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Life Flips Your Canoe - Six Life Lessons From the Day the Missouri River Kicked Our Ass
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Apr 29, 2026
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"It is not the critic who counts… The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood."
— Theodore Roosevelt
Two Hours In
Two hours into the paddle on the Missouri River, the canoe flipped. Joe and I found ourselves in cold water with our g...
Siegfried Tiegs
CHPC, MBA, MSc, Major, U.S. Army (Ret.) High Performance Coach • Author • Speaker
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