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Derek Loudermilk

Alex Hutchinson | Testing the Limits of Endurance

by Derek Loudermilk | Sep 10, 2019 | Adventure, Books, Cycling, Entrepreneurship, Fitness, Health, Lifestyle Design, Podcast, Science, Sports, Travel

Today’s guest on the Art of Adventure podcast is the New York Times bestselling author and national award-winning journalist, Alex Hutchinson. Alex primarily focuses on endurance and fitness. In fact, his latest book, ENDURE: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic...

Living in Portugal For Three Months | Five Minute Friday

by Derek Loudermilk | Aug 9, 2019 | Adventure, Digital Nomads, Entrepreneurship, Fitness, Life, Lifestyle Design, Podcast, Storytelling, Travel

Today’s Five-Minute Friday episode is about the time when I moved my family – my wife and my two little kids – to Portugal, in the spring of 2019. We moved to Portugal for three months were we ended up living in a town called Atouguia Da Baleia, near one...

What I Learned From Fasting | Five Minute Friday

by Derek Loudermilk | Jul 26, 2019 | Fitness, Food, Health, Life, Lifestyle Design, Podcast, Science, Storytelling

In the last five years, I have gone about forty days without food, mostly just consuming water. Some of these fasts are short, just two sleeps – basically a day of fasting – some of them are long, having gone for as long as eight days. I started...

Entrepreneurship Lessons from the World of Pro Sports | Five Minute Friday

by Derek Loudermilk | Jun 11, 2019 | Adventure, Careers, Cycling, Digital Nomads, Entrepreneurship, Fitness, Lifestyle Design, Podcast

Before I coached entrepreneurs, I coached professional athletes and there is a lot of overlap. Here are 10 entrepreneurship lessons that translate from from the world of Pro sports: Manage your energy. Pro athletes know that the most important thing is recovery. In...

The Story of The Nearly Deadly Snowstorm | Five Minute Friday

by Derek Loudermilk | May 26, 2019 | Adventure, Fitness, Health, Life, Podcast, Storytelling, Travel

This is the story of the nearly deadly snowstorm It’s dusk and I’m clawing my way out of the snow. I have just fallen off of the trail to neck-deep snow and I am using my ski to make stairs so that I could climb out of this pit of snow back onto this...

Face to Face With a Mountain Lion | Five-Minute Friday

by Derek Loudermilk | May 11, 2019 | Adventure, Digital Nomads, Fitness, Health, Podcast, Storytelling, Travel

This is the story of how I came face to face with a mountain lion. It was sunset and I was running on the trails of the Santa Rosa plateau in California. We were staying there for a couple of months with my wife’s family and everyday I would go up to this nature...
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