Tarin It Up

In this episode, we meet Dani Reyes-Acosta, athlete, filmmaker, adventurer, and so much more! Dani shares her and her family’s background with us from their start generations ago in Colorado. We talk about her skiing from a young age to finding surfing and the ocean to eventually making her way back to the mountains and falling in love with snowboarding & splitboarding. She also tells us about her experience starting her own production company, Afuera Productions, and The Outlier film series, which aims to tell culturally acute stories in the outdoor industry.

We also discuss the importance of community and expanding our perspectives in the outdoors and the need to step outside of our comfort zones, and the value of reframing how we view our time outside and setting goals that are grounded in our own reality.

Follow Dani and her ventures: @notlostjustdiscovering, @outlierfilmseries, and @afuera_productions

Support the Outlier Film Series here: https://seedandspark.com/fund/outlier-common-film?token=3bc596035f26f349dce2760c0784fc8a87d55e4b611c6c5142f0860a80f3c66c#story

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I met Natalie back in 2018 at a gym in Truckee, CA where we were both working. This girl was the epitome of what my idea of a personal trainer was. I was awestruck. Then I met her, and was even more in love with this human! Her energy is contagious and she is the kindest most compassionate human. It didn’t take long before I learned about the loss of her brother on his first tour in the Army and uncovered layers of Natalie and how this was the catalyst for the way she lives her life today and the pursuits she takes on, like climbing Denali at the end of May.

Natalie found mountaineering in 2020 and found it to be incredibly healing for her. After a bit of a hiatus, she got back to it and set her sights on climbing Denali. The fact that it requires you to be entirely self-sufficient and in addition to carrying a heavy pack, you are also responsible for hauling a sled up the mountain, was appealing to her.

“This climb represents so much more than a summiting a mountain. It exemplifies the hardships faced when losing a loved one, the hurdles one must overcome in order to enter a space of healing and the community it requires in order to tackle such a feat.” – Natalie

Natalie is doing this climb to create awareness around Gold Star Families and Gold Star Sisters especially. She aims to raise 10k to sponsor a weekend retreat in the beautiful Bavarian village of Leavenworth, WA. The event will be an all-expense paid weekend for 6 sisters: 3 Gold Star sisters, 2 active duty sisters & one veteran sister. Please donate here to help Natalie reach her goal! She only has 2k to go!

Follow Natalie on IG: @diaryofanoverweightsuitcase and stay tuned for a live tracking link once she takes off on the climb in late May! Stay updated on her climb here: https://www.alpineascents.com/climbs/denali/cybercasts/

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Happy T & A Thursday (or whatever day you're listening to this)! This week Tarin and Amber want your feedback on lots of things! But mostly, what to do for their 100th episode! If you have any ideas, leave them here

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This week we had the Amazing Jen Kates of Shift Human Performance on the podcast! Jen has been a coach for over 15 years and has over 35 years of training experience by being a nerd on all things strength training and nutrition. Before starting Shift Human Performance, she worked in public health and biotech research for over 12 years. Now she helps humans get strong to shred!

In 2016 she was seeking to get out of the biotech industry and to chase her calling of being a coach full-time, so she made the leap and hasn’t looked back since! She saw the importance of both nutrition and physical training and longed to help busy professionals find a way to manage their health and wellness, sustainably. She is a mountain biker and loves spending time on two wheels on the dirt! We talk about strength training around mountain & gravel biking specifically and her amazing program, Shred Strong!

Listen to her podcast, Making Shift Happen!

Follow Jen on IG @shifthumanperformance and check out her website: www.shifthumanperformance.com

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Tarin is in Washington and she and Amber got to record in person! They talk about the importance of human connection, finding the right bras, karaoke, and of course biking!

Please help our friend, Jayme Hill, on her road to recovery. She was involved in a major mountain biking crash that resulted in numerous critical injuries, including six broken vertebrae, sixteen broken ribs, a broken scapula and sternum. She is currently hospitalized in Spokane, WA and will be there until she is stable enough to be transported back home to the Tacoma area. https://www.gofundme.com/f/jaymes-ride-to-recovery-fund

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It’s a new month! And it’s been a month since we’ve had a T & A catch up, so here it is! We chat about all the amazing guests we had for Women’s History Month and what we are excited about for the new season. As usual, we want to hear from you so find us on the gram and don’t forget to rate, review, & subscribe on you fav listening platform!

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We wrap up Women’s History Month with this amazing conversation with Andrea Kelly! Andrea is the CEO, Founder, and Advisor for Make Plus Equal, a size-inclusion consultancy in the Apparel Industry. As a plus-sized person herself, Andrea pairs consumer insights of lived experiences – hers, and others in the plus-sized community – with over 20 years of experience building apparel in the outdoor industry. With the goal that every body deserves equal access and equal choice to the apparel they need, regardless of size, Andrea guides brands and retailers as they work to become more inclusive in the products they sell, along with how they engage with and cater to a traditionally marginalized and overlooked community.

In this episode, we talk about personal experiences in finding outdoor gear and apparel that fit and function how they should. As well as how Andrea found herself starting her business and only more recently made it her full-time job. Proving that no matter what age you are, if you have a passion, a goal, a dream, and some fire behind it all, anything is possible.

Andrea was also voted by Outside Business Journal as one of 2022’s Twenty Most Influential People in the Outdoor Industry!

Follow on IG: @makeplusequal & @tarin.it.up.podcast

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This week we have three of the five women who make up the Sturdy Bitch Racing Team! Katie, Ady, and Jessica join us to talk all things Sturdy Dirty from how it started to this year’s 10th anniversary race! These women work year-round to make this all women’s enduro mountain bike race happen. Amber and I are so excited to race this year and to camp both nights and celebrate this big year!

The Sturdy Dirty is sooo much more than a bike race and we can’t wait to be a part of it again. Follow the team and all things race on Instagram: @Sturdydirtyenduro

https://www.sturdydirty.com/

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Spring is right around the corner, meaning so is mountain bike season! We are excited to chat with Cassie Abel of Wild Rye this week. Cassie has dedicated the last decade of her career to elevating women from the backcountry to the boardroom. After years of feeling like an afterthought in the outdoor space, Cassie founded Wild Rye in 2016 to bring women better apparel options for cycling, snowsports, and general outdoor recreation.

Wild Rye crafts women’s-first outdoor apparel that’s beautiful and technical, designed to inspire confidence and welcome more women into the outdoors. In addition, Cassie is the brains behind Women Led Wednesday, a Tory Burch Foundation fellow, a Forbes Next 1,000 honoree, The Outdoor Retailer Emerging Leader of 2023, a 3x All-American Lacrosse player, and a mom to 4-year-old Sawyer.

This episode will get you amped for biking and light that fire to take a chance on something you maybe didn’t know was your calling after all.

P.S. Their spring collection just launched! Check it out at https://wild-rye.com/ and follow them on IG at https://www.instagram.com/wild_rye_/

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