It's Back: The DTE Hiking Club! 🏔️

Plus, ANOTHER event I'm hosting.

Author

Red Young
April 27, 2025 • Reading time: 6 minutes

As you’ll see in the rest of this newsletter, I host a lot of events.

What can I say? Community Building is my greatest purpose, and I love doing it.

My latest event is courtesy of the media collective I co-founded, The Production Network.

We’re a group of Black media professionals who want to create impactful spaces for others like us.

For us to learn and grow during this time of volatility in the media landscape, we must come together.

We realized this, and decided to host events that educate and inspire, while also connecting like-minds to our network. Our latest event will do just that.

Where: The laid-back and stylish Alke Café & Bar, just outside Central Park.

What we’ll do:

  • Build community around media and creativity 🎙️

  • Share strategies to help you grow as a media professional 📝

  • Learn tools to level up your craft 🛠️

  • Tell our stories and help write yours 🗣️

  • Make lifelong industry connections 🔌

  • And yes … we’ll party after 🥂

Bring a friend, an open mind, and let’s get to building 🌎

📍 Alke Café & Bar

🗓️ Monday, April 29 • 7PM

WE BACKK BAYYBEEEE 🏔️(DTE Hiking Club)

Down to Earth’s next hike is Saturday, May 3rd @ 9am. RSVP to it here.

Last fall, the DTE Hiking Club kicked off a stellar season of climbing, bonding and having a grand old time.

Up in the mountains of the Hudson Highlands, dozens of us discovered secrets about nature – and ourselves.

New friends and tons of memories were made, leading to a barrage of “when’s the next hike?” inquiries throughout the winter.

Well, on May 3rd, the wait is all over …

The Hiking Club is so special because it isn’t just a hobby, or something to do.

It’s a powerful way of practicing active wellness and challenging beliefs we have about our abilities.

Nature has its ways of testing whether we’re really like that.

Where are your limits? How far can you push them? How’s your ability to work with a team?

In many ways, our hikes are a measure of how down to earth you really are.

I aim to create experiences that profoundly change lives at Down to Earth. The feedback I’ve received from the hikes indicate just that.

I teach my readers to be healthier and happier through my writing and video content, but with these hikes, its become more clear that experiential learning creates a deeper connection to wellness concepts than reading alone ever could. 

Action beats thought every time. 

Actually bringing people together in nature presents challenges of body and mind that can be absent from the ease of modern life – especially for cooped-up New Yorkers.

So many readers are first-time hikers, providing a novel learning experience and introducing the hobby of outdoor exploration into their lives. 

Climbing mountains together, breathing fresh air, and observing unfamiliar landscapes brings the abstract ideas about health to life.

Down to Earth's wellness principles become a lived experience, and with memories to boot, participants clearly feel what we're all about. 

Of course, genuine human connections are increasingly rare in our tech-dominated world, making the bonds of a hiking club increasingly valuable.

You see a lot of networking and transactional relationships these days, but what ever happened to the buddies you just exist around? 

My goal is to help people rediscover what it means to be truly human, and I realize that we tap into our ancestral programming of teamwork and survival when we actually live it.

No amount of protocols, supplements or routines can recreate that. 

This community-first approach has become the foundation of my wellness philosophy: we heal better together than we do alone.

Want to be a part of the community we're building?