Mind Body Paddle

🎙️ NEW EPISODE!! 🎙️

Ever feel like you need the perfect plan before you can start anything? This conversation might change that.
In this episode of The Discomfort Zone Podcast, Anna sits down with Chris Baer, a raft guide and whitewater kayaker who lives half the year out of a converted school bus and spends his winters chasing first descents in remote corners of the world, often with little more than two weeks’ notice.

This conversation is for anyone who’s ever held back because they didn’t have it all figured out yet.

Anna and Chris dig into: 
🌫️ Why whitewater is “all gray,” and how letting go of rigid rules opens up better decisions 

🧩 How problem-solving on the fly becomes a way of life, on the river and off 

✈️ What happens when you trade a five-year plan for two weeks’ notice and a plane ticket 

👣 Why getting feet on the ground beats overanalyzing every detail in advance

If you’re craving more confidence in navigating the unknown, this one’s worth a listen.

🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!

Chris Baer

Time flies when you’re having fun! 🌊

Anyone else ever go out for quick session of your favorite hobby and lose track of time? 🤪

Community doesn’t just show up for you. You show up for it. 🌊

The question worth asking before you walk into any room — virtual or otherwise — is not “what am I going to get out of this?” It’s “what am I bringing?”

That’s the foundation of real trust. Real connection. Real community.

The MBP Community is full of women who get that. Come be one of them. 💙

Link in bio. 🎟️

If you want to get better at playboating, the Ottawa River needs to be on your list. 🌊

Here’s why:
🌊 The features are world class. The Ottawa has some of the most consistent, forgiving, and fun playboating waves and holes anywhere in the world — perfect for learning.

🌊 It’s the perfect place to build real confidence. Big enough to push you. Forgiving enough to let you try things, fall, and try again without consequence.

🌊 The community is electric. Playboaters from around the world come to paddle the Ottawa — the energy alone will make you want to throw moves you’ve never tried before.

🌊 You’ll leave a different paddler. That’s just what the Ottawa does.

Come find out for yourself. 💙

Register now for Confidence, Flow & Fun on the Ottawa Link in bio to learn more and join us. 🎟️





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I’m done empowering women…

After 25 years of building a brand around “empowering women,” I’m retiring the phrase.

Not because the mission changed. Because the language stopped being honest enough.

🎙️ In this week’s solo episode, I share the perspective shift that stopped me in my tracks — sparked by the book Start With Yourself by Emma Grede The question I kept coming back to: does “empowerment” quietly suggest that women need someone else to give them what they already have?

This episode isn’t about tearing down a movement. It’s about getting more precise about what great coaching, instruction, and community actually do — create the container, hold the space, and trust that the person in front of you already has what it takes.

I also talk about what a year-long recovery from a herniated disc taught me about inner strength, how to hold an idea you’ve outgrown with honesty and self-compassion, and why changing your language is an act of courage — not correction.

If you’ve ever wrestled with a belief that served you well and then stopped, or you’re mid-shift in how you see your own work — this one will give you something worth sitting with.

🎧 Tune into full episode wherever you get your podcasts!