Episode 278: Having a ‘Blast’ with Volcanologist Jess Phoenix

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By Brendan O’Meara

Jess Phoenix. What else is there to say? She’s the author of Ms. Adventure: My Wild Explorations in Science, Lava, and Life (Timber Press, 2021). She’s a volcanologist and geologist (that might be like saying a square is also a rectangle, but we’ll leave it at that, mmkay?). She’s the founder of Blueprint Earth. She has studied English, history, geology, and earned an MFA in creative nonfiction. She also ran for Congress in 2018. She co-owns a horse farm where she rescues retired thoroughbreds from potential slaughter and re-trains them to be jumpers.

How’s your life going?

Oh, and she delivered a pretty baller TEDx talk.

You might wonder why someone like her would talk to a scrub like me. And you’d be correct to wonder, but here we are!

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