast provided by: The Okee Dokee Brothers - "Through The Woods" http://www.okeedokee.org/

On this week's extended episode, Chief Freitag and Engineer Jason Butler discuss Team River Runner, their upcoming event on August 14th-15th, and how they are working to help veterans and their families find health and healing through adaptive paddle sports. They also discuss, various aspects of swift water rescue and what Chief Freitag wants to buy next...For more information on the local Prescott chapter of Team River Runner, visit https://teamriverrunner-prescottaz.weebly.com.For a full copy of The Review, please visit https://www.cazfire.orgSubscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3k2m0azSubscribe on Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/38fRB6nListen on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/32DIN6JCentral Arizona Fire and Medical Authority (CAFMA)https://www.cazfire.org (928) 772-7711Follow CAFMA on Facebook: https://bit.ly/2TO6XqkFollow CAFMA on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/centralazfiremedicalFollow CAFMA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/central_azfire

This week on Northwestern Outdoors Radio Scott Jackson with the U.S. Forest Service has some important bear safety tips for campers and hikers this summer.  Dan Kloer, owner of Deep Timber Sounds, is offering two incredibly affordable elk calling camps in Oregon this summer and Bob Tracy, the Northwest Regional Coordinator for Team River Runner, will tell you how this non-profit organization is helping disabled veterans by taking them out onto rivers across the northwest and nation to go kayaking.  http://www.northwesternoutdoors.com    

Host John Kruse talks to Bob Tracy, the Northwest Regional Coordinator for Team River Runner, about the therapeutic work they do getting wounded and disabled veterans out on the water kayaking both whitewater streams and quieter rivers.   This interview will be part of the July 24th weekend edition of Northwestern Outdoors Radio and you are hearing it hear first!   www.northwesternoutdoors.com www.teamriverrunner.org  

Steve Baskis and Ken Braband join this episode to share the story of their expedition through the Grand Canyon.as part of the Outtasight series with Team River Runner, Steve as a blind paddler and Ken as member ofthe guide team. This is a truly inspiring story showing that as humans, weare only limited by our desire.Watch the Google Maps video filmed from the Google Media RaftWatch Ken's video of the trip on Liquid AdventuringLearn more:SteveBaskis.comLiquidAdventuring.comTeam River RunnerTeam River Runner Outtasight Series  

Sean Hess takes over co-hosting duties today as we talk about some outdoor activities there in his city of Charlotte, NC and beyond. Got him hooked up with the contact for "Team River Runner - Charlotte" too. BOOM! Sean is doing great things out there and he took time out on his day off to talk about his Saga up to this point. I still find it wild that Sean's mom was missing for 3-days after 9/11. He gives his road map to combat through Basic and onto Afghanistan, Iraq and then contracting with Triple Canopy. Sean, like many of us, was moved by the leaders that he had while serving, these leaders passed onto him the torch and he has done an excellent job of keeping it going. Come check it out. Great time catching up with Sean and very happy to have him on the podcast to just sit back and have a nice chat. Team River Runner (teamriverrunner.org) is an amazing resource for Veterans. Reach out to them and see what services they have and help em' out if you have the ability.  Thank you again to all the Veterans that are supporting the podcast, either by coming on, having a chat off-show, sharing, commenting and most of all, being there for fellow Veterans. Everyone stay safe out there and reach out if you're interested in coming on. Be glad to have a chat. Blessings. #veteranspodcast   HOV©2019

On todays episode of "Monday (mandatory) Motivation" we are joined by Marc Manilla, chapter coordinator of "Team River Runner - Ft. Benning, GA". Marc opens up a whole new area for activities being offered to Veterans and Active Duty alike. Not only that, but the national "Team River Runner" organization itself has been doing some truly amazing work with disabled Veterans in the form of instruction, adaptive equipment and instruction & safety that is top notch. Have a listen and reach out to this organization and give kayaking a try. You might find out its right up your river. Oh snap! Get on out there and mix it up folks. You never know how much something was "calling" you until you try it. Enjoy the week, get after it and don't forget about those out there that are struggling, pull them up with you. Don't be scared, they'll appreciate it.     HOV©2019

Extreme-sports athlete Lonnie Bedwell is a National Geographic 2015 Adventurer of the Year. He has kayaked some of the most challenging whitewater in the world and is responsible for first blind descents of Africa’s fabled Zambezi River and West Virginia’s world-renowned Gauley River. Lonnie is best known for his first descent of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon — an effort successfully completed during 2013 as part of a team of boaters assembled by Team River Runner. A command performance in the Grand Canyon in 2014 resulted in the Adventurer of the Year nomination. A former Navy Petty Officer, Lonnie was critically injured during 1997 in a hunting accident that instantly took his sight. Nevertheless, he raised three daughters as a single father, teaching them all to hunt and fish — and, against all odds, to drive. Once the girls graduated from high school, Lonnie continued to challenge himself, ultimately becoming a renowned extreme sports athlete. When the threshold for running the Grand Canyon was placed at 1,000 kayak rolls, he took his donated kayak to the pond on his farm and rolled it 1,500 times. The rest is history. Lonnie has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, summited several of North America’s highest mountains, rock climbs, and is an avid downhill skier when he has time away from roofing work in his hometown of Duggar, IN. Lonnie’s mission is to motivate and inspire others to embrace life with confidence and courage. Lonnie is dedicated to helping veterans and many others enjoy full lives and while he is an advocate for the blind, blindness does not define either him or his efforts on behalf of others. Lonnie has appeared on The Today Show and Steve Harvey and has been featured in countless publications. He’s the author of the award-winning book 226 (the length in miles of the Colorado River stretch through the Grand Canyon) and shares his passion for life and adventure with audiences around the country.

Lonnie Bedwell is a former Navy Petty Officer, Lonnie was critically injured during 1997 in a hunting accident that instantly took his sight. Nevertheless, he raised three daughters as a single father, teaching them all to hunt and fish — and, against all odds, to drive. Once the girls graduated from high school, Lonnie continued to challenge himself, ultimately becoming a renowned extreme sports athlete. When the threshold for running the Grand Canyon was placed at 1,000 kayak rolls, he took his donated kayak to the pond on his farm and rolled it 1,500 times. The rest is history. Lonnie has kayaked some of the most challenging whitewater in the world and is best known for having completed the first blind descent of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. He climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, summited several of North America’s highest mountains, rock climbs, and is an avid downhill skier when he has time away from roofing work in his hometown of Duggar, IN. Lonnie’s mission is to motivate and inspire others to embrace life with confidence and courage. He accomplishes this by the way he lives his life and sharing his story with others. He’s an advocate for many including the blind and our military veterans, and is living proof that we can define ourselves on our own terms. *** DONATE to Team River Runner and support Lonnie guiding blind veterans through the Grand Canyon. Be sure to write in the additional comments section it’s for the 2018 Grand Canyon Vision Trip: https://www.teamriverrunner.org/Donate You can find Lonnie at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/reallonniebedwell   Website: http://lonniebedwell.com/

Joe Mornini has spent a lifetime going from adventure to adventure. He holds a master's degree in Environmental Education from Goddard College and has been involved in outdoor education for almost four decades. A Special Education Resource Teacher and counselor, Joe is the coordinator of a program for seriously emotionally disturbed adolescents at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, MD. For 30+ years, Joe’s stress-buster has been whitewater kayaking after school on the nearby Potomac River. Always the environmentalist and adventurer, Joe has motorcycled across the country three times, walked across Ireland, walked across the state of Maryland and paddled rivers around the country. In 2004, Joe and kayaking buddy, Mike McCormick, recruited friends and local paddling businesses to support their idea to teach whitewater kayaking to wounded soldiers returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. They named the program Team River Runner (TRR) and the goal has been to provide hope, health and healing. Working in partnership with The Wounded Warrior Project and Disabled Sports USA, TRR is a non-profit volunteer organization that now provides adaptive, therapeutic and leadership training programs for OIF/OEF veterans on a national level.

14% of America’s Veterans struggle with depression and the reasons for it are many. Some, like Nik Miller and Laurie Wood, battled with depression after debilitating injuries forced them to transition from the life they’d always known to a brand new way of doing things. The two veterans teamed up with Chuck Conley and Team River Runner where they learned the skills needed to become champion paddlers with a whole new outlook on life.