Meet a Woman Who Dropped CPA Life for Van Life so She Could Inspire People to Get Outdoors

@galestraub shares a weekend in East Burke, Vermont, with the greenest hills and over 100 miles of well-maintained mountain bike trails: “This is all new to me. An interconnected network of mountain bike trails? Routes for all skill levels? A bike shop/snack bar in a quaint Vermont barn? And more than all that, my growing awareness for the strong sense of community in the small town hit hardest.” Read more about the contentedness she found in those green hills, where people seem just happy to be, on she-explores.com | ?@thevanman #sheexplores

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Gale Straub is the voice and creator of the popular podcast and community, She Explores. The podcast focuses on “ordinary” women who are entrepreneurs and athletes with stories of life in the great outdoors. It inspires people to spend more time outside, which I am a huge advocate of.

Gale has her own interesting story herself. Before starting She Explores, she left her life as a CPA behind and traded it in for a long stint on the road with her boyfriend, living out of a van. It was a big risk, which she talks about here. We also dig into what it’s like living with your significant other in a confined space and why she loves connecting with women in the outdoors so much now.

You can subscribe to the podcast Wild Ideas Worth Living on iTunes here and you can find more from She Explores here.