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Born In Defiance

3 Ways to Change Your Life Into an Adventure (with Jessamy Hibberd, Quote of the Day Podcast)

photo of man sitting on a cave

Where are our podcast junkies out there?? 🙂 Luke and I both listen to several podcasts, including The Tim Ferriss Show, EntreLeadership, Catexplorer Podcast, The TED Radio Hour, and many more. One new podcast I’ve recently started is “The Quote of the Day” with Sean Croxton. It features short, 12-minute or less motivational snippets of […]

Lessons in humility: Climbing Kilimanjaro

Summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa

My dad, Steve, stepmom Tami, and I were on a mission: to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in a fundraising campaign to raise $30,000 for the NRECA International Foundation’s rural electrification efforts in Africa and around the world.

Thanks for the mountain climbing spotlight, RE Magazine!

Born in Defiance Samantha Kuhn climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa

I’m BEYOND grateful to the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (affectionately known as NRECA) for being featured in the nationwide RE Magazine Spotlight (read more about RE here) for my recent mountain climbing expeditions, including Kilimanjaro (Africa’s highest mountain at 19,341-foot-elevation) in Tanzania.

Snorkeling the Silfra Fissure in Iceland

Luke and Samantha snorkel the Silfra Fissure in Iceland together to face their fears and make a memory

Silfra is a fissure in Ăžingvellir National Park in Iceland that was created by the separation of the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates. This remarkable crack between two tectonic plates CAN be snorkeled… here’s what it looks like.