Rickey Gates is a Salomon sponsored runner, writer, and storyteller. He is the author of the upcoming book, Cross Country, written about his run across America—a project titled Transamericana that is also set to become a feature film. He is the creator of the Hut Run Hut retreat series, in its 7th year, as well as the Bus Run Bus guided adventure series in its 2nd year. In this episode, Rickey talks about how he fell in love with running, how its influenced his life at different moments, and the...
Oct 30, 2019•1 hr 19 min•Season 5Ep. 73
Nicole Deboom is the Founder and CEO of Skirt Sports, a former professional triathlete, host of the Run This World podcast, founder of the Running Start nonprofit, a wife and a mom. How does she have the time? Tune in to find out. Also discover how Nicole continues to evolve both personally and professionally with business pivots that feel more akin to a startup than a 15 year old apparel company, and the confidence factor to tackle any tough challenge ahead. Show notes: https://exploreinspired....
Oct 23, 2019•1 hr 27 min•Season 5Ep. 72
Simeon Baker is an Aussie made musician and photographer who dove head first into his passions, and the world. With little but a guitar and a dream, he up and left Australia, moved to London, and now spends his time playing music on the road, on the streets, and of course on YouTube and Instagram, while traveling in a T5 Van and photographing the world along the way. Learn what it takes to lean into your talents and the unknown, and embrace the attempt to build two somewhat lives into one. Show ...
Oct 16, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Season 5Ep. 71
From his high school dive team to the infamous cliffs of Colorado's Casa Bonita, and eventually to making a living as a professional cliff diver, content creator, and waterfall guide, Travis Sims is obsessed with pushing his personal and professional limits while building a community around cleaning up the places we play. Learn how Travis created a career out of jumping off massive cliffs and why he started the annual "Cliff Cruise" waterfall clean up tour. Show notes: https://exploreinspired.co...
Oct 09, 2019•1 hr 25 min•Season 5Ep. 70
It's an Emily and Jonathan episode ya'll! And after 68 of these stoke-filled inspiration sessions where we initially set out to tackle the concept of balancing work, life, and adventure while having fun and making a difference, we've just come to the conclusion that real balance is total BS. Tune in to hear what we mean! Plus! Don't miss the top Explore Inspired backcountry camping tip, and The Travel Stack travel resource directory. Show notes: https://exploreinspired.com/imbalance Hosts: Jonat...
Oct 02, 2019•50 min•Season 4Ep. 69
Andrew Muse is a professional multi-sport athlete, content creator, and social media influencer who consistently generates compelling and high production value content with his adventure dog Kicker by his side. In this episode we explore the circumstances of his youth, how an unstable family dynamic influenced his yearning for the wild west, the reason many of the most dramatic or impactful moments of his life happened when he left no other option on the table, and how the true meaning of advent...
Sep 25, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 68
Graham is an award-winning professional climber and well-recognized film maker in the outdoor industry. He works as a producer and the director of development with Bedrock Film Works through which he his able to utilize his extensive logistics, rigging, marketing and media expertise while maintaining his role as an athlete in the outdoor industry. Show notes: https://exploreinspired.com/grahamzimmerman Hosts: Jonathan Ronzio, Emily Holland Editor: Chris Plante Presented by: Explore Inspired...
Sep 18, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Season 4Ep. 67
Matty Hong is a professional rock climber and filmmaker. He grew up in Boulder, Colorado into a family of climbers and has been surrounded by the sport nearly his entire life. His passion for climbing stems from his parents—both pioneers in the sport and active first ascensionists since the early 90s. Raised in the dirt of Rifle Canyon, Matty quickly gained an appreciation for the outdoors and living on the road. Show notes: https://exploreinspired.com/mattyhong Hosts: Jonathan Ronzio, Emily Hol...
Sep 11, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 66
Karen Ramos is the founder of non-profit Get Out Stay Out (aka Vamos Afuera), an organization that connects indigenous-migrant children with the outdoors through hiking, camping, and backpacking adventures. But in words... ... is nothing more than your average and not-so-average Latinx- indigenous 20-something year old brown girl who stumbled, rolled, and straight up took a dive into rock bottom only to find and come to terms that maybe (cheese alert) all that was for a reason." Intrigued? Us to...
Sep 04, 2019•1 hr 20 min•Season 4Ep. 65
Alex is a sports nutritionist and mountain athlete passionate about helping people exceed their mountain dreams through the use of practical and wholesome nutrition, while pushing her limits during early morning dawn patrols and long days in the mountain. Alex was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, but after graduating college followed her lifelong dream of heading WEST. She accepted a job in Bellingham, Washington as the corporate dietitian for a local supermarket chain, and there she fell in ...
Aug 28, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 64
Jeanine Pesce is the go-to woman for tracking global active trends in action sports and outdoors. She is the founder and CEO of Range—an independent agency + magazine inspired by the culture of the modern outdoor movement—a former on-air style correspondent for Outside TV, a speaker, and trend consultant. In this episode, Jeanine candidly shares her entrepreneurial journey, from quitting her job at Stylesight to go all-in on Range. She also speaks to the process, places, and experiences she look...
Aug 21, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Season 4Ep. 63
In part 2 of the conversation with Uphill Athlete authors and founders, Steve House and Scott Johnston, Emily and Jonathan get candid advice and chat about their respective upcoming mountain goals—a 50k race and a rapid ascent of Pico de Orizaba! Get their take on how to prepare for such big objectives, what to expect from and how to handle the altitude, AND lastly of course, hear what Steve and Scott have to say about STOKE. Hint: "You Can't Coach Desire!" Plus, after the conversation wraps wit...
Aug 14, 2019•52 min•Season 4Ep. 62
Steve House is a world-renowned climber and mountain guide. Scott Johnston is an adventure and endurance athlete coach, a ski racer, and aerospace engineer. Together, they are the authors of Training for the New Alpinism, and Training for the Uphill Athlete. In the first ever two-part episode of The Stokecast, Emily and Jonathan chat with Scott and Steve about all things mountain running, ski mountaineering, their process for writing two of the most educational and impactful books for aspiring a...
Aug 08, 2019•57 min•Season 4Ep. 61
Gale Straub is a podcaster, photographer, and writer with a love for shaping stories that tell themselves. She is the founder of She Explores and host of the popular She Explores podcast. Show notes: https://exploreinspired.com/sheexplores Hosts: Jonathan Ronzio, Emily Holland Editor: Chris Plante Presented by: Explore Inspired
Jul 31, 2019•1 hr 23 min•Season 4Ep. 60
Nick Dio is Head of Education at The Sasha Group, master of ceremonies for Gary Vaynerchuk's 4Ds (Digital Discovery+ Deep Dive) workshop, WOLACO Creative Director, marathon runner, and (not really, but) NYC ambassador. Show notes: https://exploreinspired.com/nickdio Hosts: Jonathan Ronzio, Emily Holland Editor: Chris Plante Presented by: Explore Inspired
Jul 24, 2019•1 hr 31 min•Season 4Ep. 59
On episode 58, we're keeping it wild with Kimi Werner. Kimi is a Hawaiian freediver, US National Spearfishing Champion, conservationist and founder of Keep Wild Co—a company that makes reusable utensil kits packaged in recycled surf competition banners. She's also a certified culinary chef and you can find tons of great recipes on her blog. She's an artist, writer, and purely inspirational spirit that we were so excited to chat with. Hear how Kimi first fell in love with freediving by following ...
Jul 17, 2019•1 hr 24 min•Season 4Ep. 58
Australian influencers, bloggers, photographers, authors, Renee Roaming & Matthew Hahnel share their story and advice on building your dream life by channeling resilience, passion, determination, and just taking the initiative. Show notes: https://exploreinspired.com/roaming Hosts: Jonathan Ronzio, Emily Holland Editor: Chris Plante, CP Pro Audio Presented by: Explore Inspired
Jul 10, 2019•1 hr 29 min•Season 4Ep. 57
Jen Hudak is a retired professional skier, avid mountain biker, co-founder of Escapod Trailers, and a self-proclaimed Dream Believer. Jen takes us on a journey of self realization and following your true passions. While training and competing to be a potential Olympian, her body, her community and her family had other plans. She kept chasing this singular goal of becoming an Olympian, and subsequently, her love of the sport and her passions in life faded (after many injuries and terrible tragedi...
Jul 03, 2019•1 hr 32 min•Season 4Ep. 56
Jim Harris worked as a ski photographer and writer, for clients including National Geographic , until he was injured while snowkiting in Patagonia fracturing nine vertebra and was paralyzed from sternum down. It took over a week after the injury to reach definitive care where five of his nine broken vertebra were fused. It was an abrupt end not just to his photo and video livelihood, but to his mobility in the mountains too. Admittedly, he felt lucky that the doctor never told him he’d never wal...
Jun 26, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 55
Katie Boué is a Cuban-American outdoor advocate, freelance writer + social media expert, professional adventurer, climber, public speaker, former van-dweller, and public lands wonk. She is Miami-raised and traded flat Florida swamps for a life of exploring mountains, camping in the desert and playing in the snow. Boué currently lives in Salt Lake City, UT with her partner Brody Leven and her dog named Spaghetti. Katie’s love of being outside and sharing wild spaces is the focus of her work in th...
Jun 19, 2019•1 hr 17 min•Season 4Ep. 54
Episode 53 kicks off the start of a new year for The Stokecast! Learn what stoke means to our listeners with a handful of replies to our signature question, get goal updates from Emily and Jonathan, and hear about the challenges and wins throughout the past year of building this podcast. Presented by: Explore Inspired Hosts: Jonathan Ronzio, Emily Holland Editor: Chris Plante
Jun 12, 2019•53 min•Season 4Ep. 53
Emi Koch is a professional surfer, conservationist, educator, National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, and non-profit leader, making waves of difference around the world. Her non-profit organization, Beyond The Surface International, is empowering coastal communities through surfing lessons and visual storytelling workshops. On this episode of The Stokecast, learn how Emi gained traction as a professional surfer from a very young age, then decided to ditch the traditional path of the sponsore...
Jun 05, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 52
Lynsey Dyer is a professional skier who has won every big mountain competition she’s entered, been awarded Female Skier of the Year by Powder Magazine multiple times, and cemented her place as one of the best big mountain skiers in the world while inspiring a generation of young female athletes through popular TED talks on 'Ski Like A Girl' and filmmaking. As a director, Lynsey produced and directed the first and only all female ski film and founded a production company called Unicorn Picnic. Sh...
May 29, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Season 3Ep. 51
Drew Petersen is a passionate skier, mountain man, and burrito enthusiast based in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah. For this episode's notes, visit: https://exploreinspired.com/drewpetersen Hosts: Jonathan Ronzio, Emily Holland Editor: Chris Plante Presented by: Explore Inspired
May 22, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 50
On episode 49 of The Stokecast, photographer, mountain climber, speaker, former practicing lawyer, Scott Kranz, on his epic career transition, becoming a full-time creator, his North Cascades National Park 50 Peaks Project, and much more. Scott Kranz is a full-time commercial and editorial photographer and storyteller specializing in outdoor sports, outdoor lifestyle, landscape, and travel imagery. With a fiery passion for the mountains and all things outdoors, Scott Kranz specializes in capturi...
May 15, 2019•1 hr 17 min•Season 3Ep. 49
On episode 48 of The Stokecast, Baldface Lodge splitboard guide and experiential landscape artist Jessa Gilbert shares why she didn’t, or couldn’t, chose just one path. For the notes from this episode, visit: https://exploreinspired.com/jessagilbert Hosts: Jonathan Ronzio, Emily Holland Editor: Chris Plante Presented by: Explore Inspired
May 08, 2019•1 hr 13 min•Season 3Ep. 48
Mike Chambers is the co-founder of Summits Education and Flying Kites Academy, two non-profit organizations working to improve educational opportunities in Haiti and Kenya respectively. He is also a multi-faceted mountain athlete on the ambassador roster for brands like Merrell and MSR, and is the co-creator and host of Beat Monday, a new series on Outside TV all about making the most of the weekend. On this episode of The Stokecast, Mike chats with Jonathan and Emily about the "voluntourism" di...
May 01, 2019•1 hr 14 min•Season 3Ep. 47
Loki The Wolfdog is one of the most famous adventure pups on Instagram, and Kelly Lund is the man behind (and sometimes also in front) of the camera. But Kelly and Loki's adventures go well beyond the perfect Insta-photo. He's crafted this life with his 4-legged friend into quite the well-rounded business. Kelly and Loki have their paws in everything from sponsorships and ambassadorships, to travel campaigns and product collaborations, plus their own Lightroom presents, alignment with give back ...
Apr 24, 2019•1 hr 13 min•Season 3Ep. 46
Shannon Pereira, maybe better known as Pilot Shanelly, is a commercial airline pilot for Jet Blue, a world-traveler, dog-rescuer, and unapologetic dancer. On this episode of The Stokecast, she shares a unique perspective on the behind-the-scenes backbone of the travel industry, as well as commentary around being a female pilot when even today only 6% of pilots are women. Shannon, Emily, and Jonathan explore these topics as they relate to the broader adventure travel industry, and also dig into S...
Apr 17, 2019•1 hr 16 min•Season 3Ep. 45
Jeremy Jensen shares the many reasons he's leaving management consulting and Washington D.C. behind to head back West, out to Boulder, in pursuit of intentionally designing a more fulfilling life. Jensen is a skier, biker, and whitewater kayaker. He's also the creator and host of the Adventurepreneur Playbook podcast, a speaker and coach, the co-founder of the Outwild festival series, as well as the co-founder of Revive, where he's setting out to redefine how we work, travel, and live. In this e...
Apr 10, 2019•1 hr 18 min•Season 3Ep. 44
