Michael Bennett Michael Bennett

Cycling for a Purpose

AT THE START I WOULDN'T say I was searching for something. I would say I was in a flow. I had success in my life and I was about to graduate early. But still, the ...

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Mountain Bike Meditation

I PARTICIPATED IN THE CAPE ARGUS in 2010, for which I trained most of 2009. When you train for a big endurance event, it becomes an all-consuming obsession that ...

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Answering My Call to Adventure

I REMEMBER THE DAY WHEN I first heard my own calling, my mind had been swirling, my soul entangled with some of life’s biggest questions ...

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A Story of Renewal in Namibia

AT THE START OF 2015, I was in a very vulnerable stage in my life. I had just left a major tourism company that mentored and trained me for nearly two decades, where ...

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A Life Transformed in Thailand

I STOOD AT THE WINDOW on the top floor of the skyscraper in the heart of Bangkok looking out at the chaos on the streets below. It was hot and smoggy, and it had ... 

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Crossroads in the Alps

IT'S AUGUST 2013. I AM in Switzerland. In the Jungfrau Region and the Lauterbrunnen Valley, to be specific. And it is here that I find myself quite literally and figuratively at a ...

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