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"Your greatest regrets in life will be the things you didn’t do,
not what you did do."
- Mark Twain
This website and its affiliated “Carpe Diem: Live Your Dream” podcast, have the goal of inspiring you to bust out of your daily routine and add some spice to your life by pursuing an ambitious dream adventure. Read on to recognize your own potential to rise, strive, and achieve your dream.

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Adventure Stories





Podcast
The Ultra Ultra Runner
- Episode 26
- May 30, 2025
- 34 minutes
To run a marathon is a great accomplishment. If you do that, then it’s just 5 more miles to complete a 50k race. Then a mere 19 more to knock out a 50-miler. Now it sounds really hard, but double that and you have a 100-miler. Well, this guy has shaped his life around doing these 50- and 100-milers, a couple dozen of them. Hear how (and why) one does that, and what it feels like. And he might even convince you that it’s not as difficult as most people think!
Skiing the Swiss Haute Route
- Episode 25
- May 23, 2025
- 32 minutes
Finally, for you skiers out their, our first episode about the sport. But this isn’t just your typical downhill or cross-country skiing. This is a ski touring adventure done by throwing a big pack on your back and forging a trail deep into the Swiss Alps to travel for a week from hut to hut. There’s the famous Haute Route and other destinations, and plenty of descriptions of what you can expect if you give hut-to-hut ski touring a try. An adventure with a mix of most everything.
Frog Mom Swims the English Channel
- Episode 24
- May 16, 2025
- 46 minutes
This middle-aged mother of two found open-water swimming to bring solace to life’s challenges. Listen to how one thing led to another until – much to her own great surprise – she ended up swimming the English Channel. It took over 19 hours, but proved a world of confidence for her and set the path for more great dreams to pursue.
Resources
The Science Behind WOOP
WOOP is a neuroscience-based methodology for increasing your rate of success in achieving goals. It stands forWishOutcomeObstaclePlanWOOP is a mental...
6 Qualities of Mental Toughness
This article from the journal Psychology Today provides some food for thought on how you can train your mind to...
Arthur the King
I was initially uninterested in seeing this movie because for some reason I had the impression it would be a...
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Author: Tony Horwitz Captain James Cook sailed 150,000 miles in the mid-1700s, making the last great voyages of discovery and...
Undaunted Courage
This biography by Stephen Ambrose is about Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis & Clark expedition fame. Ambrose assembles a mix...