In this episode, I interviewed Ebere who is a successful Nigerian immigrant banker in NewYork city as she shares her passion and love for fitness and the outdoors (hiking, camping, backpacking, skiing, etc). Ebere immigrated to America from Nigeria over a decade ago and holds an MBA from the University of Houston, Texas. Ebere is a fitness and outdoor enthusiast and finds joy exploring the outdoors in her free time. She attributes her love for hiking to her dad who seldomly took her and her siblings to the farm/country in Nigeria as a kid. Her earliest memory of surviving the outdoors includes her dad playfully tossing her into the stream which forced her to engage her faculties and learn the game of survival. Her most memorable hike includes a recent hike to Mount Rainier where she hiked multiple trails including hiking 14.5 miles of the wonderland trail at up to 5,000ft elevation. She has gone on a lot of hiking and backpacking trips and has many more on her bucket list. Being a Nigerian immigrant living in NewYork city, she has built for herself a community of other hikers from different races and professions. She has done both solo back-packing and hiking trips as well as group trips with her community of friends. Her advice to young women and other African immigrants is to be open minded to experiencing the outdoors and not limit their experiences. She hopes to provide/create more awareness to the benefits and beauty of hiking to the African/Nigerian community both in the diaspora and in Africa/Nigeria. If she had a million dollars, she will rather go hiking. back-packing, camping or skiing rather than go on a shopping spree. Hope you enjoyed this episode and it inspires you to new adventures in the wild/outdoors. Please Like, Comment, Subscribe and Share. Thank you. #hikingadventures #backpacking #nigeriansindiaspora #nigeriansinabroad #africandiaspora #nigerianpodcast You can follow Ebere on her social media handles: FB: https://www.facebook.com/ebere.adieze Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ebyadieze/ Please Subscribe and watch our YouTube channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@LifeAsWeSeeItPodcast⁠