Jedidiah Jenkins

Many people dream about leaving their jobs to travel the world, but Jedidiah Jenkins is one of the few to turn this dream into a reality. Finding himself dissatisfied with his day-to-day life and eager to make a stronger connection with the natural world, Jenkins upended his life for the pursuit of adventure and personal fulfillment.

Jedidiah Jenkins’s long journey was profoundly influenced by his parents, whose five-year walk across America was featured on the cover of National Geographic and documented in the bestselling books A Walk Across America and The Walk West. Following in their footsteps while carving a unique path, Jenkins’s own bicycle trip took him from Oregon to Patagonia and saw him not only exploring the earth’s wonders, which he shared on Instagram with an eager base of followers, but also learning about himself.

This experience is the subject of Jenkins’s first book, the memoir To Shake The Sleeping Self: A 10,000-mile Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and One Man’s Quest to Wake Up the Soul, which offers an illuminating look at the impact travel can have on a person’s life and a meditation on meaningful questions about purpose, authenticity, and meaning. His second book, Like Streams to the Ocean: Notes on Ego, Love, and the Things That Make Us Who We Are is a collection of essays in which Jenkins explores the eight subjects that give life meaning: ego, family, home, friendship, love, work, death, the soul. He leads readers in a wide-ranging conversation about finding fulfillment in the people and places around us and discovering the courage to show our deepest selves to the world. In his latest memoir, Mother, Nature, Jenkins sets off on a 5,000-mile journey with his wildly entertaining mother to discover whether they can bridge a common yet seemingly impossible divide between them and find a way to love each other and their differences.

Beyond his travels, Jedidiah Jenkins is committed to the natural world and passionately encourages enthusiasm in audiences for the vast possibilities that exploration and adventure hold. He’s involved in numerous conservation efforts, including acting as an Executive Editor at Wilderness Magazine, and co-founding Byta, a reusable, environmentally-friendly cup designed to disrupt a disposable industry and promote sustainability.

Jenkins speaks to audiences around the country about his journeys through nature, inspiring them to not only appreciate their surroundings more but also to believe that a life defined by a sense of wonder and fulfillment is possible if one is willing to take a risk.

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