The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast
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The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast
The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast is the megaphone for the global 1000 Hours Outside movement, created to help people embrace hands-on living in a tech-saturated world. Hosted by bestselling author and founder Ginny Yurich, each episode explores the countercultural idea that kids - and adults - thrive...
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1KHO 739: Hope for the Hard Road | Brittany Price Brooker
Brittany Price Brooker never imagined becoming a widow at 25 with three boys under the age of three, but what followed is a story of grief, resilience...
1KHO 738: You Are Not Ruining Your Kids | Abbey Wedgeworth, Help! I'm Ruining My Kids
In this honest and deeply comforting conversation, Ginny Yurich sits down with author Abbey Wedgeworth to talk about the hidden shame so many mothers...
1KHO 737: Friendship Is Eroding | Dr. Tracy Brower, Critical Connections
In this thoughtful and surprisingly hopeful conversation, Ginny Yurich sits down with sociologist Dr. Tracy Brower to talk about why so many people fe...
1KHO 736: Surprise Stretches Time | Dan Heath, The Power of Moments
Dan Heath has spent his career helping people think more clearly about change, decisions, and what makes life memorable, and in this conversation with...
1KHO 735: Walking a Road With Very Few Footprints | Amanda Lancaster, A Time to Be Born
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...
1KHO 734: Resist the Temptation of Security | William Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep
This conversation with William Deresiewicz, author of the bestselling Excellent Sheep, gets to the heart of a question so many families are quietly ca...
1KHO 732: Anxiety Can Be the Biggest Challenge in a Person’s Life | Dr. Russell Kennedy, Anxiety Rx
In this deeply personal and illuminating conversation, Ginny Yurich sits down with Dr. Russell Kennedy—author of the bestselling book Anxiety Rx and...
1KHO 732: Stories That Shape a Life | Geoff and Janet Benge, Benge Books
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 cha...
1KHO 731: Protein Changes Everything | Rachael DeVaux, The High-Protein Plate
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...
1KHO 730: Get Your Light Right | Sarah Kleiner Wellness
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...
1KHO 729: Give Children Freedom to Learn Without Coercion | Kerry McDonald, Joyful Learning
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 tr...
1KHO 728: Choose to Be Free | Jennie Allen, The Lie You Don't Know You Believe
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: th...
1KHO 727: We Deserve Better Than Netflix | Michaeleen Doucleff, Dopamine Kids
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 a...
1KHO 726: Deliberate Rest | Alex Pang, Rest
Ginny Yurich sits down with writer and researcher Alex Soojung-Kim Pang to reclaim something our culture keeps treating like a reward: real rest. Draw...
1KHO 725: Living Ready | John Bevere, The King is Coming
John Bevere joins host Ginny Yurich on The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast with the kind of story that wakes you up—in the best way: a kid who struggled wi...
1KHO 724: The Long Game of Youth Sports | Britt Lee, Parenting the Pure Athlete
Youth sports can feel like a treadmill you can’t step off—more time, more money, more pressure, and a nagging fear that if you don’t start at age six,...
1KHO 723: Uncertainty Has So Much to Teach Us | Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Tiny Experiments
Anne-Laure Le Cunff—founder of Ness Labs and author of Tiny Experiments—joins Ginny Yurich to offer a freeing alternative to the ladder-climbing, goal...
1KHO 722: We've Sucked the Joy Out of Parenting | Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Dr. Roberta Golinkoff, Einstein Never Used Flashcards
In this warm, science-backed conversation, Ginny Yurich sits down with developmental researchers Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Dr. Roberta Golinkoff—the l...
1KHO 721: Anybody Can Have an Extraordinary Memory | Dr. Majid Fotuhi, The Invincible Brain
Ginny Yurich sits down with neurologist and neuroscientist Dr. Majid Fotuhi to flip the script on what most of us assume about memory: it isn’t someth...
1KHO 720: Kids Do Well If They Can | Dr. Ross Greene, The Kids Who Aren't Okay
Ginny Yurich sits down with Dr. Ross W. Greene to examine a hard truth: if consequences were going to fix chronic behavior challenges, they would have...
1KHO 719: How to Get More Out of Every Step You Take | Michael Easter, Walk With Weight
Michael Easter returns for his third appearance, and this one feels like a relief: a simple way to get stronger, steadier, and more clear-headed witho...
1KHO 718: Digging Up the Details | Amanda Hope Haley, Stones That Speak
Archaeologist and author Amanda Hope Haley joins Ginny Yurich for a conversation that makes the Bible feel both more historically grounded and more al...
1KHO 717: Release the Hope Molecules | Dr. Julia Garcia, The 5 Habits of Hope
Hope isn’t a personality trait—it’s a practice, and Dr. Julia Garcia is here to show us how to build it when life feels heavy. In this honest, energiz...
1KHO 716: The Benefits Trap | Dustin Garrett, Samaritan Ministries
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Healthcare shouldn’t be the thing that decides whether you can take a risk, build a bu...
1KHO 715: Extreme Ownership at Home | Jamie Cochran, Echelon Front
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1KHO 714: Do We Have Free Will in an Algorithmic World? | Kartik Hosanagar, A Human's Guide to Machine Intelligence
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Kartik Hosanagar has been tracking AI long be...
1KHO 713: Disentangling Faith From Fear | Jeremy Vuolo and Jinger Duggar Vuolo, You Always Belong
Jinger Duggar Vuolo grew up in front of millions of viewers on 19 Kids and Counting, raised inside a tightly controlled religious subculture that prom...
1KHO 712: Write It Anyway | Melissa Ferguson, Meet Me in the Margins
Melissa Ferguson is back for her second appearance—and she’s very pregnant, wildly funny, and living proof that dreams don’t arrive on your schedule....
1KHO 711: A Healthy Society Begins With Healthy People | David Stelzer, Azure Standard
Azure Standard founder David Stelzer joins Ginny Yurich for a direct, fascinating conversation about how food quality, farming practices, and communit...
1KHO 710: More Than Marriage | Chelsea Damon, I Thought This Would Make Me Happy
This episode is a little Valentine’s gift with a backstory: Ginny recorded it in 2024 during Chelsea Damon’s launch week—back when her brand-new marri...
1KHO 709: Play Is Practice for the Future | Lauren and Mia Sundstrom, National Institute for Play
Play isn’t a break from learning — it is learning. In this powerful conversation with Lauren and Mia Sundstrom — daughter and granddaughter of renowne...
1KHO 708: When You Want Your Life the Way It Was | Amber Emily Smith, The Girl on the Bathroom Floor
In this tender, unflinching conversation, Ginny Yurich sits down with author Amber Emily Smith to talk about the kind of loss that splits life into “b...
1KHO 707: The Best Bad Option | Brad Thor, Cold Zero
New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor joins Ginny Yurich to talk about his newest novel Cold Zero, a high-stakes Arctic thriller centered on a r...
1KHO 706: Held Hostage By the Food Industry | Dr. Robert Lustig, Metabolical
Dr. Robert Lustig—pediatric endocrinologist, bestselling author, and one of the clearest voices on what’s happened to our food—joins host Ginny Yurich...
1KHO 705: Find Shelter or Die | Ward Larsen, Cold Zero
Ginny Yurich sits down with bestselling thriller writer and longtime airline captain Ward Larsen for a conversation that will make you want to put you...
1KHO 704: Home Should Be the Safest Place on Earth | Stephen McWhirter, Radically Restored
Home is supposed to be where a child can exhale—but for Stephen McWhirter, growing up in a preacher’s family meant watching public faith and private v...
1KHO 703: If Reading is Hard, Everything is Hard | Dr. Janissa Jackson, Learning Rx
Clinical psychologist Dr. Janissa Jackson has spent 20 years evaluating kids and watching childhood change. In this conversation, she explains why rea...
1KHO 702: Sometimes I Have Dirt on My Noodles | Dr. Nicole Cain, Panic Proof
Ginny Yurich sits down with Dr. Nicole Cain—author of Panic Proof—for a conversation that makes anxiety feel less mysterious and a whole lot more work...
1KHO 701: Charismatic Adults | Dr. Robert Brooks, Raising Resilient Children
Harvard-trained psychologist and resilience expert Dr. Robert Brooks has spent decades watching what helps kids thrive and also what breaks them down...
1KHO 700: Mouth Breathing is Terrible | James Nestor, Breath
James Nestor joins host Ginny Yurich on The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast for a conversation that can change how you think about energy, sleep, focus, an...