The Bucket List Life with Kenyon Salo

“The fact that we can even entertain the option of traveling, gives us all the riches of the world. You owe it to the universe, for giving you the lottery winnings, to do something exceptional and travel.” - Jake Lau The Bucket List Life Podcast #21 - Entrepreneur and World Traveler Jake Lau If we take a moment to comprehend how fortunate we are in this life to be listening to this podcast, to have a smart phone, iPad or computer, to entertain the ideas of business and travel, then we can start to appreciate that we are amongst the most privileged in the world and we are constantly surrounded by opportunity. Our next guest on episode #21 of The Bucket List Life has an inspiring story to share of seizing every opportunity presented before him in full appreciation and recognition of the treasures in life he’s been given. Jake Lau was born and raised Washington DC, currently living in Phoenix, Arizona. At the age of 27 years old, Jake quit his high profile position with PricewaterhouseCoopers and decided to travel around the world for 18 months while he had the opportunity. His travels included a road trip across the USA, hiking Kilimanjaro and backpacking through Nepal, Europe and New Zealand. Jake uses all of the lessons he has learned in his incredible travel experiences today as a successful startup entrepreneur and business owner of the only Chinese gourmet food truck in Arizona, Hoa Boa. Highlights from their conversation: 3:00 Having met through a mutual friend on Facebook, Kenyon and Jake never really connected until after Kenyon started The Bucket List Life. Jake says that the draw to find out more about The Bucket List Life was the impetus and momentum it was building. 5:15 Jake starts off talking about traveling for 18 months and how highly educational and mind blowing an experience it was. Jake then takes us way back to describe how he came to develop his sense and thirst for adventure from a very young age and then end up working for PricewaterhouseCoopers. 13:30 Jake describes the biggest factor in deciding that he needed to make a change in his current career position was the realization that he needed more adventure and excitement in his life. 17:00 Jake breaks down his thought process defining his professional career and his next chapter of life, post graduation and the limited window of opportunity he for travel and adventure, according to life’s prescribed plan. 23:30 Jake describes how his original jam packed adventure of a lifetime began with a four month, cross-country road trip. He describes all of the lessons he learned of the constant need for flexibility, adaptability, endurance and budgeting for the unknown. When planning a trip, only plan 20-30% of it, the important parts, the obligatory stops. Make the rest of your trip and your time about the people you meet, your surroundings, exploration and in the ambience of your travels. 34:15 Jake talks about building relationships in his travels and the dozens of people he had connected with around the world. He highly recommends that getting to know the people in your travels add so much color and graphic definition to an experience. 39:15 Jake talks about how fortunate we all are if we have the ability to buy a smart phone, or a car, or go to school then we have already won the human lottery. There is very little that we really have to lose. The fact that we can even entertain the option of traveling, gives us all the riches of the world. You owe it to the universe, for giving you the lottery winnings, to do something exceptional and travel. 43:30 Jake tells us what happened when he came back from his travels of more than 18 months. He needed two months to just reflect, adjust and take in the mind blowing, horizon exploding experience of a lifetime. And then he decided to pursue a long time dream of becoming an entrepreneur and starting up his own business. 47:00 Jakes explains his immense gratitude for his mother’s love,

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“Whenever I start to feel sorry for myself or start to wonder why is this happening to me, I take a moment and a breather and I think, the universe is creating a space for me right now. What’s about to come in? And then I start to get really excited! The Bucket List Life Podcast #18 - Drive to Change Founder, Heather Falenski Life is full of amazing and tragic circumstance and the universe has it’s own way of guiding us through the path to realizing our own dreams. It’s when we struggle and resist that path, that we suffer the most. Today’s in studio guest has mastered the art of going with the flow of life and allowing change to guide her. On episode #18 of The Bucket List Life Podcast, Kenyon chats with his dear friend and climbing partner Heather Falenski. As an adventurous, world traveller, photographer, Founder of Drive to Change and CEO of One World Media, Heather is an eloquent communicator and effective storyteller. She has some incredible insight and advice to share about allowing life to change us and believing in the universal plan. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 3:00 Heather tells us about how her love and passion for photography developed at a very early age. Some of her favorite pictures are of facial expressions of the people she’s had a chance to really connect with in her travels around the world. 8:30 As a female pilot, Heather talks about how she became interested in aviation and her thrilling and powerful first ever flying lesson. Also, how this taught her a metaphor for life when she learned, “No matter how bad it gets, you are taking that plane and you are landing it!” 15:30 Heather talks about her curiosity of society and what inspired her to travel around the world, live in other countries, lose her own culture and take in all the different fascinating lifestyles. 20:00 Talking about all the different languages that Heather has known and learned, she tells us how she came to learn Swahili while working with United Students for Fair Trade in Kenya, Africa. 21:00 With a positive attitude and going with the flow of life, after a job fell through in Japan, Heather decided to go ahead with a trip to San Francisco, where she ended up accepting a dream job as a photographer in refugee camps in Zambia for 15 months. “Whenever I start to feel sorry for myself or start to wonder why is this happening to me, I take a moment and a breather and I think, the universe is creating a space for me right now. What’s about to come in. And then I start to get really excited!” “Anytime that something major has come crashing down in my life, something amazing has risen out of it.” 26:30 Heather tells us about her health struggles in the past year and how she has started to bear fruit from her experience in the past couple of months. “Sickness comes because your body is trying to signal that something needs to change…. Sometimes change is inevitable, we are all riding this wave together, no one is frozen in time and we are all forced to evolve.” 33:15 Heather explains why it was so hard for her to come back to America and assimilate back into the first world culture. With all of our technological advances what we lack most is a real sense of community, which breeds underlying disconnect and loneliness. “We are more connected, but less connected than ever.” 37:45 Heather talks about her film project, Drive to Change, (http://www.drive2change.com) and how it has come to fruition. She’s passionate about this movement and driven to change the way the media portrays female adventure sport athletes, both in the amount and type of coverage that they receive. 49:00 Heather describes the magic of a photographing and capturing a moment with one of her Drive for Change Athletes, Highliner - Sonya Iverson, while she sent a high line at sunset in the Moab Desert. 58:00 What is something on Heather’s Bucket List? It’s always been her dream to solo fly her paraglider across the desert for a week.

“I can’t believe I just survived all of that, and now I am going to drown, literally inches from life….The only thing I thought about at that moment was that I can’t die because… my kids need me, you know.” - Lonnie Bissonnette The Bucket List Life Podcast #17 - Extreme Para-Athlete Lonnie Bissonnette (https://thebucketlistlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/17-Lonnie-Bissonnette.jpg)Extreme Para-Athlete Lonnie Bissonnette When life throws down the gauntlet and you are given the choice to fight for your life or surrender, what drives you to keep going and overcome any obstacle to survive? What does it mean to be an inspiration to others? Today’s incredibly humble guest on The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #17 is highly respected, admired by his peers and a true inspiration to many. He is an inspiration because of his ability to overcome the challenges that life has thrown in his path with stubborn drive and an uncommon willingness to go the extra distance to make things happen. Lonnie Bissonnette has been friends with Kenyon in the BASE and skydiving community for well over a decade. Lonnie is an elite extreme athlete from Canada and he has some amazing and, yes, incredibly inspiring stories to share about “the accident” that changed everything and the challenges he has faced and overcome in his remarkable life. Highlights of their conversation: 3:30 Lonnie is currently in Calgary, Alberta, training to build the sport of Para-Bobsledding into the Winter Para-Olympics 2018. 8:00 Lonnie tells us all about growing up as a crazy, adventurous and indestructible kid in St. Catherines, Ontario Canada. 15:30 Lonnie talks about about getting kicked out of his house at the age of 14, being a rebellious teenager and the challenges he faced living homeless on the streets for a couple years. “Everything that happens in your life, that leads you up to adulthood, builds the person you become. And living through all of that really helped cement the “never give up” attitude that you need to just keep putting one step forward, put your head down and keep going.” 23:00 After 1,500 sky dives and 14 years in the sport, Lonnie begins to tell us the most heart stopping and extra-ordinary story of “the Accident” that happened while trying to set a new Canadian record on his 1,100 BASE jump, that changed his life forever. With painful detail, Lonnie shares exactly what happened after his 70mph instantaneous impact with the water and the bottom of the river. 30:30 His thoughts that fuelled his drive to survive while lying 10 feet under water, paralyzed, “The only thing I thought about at that moment was that I can’t die because… my kids need me, you know.” 31:00 After struggling to the surface, without the use of his arms or legs, and taking in a small gasp of air, with what felt like a gallon of water, and sinking back down, completely exhausted, Lonnie thought, “I can’t believe I just survived all of that, and now I am going to drown, literally inches from life.” 37:00 Lonnie talks about the difficult process of accepting the reality that he had suffered a spinal cord injury, he was paralyzed and would be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. 40:15 Lonnie shares with us his amazing inspiration to start jumping again and how his son was the one that initiated his incredible comeback to the sport of skydiving. Exploding with pride, Lonnie jumped out of a plane for the first time since the accident, for his son’s first skydive. “As we left the airplane and front flipped out, I looked over at my son and he had his tongue sticking out and he’s giving me the thumbs up yelling, Yeeeew! At that moment all of my fears and doubts where gone. He’s fine, he’s gonna be great!” 46:15 Lonnie talks about his first BASE jump back after “the accident”. “This is not something I want to do, this is something I need to do. I need for myself to do at least one more BASE jump, to prove to myself that the sport didn’t beat me.”

“There is no reason to go half speed when you have decided to do something. If you’ve decided to do something, you have to do it 100%. If you can’t do it a 100%, your hearts not into it so why do it at all.” - Gaetan Tremblay Sr. The Bucket List Life Podcast #16 - Fitness Trainer Gaetan Tremblay Sr. One of the most empowering things you can do in your life is to help and support others through a difficult time or challenge. There is nothing more effective in accomplishing your own goals than to help others accomplish there’s. The second pillar of the The Bucket List Life is Helping Others and our next guest on podcast episode #16 truly embodies this understanding. Gaetan Tremblay Sr. is a generous and authentic individual that is committed to helping others step outside of their own comfort zone. As a former member of the Canadian Military for 10 years, Gaetan is physical, courageous and skilled. These days he is all about fitness training and he loves to inspire and motivate people in his successful fitness style boot camps. As an Ambassador of The Bucket List Life in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Gaetan loves adventure, travelling and doing stuff that other people are afraid to do to show them that it can be done. Do you want to be an Ambassador? Check out the Ambassador section at www.thebucketlistlife.com (https://thebucketlistlife.com) under Team to find out how you can join us and help inspire the world. Gaetan has been Facebook friends with Kenyon since May 2012, and he has a lot of daily wisdom and encouragement to share with us all on how he lives The Bucket List Lifestyle. Highlights of their conversation: 5:00 Gaetan and Kenyon talk about the analogy of taking the plunge in life and what it says about a person’s commitment. “There is no reason to go half speed when you have decided to do something. If you’ve decided to do something, you have to do it 100%. If you can’t do it a 100%, your hearts not into it so why do it at all.” 7:00 Gaetan tells us about his upbringing in a military family, their travels together and his love of road tripping across Canada. 11:15 Gaetan talks about some of his amazing experiences in the Gulf War, during his 10 years in the Canadian Military as a Navy Diver and Communication Specialist. 20:30 Gaetan talks about his short career playing hockey in Kingston, Ontario and how hockey and any team sport training transfers to everything in life, working together with a common goal. The way we do one thing in life is the way we do all things in life. “Every amazing leader has to have the ability to follow.” 26:15 An important point that Gaetan learned in a Junior Leadership Course while in the military was to take care of your people and to trust your people in delegation. 29:45 Gaetan tells us what it is about The Bucket List Life that he was drawn to and why he decided to be come an Ambassador for the movement. “It’s amazing how your life can change by just changing one aspect of it.” 32:30 Kenyon and Gaetan talk about the amazing power of social media and how in the Team Bucket List Life Private Membership Facebook group posts are incredibly uplifting, inspirational and motivational everyday. 38:15 Gaetan talks about how he stays so positive in life everyday and the power of self talk, starting your day off with the right intentions, mindset and goals. 45:00 Even though his bucket list may change daily, Gaetan says that once he’s decided that he wants to do something, he doesn’t wait, he takes action and starts to make it happen immediately. 48:00 Kenyon acknowledges that Gaetan exudes what The Bucket List Life is all about in his willingness to drop everything, travel to be there for a friend and help others accomplish their goals and check off items on their bucket list. “You can’t accomplish everything in life without the help of others.” 51:00 Gaetan shares with us an item on his bucket list: a 50 mile race in on the Great Wall of China next year.

“The clothes that we wear are a reflection of who we are and how we feel inside. On those days when you feel kinda crappy, you tend to choose your sweats and comfy clothes. And on the days you feel like a million dollars, you dress like a million dollars”. - Milena Joy The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #15 - Image Consultant Milena Joy (https://thebucketlistlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Milena-Joy-Ep15.jpg)Image Consultant Milena Joy How we feel about ourselves and our personal style have everything to do with the image that we project out into the world. You can say so much about who you are, what you do and your personal brand just by wearing the right clothes. For some of us, knowing what to wear to define your image, doesn’t come naturally. Our next guest on The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #15, comes to the rescue and offers a little guidance for us all the next time we look into our closets. Milena Joy is the driven and motivated founder of Milena Distinctive Image Consulting. She is a passionate and spicy, Columbian born business woman that grew up in Minnesota. Milena has co-authored books as a personal brand expert and she is dedicated to helping her clients simplify their lives while inspiring their style. She met Kenyon on Facebook in perfect timing as he was just looking to upgrade his style and personal brand. Highlights from their podcast conversation: 6:15 Kenyon asks Milena to share her story of being adopted from Columbia when she was 2 years old. 8:00 With a January 1st birthday, Milena talks about her love of the holidays and appreciation of family time together. 10:15 Milena talks about her upbringing and how nature versus nurture has influenced who she is today. “Instead of thinking about things that could go wrong, think about all the things that could go right!” 15:30 Milena talks about all the things she thought about that could go right when she stepped out of her comfort zone and decided to pursue higher education instead of working in a job that she didn’t love. She was very passionate about her desire to wake up every morning and truly love her career. 22:00 Milena explains the whirl wind rocky road that led her from college, to Colorado, in and out of a marriage, to a life coach and to her dream career as a successful and sought after professional Image Consultant. Milena says that the dissolution of her marriage was the best and worst thing that happened to her. It was a major side step from the life she had planned, but it was what she needed to make the leap and go ‘all in’ to a life career that she had only before imagined. 29:30 Jumping to the present, Milena tells us about the success of her hugely popular business and personal brand. As half stylist, half psychologist, Milena describes how great it feels to inspire people to see themselves differently and help change their lives. “The clothes that we wear are a reflection of who we are and how we feel inside. On those days when you feel kinda crappy, you tend to choose your sweats and comfy clothes. And on the days you feel like a million dollars, you dress like a million dollars”. 31:30 With over 750 clients, Milena also works with a lot of businesses and does presentations to help the employees project the image of the company as well as define their own personal image. She also mentors other aspiring image consultant in developing their own business. 33:30 Milena helps Kenyon out with his fashion faux pas and gives him, and men in general, a couple basic guidelines to adhere to when considering their personal style. 35:30 When it comes to buying clothes, Milena believes in quality over quantity and that a ‘bargain’ and something ‘expensive’ are both relative words compared to whether or not you will use the clothes and the way they make you look and feel. Smart shopping means knowing what to spend your money on, what’s worth investing in and how to build a wardrobe you love.

“There will be people along the way in your life who will spark something in you that will take you to the next level. …. And you might not recognize it right away, but in a lot of those cases you’ll look back and realize that you were there to serve a...

“Life Transitions are scary but everything in life worth fighting for is difficult and you have to go thru the pain and the heartache to get to the other side again. It’s all the trial and tribulations in life that help you to figure out who you are.” - Danielle Kinch The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #13 -  Paragliding Instructor Danielle Kinch On the road of life, with all of the peaks and valleys, twists and turns it can be challenging to navigate on our journey alone.  The important thing to remember is that we each have our own individual path and that no one’s road is flat or straight.  Throughout all transitions in life, those that find their way after having been lost would almost all agree that some of the most traumatizing events that happen in our lives are the best things that happen in our lives. Today’s guest on lucky number 13 of The Bucket List Life Podcast is an adventurous, courageous and powerful female force of nature.  She has been paragliding for the past 7 years and has travelled to 15 plus countries with the sport. With over 2,000 successful flights in her life and reaching the podium in competition, she now teaches 100’s of students as an Instructor at Torrey Pines Gliderport Flight School in La Jolla, California. She is a business savvy feminine tomboy that has lots to share about overcoming the curve balls of life. Highlights from their podcast conversation: 6:00     Danielle talks about growing up as a physical, courageous and typical tomboy and how she also embraces her femininity and can flip the switch from a rough and dirty paragliding instructor to a lady in only moments in the gliderport washroom. 9:00     Danielle says that people are her passion and although she went to school for sociology, Kenyon and her both agree that the airport is the best possible place to people watch and study people from all walks of life in their full dynamics of the human emotions. 10:45   Danielle’s life plan out of university was to get married and have children. With the family support and encouragement, being a mom was the only thing that she knew that she wanted in life. She married the man of her dreams and after that her marriage fell apart, her dreams and aspirations quickly disintegrated. Her new life plan? “Oh shit!” “To walk away from someone you love, from every depth of your soul, is the most challenging and hardest thing for me to do personally.  But just because you can love someone to those depths, doesn’t mean that it’s healthy or self-serving.” 16:45   Kenyon acknowledges this scary place of being in between life plans.  When you think you know the road you are on and find yourself not only on the wrong road, but lost.  A lot of people really fear this place.  Danielle acknowledges that “it was scary but everything in life worth fighting for is difficult and you have to go through the pain and the heartache to get to the other side again. It’s all the trial and tribulations in life that help you to figure out who you are.” 17:30   Danielle clarifies how paragliding had been a hobby and a passion of hers before she met her husband, but it’s not until after her divorce that she thought about turning her passion in to a career. 19:00   In trying to figure out her new life plan, Danielle realized the importance of not putting all her eggs in one basket and having a Plan B.  She spent a year as a student, learning to instruct in paragliding, and also completed her Yoga Instructor Certification. 28:00   Danielle explains the importance of site analysis and a self analysis before a flight and how it plays a role in our decision making process. Taking a step outside of yourself and being able to take a look at a situation analytically, whether it’s before a flight or in life, isn’t easy for everyone.  Being able to analyze all aspects of the spectrum, takes a lot of practice but it’s an important aspect in avoiding potential hazards and fatal complacency.

“Everyone has something unique to offer that they can do and materialize in their life.  Find your passion and follow it.” - Dave Collier The Bucket List Life Podcast #12 -  Entrepreneur Dave Collier The utopian idea of loving what you do and doing what you love seems almost a fantasy for some people.  For some of us struggling through a mundane work week that is unfulfilling and draining, it can be challenging to see the road to get to where you love Mondays again.  Today’s podcast episode # 12 of The Bucket List Life, is with an ex-Pro Snowboarder who decided to follow his passion and go down that scary road in pursuit of his dreams. Dave Collier took his fun experiences in life and designed a lifestyle brand around what he knows and loves. He is now a successful entrepreneur running a print shop called Ink Floyd out of Charlotte, North Carolina. His business endeavors have thrived because he was driven, focused and believed in what he was doing. He also has a great story behind his brand and he actively promotes his customers in social media.  Dave shares some great advice and insight  with Kenyon about how he turned his passion and his lifestyle into a successful brand and business. Highlights from their podcast conversation: 3:30     Kenyon wants to know how Dave typically starts his day.  Dave wakes up each and every morning with an “attitude of gratitude” and starts his day with a positive vibe right out of bed. 6:30     Dave talks about how he transitioned from skateboarding into snowboarding with his brother JJ back in the day, and then went on to become a sponsored athlete and travelled around the world pursing his passion. 12:00   Kenyon and Dave compare their amazing travel and cultural experiences in visiting, living, snowboarding and competing in Japan. 17:30   Dave talks about life after his snowboarding career, how he never really fit into the corporate game and eventually got that entrepreneurial spasm that told him to get out and start something for himself.  Don’t let fear stop you from taking that first step and taking a  chance. Have a plan of attack and lay the ground work. 19:45   Dave shares how his first entrepreneurial venture, Saturday Skateboards, was conceived out of the desire to follow his passion and create a lifestyle brand. Running on instinct, he strived to be different by designing an “un-professional series” and focusing on the cool factor of the whole brand. 25:00   Kenyon points out the importance of telling and individuals story when branding. “People don’t buy products, they buy the people or the brand or the story behind the product.” 26:00   Dave talks about the success of Ink Floyd and how it came about from Saturday Skateboards. 28:15   Kenyon wants to know, “How important is passion in the success with these brands?”.  Dave says it was all about trying to create his own fun working environment and brand where he can also help his customers stand out in a crowd. 31:00   Dave and Kenyon agree that not everyone realizes that being a successful entrepreneur means that you have to be willing to where a lot of different hats in the beginning.  It requires a lot of work, focus, tenacity and believing in yourself and what you are doing.  There are always going to be challenges that put you into survival mode and sometimes you have to battle unsurmountable odds that put stress on your business and family life, in pursuit of your passion. 36:00   Why are entrepreneurs willing to take bigs risks in life?  Dave suggests that if you are not happy with what you are doing and looking forward to Monday then the greater risk is that you are not living the authentic life you were meant to. 40:00   Kenyon acknowledges that the magic sauce in Ink Floyd is that “they always try to be more”.  Dave agrees that what he really tries to drive home with his team is that “they are only as good as their brand experience.”  “Everyday should be Saturday!”

“Each and every one of us deserves to love and be loved.” - PK Smith The Bucket List Life Podcast #11 - Evolved Economy Leader PK Smith Todays guest on The Bucket List Life Podcast #11 is an expert in Co-creation and the Evolved Economy, Relationships, Leadership Mentoring and a devoted Founder of Impact Malawi, helping to make a real difference half way around the world.  As a Police Chaplin in Brockville, Ontario, PK Smith helps families grieve the loss of a loved one, officers cope with PTSD and married couples find the strength to stay together.  PK is well aware of the importance of having support and someone safe to talk to in stressful times in our lives.   Kenyon and PK know each other from their work together in the evolved economy and Kenyon boasts that PK’s energy is always happy, exuberant and infectious.  With a successful marriage to his college sweetheart of 31 years, PK has a lot of wisdom to share with us about finding true love, staying together in a relationship and making it work. Highlights from their podcast conversation: 2:45     PK takes us way back to his basketball dreams at the age of 9, in 1974, in southern Nova Scotia. 6:00  PK tells us why he is very passionate about supporting people of uniform and the Wounded Warriors Project. 7:30  PK is very proud to be Canadian and he shares his thoughts on the recent shootings at the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa. 12:45   Kenyon asks if it’s possible to always be happy?  PK responds by saying that happiness is too fleeting and is not his goal in life.  He aims for achieving fulfillment in all that he does. 15:00   PK tells us the story of how he met, fell in love with and has been happily married to his college sweetheart for 31 years now.   He says, “Our goal wasn’t to be happily married all the time, it was to stay married.  Sometimes happiness was beyond the situation we were in.” 22:00   PK describes his position as the Police Chaplin for the Brockville Police Service for 12 years and the extreme importance of personnel in the service having someone safe that they can talk to in confidence about their high stress life. 24:30 PK describes his mentoring as helping individuals or couples remember and reconnect with their own true values and ideals. 26:15   PK actually helps couples break up and detach from one another in an amicable way when they have decided that their relationship is no longer working for them. 28:30   Kenyon asks what someone should do if they are thinking of breaking up with their partner and PK suggest that they should, “Put it on the back burner and put a pin in it.  If it’s the right decision, it will be the right decision in 90 days.”  A lot can change in 90 days and PK discourages anyone from making life changing decisions hastily based on a very short season in their lives. 33:00   PK defines for us exactly what an “Evolved Economy” is and insists that we are all already apart of it.  He describes how he councils couples in their involvement with an Evolved Economy. 37:00   Kenyon asks, “How do you attract the right person into your life?”  PK’s response is to be authentic and honest about who you are today and the person you are going to be in the future.  Too many people don’t consider the future version of a person when they are dating. 42:00   PK talks about the series of events that led to him founding Impact Malawi 9 years ago, and how he became a Malawian. 52:00   What’s on PK’s Bucket List?   Currently he has no needs and has already personified his dreams with the Evolved Economy and Impact Malawi so he plans on continuing to build generational wealth for his family for the rest of his life.  He also would like to one day pursue a  water project on Lake Malawi. 56:30   PK leaves us with the reminder of how very important the relationship in our lives are.  He insists that if you are not already in love with someone you must decide today to love and let yourself be loved by someone in your future.

“While the unknown is scary, it’s so much more rewarding and satisfying in that we can discover things about ourselves that might otherwise be untapped and undiscovered if we always choose that path of least resistance and of promised security down the road.” - Andrew Fraser The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #10 - Adventurist Andrew Fraser (https://thebucketlistlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Andrew-Fraser-Ep10.jpg) We all have amazing lives and stories to share that are sure to motivate and inspire.  Although most of us may live ordinary lives, there is something extraordinary about each and every one of us.  For those, that have chosen to live a life less ordinary and take the road less travelled, the world is waiting to hear of their discoveries.   There is an abundance of adventure, experience, wisdom and knowledge to be gained on the other side of the unknown and our comfort zone. Todays guest on episode #10 of The Bucket List Life Podcast is no stranger to adventure.  He has chosen to live a life of traveling around the world, exciting adventure, constantly learning and following his heart. Andrew Fraser is a Youth Leader, a Public Speaker, a Teacher, a Yogi and an avid Skydiver and Wingsuit Pilot.  Kenyon met Andrew while they were skydiving a couple years ago and got to know each other very personally when Kenyon asked the question, “Tell me something not many people know about you?”.  Andrew’s response to that inquiry was genuine, authentic, enthralling and sparked a brotherly connection and understanding that is still strong today. Andrew’s life experiences are both mind boggling and horrific and as a proficient story teller he has a powerful and potent message to share about following your passion and living a life less ordinary. Highlights of their podcast conversation: 6:00    Andrew takes us back to growing up in the great outdoors of Littleton, Colorado when he was seven years old. 10:00  The question is asked: Are parents too over protective now-a-days?  Are the creative outlets of today’s children being stifled from too many rules and regulation meant to protect them? 14:45  Andrew explains, from a teachers perspective, how we are losing the creativity needed to problem solve and fostering a learned dependency on technology. 20:00  Andrew describes his quest for adventure and the incredible road less travelled that he chose to take that answers the question, “How does someone get the job of walking a Puma named Roy, for 8 hours a day?” 32:00  Andrew continues talking about his amazing travels and life adventures and tells us how he ended up in Bosnia sidestepping land mines as a renegade tourist.  He says “Just say YES to travel. Figure out the details later.” 41:00  Andrew acknowledges and tries to explain why the conventional path and way of living may not be for him. He says it’s more satisfying to chase dreams than prepare for retirement. His stories and memories are invaluable and can never be taken from him. 44:00  Andrew talks about his first hand experience as a junior in high school and dreadful recount of the Columbine School Shootings in Littleton, Colorado 1999. From this experience, he learned at the age of 17, that nothing is guaranteed in life and he emerged with a strong resolve to get living his own life fast. 53:00  The question is asked:  Are you asking the right questions to the people around you for them to really open up and share a part of themselves?  Do you really even know your friends on a deeper level?  Ask them about their passion, desire, dreams and challenges in life and you will start to see them for who they really are. 54:15  What’s on Andrew’s Bucket List? His aspirations have shifted over the years from an external adventure to more of an internal introspection.  His goals are more focused on soul searching for a way to preserve his stories for prosperity with the intent on giving back and helping others transform.

“After all of the challenges that I’ve been through, I’m really glad it all happened and it was the determining factor in the way I live my life today.” - Dave Retzlaff The Bucket List Life Podcast #9 - Dave Retzlaff (https://thebucketlistlife.com/wp...

“Look back to your childhood, that is where you will find your true nature.  Approach your life with that energy.” - Kajan Johnson The Bucket List Life Podcast Episode #8 -  UFC Fighter Kajan Johnson Most of us have never been in a serious fight in...

“I think my life would be very different today…had those things not happened. I wouldn't be the person that I am today AND since I actually like that person a lot, I have to say that everything turned out perfectly and the way it was meant to.” - Lani ...