AliveAndkickn Podcast - Erica Nelson

I sit down with the Awkward Angler herself, Erica Nelson, from west of Denver in Crested Butte, Colorado.  Erica is a flyfishing guide in the Valley with a Lynch Syndrome story and so much more.  Erica also does consulting on diversity, equity and inclusion with her own podcast.  The organization Brown Folks Fishing has a number of programs around conservation, but also looking at leadership roles.  Angling for All addresses inequality in fishing, talks about reconciling and navigating our own identities and creating action.  True diversity work is in the recovery. Erica is the second indigenous flyfishing guide in Colorado.   I learned about Hozho, the term for balance and beauty in everything.  The loss of her mom unexpectedly coincided with pain that caused her to get checked and she had cancer.  She had a hysterectomy, and learned she inherited MLH1 from her father.  Erica is balancing the grief of losing her mother and the changes in her body.  Erica disclosed that she postponed her urgent surgery to go on a trip to Brazil that she had been planning for some time.  Obviously she's ok, so...good decision/bad decision.