Miscellaneous
This episode features Tyler Lau, trail name: The Prodigy (@thehikingprodigy). He’s hiked over 8,000 miles in his lifetime including the Pacific Crest Trail, the John Muir Trail, and the Colorado Trail. He is one of 9 people to have completed a Calendar Year Triple Crown and the first person of color to do so. He is an active advocate for conservation and diversity in the outdoors. In this episode, we get deep. We talked for over an hour and I split our conversation into two parts. This is the second part. In this portion of my conversation with Prodigy, we delve into more feelings. This is a humble, determined, human conversation and I’m so glad we got to make it happen! We talk about: +Never wanting to thruhike again when he got home+PTSD from the CYTC+Going back to work after his CTYC+Deciding to try thruhiking again+Losing yourself to thruhiking+Reminding you that the trail is about the people+Post trail depression+Crying at Elina Osborne’s short film+Recapturing the feelings of trail that you missed+The importance of volunteering after a thruhikeConsider doing volunteer work after your thurhike to combat depression (and stay in shape)If you want to hear about the ups and downs of podcasting and the motto I’m trying to live by, stay through the end for a bonus clip! I am so grateful to Prodigy for coming on for this episode. This is the content I LIVE for and I hope you love it too. If you loved this episode, please support the show. You can share, rate, subscribe, or review the show for FREE which is a huge help to us. If you really really loved it and want more episodes, you can donate to PayPal.me/trailnamehere or click the link in our bio. Every cent that is donated goes to the server fees to get the show from my computer to your device. It costs me over $200 per year and if every listener donated just $1 it would be completely covered. Advertising only covers about 1/8th of the show’s fees so far, not including the time I spend creating the show. Thank you SO MUCH for listening. I’m extremely humbled and grateful to have you all here listening.People mentioned:We mentioned Elina Osborne. She’s making INCREDIBLE videos from her PCT thruhike: https://www.elinaosborne.com/Graduate and TRex completed their calendar year triple crown in 2018 and hiked portions with Prodigy. You can find them here: http://mymountainiswaiting.com/We mentioned Sarah Mowery and our chat about social media on trail. You can listen to her episode here: https://www.trailnamehere.com/show-notes/2020/1/22/podcast-here-e26-sarah-tunes-moweryMy life coach is Jessica McKinley. I’ve mentioned her magic in this episode. You can find her here: https://www.whatshappyning.com/This is the documentary of Prodigy’s CYTC that got backlash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6i2Yz8rgzE&feature=youtu.beYou can find Puff Puff here: https://www.instagram.com/masonalexandra/Support the show (http://paypal.me/trailnamehere)