Chasing Aces

My guest today is a total badass. She is most commonly known for her extreme skiing exploits in the mountains of Alaska, but to call her a skier would be like calling the earth a rock. Angel Collinson is a life ninja. A true force with the desire to rewrite the rules of life and the passion to see it through. Her vision for picking out ski lines is far outmatched by her vision for life. We talked about meditation, life, death, fear, mental health, climate and of course skiing. Honestly, this conversation could have continued for hours, and I look forward to my next conversation with Angel. Please welcome, today’s Ace, Angel Collinson.

Jay is highly accomplished ski and outdoor photographer who left a career in finance to spend more time in the outdoors. We had a good chat about how he made the jump from the corporate world to the outdoors and things he learned along the way. He’s an inspiration to me as a photographer, but also for the dedication he has for pursuing a life that makes him happy. 

Andrew is a great friend of mine and one of the first people who I became friends with after moving to Utah. He is a professional triathlete who specializes in Extreme Triathlons, professional mountain runner and all around mountain athlete. He’s also a doctor of physical therapy, an endurance coach and he’s been a force in my life over the past three years in pushing me to take my fitness and skill in the mountains to the next level. Andrew is without a doubt one of the most disciplined athletes who I’ve ever met or trained with and an extremely uplifting person. I was so good to catch up with him and I hope you enjoy it. Please welcome to the show, today’s Ace, Andrew Fast. 

Thanks so much for listening to this episode of the podcast. Follow, subscribe, email, message and give me some feedback. Let me know who you want to hear and what you want us to chat about. Until then, see ya!

My guest today is Creighton Baird. Creighton is a fascinating guy. I met Creighton several years ago in the Tetons and immediately realized that he has an enormous zest for life. He’s a climber, skier, hunter, sky diver and for the majority of his 20s he spent a lot of his time rigging backcountry rope swings in the Utah desert. Creighton showed up with a bottle of scotch and a head full of stories and we went down the rabbit hole of life, risk, adventure and Creighton’s own personal decision to dial things back in the hopes of starting a family. It was a great conversation. It was long and rich and I hope you enjoy it. Please welcome to the show, today’s Ace, Creighton Baird. 

Thank you so much for listening to this episode of the podcast. I was a long one but a good one. I really hope you enjoyed it. To learn more about Creighton you can follow him @creightonbaird on Instagram

My guest today is Julian Carr. Widely recognized for the biggest airs in skiing, Julian Carr has been featured in seven Warren Miller films, developing a reputation not only for big airs, but for all around skiing. He's received a 'Photo of the Year' award from Powder Magazine, won the prestigious Sickbird Award on the Freeskiing World Tour, X-Games GOLD Medalist, 3rd Place in esteemed Powder Magazine Reader Poll, & he holds two world records in cliff height. Julian serves as an ambassador for Protect Our Winters (POW), Climate Reality Project, & board member of Lands Conservation Foundation.  He's the founder of Discrete Clothing. Most recently, Julian founded a mountain running series, the Cirque Series, which is in its fourth season. 

For more information please visit Julian at http://juliancarr.squarespace.com/ or https://www.cirqueseries.com/. Also you can find Julian on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/juliancarr/ 

Butch Roussel is an entrepreneur, athlete and forward thinking community leader in Lafayette Lousiana. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University in Biotechnology Business and he manages clinical trials for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies through his company Vivo Research. He is also the founder of a community organization, Civicside, that hosts an annual event called the 24 Hour Citizen Project. The event connects citizens with expertise and financial backers to make community-focused ideas a reality. The organization is responsible for nearly $80,000 in private funds towards 15 public projects. 

To find out more about Butch and the 24 hour citizen project you can check out his website at www.24hourcitizenproject.com

My guest today has a true sense of adventure, and true to form, we asked her this morning to join us and she said “I’ll see you at 4pm.” Her name is Rachael Burks. Racheal is a professional skier who competed for several years as a free skier on the freeride world tour. She’s skied all over the world and in the process found happiness in her life as a skier rather than chasing a life of money and material possessions. I gotta tell you. After the conversation, I have a crazy amount of respect for Rachael. She’s not only a skier. She’s open to pretty much anything that might bring her happiness. She says yes a lot and truly lives life to the fullest. She is also a very inspiring person who works to help young kids find a life in skiing and she’s an advocate for women in the outdoors and especially in the sport of freeride skiing. Please welcome to the podcast, today’s Ace, Rachael Burks. 

Thanks so much for joining in for this episode of the podcast. To find out more about Rachael you can follow her on Instagram at @rachaelburks.

My guest today is Tyler LaFleur. Tyler is a performance coach, a functional medicine practitioner and is the CEO of HPHI. Through his company, he offers health coaching and executive performance coaching with the purpose of transforming individuals and organizations through facilitating the learning of the discipline and self master required to deserve their goals and achieve outstanding levels of health and performance. He has been in the health and wellness coaching industry for 12 years and he’s a person that I trust deeply  with my own health and fitness goals. He has helped me in the past to cut weight for cycling, fuel my body better for performance and learn more about my own body and how well I recover from stress and absorb training. He’s a fascinating person and if you’re a person who constantly tries to squeeze more performance out of life, you’re going to want to listen to the things his has to say. 

To learn more about Tyler, you can follow him on instagram at @hphi.life or on his website at www.hphi.life

My guest today is a phenomenal athlete and very inspiring person. Her name is Mali Noyes. Mali grew up with a true love and respect for the outdoors. She’s currently a professional skier and trail runner for Salamon. She’s also been a river guide, a division 1 nordic skier at the University of Utah and a free skier who competed on the freeride world tour. There’s no other way to say it. Mali is a total beast. We talked about her life in the mountains and her life on the river. We got into the details of her winter WURL circumnavigating Little Cottonwood Canyon here in Utah while skiing various lines and things she learned along the way. I really enjoyed this conversation and I think you will too. Please welcome to the podcast, today’s Ace, Mali Noyes. 

Thanks for listening to the podcast. I really hope you enjoyed it. If you want to learn more about Mali you can follow her on Instagram at @malinoyes.

My guest today is Jason Cohen. Jason is an incredibly difficult person to summarize in a few sentences. He’s a photographer, cinematographer, cyclist, runner, father and a fascinating human with an extraordinary amount of self determination and drive. A few years ago, Jason looked down and the scale and saw that he weight 297 lbs. In that moment he promised himself that it would never go to 300 and he began taking control of his life. Seven years later Jason toed the line of the Leadville Trail 100 and 29 hours and 25 minutes later, he had run 100 miles through the mountains of Colorado at the weight of 175 lbs. He’s a great friend of mine. He’s what I would consider an Ace and he’s the person who convinced me to start this podcast so it’s only fitting that he jump in with me as my partner and producer. Please welcome to the podcast, today’s Ace, Jason Cohen. 

Thanks for listening to the podcast. I really hope you enjoyed it. If you want to learn more about Jason follow him on Instagram at @jason_cohen or online at jasoncohenphoto.com