In today’s interview Brent talks to Brad Herder who’s mantra is “let’s see what happens” as he truly follows his passions and curiosity.

Brad met his wife when she was a canoe racer and they have followed their passion for an outdoor life ever since.

Brad refers to himself as an “accidental person” and it all started while he was delivering papers as a young kid. He found that he could run his delivery route faster than he could ride his bike and his passion for running was born. This passion has taken him into many different outdoor activities, but his true love is mountain biking.

He figured out how to make his job work for him so he could follow his interests rather than other way around and it has allowed him to delve into many different outdoor activities which are his passions.

Brad calls himself the “Accidental Youtuber" and makes various YouTube videos about whatever he is interested in.   He has almost 5,500 subscribers and more than 6,600,000 views.  His “how to” videos tend to do best, but he doesn't let that dictate the type of videos he posts.  He does what interests him and that attitude allows for him to keep his interest and not to take it too seriously.

Now when he finds himself interested in something he will show people how he did it so that they can learn to do it too.  You can find Brad on YouTube at Bradtube1.

Brad is also an avid mountain biking trail builder.  He has built miles of trail in the Pittsfield State Forest.  To help promote the sport in the region and to help others find the trails he runs a website about mountain biking called berkshiresports.org.

He and his wife also run a side business of taking pictures of biking events around the Northeast and selling them on the web site Roots and Rain.

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