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#32: SAMUEL SMITH! Growing Up in Foster Care & Choosing Positivity

#32: SAMUEL SMITH! Growing Up in Foster Care & Choosing Positivity

Update: 2021-10-04

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Growing up in foster care, Sam Smith had a confusing and challenging childhood. He explains how engaging with the wilderness has helped him overcome and heal from the past and how it continues to do so for him. He once found himself stranded in the Mountains and decided to live out there alone for 2 months. He now lives outside in a Wikiup (AKA primitive living shelter made of sticks) full-time while attending a primitive skills university in Montana called Green University. What a guy!!!!

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#32: SAMUEL SMITH! Growing Up in Foster Care & Choosing Positivity

#32: SAMUEL SMITH! Growing Up in Foster Care & Choosing Positivity

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#30: Why do I hike???? WHYYYYYY????

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#32: SAMUEL SMITH! Growing Up in Foster Care & Choosing Positivity

#32: SAMUEL SMITH! Growing Up in Foster Care & Choosing Positivity

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