Loving the Snow Life

Risk is all around us, including in snow resorts and accidents do occasionally happen. How do we manage risk as skiers/ snowboarders? And what about the snow resorts themselves? Where is their responsibility and how do we check they're compliant? We chat with Director of ZeroRisk International, Tony Loughran about all these issues. He suggests some helpful tips for both skiers/snowboarders and the snow resort industry industry.

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Kieren Gaul, owner for Big Red Cats, Canada for many years and employer of many ski guides - delves deep into the world of ski guiding from both angles (client and potential ski guide trainee/wannabe). We discuss; how you get into ski guiding, the pay , caveats and opportunities. We look at the best and worst countries in terms of ski guide standards, why it's good to hire a ski guide on a snow holiday, what questions to ask, what standard of skier / snowboarder derives a benefit and so much more.

Emma and Tennille chat to Pamela Holt, creator of docu-series on Amazon Prime, 'Me, Myself & The World: The Art of Solo Travel'. We chat about Norway's Stryn resort and the Arctic circle and Antarctica and experiencing ancient icebergs and unique temperatures. We also venture into the art of solo travel and Pamela has some great tips and scripts for maximising your solo travel time, including what to say to other people when you're happy to be left alone, what to do when you're solo, benefits of solo travel and much more.

Emma and Tennille chat with Karen Sander and take a deep dive into Karen's fundraising trip to Mongolia, its environment, local people, road conditions, food and tourism. Hearing about Mongolia's snow and what kind of traveller would suit a fundraising trip like this, why is it not for everyone.

Tennille and Emma discuss various topics related to the travel industry, including the reasons why people are choosing to travel to Japan instead of North America for skiing, the allegations against Qantas for their financial gains during the pandemic, and the skiing and travel preferences of Australians. They also talked about ways to save money on ski holidays and the importance of cultural experiences and sustainability. They invited listeners to share their feedback and ideas for improving the ski holiday experience. 

If you're considering taking your kid/kids by yourself to the snow, this is the episode for you.

You may be rusty with the logistics or the whole thing seems daunting but you'd love to give your kids a 'snow experience'. We're here to help. In this episode we chat with Jo and she troubleshoots her most recent trip to Thredbo, with one of her kids.

We breakdown best options for transport when there's just one of you (parking, driving, snow chains, public transport), best way to buy lift tickets, ski school do's and dont's and is it worth the money if money is tight, do's and don't of borrowing other people's snow gear, food and snack options and much more.

Emma and Tennille chat to Sammie Gaul from Sammie's training base in New Zealand. They chat about the state of ski racing, the alpine ski racing team and competition itself, infrastructure, team spirit and what aspects of ski racing needs improvement. Kieran gives lots of great advice for families considering the ski racing route, including the financial aspects and makes interesting comparisons of present day ski racing to 'back in the day'.

Emma and Tennille chat to Snowy Hydro engineer, Khush about his experience with working on this Australian hydro electricity project as well as pick his brain about all things hydro electricity. And ask the questions you wanted to ask but may consider them 'silly questions'. We chat construction, history, how everything works, vision, cloud seeding and everything in between. It's your 'non-boring science and history lesson' rolled into one.

Keiran Gaul is a pioneer in the cat skiing business, setting up Big Red Cats in British Columbia, Canada, a massive accomplishment. He talks with Emma and Tennille about investing in your dream idea, starting from scratch in a business when you have no former knowledge or experience, cat skiing (what is it and why do it?), tree skiing, raising a family alongside a growing business and his bowel cancer diagnosis.

Emma and Tennille chat to Teen Intrapreneur award winner, Seb and his mate and co-creator Luke about their Execute Skiing brand and the social media scene. We talk about the phenomenal growth of their account in such a short time, how and why they started it, TikTok, instagram and other platforms. Getting over the fear of posting original content, reusing content and/or very simple scenes. Developing a formula for your target audience, use of well-known audio movie scenes and trending one-liners. Editing tips, best editing apps, which apps or software is easy to learn, ideal lengths of clips, attention spans of audience, account audits, harnessing non-following accounts, value-driven content and so much more.