Episode 4
Ep 004. How You Can Work with Me to Hit Your Outdoor Adventure Goals
In today's episode we're diving into how you can work with me (Allison) and my team at She Dreams of Alpine to make progress on your adventure goals.
If you're ready to get serious about your outdoor dreams and personal growth, stick with me, and let's explore how we can make it happen together!
Key Points Discussed:
- Overview of the free learning opportunities and resources we offer at She Dreams of Alpine
- Overview of the core program at She Dreams of Alpine, "the Backpacking Badass Program" which is a backpacking course, community, and coaching program that teaches you how to become a safe, confident, and self-sufficient backpacker.
- Overview of the "Adventurous Reinvention Experience" that combines personal growth with an epic outdoor backpacking adventure.
- Explanation of the limited enrollment and exclusive experiences like rock climbing retreats.
- Information on how to join program waitlists, contact options for queries, and the next steps for those interested in personal and outdoor reinvention.
Learn more and join our waitlists for these programs here:
- BACKPACKING COURSE WAITLIST
- THE ADVENTUROUS REINVENTION EXPERIENCE WAITLIST
- ROCK CLIMBING RETREATS WAITLIST
Want to see some testimonials about the Backpacking Badass Program? Read our student stories here.
Where to learn more about Allison:
🎁 FREE GIFT: Grab the Outdoor Backpacker Starter Kit for FREE here to get started on your journey with backpacking.
Transcript
You're listening to the Adventurous Reinvention podcast. I'm
Speaker:Alison Boyle AKA She Dreams of Alpine and this is the
Speaker:show that's dedicated to all the adventurous spirits out there who have either
Speaker:been transformed by the outdoors or interested in what it
Speaker:looks like to step into a new adventurous and courageous kind
Speaker:of identity in their life. It doesn't matter what your background is in the
Speaker:outdoors, what age you're starting at, or where you grew up. If
Speaker:you're curious about the outdoors and using adventure as a way to
Speaker:reinvent yourself, you're in the right place. I'll be
Speaker:sharing all kinds of personal adventure stories, lessons I've
Speaker:learned from the mountains, teaching what I know about the outdoors and leadership,
Speaker:and interviewing some amazing adventurous women all along the
Speaker:way. I've been coaching women on becoming safe, confident, and
Speaker:self sufficient backpackers and leaders of their own adventurous lives
Speaker:since 2018. And I know exactly what
Speaker:big fears and self doubts can pop up along the way. I have
Speaker:so much to share with you. So let's dive in.
Speaker:Okay, everyone. Welcome back to episode 4 of
Speaker:the adventurous reinvention podcast. I'm so glad that
Speaker:you're here and I wanted to dedicate a quick
Speaker:episode to how you can work with me and my team at She
Speaker:Dreams of Alpine on your adventure goals so that this can just
Speaker:live here on the podcast and you're able to come and find it and understand
Speaker:a little bit better what we do and all of the things. Because
Speaker:even though it's very popular to be on Instagram and
Speaker:be an outdoor content creator or an influencer, that is
Speaker:not at all what we do at she dreams of alpine. In
Speaker:fact, I rarely personally, if ever, work with
Speaker:outdoor brands unless it's a product that we really, really love at she dreams
Speaker:of alpine. Me and my team, if we've tried it out and we really love
Speaker:it, or and or they're they are also
Speaker:interested in helping us hook up our clients. So we really are
Speaker:very strategic, and the brands that we work with and recommend to our clients, we
Speaker:wanna make sure that we love them before we recommend them and and that it's
Speaker:benefiting everyone. So we don't do a lot of collaborations
Speaker:on just content. At She Dreams of Alpine,
Speaker:we are an outdoor education company with a really strong focus
Speaker:on empowering you to be the leader of your own outdoor adventures
Speaker:instead of being reliant on others for your safety. And
Speaker:underneath all of that, we teach that adventure and the
Speaker:outdoors is a tool for reinventing yourself and doing
Speaker:things that you you never thought were possible for your life
Speaker:as a tool for growth and blowing your own mind. It's
Speaker:a stepping stone to living courageously in in
Speaker:yourself in all areas of of your life. And we wanna help our
Speaker:clients get more freedom, more confidence, and
Speaker:feel more courageous in their life and to essentially live life
Speaker:on their own terms and feel more aliveness in their
Speaker:lives and be the captains of their own ship. So as
Speaker:my business has evolved from being a blog to
Speaker:running a course and to now offering retreats in various other types
Speaker:of coaching programs, I wanted to do just a quick I wanted to,
Speaker:like, have a quick place, and that's this podcast episode, that
Speaker:I could make it super clear what exactly we do here at she dreams of
Speaker:alpine and how you can work with me and my small team. So first things
Speaker:first, if you wanna learn from me and my team for free, we offer
Speaker:so many ways
Speaker:that you can do that and you can learn from us. There is the she
Speaker:dreams of alpine blog. That's at she dreams of alpine.com.
Speaker:You can find all sorts of blog posts on hiking and backpacking
Speaker:tips, education content, trail guides, all of the
Speaker:things. We have so much content. We always keep it updated and we're
Speaker:always adding new content to that blog. So that's one place you can always
Speaker:check for resources and see if we teach something you're interested in learning about there.
Speaker:We also create a ton of educational and inspirational
Speaker:content on my social media accounts. That's at she dreams of alpine,
Speaker:particularly Instagram. That's kind of the place I hang out the most,
Speaker:on a weekly basis. We always have stuff coming out. We're always teaching
Speaker:there, and we're always showing up there. We also have
Speaker:done mini series. Like, if you go to our page and you look back, we've
Speaker:done mini series on there that kind of go over different
Speaker:concepts about backpacking, about hiking, all of the things. So you're gonna
Speaker:learn a lot just by going to our blog and our Instagram
Speaker:page. And also throughout the year, we offer special
Speaker:free workshops and events and challenges and even online
Speaker:summits. We do this annual online summit that is focused all about
Speaker:going on solo adventures where you can learn from us. And sometimes we even
Speaker:bring other experts in the outdoors to those events.
Speaker:So that's usually all focused around hiking and backpacking
Speaker:and living a more adventurous life. Now the best way to stay in the
Speaker:know for any of those free events is to be on our newsletter.
Speaker:You can join our newsletter in a variety of different ways. But if you're
Speaker:looking to get a free gift in the process, you can grab our outdoor
Speaker:backpacker starter kit and join our email list by going to she dreams of
Speaker:alpine.com/kit. Now
Speaker:if you want to dig deeper and get more focused
Speaker:on your goals, work work with a coach and get direct feedback
Speaker:and be connected to an amazing group of men women, a
Speaker:community of women, then we also have paid programs that we offer,
Speaker:and we also offer some in person retreats. So
Speaker:mostly what I do is teach virtually. This allows
Speaker:me to work with a lot of women and coach more women and just have
Speaker:more capacity to help others. Right? And one of the reasons I really
Speaker:love virtual programs, like our signature course, the
Speaker:backpacking badass program, is that you can go at your own
Speaker:pace. Even when life happens, we have clients all the time
Speaker:who will join our programs, and then sometimes something
Speaker:unexpected happens for them, and they have to put a pause on
Speaker:working through that course and then come back to it at a later
Speaker:time. So it's really important to me that you have access to that. And then
Speaker:also that you can revisit the material again and again and
Speaker:again as needed. One thing that I've always kinda
Speaker:disliked about in person experiences, especially
Speaker:if I was looking if I was, like, needing a skill and
Speaker:I was wanting to learn a skill a little bit better was that one,
Speaker:those experiences, those in person spirit experiences are not
Speaker:often focused on being teaching experiences. They're
Speaker:usually focused on just giving you an experience. Right?
Speaker:And 2 is sometimes I would go have these experiences and maybe I would learn
Speaker:a little bit, but then I would often forget how to do those things when
Speaker:I got back. So when it comes to backpacking, the
Speaker:thing with many in person experiences, they is they don't
Speaker:teach you also the front end
Speaker:part of backpacking, which is so important. They don't teach you how to
Speaker:properly prepare, create a trip plan, create a safety
Speaker:plan, understanding what goes into that properly and
Speaker:preparing for your trip before you even go on it. And for me, one
Speaker:of the biggest things that the biggest
Speaker:reasons people don't go backpacking that I see in
Speaker:my opinion is because they lack this skill. And it's such an important
Speaker:skill, knowing how to create a important skill knowing how to create a trip plan
Speaker:for any adventure that you wanna go on, such a key spill skill in your
Speaker:backpacking journey, your outdoorsy journey, your adventurous journey.
Speaker:And creating a safety plan sets you up for all kinds
Speaker:of success in the
Speaker:backcountry. You can pivot easier when things don't go according
Speaker:to plan, which often happens in the backcountry. If you are
Speaker:outdoorsy, you know, sometimes the best laid plans end up
Speaker:having to be changed because of unforeseen circumstances.
Speaker:Right? But what's great is if you have thought about it a lot,
Speaker:you understand some of your options, you understand how to pivot, then
Speaker:you are have already thought through your backup plan when you go out there. And
Speaker:then you have already put the pieces in place for your safety if something does
Speaker:happen and you
Speaker:trail. So that is why we created our first
Speaker:program. This program is essential backpacking
Speaker:education for women who want to be self reliant on the
Speaker:trail, and they wanna stop waiting around on others for the adventure
Speaker:invite. We teach you to go from what I like to call being
Speaker:a passive participant in your outdoor adventures, which when
Speaker:I say passive participant, I mean, like, somebody who probably just got invited
Speaker:along and doesn't really know what she's doing, or you got invited along
Speaker:and if you got separated from your group somehow, you would be freaking out. You'd
Speaker:be like, I don't know. I can't get separated from my group. I don't know
Speaker:how to, like, stay safe, get myself out of this situation. That's kind of when
Speaker:you're in that passive participant situation. So we teach you how to go from
Speaker:passive participant to being like a backpacking badass,
Speaker:somebody who's active. We teach you how to be self sufficient and
Speaker:confident so that you would be able to, 1, be a
Speaker:strong group contributor to any trip that you're invited
Speaker:on. But 2, most importantly, you have your
Speaker:own back when it comes to safety when you're hitting the trail in any
Speaker:scenario. And for many women in our programs, when they
Speaker:feel this kind of confidence, like the active participant in their
Speaker:adventures, that's when they feel confident enough to also start
Speaker:exploring and dabbling in solo adventures, which which so many of our
Speaker:clients are really interested in doing. So the backpacking
Speaker:badass program, this is our primary program at She
Speaker:Dreams of Alpine, and it is one of the best ways to work with
Speaker:us, especially if you're just starting out. Like, even if you're a day
Speaker:hiker, you are gonna use all the core skills that we teach in that program
Speaker:in your day hiking. This is basically a foundational
Speaker:skills program that will, like, teach you everything
Speaker:you need to go need to know even as you grow and go on bigger
Speaker:and bigger adventures and gives you that confidence to do bigger
Speaker:adventures, whatever they might be down the line. Whether you're
Speaker:looking to get into rock climbing or canyoneering
Speaker:or mountaineering, this is foundational to all of those pieces, and that's
Speaker:why we like to start with backpacking. So in our core
Speaker:course curriculum, you learn everything that you
Speaker:need to know to be safe and self sufficient as a
Speaker:backpacker. So you're gonna learn how to pick the right
Speaker:backpacking trail for your skill level. You're gonna learn how to train
Speaker:properly for the backpacking trip that you have planned. You're
Speaker:gonna learn all about gear and essential safety gear systems that
Speaker:you must have because there's always a difference. Like you have gear
Speaker:that is a nice to have, and then you have gear that is essential. We
Speaker:teach you, like, what is important, what's not, what you don't need to worry
Speaker:about, and you need and you learn how to use that gear properly. You're
Speaker:also gonna learn what your most important backpacking skill sets to keep
Speaker:you safe in the outdoors are, including things like
Speaker:outdoor navigation and mapping compass and using
Speaker:a GPS, all those things. It's my mission that people who
Speaker:go through my program, when they hit the trail, they don't worry about getting lost.
Speaker:That was a really big thing for me when I started. And I want everyone
Speaker:when they go out there, that is something that is far from their concerns
Speaker:when they're hitting the trail. You also learn how to create
Speaker:a proper trip plan and a safety plan. This is that skill that I was
Speaker:talking about earlier that is really gonna set the stage for you having a really
Speaker:successful trip and being able to make safety calls on the
Speaker:fly. You're also gonna learn about the skill of pivoting and making those
Speaker:safety calls before and during your trips. And you're gonna
Speaker:learn how to cultivate that I'm safe and I've got this
Speaker:leadership mindset so that you can stop waiting around for other
Speaker:people to invite you along on adventures. So that's just kind of like a taste
Speaker:of what we teach you in the core curriculum of the backpacking badass
Speaker:program. And in addition to the course
Speaker:curriculum, you instantly become part of a community of, at least
Speaker:at this moment, over 1700 women backpackers
Speaker:who are cheering you along cheering you along the
Speaker:way as you're growing and learning all this information. They're at
Speaker:all walks and stages of life. So as you grow too, you're also gonna be
Speaker:able to get feedback from other coaches, get support, share your wins,
Speaker:share your struggles and challenges. This is such a great place
Speaker:and a safe space to get all of that feedback. Right? You'll
Speaker:also get access to 3 monthly coaching calls,
Speaker:support calls. So we usually do about 2 q and a
Speaker:calls. These are usually focused on the curriculum. What are you stuck with? What do
Speaker:you need help with? And, also, I usually do kind of a
Speaker:more intimate, like, mindset life coaching focus call
Speaker:once a month as well. And I'm not also the only person that
Speaker:teaches and coaches in the program. I also have my team
Speaker:who has their own background of experiences in backpacking
Speaker:as well, and they host coaching calls too. So you get a variety
Speaker:of expert backpacking coaches to give you feedback on your
Speaker:journey. And essentially that means like you get to talk to
Speaker:real humans and real women and real expert coaches in real
Speaker:time about your questions leading up to any of your
Speaker:trips and as you prepare for trips. So in
Speaker:addition to all of that, you also get lifetime access
Speaker:to the program material, the coaching, and any updates
Speaker:that we make to the curriculum over time. So we literally
Speaker:support you for life as you grow as a backpacker and
Speaker:an outdoorsy woman inside of that program.
Speaker:We just wanted to make this a program where we go all out for you,
Speaker:like to support you, to make sure that you're as successful
Speaker:as possible and you feel as supported as possible. Because sometimes
Speaker:a lot of the people who join our program, they do not have
Speaker:access to the mentorship and the community of people that
Speaker:are doing this kind of thing. They don't have family members that are
Speaker:interested in this. They don't have friends that are interested in this. Or maybe they
Speaker:do, but their friends aren't willing to kind of step up and be in that
Speaker:leadership role. Or maybe they are looking to be
Speaker:more adventurous and courageous in their own identity, and they need
Speaker:that support and that community. Community is such an important part of,
Speaker:like, making these big identity shifts in your life. So we do all of that,
Speaker:lifetime access. We even celebrate you by sending you a
Speaker:free gift once you've graduated the
Speaker:program, which really is just have you finished the program, gift once
Speaker:you've graduated the program, which really is just have you finished the core
Speaker:curriculum inside our program, and then have you gone on your first backpacking
Speaker:trip since starting the program? Now some people have maybe gone on
Speaker:a backpacking trip with others, but they're wanting to really learn how to
Speaker:do this themselves and take more ownership and be more safe when they go
Speaker:with others. So it's whenever you've gone on your first trip after
Speaker:completing the program, we send you a little gift. It's our graduation
Speaker:gift to celebrate you. And if you do that,
Speaker:we send you, like, the a free hat. It's a backpacking
Speaker:badass hat that you can only get through this process. You can't buy it. There's
Speaker:nowhere on our website that you can buy it. We send it to you for
Speaker:free to celebrate you for making momentum and taking action on this
Speaker:goal. So that's just, like, a little side perk that we do
Speaker:because I find that once you get that first
Speaker:trip under your belt because the first trip is probably,
Speaker:like, the most nerve wracking trip that you'll go on, especially because
Speaker:you're in your head about all the things, especially if you're brand new and you've
Speaker:never done it before. You've never used the gear before. It's the most
Speaker:anxiety producing trip. Right? So if you can get that one under your belt,
Speaker:then you are even more likely to do more and more and more and more.
Speaker:So, again, at this point, this program has served over
Speaker:1700 women. This program works.
Speaker:We have 100 of student testimonials and success stories.
Speaker:And if you're interested in seeing some of those, you can go to she dreams
Speaker:of alpine.com/stories,
Speaker:and it will have a bunch of little testimonials you can watch. It's a bunch
Speaker:of videos and different people's experiences and backgrounds that you can check out
Speaker:and kinda see what their experience inside of our program was.
Speaker:So, yeah, that is our core program. The thing the
Speaker:main thing that we do here at she dreams of alpine, and it's the backpacking
Speaker:badass program. It's the best place to start if
Speaker:you're just getting into all of these things. Sometimes we have on clients
Speaker:that have been maybe backpacking or have backpacking in the past, but they
Speaker:just really wanna step into more of that leadership role in their
Speaker:adventures, this is where you should start. So the best
Speaker:place to go right now, if you are interested in that program,
Speaker:is to join our wait list at she dreams of alpine.com/waitlist,
Speaker:and that will just put you in our system to tag you to make sure
Speaker:we let you know about any of our open enrollments that are happening for
Speaker:that program, because we open it up periodically. So
Speaker:I will link all of these little things that I've been calling
Speaker:out, wait list pages in the show notes too so you can find
Speaker:them, really quickly and access them as well, and you
Speaker:don't have to remember those URLs. But you can also find them on my
Speaker:website and Instagram pages too. So real
Speaker:quick before I move on about the other things that we do at she dreams
Speaker:of alpine, one question that we do get a lot is if we only
Speaker:work with women in this program. And at she dreams of
Speaker:alpine, we believe in equitable outdoor education
Speaker:for all people. And while we do keep many of our
Speaker:programs and retreats focused on women and underrepresented genders
Speaker:to create a safe for those groups and so that
Speaker:they feel, like, open and they can ask the questions they need to ask and
Speaker:feel like it's a safe space. We do have a kind
Speaker:of self study version of our backpacking badass course that
Speaker:men can join that doesn't include our private
Speaker:community access. So it's not something that we advertise a whole
Speaker:lot of, but we do welcome men and men into our backpacking badass
Speaker:course, 1, because it's an effective program no matter how
Speaker:you identify, and 2, we believe men learning from from women can create a
Speaker:really powerful shift in safe hiking communities around the world. So I just wanted to
Speaker:mention that we do get asked about it all the time.
Speaker:If you have questions about it, you can always email
Speaker:me and my team at support at she dreams of alpine.com.
Speaker:Okay. So that was the backpacking badass program. Our next
Speaker:sort of tier in the program that we offer at She Dreams of Alpine
Speaker:is our other program called the adventurous reinvention
Speaker:experience. So a couple of years ago, I got
Speaker:certified as a life coach because for me, life coaching has
Speaker:been a really important part of my journey. It
Speaker:had working with other coaches, learning about life coaching
Speaker:tools had a profound impact on my life, especially
Speaker:as I started my business. So it taught
Speaker:me so many tools for emotional regulation, going after big
Speaker:goals, all of the things. So I wanted to create the reason why
Speaker:I created the Adventurous Reinvention Experience is I wanna have created a
Speaker:program that took things deeper with my clients
Speaker:and was a little bit more personal and intimate and in a small group
Speaker:setting and incorporate a lot of those tools that I've
Speaker:learned as a life coach. So in 2023,
Speaker:we created the adventurous reinvention experience. So this
Speaker:program is kind of both an adventure
Speaker:of your life and pursuing and learning to pursue
Speaker:exactly what you want, what you wanna create. Right? A reinvention
Speaker:of yourself and it's also this adventure of your physical
Speaker:body. So imagine kind of combining your love for
Speaker:personal self growth, self development with your
Speaker:lot love and desire of outdoor adventure. So
Speaker:we do both in that program in a small
Speaker:group container of women over the course of about 4 months
Speaker:during the summer typically, together. So there are
Speaker:2 component components of this experience. We
Speaker:have our summer program that we do together each week, the
Speaker:reinvention classes. So there are 4 months of
Speaker:weekly classes and coaching through a process of reinventing
Speaker:yourself and stepping into new possibilities. Whatever
Speaker:that is for you, we help you explore that. Right? And then we have
Speaker:these in person experiences. So these are the
Speaker:adventures. So there are usually tiers to choose from. We
Speaker:typically so it may change over the years. So I don't wanna say it's
Speaker:always this way, but we typically have a beginner group. So you're, like,
Speaker:more new to backpacking or you wanna be at a beginner physical fitness level or
Speaker:an intermediate group based on just
Speaker:you should do, you just reach out, and we can have a conversation about it.
Speaker:And we currently run these in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains
Speaker:because for me, that's such a great place to build your
Speaker:skills as a backpacker and get big mountain,
Speaker:high altitude, and rugged trail conditions
Speaker:experience. So we'd love to host it there. Also, I hold a special
Speaker:place in my heart for the Eastern Sierra Nevadas. It's, like, where I kinda
Speaker:cut my teeth as a backpacker, mountaineer, all of things, and
Speaker:climber is in those mountains. So I'd love to share that
Speaker:place with my clients. So, basically, what we do is we
Speaker:meet weekly together all summer to begin this sort of adventure into
Speaker:self. Each call with me is live. It usually
Speaker:begins with me teaching you the steps for stepping into your own personal
Speaker:adventurous reinvention, and then we spend the remaining time for
Speaker:coaching. And we also, throughout the summer, work on
Speaker:honing your skill sets and preparing you for the outdoor adventure as well.
Speaker:And, at the beginning of that program, if you're like, I
Speaker:don't really know how I wanna reinvent myself or I don't know what I wanna
Speaker:focus on, we definitely spend time at the beginning of that program
Speaker:exploring what that could be for you. Many of the women who join this
Speaker:particular experience or this program often are in
Speaker:a crossroads or in a big transition in their life, and they're wanting
Speaker:to kinda explore what's next for them. Or maybe they've had something on their heart
Speaker:that they've always wanted to bring to life. And if you went back and listened
Speaker:to my adventurous reinvention stories, you can just
Speaker:kinda see, like, we are just trying to help you facilitate your own
Speaker:adventurous reinvention. And then at the
Speaker:end of our experience, we get to meet in person and spend
Speaker:multiple days backpacking in the wilderness together. So our in
Speaker:person adventure is essentially this physical
Speaker:representation of all the work that you've been doing on yourself months prior
Speaker:and a way to give, like, physical momentum to the change that you're calling
Speaker:forth in your life. And what's really special about this
Speaker:experience and the way we have it set up is all summer, you've been getting
Speaker:to know your group, getting to know, like, each other's
Speaker:passions and what you're working on. And it's a really intimate experience,
Speaker:so it's small group. And then we get to meet in person. It's almost like
Speaker:you know these people already before you've even hit the trail with each
Speaker:other. And that really fosters this
Speaker:experience where, like, you get to create these really meaningful
Speaker:connections. And many of our clients after their in person
Speaker:adventures really go on to make these connections for a lifetime and
Speaker:friendships for a lifetime from these experience. So
Speaker:this is a program for those who are ready to reinvent what's possible
Speaker:for their lives. If you feel like you're meant for more, you're
Speaker:meant to be more, to experience more, to do more,
Speaker:and to live more of this beautiful and wild
Speaker:existence that we call life, then you should definitely consider
Speaker:joining this program. It's one of my favorite things that we
Speaker:do all year at she dreams of alpine. It's very special, very different
Speaker:than everything else that we do. And there are essentially 2
Speaker:big core things that you would walk away from at the end of
Speaker:our time together. There's kind of like this personal ROI, like
Speaker:like your personal return on investment, and there's like your adventure ROI.
Speaker:So personally, you develop a clear idea of, like, what's
Speaker:next for you and what you'd love to create in your life and
Speaker:having a more clear path to get there. You'll also be working on
Speaker:creating an exciting vision for your future that really lights you up
Speaker:and gets you excited to go for it. Right? You're gonna learn tools that
Speaker:will help you navigate your self doubts, your fears with
Speaker:much more calm confidence instead of feeling like
Speaker:you're an imposter or like you shouldn't be doing this. You're gonna learn how
Speaker:to transform your relationship with discomfort both on and
Speaker:off the trail. Like, this this is a summer of, like, embracing
Speaker:discomfort because with big changes, with reinvention, with pushing ourselves in the
Speaker:outdoors and personally, there's a lot of discomfort on the way and we teach you
Speaker:how to navigate that. Right? And you are prioritizing you, your joy, all
Speaker:summer long. That's one thing I love about
Speaker:this program. It's really focused on you bringing it
Speaker:back to yourself, what lights you up, what do you wanna work on,
Speaker:all of the things. And then it helps you stop holding yourself back
Speaker:from going after you want what you want in life. And so that's why we
Speaker:call it the adventurous reinvention experience. And on the adventure
Speaker:side, your return on investment in this program is basically
Speaker:you are gonna have even more confidence to go out there more on your
Speaker:own. Right? You will have the confidence to take your friends out and
Speaker:introduce them to hiking and backpacking. A lot of people when they join this experience,
Speaker:if they're in the more intermediate, like, kind of stage of their
Speaker:backpacking journey, they just want more confidence in being the leader.
Speaker:So we are gonna help you discover your inner leader. You're gonna get to
Speaker:all summer long. We work and we train together. You train together, but
Speaker:separately, but we help you create training plans. So you're gonna get to celebrate your
Speaker:body feeling strong and prepared. What does that look like? How do we prepare
Speaker:for a big adventure in the Sierra Nevada mountains? We a lot of times have
Speaker:clients come from all over the US and some have never even
Speaker:backpacked in mountains as big as the Eastern Sierra. So we teach
Speaker:you all the things you need to know to prepare for that so that you
Speaker:have that experience under your belt and you could do something like that again. You
Speaker:get to connect with like minded women and
Speaker:make some lifelong friendships, and you will get to feel more
Speaker:confident in all of those core outdoor skill
Speaker:sets like on trail navigation and
Speaker:safety, learning how to make pivots in the back country because often
Speaker:these trips, 1 year we had a trip where there was
Speaker:this freak hurricane that, hit
Speaker:California and impacted, like, our experience in the mountains.
Speaker:And that the group of clients that was with us when we were out in
Speaker:the mountains when that happened, we didn't know this was
Speaker:gonna impact mountains as much as it did when we entered. It was just supposed
Speaker:to be some a little extra rain, and then it transformed when we were out
Speaker:there. Those clients got such a unique experience
Speaker:because we got to show them how do you make safety call decisions?
Speaker:How do we stay calm
Speaker:consequence depending on what we decide? How do we make group decisions on
Speaker:this and keep everyone safe? So they got to really
Speaker:experience kind of the behind the scenes of all of that, and that is
Speaker:such a valuable experience to have under their belt
Speaker:for future experiences. So, yeah, you get to
Speaker:learn how to hike safely in the mountains, adapt to all of its challenges,
Speaker:and you get to have gone on an epic adventure at the end of this
Speaker:experience. So growth is inevitable
Speaker:inside the adventurous reinvention experience, and the woman that
Speaker:you are before you join will be different than the woman you are by the
Speaker:end of the experience in the best kind of way. You're gonna have
Speaker:more confidence, more strength, more courage, more knowledge,
Speaker:more clarity, more joy, and more self
Speaker:agency. And it's just like an amazing
Speaker:experience. If that's something that's calling to you, definitely
Speaker:consider joining us. So we currently only open this
Speaker:program, the Adventurous Reinvention Experience, once a
Speaker:year. That could change down the line, but right now we only open it once
Speaker:a year. Usually, we open enrollment for this around March
Speaker:or April of every year. This is dependent on when we have
Speaker:permits finalized. So a lot of like, our in person retreat,
Speaker:we have to, like, finalize all those details, make sure we have the permits properly
Speaker:for all of this. So once we do have that properly, we open up
Speaker:enrollment around the late March or early April. And if
Speaker:you're interested in staying in the know for this experience, be sure to join the
Speaker:wait list at she dreams of alpine.com/
Speaker:are. That's apple, rabbit,
Speaker:eggplant, a r e. Again, I'll link to it below.
Speaker:But this program always sells out because it is a really
Speaker:limited experience. In the past, we've only
Speaker:enrolled 24 people in each cohort,
Speaker:and that's, like, 2 groups of 12. So, like, the beginner group has 12 people.
Speaker:The intermediate group has 12 people. You get to meet everybody
Speaker:when you're in the coaching part in the weekly coaching during the summer,
Speaker:but the in person experiences are split up. So
Speaker:I don't know if we'll do more than that, but we have the past
Speaker:couple years done only 24 people. So being on the wait
Speaker:list for that, that's at shoe dreams of alpine.com/are.
Speaker:This ensures you that that you get to hear about it first
Speaker:before we open spots to the public. So how it usually works is
Speaker:we always give first dibs on any in person things or
Speaker:retreats or experiences to our existing clients. So if
Speaker:you've been on a past retreat of ours or you
Speaker:have been in the backpacking badass program, you
Speaker:always get first dibs before anybody else to join one of these
Speaker:experiences. This is a perk of being one of our clients.
Speaker:We just wanna make sure that if you wanted to attend something,
Speaker:you don't have to stress about something selling out. You can join 1st.
Speaker:But second is our wait list. So if you aren't a past client of
Speaker:ours and you are interested in this experience, then being on that
Speaker:wait list ensures that you are the next person to hear about
Speaker:it. And then we open it to the public if there are any spots remaining.
Speaker:So, again, I will link everything below in the show notes so
Speaker:that you can kind of find all of these resources and join the wait list
Speaker:that you wanna be on. So last but not
Speaker:least, we also host some climbing
Speaker:retreats at she dreams of alpine. So for me, rock climbing
Speaker:holds a really special place in my heart. I have been personally
Speaker:climbing for almost just as long as I've been hiking and backpacking,
Speaker:And it's still a really core part of my life today. It's one of the
Speaker:things I get most excited about. I love setting goals about around climbing. I
Speaker:love bouldering. I love sport climbing. I'm not as much into trad
Speaker:climbing these days, but I do like alpine. So it's like a little mix of
Speaker:all the things that I love. So we recognize
Speaker:that many of our clients as they start hiking and backpacking more that they
Speaker:might become more and more curious about, like, what else? What else can
Speaker:I do that I maybe never thought I could do before? And rock climbing
Speaker:tends to be one of those pieces that everyone's really curious about. And
Speaker:getting into rock climbing can be a really tough
Speaker:transition for folks because it definitely takes a lot more knowledge. It takes a lot
Speaker:more safety knowledge to get started with, especially if you don't
Speaker:feel like you're connected to a community that can help you learn these things,
Speaker:and especially if you're wanting to climb outdoors. There's it's a little bit
Speaker:harder to kinda, like, get into your by yourself,
Speaker:unless you you do really have a connected community you can lean
Speaker:on. So we occasionally offer rock climbing treats for those reasons. We, at the moment,
Speaker:have only offered about 1 to 2 of those a year, so it is at
Speaker:the moment, have only offered about 1 to 2 of those a year. So it
Speaker:is really limited at the moment. That's sort of because currently I've been enjoying attending
Speaker:those retreats with my clients, and I can
Speaker:only travel so much during
Speaker:the year, especially with our adventurous reinvention experience.
Speaker:But they are so, so fun.
Speaker:And we usually always do a trip to Joshua Tree, which is a
Speaker:really, like, fun rock climbing and yoga retreat weekend.
Speaker:It's in the desert. It's just a really fun place, fun environment to
Speaker:be at and to learn how to climb, and it's a great place for any
Speaker:of y'all that are seeing yourself as beginners and really just even if you had
Speaker:no experience and you wanted to learn all the things about climbing, we've set that
Speaker:retreat up to really be catering to you. And then if
Speaker:you are a more intermediate advanced climber, we do
Speaker:also, like, set it up to where you're getting the climbs
Speaker:that you wanna get as well. So our retreats are for
Speaker:climbers of all levels, and we do sometimes mix it up
Speaker:before. Like, this year in particular, I don't know if I'll do this again,
Speaker:but this year, we wanted to do a climbing retreat in Spain.
Speaker:So I am taking a really small group of women, like 8 women to
Speaker:Spain, which is gonna be epic, and it's gonna be so fun.
Speaker:But, yeah, we do climbing retreats. We're still figuring out, like, how many of those
Speaker:we'll do a year, but if you wanna take a She Dreams of Alpine
Speaker:climbing retreat and stay in the loop on when those spaces open
Speaker:up, you can go to shedreamsofalpine.com/climb.
Speaker:Again, I'll link in the show notes, but I try to make these short links.
Speaker:So if you're just typing something in, it's really easy for you.
Speaker:Okay. So that is a high level
Speaker:look at all of the programs that we run and manage
Speaker:currently at She Dreams of Alpine. Of course, that could
Speaker:change with time and as we evolve as a company.
Speaker:But if you're on my email list, on my newsletter, you'll be able
Speaker:to stay in the know with any and all future developments that we have down
Speaker:the line. We are always considering new ways to serve you,
Speaker:and that includes new products and services
Speaker:development. But I I kinda live by this motto,
Speaker:go slow to go fast. So at she dreams of
Speaker:Alpine in my company, we never rush anything just to,
Speaker:like, have it. We wanna make sure that our programs are really, really
Speaker:good before we move on to creating new ones. And it's the same with our
Speaker:retreats. We like to nail down our processes, make it really smooth so that
Speaker:your experience is just like top notch. Right?
Speaker:So I hope that this episode was helpful
Speaker:in getting a look at what we do here at She Dreams of Alpine. I
Speaker:get asked this all the time. I wanted a place that I could kinda direct
Speaker:people to so that they could better understand, like, what do we do here at
Speaker:She Dreams of Alpine? How can we help you? If you're
Speaker:interested in becoming more adventurous in your
Speaker:life or growing your confidence in the outdoors, I do hope
Speaker:that I get to meet you inside of one of our programs sometimes.
Speaker:My team and I would love, love, love to work with you. If
Speaker:you ever have any questions about our programs, you can always send me a DM
Speaker:on Instagram that's at she dreams of alpine, or you can also
Speaker:shoot us an email at support at she dreams of alpine.com. We're
Speaker:happy to answer any of the questions that you might have. And,
Speaker:yeah, that's it. That's all for this episode, and thank you so
Speaker:much for tuning in. Until next time.
Speaker:Bye. Hey. I wanted to thank you real
Speaker:quick for tuning into the show and listening all the way to the end. If
Speaker:you love this episode and you want deeper support in becoming a safe,
Speaker:confident, and self sufficient hiker and backpacker, then head over to she dreams
Speaker:of alpine.com/waitless to learn more about our
Speaker:backpacking badass coaching program, where I teach you absolutely everything
Speaker:you need to know to be self reliant on the trails and stop
Speaker:waiting around on others for the adventure invite. So I'd love to help
Speaker:you more in your journey of stepping into your adventurous identity,
Speaker:and that program is the absolute best place for us to start working
Speaker:together. So again, that's she dreams of alpine.com/waitlist
Speaker:and you can learn all about it there. So that's it for today folks.
Speaker:I hope you get to spend some time outside this week and I'll be back
Speaker:very soon with a brand new episode. Bye.
