(#5) River Guide Ty Smith: Navigating Life's White Water, Lost Submarines
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Ty Smith, has a calm, warm demeanor that suits him. When someone teaches what to do when white water meets the unexpected, that's the kind of guy you want. But Ty was impacting lives long before he graduated university with a masters in Environmental Science. Before he started guiding people down dangerous rivers, he guided a 7-year-old boy down a path to appreciate the outdoors and what it meant to be woodsy. As a role model at Canada's Camp Hurontario, he became known as the counselor of counselors.
Today, Ty’s a white water rescue trainer who teaches people conservation by guiding them down some of the world’s most amazing waterways from Quebec’s Magpie River to the Futaleufu River in Chile. His perspectives, values and approach have a calming Zen that belies the importance of their message.
These are Ty Smith's lessons:
2:22 Power of a handshake
4:21 Counselor of counselors
11:24 A close call
16:37 Being weird in the best possible way
18:10 Hunt for Red October
23:39 What's it mean to be woodsy
26:54 Ty the artist
28:45 3 core values
30:32 Jaw-dropping river expeditions
33:09 Mission of Earth River
35:37 Rivers known as a person
40:40 Impacting the environment with rafting
Ty Smith Credits ...
1. Selfless, Tough and True:
The Program: Lessons From Elite Military Units for Creating and Sustaining High Performance Leaders and Teams
Eric Kapitulik and Jake MacDonald
https://www.theprogram.org/our-book
https://www.artofmanliness.com/career-wealth/leadership/podcast-561-get-with-the-program/
2. Strength and Warmth:
Compelling People: The Hidden Qualities That Make Us Influential
John Neffinger and Matthew Kohut
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/16158501-compelling-people
https://www.artofmanliness.com/people/social-skills/how-to-be-more-compelling/
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