From "Sailing Grace" to "What Remains"...a conversation with psychologist, author, and global traveler John Otterbacher(11-20-22)

On this week's program, host Phil Tower welcomes special guest John Otterbacher.
John is a Grand Rapids native, and was born and raised in a working-class neighborhood, he has lived a life of extension and adventure; marathons and triathlons, years in a monastery, several motorcycle tours of America, a doctorate in clinical psychology, college teaching, an eight-year stint as a state representative and senator, a solo sail across the Atlantic. And that’s not his whole story.
John’s first book, Sailing Grace was published in 2007 and it tells his story of “drowning in heart disease," fighting back to the surface and sailing on. It begins with him flat on his back in a Grand Rapids health club and ends 31 months and 4000 miles later when he and his family maneuver their sailboat into Ireland.

John’s most recent book, What Remains…memoirs of an old man on the road is a latter-day road book, travel in the extreme – the chronicles of an old man, an old motorcycle, and 3000 miles of old broken backroads. 

Learn more about John:
https://www.johnotterbacher.com/