Dec 29, 2025
“People are referring to me as a medical miracle.”
Jo Giese is an award-winning journalist, author, and lifelong hiker who knows firsthand the wild ups and downs of adventure. In this episode, Jo chats with Luis about where she loves to hike, her love of waterfalls, her new memoir, You’ll Never Walk Alone, her life changing accident, her determination and grit, getting around without an Achilles, finding her path, getting herself whole again, her trip to Bhutan, making the audio recording for her new book,
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