Jennifer Doohan – Founder of The Adventure Wellness Club, Helping Women Challenge Themselves and Connect in Nature

Jennifer is an adventurer, wellness professional, and founder of The Adventure Wellness Club, helping women connect with nature, challenge themselves, and build lasting friendships through experiences grounded in the 3 Cs: Challenge, Connection, and Community.

She designs international hiking adventures and UK-based experiences that blend movement, mindfulness, and wellness. Her work spans everything from planning logistics and designing programs to facilitating group hikes, yoga, sauna and ice-bath sessions, and breath work.

Jennifer lived in Trentino, Italy for four years, where she learned to speak Italian and fell in love with the mountains and the sports within them, including ski touring. Over time, she has also run ultra marathons and bike packed long distances. Adventure is what makes her feel alive!

As a late-diagnosed ADHDer, her adventures are rooted in wellness and informed by research like the 3 Day Effect, showing that just three days immersed in nature can boost attention, creativity, and emotional resilience — benefits especially meaningful for neurodivergent women. Each international trip ends with a sauna experience, which she considers essential for physical and emotional wellbeing.

Her experiences encourage women to step outside their comfort zones while feeling supported, mindful, and fully present. Through adventure, movement, and shared experiences, Jennifer helps women slow down, feel capable, and reconnect with themselves and each other.

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Show notes

• Who is Jennifer
• Original from Manchester, but now based in Sheffield
• When her running journey started
• Maintaining a good level of base fitness
• Running 50k in January
• Feeling the need to go for a run
• Getting into ultra running
• Supported a guy who did the Bob Graham Round and running one of the legs
• If he can do it - I can do it to
• Knowing that she was capable of achieving
• Breaking down the goal
• Seeing the behind the scenes of planning a run and how it inspired her
• The Japanese Odyssey
• Doing the next best thing - signing up to a race in Italy
• Being supported by people along the way
• Running the Edale Skyline with Barefoot John
• Digging into the planning and learning new planning skills
• Being impulsive and spontaneous
• Being determined enough to do it
• Why it's not just about the planning, but also about the execution
• Coming up with a rough plan
• Planning, hormones, structure
• Not having the energy for hill reps and feeling fatigued
• Beating herself up for not achieving it
• Having to reframe the situation
• The night before the race and doing a race strategy with Chat GPT
• Working with a coach - S&C and following a 12 week running plan
• Why there isn't a right and a wrong - why it's what works for you
• Looking at the training plan and listening to her body
• Running the ultra marathon while menstruating
• Fitting training into life and work
• Running to her cleaning job
• Starting a marketing contract for 4 days a week
• Having a rest day on Monday
• Being forced to find the time
• Combing running with life
• Starting with a running coach and training for a 50k in April in Wales (She Ultra)
• The Ultra Race in Italy - being the only British women running
• Her aim for the race
• Why it's not about the other people racing - it's about you
• Treating it as a fun day out - chatting to people in the mountain huts, changing her top, taking things steady
• Teaching herself that she could do it
• Sprinting towards the end, just trying to get there
• Gaining new experience
• SheUltra Race
• Wanting to build her confidence in her physical abilities
• Getting into plyometrics - for building bone density
• Founding the Adventure Wellness Club and what it's goals are
• Wanting to bring people together to share her passion
• Being diagnosed with ADHD and starting to understand how her brain works and working on her self confidence
• Pushing herself out of comfort zone with travel and adventure
• Delivering her first trip in 2025
• Teaching herself that you can make your idea a reality
• Ending each trip with a sauna and spa experience
• The "3 Day Effect" - spending 72 hours disconnected from technology and surrounded by nature has a breadth of benefits for your mind.
• Why adventure is key to wellness
• Looking at herself with more compassion
• Why it's not just a focus issue
• Why a diagnosis does change everything
• Trying medication and working with a nurse practitioner
• Starting to realise how awesome she is
• Seeing yourself in a different way
• Issues with ADHD, perimenopause and mental health
• Her feelings with turning 40
• Becoming more comfortable with not having children
• Being more comfortable with how her life is
• Wanting to age as strong as she can - keep pushing it, keep learning what it is capable of
• Wanting to go ski touring in New Zealand
• How to connect with Jennifer on social media
• Developing her website at the moment
• Final words of advice for other women who want more adventure in their life
• The thing that you're thinking of doing that seems scary, follow the thread of that curiosity, it's there for a reason.

Social Media

Website: www.adventurewellness.club

Instagram: @adventurewellness.club

Facebook: @adventurewellnessclub