The 5 Most Popular Episodes From Tom Rowland Podcast
The 5 Most Popular Episodes
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With over 400 episodes, it must be difficult for a new listener to know where to start listening to the very popular Tom Rowland Podcast.
The list of guests is impressive and its depth and breadth seems to have no limit. Guests span from the Kings of Freshwater Bass Fishing, Bill Dance, Roland Martin, Jimmy Houston, Shaw Grigsby and Mike Iaconelli to the Kings of Youtube, Josh Jorgenson (Blacktiph), Robert Arrington (Deermeatfordinner), and Gene Jensen @flukemaster to the Kings Of Rock n Roll like Iron Maiden's Compulsive Angler and Lead Guitarist Adrian Smith. Tom also interviews people who have defied the odds to make the outdoors not only their passion but their living as well. Sailing personalities like SV Delos, Sailing Sophisticated Lady and Sailing Ruby Rose have all told their stories here. Triple Crowner, Jessica "Dixie" Mills told her story of quitting her job as an Engineer and taking off on the Appalachian Trail never to look back. Stories of people successfully becoming guides or starting businesses are all popular subjects. Tom also taps into his connections with the Military and learns lessons from Operators like Navy Seal Chriss Smith, Green Beret Warrant Officer and above the knee amputee Nick Lavery and SGM US Army Jamey Caldwell to learn lessons on Mindset and how we can use lessons forged in fire to apply to our own lives. Elite athletes like CrossFit Star Noah Ohlsen, Authors like Chop Wood Carry Water Joshua Medcalf, Leaders, Entrepreneurs all sit down and help us to understand how the lessons they have learned through success and failure can help us on our own journey.
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Here are the Top 5 Most Popular episodes on the Tom Rowland Podcast ever:
#5 - Capt. Brandon Cyr
Brandon Cyr is a 4th generation Conch. A Conch is someone born in Key West, FL and there are fewer now than ever. Brandon developed a passion for fishing at an early age and has become one of the best flats guides in Key West. I originally contacted Brandon to discuss his recent trip to Cuba. However, the Cuba trip took a back seat to his recent marriage proposal on his birthday. We talked permit fishing and tagging bonefish as well. We finally got around to discussing Cuba and he filled me in on an amazing trip. Since this podcast Brandon won the IGFA Permit Flyfishing Tournament with fellow guide Capt. Nick Labadie. Nick has also been a guest on the Tom Rowland Podcast and you can find his episode here
You can find Brandon on Instagram
Or contact him directly for charters at 305-797-5076 for Availability
#4 - Jessica "Dixie" Mills - Homemade Wanderlust
Today I got to sit down with Jessica “Dixie” Mills of Homemade Wanderlust and hear about her story and why she is known as “Dixie” in the hiking world. Jessica was born in Florida, and grew up in Alabama spending summers with her grandparents on their farm. She loved the outdoors as a kid and as she grew up she studied Biosystems Engineering and Agronomy and Soils in college.
She worked as an Engineer for a time in Colorado, but her story really picks up when she resigned and began to hike the Appalachian Trail in 2015. She had to deal with friends and family being concerned about her leaving her job, but she pursued her goal and ended the hike almost half a year later. Now in 2019 she is a Triple Crowner, meaning she has successfully thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail (AT) the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) and the Continental Divide Trail (CDT).
It was such a joy to hear about how Jessica has chased her passions over the years and really become quite an inspiration to many people. We talked about her advice for quitting your job and doing what you love, we shared a lot of similar views in that respect (if you haven’t listened yet, check out How To Quit Your Job And Become A Professional Fisherman).
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You can follow Jessica on Instagram @homemadewanderlust and check out her YouTube Channel.
#3 - Bill Dance
Bill Dance, one of the world’s most famous fishermen, always planned to be a doctor like his father, grandfather and three other generations of Dances.
Then, driving home one night while enrolled in medical school in Memphis, Tenn., in the early 1960s, he came upon a horrific motorcycle crash. The grisly encounter changed his life.
“I was the first person on the scene,” Dance recalls. “It was very traumatic and it affected me deeply. At that moment I knew I didn’t want to be a doctor anymore.”
What did he want to be?
“Well,” says Dance in his down-home Southern drawl, “I’d always loved to fish.”
And fish he did. He began competing—and winning—in bass tournaments and landed a lure manufacturer for a sponsor. The sponsor encouraged Dance to start a TV show to help promote the product. Bill Dance Outdoors premiered on a Memphis ABC affiliate in 1968 and has been growing in popularity ever since. Today the show is televised nationwide and its host has achieved celebrity status among the nation’s 45 million anglers.
#2 - Brady Trautman - SV Delos
Brady Trautman and his brother Brian have been sailing around the world for years on a sailboat. They have racked up over 90,000 miles on their vessel, SV Delos, enough to go around the equator over three times. Brady has some incredible stories from their travels around the world, and we had a great time talking to him about his success with sailing, YouTube, and much more. With over 100,000 views on Youtube, this one showed the power of the SV Delos audience.
#1 - Mark The Shark - The Darth Vader of Sport Fishing
I have followed Mark Quartiano who is better known as Mark The Shark for a couple of years. To say that Mark is controversial is an understatement. Mark seems to relish the role as the bad boy of Sportfishing and referred to himself as the Darth Vader of Sportfishing. This was interesting to me because he also seems to have a lot of contrary opinions and actions to being the badboy. For example, Mark has no problem killing big sharks and posting the pictures on Instagram, however after talking to him for a while I also learned that he has tagged and released more sharks than anyone in the world. Many of the sharks are sent to biologists or delivered to the local homeless shelter.
I wanted to learn more about what made him tick so I took a chance and sent him a message. To my surprise, he responded right away and we set up the podcast even though he didn't know what a podcast was. When I met him at his iconic office in Miami it was literally jammed with shark jaws and pictures stacked 2 feet high of previous catches were all over his desk. His office was like a museum and there was so much stuff that it was impossible to take it all in.
Mark sat down and talked about anything I wanted to talk about and by the end of the conversation I knew way more about Mark the Shark than before. I understood where he was coming from and I understood his motivations for what he does. We discussed sharks, of course, his dislike of tournaments, water quality issues, family as well as many other subjects. We may disagree on a few things but we also agree on probably way more. In fact, by the end of the conversation I really liked Mark and respected his work ethic that has him working 450 trips a year…every year.
There is no doubt that this will be the most controversial podcast I have ever done, but I am very happy that I get a chance to talk to Mark and was very impressed with his willingness to do this interview and answer any questions I had.
Follow Mark The Shark on Instagram @marktheshark
Visit Mark The Sharks Website
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