By Land Podcast
The By Land Podcast explores how to have better backcountry experiences and why spending time outside matters in the first place.
The show features conversations with people from across the outdoor world, practical lessons, and personal reflections on backpacking, hiking, hunting, conservation, outdoor skills, and the broader role the outdoors can play in our health, perspective, and everyday lives.
It’s a lifelong exploration of what we can learn from time spent outside, how we can do it better, and what’s worth carrying with us when we come home.
Thanks for being here and spending time with me.
-Emory, By Land
By Land Podcast
#155 - Getting to Know Dan Becker
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Dan Becker is a backpacker from Wisconsin who turned his passion into his full-time profession. If you’ve poked around YouTube for backpacking, you’ve no doubt seen his videos a time or two. He’s grown a massive following and for good reason - he’s just a great guy. Dan is genuine, sincere, funny, and just loves to backpack. I didn’t know much about him before we spoke, but sincerely enjoyed getting to know him and now have a fond appreciation for what he’s been able to accomplish.
We cover a ton of ground in this episode, including everything from Wisconsin backpacking culture and learning how to find your own style of backpacking, to starting a YouTube channel and making it a real career. One of the things I find fascinating about Dan’s approach to making backpacking a “career” is that he looks at it like a business and a hobby. He’s been able to separate the two things, but also fuse them together which is really hard to do. Dan has used backpacking to create a business and business to create more backpacking adventures and I think a lot of outdoor creators can learn a thing or two from him. I mean, the guy has a family and goes backpacking for a living.
I have no doubt you’ll enjoy getting to know Dan as much as I did.
Show Notes and Links:
- Dan’s outdoor backstory
- Backpacking in Wisconsin
- Getting to know the backpacking crowd
- Western backpacking vs Mid West backpacking
- Appreciating what you have
- Putting backpacking in a box
- Learning to backpack
- Finding a personal backpacking style
- Being the focus of hit pieces
- Why Dan started a YouTube channel
- The life of a creative
- Deciding to go all in on YouTube
- Sponsorships and brand deals
- Dan’s advice to creators
- Working out with Dan
- How to follow up with Dan
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DanBecker
- IG: https://www.instagram.com/danbeckeroutdoors
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/danbeckeroutdoors
- Dan's rescue recap: https://youtu.be/FRSGGUUtN9Y
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