Kristina Cannon, Main Street Skowhegan

You have to create communities for your people that live there, first. It’s not just about tourism for us. It can’t be. It has to be about building a better community.

Ari Leach, Blackbird Guide Services

The thing that meant the most to me when I received my license wasn’t my patch or my physical license…My mom met me at the door with a box, and inside was my grandmother’s very last license, her patches, her hunting jacket, and her silver Maine guide shield.

Alice Bean Andrenyak, Alice's Awesome Adventures

If I can have two ‘aha!’ moments from the people that I’ve had out that day, that fuels me for the next day.

Jana Olenio, SUP Yo Adventures

That was the point at which all of my passions came together, my travel experience and my passion for yoga and nature… and I was so thrilled, because I was sharing what I loved and was passionate about with other people.

Jen Hazard, Author of The Maine Play Book

I came to recognize it as I was older…. just going to a new space, and exploring like that, that really always just inspires me, no matter what.

"Tall" Ashley Leedberg, Two Loons Guide Service

It kind of clicked inside that I didn’t need to be miserable at my job. That wasn’t the goal, that wasn’t the point.

Bonnie Holding, Casting for Recovery

You’d be amazed at how many women in Maine do not go to support groups. So this is their first opportunity to actually voice what’s going on in their heads… and be in the outdoors, learn something new, take your mind off what you know…. a hideous disease, hideous treatments. It takes your mind away from it.

Laura Beebe, Sterling College

We’re all at our own stages of development, and have areas that we really excel in, and areas that we need to work on.

Emily MacCabe, MEIFW/Becoming an Outdoors Woman

When you love to do something, and you get to share it with other people, it doesn’t feel like work at all.

Katie Wolitarsky & Kat Englishman of The Send

We genuinely care about this community and these people, and we want to lift it up and promote it. And I mean, selfishly, we also want to know about all these cool things, too.

Maine Guide Q&A

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Tami Rogers, Maine’s Outdoor Learning Center

A lot of people come in with great life experience. And that experience is what is going to make them the good guide.