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Episode 36: Lose Yourself to Find Yourself with Bruce Kirkby “My biggest fear is that when I die the person I am meets the person I could have become.” – Author Unknown Our guest today is a truly extraordinary individual and one of the world’s leading wilderness experts.  Bruce Kirkby grew up in Toronto as an engineering physicist by trade, but he had that itch that there was more to life than simply going through the same boring motions each day.  Despite almost failing English in high school, Bruce became a wilderness writer and adventure photographer, and today he’s visited 80+ countries and is renowned for connecting wild places with contemporary issues.  Some of his most notable accomplishments include the first modern crossing of Arabia’s Empty Quarter by camel, a descent of Ethiopia’s Blue Nile Gorge by raft, a sea kayak traverse of Borneo’s northern coast, and a coast-to-coast Icelandic trek. Bruce is the author of three bestselling books, winner of multiple National Magazine Awards, an