The Great Detour
The Great Detour
Podcast Description
The Great Detour™ is a podcast about embracing life’s unplanned paths. These defining experiences—whether they bring challenges, lessons, or new opportunities—have one thing in common: they guide us toward self-discovery and growth. Join host Jess Prudhomme and her guests as they share vulnerable and inspiring stories of lives that didn’t go according to plan and the growth and meaning they found along the way. Featuring practical advice and strategies from experts and those who’ve “been there,” these conversations will empower you to navigate life’s transitions with resilience, trust the process, and rewrite your own story as your most authentic, empowered self.Learn more at www.thegreatdetour.com. Follow along on Instagram @thegreatdetour. Have your own detour story to share? Email it to: [email protected].
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast explores themes of resilience, personal growth, and self-discovery through the lens of life's unplanned paths. Episodes include discussions on embracing authenticity, community power in movement, and creating inclusive opportunities, such as the transformative impact of Dubset Running Collective and the mission of Able Athletics to support children with disabilities.
The Great Detour™ is a podcast about embracing life’s unplanned paths. These defining experiences—whether they bring challenges, lessons, or new opportunities—have one thing in common: they guide us toward self-discovery and growth.
Join host Jess Prudhomme and her guests as they share vulnerable and inspiring stories of lives that didn’t go according to plan and the growth and meaning they found along the way. Featuring practical advice and strategies from experts and those who’ve “been there,” these conversations will empower you to navigate life’s transitions with resilience, trust the process, and rewrite your own story as your most authentic, empowered self.
Learn more and share your own detour story at www.thegreatdetour.com.
Follow along on Instagram @thegreatdetour.
In this episode of The Great Detour™, Jess sits down with Risa August, an award-winning speaker, author, Gestalt practitioner, and patient advocate. For the past decade, she has been navigating a brain tumor and a rare medical condition that dramatically changed her life.
Risa shares how she went from being a high-performing Ironman athlete and self-proclaimed perfectionist to facing a life-altering diagnosis that forced her to slow down, listen to her body, and grieve the loss of who she used to be. She opens up about the years of being dismissed by doctors, the power of trusting her intuition, and the identity shift that came with no longer being able to perform at the level she once did.
Risa also talks about the day she sat on the couch in her tattered gray sweatpants, pulled out her bucket list, and asked herself a new question: “What can I do?” That shift eventually led her back onto her bike and ultimately to riding more than 1,800 miles from Canada to Mexico.
This conversation explores perfectionism, resilience, self-advocacy, and what it really means to live fully, find joy in the small things, and stay open to what is possible even when life does not go to plan.
Learn More about Risa August:
- Website: https://www.risaaugust.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/risaunleashed/
- TEDx Talk:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK9SITnpvcA
- Book: The Road Unpaved
Learn more about The Great Detour™
Website:www.thegreatdetour.com
Instagram: @thegreatdetour
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