Tough Broad

From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking—How Outdoor Adventure Improves Our Lives as We Age

By: Caroline Paul

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Gutsy Girl, a funny, inspiring, deeply researched exploration into the science and psychology of the outdoors and our place in it as we age.

Caroline Paul has always filled her life with adventure: From mountain biking in the Bolivian Andes to pitching a tent, mid-blizzard, on Denali, she has never been a stranger to the exhilaration the outdoors can hold. Yet through it all, she has long wondered, why aren't women, like men, encouraged to keep adventuring into old age?

Tough Broad is her quest to understand not just how to live a dynamic life in a changing body, but why we must. She dives deep into the current research on aging, and highlights the results with the stories of women like 93-year-old hiker Dot Fisher-Smith, 80-year-old scuba diver Louise Wholey, 52-year-old BASE jumper Shawn Brokemond, 64-year-old birdwatcher Virginia Rose, and the many septuagenarian Wave Chasers who boogie board together in the San Diego surf. These women aren't experts. But their experiences and the scientific studies that back them up offer important insight into our own physical and emotional health as we age, showing that growing older is no reason for women to sell themselves short. Tough Broad is a high-spirited call for women to embrace the outdoors, not back away from it, in our 50s, 60s, 70s, and beyond, casting our own futures in a new and dazzling light.

©2024 Caroline Paul (P)2024 Audible, Inc.

The joys of getting older

Wonderfully written about the joys of becoming an older woman and still enjoying life, not giving up.

The importance of staying active and being in nature!

I liked how much courage these women had and the way they made changes in their lives.

This “old man” loved it!

You don’t need to be a woman or a tough woman to find this book inspiring. I am a 73-year-old man who was inspired as well as educated about life’s possibilities. I love the fact that the author went through the trouble of finding the scientific support of how all of these activities are good for your health and mind. And as someone who listens to audiobooks a lot more than reads them, I found this reader to be wonderfully empathetic. Everyone, regardless of gender and regardless of age, should read or listen to this book.

Inspiring

I’ve already recommended this to a number of friends and acquaintances. Nature and adventure strike me as vital for healthy aging, and Caroline has stories and data to tell us why.

Great book!

Really enjoyed the book and can totally relate. Started all my adventurous adventures in 2006 - At age 46. Hav