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Coffee With Garrett Aune
Season 2
Published 2 years, 11 months ago
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Karen Key Smith has the amazing Garrett Aune on the show to talk about his exciting adventure to Mount Everest base camp. Karen and Garrett discuss the importance of pursuing your dreams and not making excuses. Garrett shares how he found a new passion in climbing after being unable to continue 24-hour endurance races. Karen surprises Garrett with a check from Beachy Beach to help fund his trip, which he decides to donate to Heartland Rescue Ranch.Main takeaways:
Resources:Heartland Rescue Ranch
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And don't forget to use the hashtag #BeSweetYall!The show's theme song is "Tropical Sun" by Uppbeat, provided free for creators with a license code of SYC1UZMPYY5BQTHZ. The show is written and recorded by Karen Smith, with post-production and show notes by Ashley Feller.Coffee With Garrett Aune Karen: Thank you for waking up with Happy Ass, where we come together in mind, body, and spirit so we can in turn, go out and make the world a brighter and sweeter place to live. I have the most amazing human with me, Garrett. How do you say your last name?Garrett Aune: Garrett. Aune.Karen: Aune. Yes ma'am.Karen: The amazing Garrett. A lot of adjectives describe you. I have you on here today because this whole week we're talking about excuses. We're talking about just grabbing life and doing what you're put here to do, and you've got a super exciting adventure ahead of you! Tell everybody what you're doing, where you're going, and what it's all about.Garrett Aune: Okay. I am leaving to travel over to Nepal and the Himalayan mountains to go to Mount Everest base camp. It's the bottom of Mount Everest. I'd like to summit it next year, but before going to the top of the bottom of the mountain, I figured I'd better get to the bottom of it first. It's an eight-day trek, so it takes eight days of trekking to get there, and then it takes four days to get back. Everybody says I lost the bottom of the mountain. That's no big deal. The bottom of the mountain is still 18,000 feet tall, and 18,000 feet is about 3000 feet taller than the tallest mountain in North America. So it's still up there pretty high.Karen: That's crazy. And you've done climbing before, right?Garrett Aune: Yes, ma'am. I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro four years ago now. So this is the next step in my evolution. If you can get to the top of Mount Everest, it's about the most insane thing we can do on this earth. So that's my goal, see what happens.Karen: What in the world propelled you to want to do this?Garrett Aune: I used to do a lot of 24-hour and 48-hour endurance races. I'm getting a little bit older, so my body can't do some of the things that I used to do back in the day. So instead of just giving up and quitting, I found something else I can do. So I can't go fast anymore, but I can go slow and I can go for long periods of time. Climbing metals, tracking metals, things like that. I thought, that's the next thing I could do is really push myself to the limit.Karen: You know what's really cool about that? I am always the happiest when I'm climbing mountains. My mother used to always say that you just love climbing mountains. I do. And what I love to do and you do the same is I wanna bring other people with me. To the top of the mountain. And I saw this girl, I told you I saw this girl in the gym yesterday had a shirt that said Age is no excuse and that just fired me up because you're not
- Pursue your dreams and don't make excuses
- Giving to others can bring joy and fulfillment
- Today is the only day you've got, so make the most of it
Resources:Heartland Rescue Ranch
The Lucky Puppy Rescue
And don't forget to use the hashtag #BeSweetYall!The show's theme song is "Tropical Sun" by Uppbeat, provided free for creators with a license code of SYC1UZMPYY5BQTHZ. The show is written and recorded by Karen Smith, with post-production and show notes by Ashley Feller.Coffee With Garrett Aune Karen: Thank you for waking up with Happy Ass, where we come together in mind, body, and spirit so we can in turn, go out and make the world a brighter and sweeter place to live. I have the most amazing human with me, Garrett. How do you say your last name?Garrett Aune: Garrett. Aune.Karen: Aune. Yes ma'am.Karen: The amazing Garrett. A lot of adjectives describe you. I have you on here today because this whole week we're talking about excuses. We're talking about just grabbing life and doing what you're put here to do, and you've got a super exciting adventure ahead of you! Tell everybody what you're doing, where you're going, and what it's all about.Garrett Aune: Okay. I am leaving to travel over to Nepal and the Himalayan mountains to go to Mount Everest base camp. It's the bottom of Mount Everest. I'd like to summit it next year, but before going to the top of the bottom of the mountain, I figured I'd better get to the bottom of it first. It's an eight-day trek, so it takes eight days of trekking to get there, and then it takes four days to get back. Everybody says I lost the bottom of the mountain. That's no big deal. The bottom of the mountain is still 18,000 feet tall, and 18,000 feet is about 3000 feet taller than the tallest mountain in North America. So it's still up there pretty high.Karen: That's crazy. And you've done climbing before, right?Garrett Aune: Yes, ma'am. I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro four years ago now. So this is the next step in my evolution. If you can get to the top of Mount Everest, it's about the most insane thing we can do on this earth. So that's my goal, see what happens.Karen: What in the world propelled you to want to do this?Garrett Aune: I used to do a lot of 24-hour and 48-hour endurance races. I'm getting a little bit older, so my body can't do some of the things that I used to do back in the day. So instead of just giving up and quitting, I found something else I can do. So I can't go fast anymore, but I can go slow and I can go for long periods of time. Climbing metals, tracking metals, things like that. I thought, that's the next thing I could do is really push myself to the limit.Karen: You know what's really cool about that? I am always the happiest when I'm climbing mountains. My mother used to always say that you just love climbing mountains. I do. And what I love to do and you do the same is I wanna bring other people with me. To the top of the mountain. And I saw this girl, I told you I saw this girl in the gym yesterday had a shirt that said Age is no excuse and that just fired me up because you're not