#45 Life, Death and Climbing with Madaleine Sorkin and Henna Taylor

A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World

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#45 Life, Death and Climbing with Madaleine Sorkin and Henna Taylor

Anya Kaats

Mar 09, 2020

Henna and Madaleine are the founders of The Climbing Grief Fund, created to evolve the conversation around grief and trauma in the climbing, alpinism and ski mountaineering community and connect individuals to effective mental health professionals and resources. Our conversation touches on the nuanced and complex nature of this project in particular and broadens the discussion to include our thoughts on the duality of life/death, grief/love and loss/gratitude.

Find out more about The Climbing Grief Fund.

Henna and Madaleine's Book Recommendations: The Overstory by Richard Powers and The Trauma of Everyday Life by Mark Epstein

Poem featured: "Everything is Waiting for You" by David Whyte

Songs featured: "Friends are Lost" by Mike Howe and "Orson Welles" by Joe Henry

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A Millennial's Guide to Saving the World

I started this podcast because I was tired of being stereotyped as lazy, triggered and entitled. I wanted to give voice to a different kind of millennial and invite us to write a new story - one of a generation willing to challenge the status quo, embrace nuance and paradox, and reject PC-culture. This podcast isn’t about finding answers, it’s about asking the right questions. How can we reinvent ourselves and the narratives we’ve been expected to inherit? How can we take ownership over the ways we participate in our own suffering? How can we move beyond victimization and into empowerment? How can we fix ourselves to fix the world? It’s time for new dreams, new stories and new futures…

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