Finding Your Dream Adventure: Amy Schweim Talks Mountain Biking, Risk-Taking, World Travel, and Creating Epic Adventures for Women
Are you an adventurer or a thrill seeker? Looking for an adrenaline rush? Trying to step out of your comfort zone and take a risk? Today’s woman dreamer, Amy Schweim, is the founder of Women’s Radical Pursuits, an organization creating dream travel adventures for women, with adventurous activities such as mountain biking, yoga, service, and more, fostering self-love and a peaceful state of mind for all women. Inspired by her own anxiety and challenges, Amy helps women break through their own barriers and find the adventure in their own lives, making dreams come true along the way. Check out Amy’s inspiring story below.
1) Through adventure such as mountain biking, yoga, and more, you empower women from around the world, including Mexico & South America. How did you come up with this idea? What was the need you saw?
I came up with Womens Radical Pursuits by putting all of MY personal passions together that have helped me in my own life with the desire and intention to help other adventurous women seeking growth and inner badassery as well! The powerful and transforming effects that this combination of activities has had on my own personal life has been the ultimate GAMECHANGER; both personally and professionally. I wanted to offer powerful experiences for women looking for more depth, growth, expansion, adventure, and FUN!
Travel gets us out of our comfort zone, broadens the horizons and perspectives of the mind, and helps us connect to a world, cultures and traditions other than our own.
Mountain Biking has always been one way for me to break mental and physical fears and limitations. It’s hard, just like life can be! Pedaling up mountains helps build mental and physical strength that can also be applied to life. There are so many metaphors, a few of my favorites:
“If you fall down, get back on the saddle and keep going.”
“You can do it, one pedal stroke at a time.”
“Enjoy the journey not the destination.”
“Keep your eye on the prize!” (where you WANT to go: on the trail and in life)
And Yoga, it’s my daily medicine. It’s truly what keeps me sane and committed to creating balance in mind, body & spirit. My morning routine of mindset work, meditation and Yoga are what I can contribute to my success to this day.
“The need I saw for my business model was sparked from the alarming statistics of so many people living high stress lives, suffering from depression & anxiety and unhappiness stemming from a lack of purpose and meaning in life.”
The need I saw for my business model was sparked from the alarming statistics of so many people living high stress lives, suffering from depression & anxiety and unhappiness stemming from a lack of purpose and meaning in life. I also designed my Life Coaching Program inspired by my OWN recovery from struggles with low self worth, codependency and lack of self love that resulted in battling depression and anxiety, addiction to alcohol in my 20’s, an eating/exercise disorder in my 30’s, and an autoimmune disease. Since healing my own self, I have been on a wild mission to help others on this deep inner journey to healing.
My own personal recovery from these big challenges has helped me to connect, understand, and help others through their own struggles while offering powerful programs and experiences for those looking for growth and expansion just like I was!
2) What is your advice to women looking to find adventure and take risks? Why do you think adventure is important for a good, healthy lifestyle?
“When life is lived in the limits of predictable and structured routines, responsibilities, and obligations, our creative and wild human spirits suffer! We NEED a healthy outlet away from technology, routine and predictability in order to come fully alive,”
Figure out what you love to do and what activities light you up and then JUST START DOING THEM! Get out of your head and into your heart and follow your passion. If it’s scary to go at it alone, find a group, program, or classes that can help you break through those fears! I believe adventure is KEY to creating an AMAZING, healthy lifestyle because it helps you challenge and push yourself, overcome, and breakthrough fears! When life is lived in the limits of predictable and structured routines, responsibilities, and obligations, our creative and wild human spirits suffer! We NEED a healthy outlet away from technology, routine and predictability in order to come fully alive, out of our elements and to experience life; wild, childlike and free!
3) What is a favorite tour/adventure you have been on in your life?
“The coolest part was sharing the experience through Womens Radical Pursuits with six other women to bike the world class trails of the Sacred Valley”
Maiden Voyage MTB/Yoga Trip to the Sacred Valley of Peru. I had wanted to go to Machu Picchu for YEARS before getting there and had it on my vision board since 2002. I’ll never forget climbing the stairs and seeing it with tears streaming down my cheeks with overwhelming gratitude. The coolest part was sharing the experience through Womens Radical Pursuits with six other women to bike the world class trails of the Sacred Valley, practice daily Yoga and adventure and explore the Peruvian culture together. Truly, one of the most amazing experiences of my life
4) What is next for you? What dream would you like to go after?
My next dream is to launch my Mountain Bike Skills & Empowerment Program for the kids in the village of Lachatao, Oaxaca, Mexico. I’m partnered with Project Bike Love and we are just on hold because of COVID-19. Hopefully we will get it off the ground the winter of 2022! That will be the pilot program and would love to take it across Mexico and beyond! https://womensradicalpursuits.com/donations/
5) How can people find adventure during the pandemic? How was your company navigate this?
“There are other ways to create adventure during the pandemic aside from travel. Try something new that excites you, challenges you and adds an element of risk that will help you get out of your comfort zone and daily routine.”
I believe adventure can be created anywhere and at any time. There are other ways to create adventure during the pandemic aside from travel. Try something new that excites you, challenges you and adds an element of risk that will help you get out of your comfort zone and daily routine. Find what lights YOU up and excites you, and do more of that. That’s what adventure is all about whether it’s in your hometown or another country!
In facing the pandemic, I have pushed pause on our trips until winter 2021. This time just taught us to pivot and focus on building my Radical New You Coaching Program; The Blueprint to Badassery! (the inner kind) I am wildly passionate to help women transform their lives through Coaching as it is a whole new adventure for me.
I am on a mission to help as many women as possible to honor their journey, reclaim their power, and rise to new levels without the cycle of depression, anxiety and endless self sabotage using the BADASS Blueprint so they can enjoy deep unconditional love, confidence, courage, and empowered living!
Check out a beautiful gallery of Amy’s Fascinating Adventures below!
Bio: Amy Schweim is a certified Yoga & Self Love Coach. She is inspired to help women become BADASS. (The enlightened kind of BADASS!) Amy helps women honor their journey, reclaim their power, and rise to new levels without the cycle of depression, anxiety and endless self-sabotage using the "Badass Blueprint" so they can enjoy deep unconditional love, confidence, courage and empowered living.
Herself having overcome low self worth, anxiety, depression, disordered eating & exercise, and an Autoimmune disease over the course of her life, Amy followed her dream to further her knowledge to inspire and empower others to deeply heal on all levels; mind, body & spirit. After hitting her own rock bottom she made a promise, "Dear Universe, if I get back up, I vow to help other women rise too."
She did. So can you....
Through coaching services and leading transformational adventures through Womens Radical Pursuits International Trips, Amy helps women embody deep self love, discover purpose in their lives, and breakthrough the BS that holds them back so they can finally start living their days feeling fully alive, inspired, confident and on purpose; the way you were meant to live on this earth!
With the uniquely designed Radical New You Badass Blueprint, you will be led through a program that will help you to honor & respect the 'chaos' of your own life, reclaim your power, and become whole again by amplifying your life to live empowered and embody your most authentic BADASS YOU!
Amy has a BS in Education, Certification in both Yoga & Life Coaching, owns & operates Womens Radical Pursuits and has lived and worked in five different countries around the world both teaching children and adults in International Education, Yoga, Mindfulness & Transformational Travel. She has a wild spirit and lives for adventure, expansion, connection and exploring the world through travel.