Replay: Abby Holcombe on Facing Fear and Staying True to Yourself

What do you do when you are the only thing between you and the line you know you can run?

Abby Holcombe, world champion freestyle kayaker, four-time USA national champion, and three-time USA team member, joins Anna Levesque on The Discomfort Zone Podcast to talk about the fear she knows is irrational, but still gets in the way. 

This conversation is a replay, and since it first aired, Abby has joined the Mind Body Paddle team as Content and Marketing Coordinator. We're thrilled for her to join the team, and bring the authenticity, courage, self-awareness and experience you hear in this conversation to our work.

If you have ever talked yourself out of something you were ready for, or spent sometime cry-yaking, this one is for you.

In this episode:

• The three hours Abby spent scouting Lava Falls before she ran it a twelve years old

• Why she hiked her boat into Oh Be Joyful and then hiked back out

• What she started filming after noticing every river beta video she watched was of men

• The mantra she picked up after winning Worlds and getting torn apart on Instagram

• What it was like to live van-life as a kid, and adventure-life as a family

Listen now if you want a reminder of how to get out of your own way and stay true to yourself.