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1KHO 735: Walking a Road With Very Few Footprints | Amanda Lancaster, A Time to Be Born Mar 11, 2026

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In this deeply moving conversation, Ginny Yurich sits down with author, mother, and midwife Amanda Lancaster to talk about what it looks like to build a life around the things that matter most: birth, family, faith, food, home, and the kind of community that carries people through both joy and hardship. Drawing from her memoir A Time to Be Born, Amanda shares a beautiful vision of sustainable relationships, generational wisdom, home-centered life, and the bonds that happen when people are truly available to one another. It’s a tender, thoughtful episode about motherhood, courage, belonging, and the longing so many of us feel for a more rooted way to live.

Learn more about Amanda at her website and Instagram, and find her book A Time to Be Born here.

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1KHO 734: Resist the Temptation of Security | William Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep Mar 10, 2026

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This conversation with William Deresiewicz, author of the bestselling Excellent Sheep, gets to the heart of a question so many families are quietly carrying: what does it actually mean for a child to flourish? Ginny and Bill talk about the way college admissions can cast a shadow backward over all of childhood, turning kids into performers instead of people, and why playtime, downtime, family time, books, boredom, risk, and real freedom are not extras but essentials. It’s a deeply thoughtful episode about stepping off the treadmill, resisting fear-based parenting, and giving children the space to become fully themselves.

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1KHO 732: Anxiety Can Be the Biggest Challenge in a Person’s Life | Dr. Russell Kennedy, Anxiety Rx Mar 09, 2026

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In this deeply personal and illuminating conversation, Ginny Yurich sits down with Dr. Russell Kennedy—author of the bestselling book Anxiety Rxand the founder of The Anxiety MD —to explore why anxiety has become one of the defining struggles of our time. Drawing from decades as both a physician and someone who personally battled crippling anxiety, Dr. Kennedy explains why so many traditional approaches fall short and why lasting healing requires addressing not just the mind, but the body and the old wounds stored within it. Together they discuss the rising anxiety rates in children, the powerful role of connection and touch, the hidden addictive nature of worry, and practical ways to calm the body’s alarm system and reconnect with the present moment. This thoughtful conversation offers hope and clarity for anyone who has ever felt trapped in their own mind.

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1KHO 732: Stories That Shape a Life | Geoff and Janet Benge, Benge Books Mar 08, 2026

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Books entertain us but they also build us into the people we are. This conversation with Geoff and Janet Benge is about the kind of books that can change a family for good. In this warm and deeply encouraging episode, Ginny talks with the husband-and-wife team behind the bestselling Christian Heroes Then and Now and Heroes of History series about how true stories form courage, imagination, resilience, and faith, often in ways we don’t even notice until years later. Their own story is remarkable too: two unlikely writers from New Zealand—one dyslexic, one once in remedial reading—who went on to write dozens of biographies that have shaped readers around the world. This episode is a beautiful reminder that shared reading is never just educational; it becomes part of the fabric of a home.

Explore their books at Benge Books and YWAM Publishing, and check out their teaching work through Epic Learning.

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1KHO 731: Protein Changes Everything | Rachael DeVaux, The High-Protein Plate Mar 07, 2026

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Protein isn’t just for athletes or people tracking macros, it’s one of the simplest ways to feel fuller, steadier, and more energized in everyday life, and this conversation with registered dietitian, certified personal trainer, and bestselling cookbook author Rachael DeVaux makes that feel wonderfully doable. In this episode of The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, Ginny Yurich talks with Rachael about why so many women and families feel stuck in the snack spiral, how front-loading protein can calm cravings and cut decision fatigue, and why healthy eating works best when it’s practical, satisfying, and genuinely enjoyable. If dinner has felt like one more exhausting thing to figure out, this episode is a breath of fresh air—and The High-Protein Plate and Rachael’s work at Rachael’s Good Eats offer the kind of approachable help busy families actually need.

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1KHO 730: Get Your Light Right | Sarah Kleiner Wellness Mar 06, 2026

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Sarah Kleiner joins Ginny Yurich for a fascinating conversation about why so many modern health struggles may have less to do with willpower and more to do with rhythm—light, sleep, hormones, timing, and the simple healing power of getting outside. Sarah shares her deeply personal story, the long road that led her into circadian and quantum health, and the small changes that helped her body begin to heal when nothing else seemed to work. This episode is thoughtful, hopeful, and practical—especially for parents who want to understand how morning light, screens, meal timing, and outdoor life shape energy, mood, metabolism, and overall well-being. Explore Sarah’s work at Sarah Kleiner Wellness, read her Substack, and learn more about MyCircadian App .

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1KHO 729: Give Children Freedom to Learn Without Coercion | Kerry McDonald, Joyful Learning Mar 05, 2026

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Kerry McDonald makes a calm, compelling case for something many parents can feel but struggle to name: kids don’t need more pressure—they need more trust. In this conversation with Ginny Yurich on The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, Kerry (author of Unschooled and Joyful Learning, and host of the LiberatED Podcast) unpacks how modern schooling became increasingly standardized—and why families are steadily walking toward homeschooling, microschools, hybrid models, and learner-led environments that bring curiosity back to the center. You’ll hear why “seat time” and one-size-fits-all metrics can miss what matters most, what joyful learning actually looks like in real life, and how freedom—paired with meaningful community—can turn education from compliance into aliveness. (Explore Kerry’s writing at Forbes and The 74.)

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1KHO 728: Choose to Be Free | Jennie Allen, The Lie You Don't Know You Believe Mar 04, 2026

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Jennie Allen is back on The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, and this conversation goes straight for the thing most of us can’t name—but feel every day: the hidden “core lie” running beneath our thoughts. With warmth, honesty, and that signature Jennie clarity, she helps us spot the patterns that keep showing up (striving, spiraling, numbing, isolating), trace them back to what we’re really believing, and start fighting for actual freedom—especially because our kids are absorbing more than we realize. You’ll hear the three core lies that tend to drive us (worthless, helpless, unlovable), why “trying harder” is a trap that burns you out, and why surrender can be the most practical, clear-headed path forward.

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1KHO 727: We Deserve Better Than Netflix | Michaeleen Doucleff, Dopamine Kids Mar 03, 2026

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We weren’t built to live in a constant state of “what’s next.” Yet that low-grade restless hum has become normal in modern family life. In her third appearance on The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, Michaeleen Doucleff — author of Hunt, Gather, Parent — returns with a powerful conversation about her new book Dopamine Kids and the science behind why screens and ultraprocessed foods leave us chasing instead of satisfied. This episode unpacks the overdrive of wanting, the illusion of pleasure, and the practical shifts that can help you take back the steering wheel of your home. Less frantic scrolling. Less food noise. More calm. More creation. More real joy. We deserve better than Netflix.

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1KHO 726: Deliberate Rest | Alex Pang, Rest Mar 02, 2026

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Ginny Yurich sits down with writer and researcher Alex Soojung-Kim Pang to reclaim something our culture keeps treating like a reward: real rest. Drawing from Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less and his work on the four-day workweek, Alex makes the case that rest isn’t what you do after life finally calms down—it’s the engine that makes good work, good parenting, and a good life possible. You’ll hear why history’s most creative people didn’t grind nonstop (they worked in focused bursts, then walked, napped, played, and protected their attention), why shorter workweeks tend to make people more present and “ridiculously wholesome,” and why kids’ independence and unscheduled time are not luxuries but developmental fuel. This conversation will make you want to put your phone down, step outside, and start building a life where work and rest are equals on purpose.

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