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Interests

I'm interested in just about any outdoor adventure - I'm a water-baby at heart - I grew up waterskiing within eyeshot of the mist off the Niagara Falls starting at 6 years old - so I love wakeboarding, river kayaking, rafting, snorkeling, (attempting) kiteboarding, (and soon to be going canyoning in Bavaria in the fall).

I've rock climbed, gone hang gliding and paragliding, caving, rapelling,... always looking to stretch my comfort zone!

I adore Crossfit, but am out of the game at the moment b/c of a busted shoulder I'm working on.

I'm a foodie at heart - love to cook, love to eat!! And enjoy pushing my comfort zone on trying different foods.

Currently, I'm learning Python computer programming - I've built my first program. I would like develop that skill set well enough to be my own business technical co-founder, to be able to rough prototype out any business ideas I have (am a born entrepreneur).

And of course, I love, love, love to travel - anywhere, anytime!! My last few trips are a month spent in Paris, a 2 week service trip at a school in Port Antonio, Jamaica, an end run through NYC, a couple of weeks at the south Jersey shore, 2 months of skiing in NV, a week in Isla Mujeres, Mexico, and then my dad and I just got back from a 4500 mile Route 66 road trip from Santa Monica, CA to Chicago, IL.

My Big Hairy Audacious Goal:
"To build the world’s largest, evolving repository of the vast wealth of human skills for the purpose of unleashing the vast untapped human potential."

• cooking
• running
• crossfit
• traveling
• outdoor activities
• kayaking
• spelunking
• snorkeling
• skiing
• wakeboarding
• hang gliding
• paragliding
• business
• entrepreneurship

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS:

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

Flow by Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi

The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz

The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch

The E-Myth by Michael E. Gerber

Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez

The Tao of Leadership

The Four Agreements by Don Miquel Ruiz

The Five Levels of Attachment by Don Miquel Ruiz Jr

The Dip by Seth Godin (anything he writes!!)

Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill

The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss

Do One Thing Different by Bill O'Hanlon

Awaken the Giant Within - Anthony Robbins

The 2000% Solution by Don Mitchell

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

Multiple Streams of Income by Robert G. Allen

The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason

MOVIES:

The Pursuit of Happyness

Bridges of Madison County

Stranger than Fiction

Amelie

One Week

A Lot Like Love

Meet Joe Black

Million Dollar Baby

Across the Universe

MUSIC:

I like a lot of everything - a quickie list of some of my favorites off the top of my head

Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill

Adele - Rolling in the Deep

B.O.B. feat. Haley Williams - Airplanes, Die Anterwood - Enter the Ninja, Usher - DJ's Got Us Fallin' in Love, Katie Perry - Teenage Dream, Sexion D'assaut - Desole, and Hurts - Wonderful Life (kept playing on German MTV til I couldn't forget 'em and they defined my trip!!)

Bee Gees - Night Fever (yes, I love the Bee Gee's!! lol)

Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine

Bob Seger - Roll Me Away - "I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide..."

Box of Frogs - Back Where I Started

Climax Blues Band - I Love You

Collective Soul - The World I Know

Credence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen Rain

Delbert McClinton - Miss You Fever

Donny Iris - Ah Leah

Enya - anything - getting my Celtic fix

Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry (cuz their tough!)

James Taylor - Going to Carolina (memories of my college years in NC)

Jane's Addiction - Jane Says

Jewel - You Were Meant for Me (part of the soundtrack to my year living in Oregon)

John Mellencamp - anything! Midwest boy bringing it

Kiss - Beth

Led Zeppelin - Thank You ("our" song)

Louis Armstrong - C'est Si Bon

Marvin Gaye - Let's Get it On

Nelly - Over and Over

Nirvana

The Left Banke - Just Walk Away, Renee

Pink

REM - anything!!

Rolling Stones - Wild Horses

The Allman Brothers Band - Melissa

The Honeydrippers - Sea of Love (little known Robert Plant)

Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying (life's theme song)

Countries I’ve Visited

Antigua and Barbuda, Austria, Bahamas, Canada, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Jamaica, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, British, Virgin Islands, U.S.