The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

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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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.

Get your copy of Excellent Sheep here

Learn more about Bill and all he has to offer here

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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 Rx and 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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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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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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