In this episode, I sit down with Alex Armstrong, a pro skier based in Squamish, BC. We recorded this about ten months ago, but her energy and insights are still just as impactful. Originally from Ontario, Alex moved to Alberta for the Rockies before making her way to the coast. She's a powerhouse—driven, self-aware, and pushing the sport forward. Plus, her philanthropic spirit really stands out. I’m excited to share this conversation and can’t wait to see where she’s headed next. Hope you’re as ...
Sep 24, 2024•52 min
In memoriam a re-release of my fourth podcast with Momma Jan. Jan Phelan, Mother to Sarah talks about little Sarah and her gracious journey to be the woman she became to be on skis and off. She was a bright light and pioneer for woman in freestyle skiing. She successfully lobbied the IOC to have the event included in the Olympic program for 2014. She was a five-time Winter X Games gold medallist and won the world championship in the halfpipe in 2005.
Sep 09, 2023•1 hr
I sat down with Celeste this spring, and then the world moved in all different directions, and I’m just getting this out now. My apologies, but it’s worth the wait, and I’m happy to report that I’m back for another batch of podcasting… hoping for a weekly installment. But we’ll see. Celeste lives in Squamish, BC, where we recorded this, and I came into this conversation a bit hot on her Sailing ski trip in Norway because I had just watched ‘Wavy 2’ on YouTube. It’s a ski documentary backed by he...
Aug 09, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 3Ep. 68
Juliette Pelchat is a force on a snowboard, but it was her work with RWK // Real Wild Kittens that touched me the most! A Girl Shred Movement to promote female involvement in male dominant sports. Watching her and her sister empower girls on skateboards and in life makes me excited for the future. I was very excited to see that she won the Sarah Burke scholarship this year. I know that Sarah would be proud … She’s got a lot of insight and drive far behind her eighteen years and I think we can th...
Apr 10, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Season 3Ep. 67
With dozens of overseas deployments in the wake of natural disasters, wars, and both underserviced and politically charged areas of the world. One of the biggest takeaways from this interview comes from looking at people at a human or individual level, beyond their conditioning or current events. Empathy and compassion are two things we should embrace locally and globally. I gained a lot of perspective about life and death beyond my very privileged existence, and I love how curious Ian is about ...
Mar 26, 2023•1 hr 27 min•Season 3Ep. 66
Claire and I were born in the same year, the year of the horse, and according to the Chinese zodiac, it symbolizes Power, beauty, and freedom—all qualities I see in Claire. I’ve been looking at Claire for two decades. We used to work on the same block in Whistler, and I’ve always thought of her as a gentle being. And I always thought she was gentle until she straddles a bike… but upon interviewing her, I realized that her true strength and longevity come from her smooth style. Claire is calculat...
Mar 12, 2023•56 min•Season 3Ep. 65
By the time you listen to this, Chris Christie will be three weeks out from retirement as a career firefighter in West Vancouver. He’s 53 years old, has the fitness level of a man half his age, and is a talent behind the lens, and I’m excited to see what comes next as the pension kicks in. From the outside looking in, he’s managed to almost seemingly merge an early life as an athlete into a first responder and then adventure photographer rooted in expeditions. These three things have allowed him...
Feb 26, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Season 3Ep. 64
I learn a lot in this episode. I learn about myself, life, farming, Kitt (of course), routes I never even knew I wanted to tour, and the time I want to take for myself, and how not to skirt responsibilities but ultimately lean into them. Kitt describes herself as an observer of life, which I can relate to... However, she takes a lot of action, and I think I’m more prone to being passive. Or lately, I have felt that way. So, in addition to learning about myself, I was moved and inspired to take m...
Feb 12, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 3Ep. 63
Meet Adam Campbell. Many of you will know him as an ultra-athlete, a man who has known great tragedy or simply a partner in the mountains. Tragedy was how I first learned of this man, but upon a few google searches, I uncovered his third culture upbringing in Africa. He was raised in Lagos, Nigeria, for much of his formative life, and I love hearing about what it was like growing up in Africa in the 80s… how he found his stride in running as a late teen and then how he has always followed a path...
Jan 30, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Season 3Ep. 62
Darcy is actually my hero but I kept it kind of cool when I was interviewing her. She’s an award-winning filmmaker, retired professional athlete, friend, wife and mother. She has captured and shared so many diverse topics (long before they caught the main streams) in her documentaries, commercial work and works of fiction. I found the entire conversation to be illuminating and yet the most profound thing she said to me is that her inner child is intact. She spends her life and time creating and ...
Jan 15, 2023•1 hr 15 min
2022 was fast/slow and it has been 364 days since I put a new podcast out for the Lawless Podcast. And, this one is as good as it gets. Andréane Lanthier Nadeau or ALN for short is as much a force on her bike as she is armed with her knitting needles. She’s a transplant from Quebec and calls Squamish home. She’s a member of the Rocky Mountain Race Face Enduro team and finished the world enduro series seated in eighth place. Of course, we talk about the love of mountain biking, and racing and ho...
Jan 01, 2023•1 hr 27 min•Season 3Ep. 60
Mat the Alien had a life changing mountain bike crash in October of 2020 and he’s been on a wild road to recovery and adapting. We talk about becoming Mat the Alien, how he’s making more music than ever as well as how life looks a lot different when you are a six foot five man who finds himself in a wheelchair. Together with Mat and a bunch of his friends we are going to put together a REALLY GOOD FUNDRAISER to raise some funds to get Mat out of his Toyota Corolla and into a modified van so he c...
Jan 02, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 59
On March 17th, 2013 Alain Duguay and his friends found themselves in the path of an avalanche that was classified as a size 3.5. They were in Cherry Bowl in Terrace BC and in terms of the avalanche’s destruction -- it’s right in between being able to bury a car, destroy a small building or break trees and being able to destroy a railway car. It’s a happy ending as he and his friends were rescued by four Terrace locals and serves as a living testament to what it feels like to be buried alive and ...
Dec 22, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 58
Meghaan is an internationally recognized Award-winning Northwest Coast Artist that travels the world as an artist, a student, a teacher, a keynote speaker and a snowboarder and yet I think her greatest work lies in the way she has woven together all facets of her life and remains rooted and connected to all parts of herself, her ancestors, culture, sport and beliefs. I encourage you to check out her website Meghaan Obrien.com and read about her thoughts on fast fashion, indigenous fashion and an...
Nov 27, 2020•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 57
So this is a short little interview with Zoya Lynch the director of the film Motherload. This film is near and dear to my heart because it was directed by Zoya who was episode 45 of the Lawless Podcast. But also, because it is a film about two Strong single Moms Izzy Lynch and Tessa Treadway . Tessa Treadway has always taken up residence in my heart. I loved her as soon as I met her through her late husband Dave Treadway who passed away in a skiing accident in April of 2019. You can watch it as ...
Nov 18, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 56
Dr. Amber Kirk // is a chiropractor and a force of nature. She’s helping me on my path to wellness and I think by the time you finish this episode you’ll be in a different path or atleast looking towards one. She is the bridge between science, spiritualism and two-stroke therapies. A real Squamish lady who has so much of the knowledge but has someone how found the truth that binds it all together and is able to deliver that to clients as she improves our human performance. Excited and honoured t...
Nov 14, 2020•1 hr 43 min•Season 1Ep. 55
Amalia ‘Billy’ Pelchat is on her way to becoming a legit pro snowboarder but I love how she inspires girls to get on their skateboards by hosting girls skateboard camps where everyone feels comfortable to put themselves out there. I think Whistler is proud to have born and bred this young lady who is gracious, focused, kind, goal driven, positive, passionate and all around inspirational human. Plus she is very good at explaining complex things like tik tok and making lava cakes....
Oct 31, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 54
Jon Roth… he’s a very honest, humble, compassionate, man who has good style and a family many would envy. His wife Tasha is a deeply layered woman of wisdom and their son Kai Ocean is the cutest and rocks an extra chromosome. Jon was a pro skateboarder and snowboarder in his teens and made quite a name for himself and then the pendulum swung the other way and he found himself in a chair.. apprenticing to become a barber, he now owns a chain of barber shops all over Canada and spills out in Hawai...
Oct 22, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 53
This podcast begins with Kevin telling me about his new diagnosis of life with thyroid cancer, a tumour in-between his heart and lungs and complications with his liver. And I think that puts this conversation into such perspective. He’s a man of so much positivity, wisdom and is someone I’ve been lucky to call a friend for upwards of 8 years now. Plus he’s a real force as an athlete, photographer and has a real passion for oceanography and explaining it to me in layman terms. Thank-you Kevin McH...
Jul 22, 2020•1 hr 42 min•Season 1Ep. 52
In the words of my next guest, he has no agenda aside from living a good life. He has been on the forefront of sport in our mountains and we take a nice little tour in the early days of life travelling and cruising around Alaska with tokens that took you to any peak you wanted. And he has carved out a life for himself and his family in Whistler, BC.
Jul 15, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Tobin Sea Gull is a gem. He’s smart, strategic and might appear to be the complete package. As he balances work, the environment, sport, giving back and agreeing to do my podcast. WE really chat it up here as we go into the young Tobin days right up until present day, I now, know his routine before he goes to bed and what he and his girlfriend are doing fo their summer vacay. He is a sponsored skier and a biologist that began his professional life as an athlete via Sport Climbing in his teens. B...
Jul 08, 2020•1 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 50
I’ve always known Chad Chomlack to be a very agreeable man. He always has a quick smile and after this podcast I now know that he is a man of great integrity and depth and man he really did dive into the podcast with so much honesty and truth… which I suppose is the same as honesty. And I learnt a lot more about him, Young Chad on a mission… and how valuable he is for our community and our larger community of humans. I think this weeks podcast has me thinking a little deeper on how I can contrib...
Jul 01, 2020•1 hr 42 min•Season 1Ep. 49
What to say about Mike Douglas he has dedicated himself to doing more for skiing than anybody, literally shaping the sport of freeskiing. He produces a lot of film and short pieces that push the narrative of action sports and blend it with meaning and purpuse. He continually pushes forward in all areas of his life. Notably, his work with Protect our Winters Canada is what has captured my heart as of late. Enjoy one of Whistler's favourite people.
Jun 22, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Jamie Crane-Mauzy who heils from Utah, USA. She was a freestyle skier who landed the first double back flip in competition at the X-games in 2013. And then in 2015 she crashed on a slopestyle run in Whistler BC and almost lost her life. She had a traumatic brain injury and was bleeding from 8 different parts of her brain. But, she is so much more than a survivor. Her determination to excellence keeps pushing her as she pivots in life but remains a force of positivity and hope. We talk about her ...
May 24, 2020•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 47
If I could chat with her for a few days I would. Jessa Gilbert is a very accomplished artist, snowboarder, adventurer and human. She lives in Nelson, BC where we chatted remotely from. She’s got a lot to say about life and I think it comes down to her passionate pursuit of living a good life. I love how she seamlessly moves through life in pencil, pen or paintbrush in hand… she synthesizes so many aspects of life that wouldn’t normally go together and I think that is felt in all of her pieces. T...
May 17, 2020•2 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 46
My next guest is SUCH a talent. She's not scared of getting deep in our talks and we chat about everything. She's a skier, a photographer, a filmmaker, a story-teller, a dreamer, a doer and my new favourite. I love her approach to life and how she says 'yes' to what comes her way and then makes it happen. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Her body of work is prolific, award-winning and captures life in these perfect light-filled moments. ⠀
May 10, 2020•1 hr 59 min•Season 1Ep. 45
In the wake of the Covid-19 Coronavirus Pandemic I decided I would like to chat with different people from different industries to hear how everybody is doing. This lady Maralise caught my attention for the on-line auction she started to support Canadian Retailers. Her retail agency MAKE GOOD AGENCY only works with brands that give back and do more than just sell. Heart Centered Businesses for the win.
May 06, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 44
At 33 years of age, Grete Eliassen seems to have lived a million lives. Having grown up in both the United States of America and Norway, was a Red Bull athlete, competed at a world stage (and podiumed in all of these disciplines of skiing) in Slalom, Super G, Halfpipe, Hip Jump (which I’ve never even heard of), Slopestyle, Freeskiing Comps. She is a Mother of two boys (two and three years old), a wife, was the president of the Women’s Sport Foundation, a University Graduate and was a pseudo litt...
May 03, 2020•1 hr 38 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Robin is a force both on and off of a snowboard. She’s known for ripping big lines in the backcountry, but I think her true talent lies in her incessant positivity. We chat with her while she’s in her apocalyptic property on Vancouver Island. And now I want to live off grid.
Apr 29, 2020•1 hr 39 min•Season 1Ep. 42
This is the first (of many – I am sure) of a new series I am calling THE QUARANTINE SESSIONS – tales from our cribs. And I’m delighted that my first guest in the series is Chris Rubens of Revelstoke, British Columbia (where we are chatting from remotely). Chris is a very solid, woke individual that gives a lot to his sport, the community and the world. He grew up in Canmore, BC with another favourite Eric Hjorleifson (#ep23). If there was one thing I took away from this podcast is that what we d...
Mar 30, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 41
