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Podcast: The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast
Episode: 1KHO 675: The Outdoors Rebuilds a Person | Ginger Naylor, Outward Bound
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Ginny Yurich talks with Ginger Naylor, CEO of Outward Bound about why challenge, play, and real-world adventure shape people in ways classrooms alone never can. Ginger shares how the outdoors becomes a classroom for learning resilience, confidence, communication, problem-solving, and leadership - and why kids (and adults) need unstructured experiences, healthy risk, and a little discomfort to grow. They talk about how childhood has become over-engineered, how nature’s unpredictability trains the brain for a changing world, and why s...