For too long the outdoor industry has shown and supported one body type - that of a thin white woman. Listen in as Marci Nault and Ashley Manning try to disrupt the industry's dysmorphia about what a woman should look like in the outdoor world, and how the gear industry has made women feel wrong in their own bodies instead of helping them to discover the world in a comfortable and safe way with appropriately sized gear. This conversation is for any woman who has ever tried on gear and thought, "If I just was taller, shorter, thinner, less muscular, etc, when she tried on gear. It's time to change the conversation and the image of what a woman should be in the outdoors or really anywhere.

Ashley Manning is an outdoor professional that promotes body diversity, inclusion, and equity in the industry and the natural world.

She's commercially guided on whitewater since 2015 and has been in the outdoor industry for almost a decade. Her feet have taken her 982 miles of the Appalachian trail, while her hands have gripped oars that lead her on 2 different expeditions on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon.

"My love for the outdoors grew when I was young, being raised in the Appalachian Mountains of Northeast Georgia and only continues to grow as I continue to travel."

You can find Ashley on social media:

https://www.instagram.com/ashleysadventure/?hl=en

https://www.tiktok.com/@ashleysadventure_?

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Let's change the outdoor gear industry together. The outdoors belongs to all women. Please share the podcast and take the survey so that all women can have a safer and more comfortable experience in the outdoors. 

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