A couple of weeks ago I emceed a panel at the 5point Adventure Film Festival , a 4 day event in Carbondale, Colorado chocked full of inspiring films, creative art, insightful panels, and a whole lot of playing, eating and drinking outside. As I reflect on the overall experience of the festival, I have to say it was pretty incredible. Between the amazing 5point staff, the magic of the Carbondale community, and the world class outdoor recreation, it’s hard to beat. Needless to say, I highly recomm...
May 10, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Today on the pod I have Len Necefer. Len is the founder and CEO of the apparel, story telling, and advocacy company Natives Outdoors, a professor at the University of Arizona, and board member with the Honnold Foundation and American Alpine Club. His work lies at the intersection of conservation, energy, outdoor recreation, and indigenous peoples - how’s that for a fascinating and impactful mix. Our chat weaves through topics like advocacy, storytelling, aligning yourself to what you believe in,...
Apr 22, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 27
A couple of weeks ago I participated in a ski retreat in Jackson Wyoming called SummitX, which brought together professionals at the convergence of tech, leadership, entrepreneurship, and adventure. The event focused on a whole lot of skiing powder (priorities straight right) and leadership development, and through intense workshops and in-depth conversations, I think it’s safe to say everyone involved walked away a stronger leader and human being. As part of the event, I got the opportunity to ...
Mar 21, 2019•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Today I’ve got a mini episode for you. For some of you newer listeners, that means we’ll be hearing from a member of this podcast community about their life design journey and I’ll also be sharing a useful wisdom nugget that will hopefully help you guys along your path. Community Story: For our community story I'm talking with Sydney Smith. Sydney is a regular listener to this show and after growing disenfranchised busting her ass for someone else at a start up in Denver, she decided to give thi...
Feb 27, 2019•41 min•Season 2Ep. 25
On the pod today I have Dutch academic, author, and fear expert Roanne Van Voorst. In late 2017, Roanne published a book called Fear: Extreme athletes on how to reach your highest goals and overcome stress and self-doubt. Roanne’s book dissects all things fear from how pervasive it is in our daily lives to practical tips to overcome it. Through the lens of names like Lynn Hill, Steph Davis, Cedric Dumont, Alain Robert and Alex Honnold among many others, Roanne’s mission is to get to the bottom o...
Jan 21, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 24
(Part 2 of 2) Hey guys - this episode is the second piece of a 2 part chat with Andrew Muse, so if you haven’t listened to part 1 - you probably want to check that out first for some context ahead of listening to part 2 here. Cool, with that said I’m going to jump right into to the rest of my conversation with Andrew - enjoy.
Jan 04, 2019•49 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Today on the show I have Andrew Muse, a multi-sport athlete, photographer/cinematographer, producer and story teller. He has been in the action sports industry for the last 10 years and routinely works with some of the biggest brands in the biz. He’s perhaps best known for his online adventure series called Tiny Home Adventure, where he travels the world in a custom bad ass van while exploring and playing hard with his dog Kicker. A couple of years ago, Andrew was in a horrible accident coming b...
Jan 03, 2019•58 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Today I have a very special episode for you. My guest Andrew Patterson has to be one of the most thoughtful, dedicated, and altruistic guys I’ve ever met. About a year and half ago, Andrew left his comfortable corporate job to pursue a gloriously whacky idea, an idea that hit him like a lightning bolt one day and that he couldn’t stop thinking about. Andrew decided that he wanted to climb Table mountain in his native South Africa - which is one of the 7 natural wonders of the world, every single...
Dec 19, 2018•1 hr 34 min•Season 2Ep. 21
(Part 2 of 2) On today’s show I have T yler Tringas . Hmmm… what to say about Tyler. Well - He’s got to be one of the most well-rounded and intellectually curious dudes I’ve ever met. Tyler has done a bunch of different work in his relatively short career. After undergrad, Tyler worked as a consultant for a clean energy startup and pretty quickly realized he had an entrepreneurial itch. Shortly thereafter he started a solar energy company called SolarList, and after fighting the good fight for a...
Dec 01, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 20
On today’s show I have T yler Tringas . Hmmm… what to say about Tyler. Well - He’s got to be one of the most well-rounded and intellectually curious dudes I’ve ever met. Tyler has done a bunch of different work in his relatively short career. After undergrad, Tyler worked as a consultant for a clean energy startup and pretty quickly realized he had an entrepreneurial itch. Shortly thereafter he started a solar energy company called SolarList, and after fighting the good fight for a few years - h...
Nov 29, 2018•57 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Today on the show I have Travis Bluemling, Chris Parks, and Ross Jennings - collectively they make up the content creation company Three Wheels Co. You may remember Ross from episode #9 when we talked about his journey to travel to every single country in the world playing bag pipes. I really enjoyed this episode, and here’s why. A) because Ross, Chris and Travis are hilarious and we shared a lot of laughs and B) There are a lot of great nuggets - really tangible lessons that are useful for when...
Nov 16, 2018•1 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 18
So on today’s show, I’m going to try something new. Today, I have a mini episode for you. You may remember from last time in my conversation with Brody Leven that I highlighted a member of the APP community (btw guys, the name of my show is mouthful, so you’ll start to hear me refer to the Adventurepreneur Playbook Podcast in shorthand as APP) - anyway I talked about the story of Take Me Out There, a new adventure business launched in part using some of the resources from this show. I’m going to...
Oct 18, 2018•30 min•Season 2Ep. 17
In this episode, I’m chatting with Brody Leven - a professional adventurer, activist, and skier. Brody is a unique breed of professional athlete, namely because you won’t necessarily find him hucking backflips off of gnarly cornices in Alaska in the latest TGR ski movie. Instead you’ll find him undertaking a journey to Uganda to ski the last remaining glacier on the African continent , or creating a documentary about an intense first ascent of a remote couloir in Georgia’s (the country that is) ...
Oct 04, 2018•1 hr 43 min•Season 2Ep. 16
In the last half a dozen years or so, Alex Honnold has gone from one of the biggest names in rock climbing to a bonafide household name, and for good reason. On top of an already incredibly impressive climbing resume, including historic free solo ascents of big walls like the Moonlight Buttress in Zion National Park and Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, on June 3, 2017 Alex completed perhaps his crowning achievement, a mind-bending free solo climb of the infamous El Capitan, a 3,200 foot gran...
Sep 20, 2018•1 hr 40 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Today I have a different kind of episode for you. Before I officially kick off Season 2 with a totally unique conversation with Alex Honnold, I'm taking a look back. I had so many great interviews last season, full of insights, tips, and takeaways - that I wanted to summarize them for you into sort of a greatest hits or cliffs notes. So, as I started thinking back on the things that impacted me in Season 1, and re-listened to many of the episodes - and noticed a lot of common threads. Similar th...
Sep 13, 2018•51 min
Today on the show I have Randall Jacobs and Alice Liu, founders of Thesis Bike, who are doing something truly innovative in the biking industry, and are creating "The one bike for every road - no compromises." Randall probably knows more about bikes than anyone I’ve ever met, and he’s been in about every role you can think of within the industry. Randall has been a pro mtb bike racer, bike mechanic, designer at specialized, a consultant and advisor to many large name-brand bike companies, and se...
Jul 13, 2018•1 hr 8 min
I don’t know about the rest of you, but the idea of having an adventure travel company has always enticed me. I mean, what’s not to like about building amazing trips and taking paying clients to do cool shit all over the world?! Today on the show, I’ve got Frank Scotti, Founder and owner of Nomad Inc., an adventure travel company, specializing in skiing/snowboarding, surfing, and mountain biking itineraries. They also do a lot of customization for their clients globally, so basically, if you can...
Jun 28, 2018•1 hr 7 min
Emi Koch, surfer and humanitarian, is the founder of Beyond the Surface International, a non-profit working around the globe in disadvantaged coastal communities to build social and ecological resilience through surfing, storytelling, and mindfulness workshops. Emi was named National Geographic Adventurerer of the Year for 2018, and she has recently been featured in Surfer magazine as one of the top women innovators in the industry who are “Creating a Line of their Own.” At the age of 19, Emi ga...
Jun 20, 2018•1 hr 2 min
Dave Mossop is the cofounder of Sherpas Cinema, one of the most - if not the most cutting edge, innovative outdoor film production studios out there. In fact Sherpas has been cited as redefining what is possible in outdoor film. Dave and his team have created some of the most stunning imagery I’ve ever seen, and likely a lot of what you’ve seen but may not know it. With big productions like All I Can, Into the Mind, Imagination, and their latest film - Loved By All - Sherpas has received countle...
Jun 13, 2018•1 hr
My guest today, Ross Jennings, did all the "right" things growing up. He went to school, took music lessons, studied hard, got a job, made pretty good money, and then he was like: wait a minute, is this it? He was convinced that there had to be more to life than cubicles, boring work, and shitty bosses. After some time asking himself "what the hell am I going to do, this sucks", on a whim he stumbled across an event in London called the Adventure Travel show. There he was exposed to some cool id...
May 30, 2018•1 hr 8 min
Today on the show we’ll be talking a lot about mindset, techniques for optimizing your life, and marketing, marketing, marketing. My guest, Scott Martin has been a professional strategic marketer for as long as he can remember. He’s worked for big agencies, startups, and founded multiple growth marketing and content-related businesses. He has a passion for the the outdoor and adventure space, especially if it involves being in the backcountry with his snowboard or near a big swell with a surfboa...
May 18, 2018•1 hr 19 min
Today on the show, I have the quintessential adventurepreneur. Not only is Julian Carr an amazing pro athlete with multiple world records to his name, but he is also a successful business owner and environmental activist. Julian is widely recognized for the biggest airs in skiing. He’s the guy who does front flips off 200 foot cliffs. Yeah you heard me right, he holds the height world record for inverted cliff sends - 210 feet to be exact. He’s been featured in countless ski magazines and movies...
May 04, 2018•1 hr 5 min
With this episode, I’ve got some real talk for you. If you’ve got a pulse, my guest Janne Robinson can probably find one way or another to inspire you or strike a chord within you. Janne is the ultimate renaissance woman. She is a poet, author, entrepreneur, speaker, women’s empowerment thought leader, and an avid surfer (which let’s not lie, we love on this show). Janne describes what she does as ‘empowering people to live their truths and be authentic.’ How’s that for a mission statement? As a...
Apr 25, 2018•1 hr 3 min
I’m really psyched about the show today, not only because my guest Zeke Lau is the type of guy that you can’t help but really like right off the bat, but also because he is truly one of the best surfers on the planet. He travels the world to compete in the World Surf League’s Championship Tour, where only an elite group of the top 36 surfers in the world get the chance at a world title. The Native Hawaiian is soft spoken and as humble as they come, and at the same time has more drive to be the v...
Mar 29, 2018•1 hr 8 min
If you ski, chances are you’ve seen my guest Johnny Collinson all over the place. On top of being the youngest person ever to summit the world’s highest peaks on each continent, the so-called 7 summits, earning him a place in the Guinness book or world records, Johnny Collinson is an accomplished mountaineer, climber, and free skier. He is sponsored by some of the planets most admired brands, like the North Face, Red Bull, Smith and Kettle Chips. You can regularly see him ripping down huge snow-...
Mar 07, 2018•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 4
Sanni McCandless is a transition coach for outdoor and adventure-focused individuals who want to create more intentional lifestyles. She helps her clients work through the limiting beliefs that often get in the way of creating the the life we really want. Sanni quit her job at an energy efficiency startup a couple of years ago to start her own business and hasn’t looked backed since. She spends her winters living and climbing in the moderate temperatures of Las Vegas Nevada, and her summers on t...
Mar 06, 2018•57 min
Paul Kirwin is a seriel entrepreneur with a strong track record for building companies that have fundamentally changed the way retail companies sell their products. He has been the founder and CEO of companies like Kirwin Productions and 3.5 (now Experticity). His most recent company, Channel Signal, works with clients like Microsoft, Under Armour, New Balance, and Black Diamond to collect, measure, and analyze product reviews. Paul was recently rated ‘one of the 10 most influential people in th...
Mar 02, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 3
Jim Harris, is an absolute bad ass, there’s really no other way to put it. He is an accomplished adventure photographer, athlete, and artist - and probably the most positive guy you’ll ever meet. His work has been featured in Powder Magazine, National Geographic, and in the catalogues of many prominent outdoor brands. Our conversation weaved in and out of topics like: recognizing opportunity when it knocks, finding your niche, embracing uncertainty, the curse of student loans, mental visualizati...
Feb 19, 2018•1 hr 12 min
