Glen Van Peski

Glenn Van Peski, ultralight backpacker, accidental founder of Gossamer Gear, and author of Take Less, Do More, joins Evan and Joshua for a conversation that feels as light and unhurried as his pack. Glenn walks through the core idea of the book: that reducing your load, literally and figuratively, creates margin, and margin is what makes curiosity, generosity, and presence possible. He shares hard things he didn't choose, including a plane crash that killed the pilot and the loss of a severely disabled son, and how those experiences became part of a story he tells himself that leans toward gratitude rather than grief. The episode closes with Glenn's framework for staying stretched across multiple domains at once, and his quiet, consistent practice of noticing the people around him and doing something about it.