David Gelles
speaker
265 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 28 Jan
David Gelles’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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developing nations become more resilient, helping them prepare for storms, floods, fires, and droughts.
And all of that work has been shuttered as well.
Well, let's start there.
Yvon Chouinard refers to himself as a dirtbag.
He's a rock climber.
He's someone who comes from this hardcore outdoor community.
And in that context, the word dirtbag refers to someone who is so unenamored with materialism, so unconcerned with money, that they are literally content to sleep in the dirt if it means they are that much closer to their next adventure.
And so when Yvon Chouinard heard the title of this book, Dirtbag Billionaire, about him, he was upset.
Not because of the word dirtbag.
He was upset because of the word billionaire.
Because he never wanted to be a billionaire.
He was born in the woods of northern Maine in a French-Canadian community.
And in fact, he didn't even speak English until he was 10 years old when his parents drove across the country to find warmer weather.
And he started going to school in Los Angeles.
Now, at that point, he had a hard time fitting in because he didn't speak English.
And as a teenager, he started training falcons.
He started training birds of prey and pursuing this ancient art of falconing.
And in the process of climbing down cliffs,
to search for and ultimately capture falcons and their eggs, he started rock climbing.
And when that happened, everything changed.
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