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190. Lexi duPont, Pro Skier · Hurdle with Emily Abbate

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  Speaker 1: Fear is something that we can practice and our comfort
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  Speaker 1: with fear. Befriending fear is kind of like a superpower.
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  Speaker 1: And you know when I get those those nervous feelings
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  Speaker 1: or those butterflies, I've learned to enjoy that feeling and
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  Speaker 1: to like harness it into energy to perpetuate me forward
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  Speaker 1: instead of paralyzing me.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good afternoon, Good evening.
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  Speaker 3: Emily Evadi here come to you live from the Age Studio.
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  Speaker 3: You are listening to Hurdle, a wellness focused podcast where
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  Speaker 3: you can stride towards your own own big potential and
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  Speaker 3: of course have some fun along the way. For episode
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and ninety, I am bringing you my conversation
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  Speaker 3: with pro skier Lexi DuPont, and this is on the
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  Speaker 3: heels of a wildly successful week here on the show,
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  Speaker 3: The Turning the Page series. Loved all of your positive
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  Speaker 3: feedback and I really hope that it gave you, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the motivation, the inspiration that you need to start this
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  Speaker 3: next three sixty five off on the right foot. Also
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  Speaker 3: huge day for Hurdle last goodness Friday.
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  Speaker 2: When we were featured on the Today Show.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, I was walking around Soho in Manhattan when I
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  Speaker 3: started to get tags from people and I looked at
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  Speaker 3: my phone and one of the tags was my face
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  Speaker 3: on their.
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  Speaker 2: Television and I was like, what is going on?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, such an exciting day. A huge thank
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  Speaker 3: you to past Hurdle guest Yasmin Chayenne for throwing us
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  Speaker 3: into the mix when it came to selecting their favorite
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  Speaker 3: podcasts to start the new year with. Looks like we're
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  Speaker 3: starting things off on the right foot. Anyway, I digress.
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  Speaker 2: Lexi. It's all about Lexi. Today.
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  Speaker 3: Lexi and I are talking about her crazy endeavors. I mean, yes,
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  Speaker 3: this woman is a pro skier, but she has so
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  Speaker 3: many other interests that made her.
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  Speaker 2: One of the most interesting people to talk to.
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  Speaker 3: Aside from making a name for herself in the skiing industry,
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  Speaker 3: this woman has an affinity for so many different types
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  Speaker 3: of movement and sport, ranging from hiking. We talk about
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  Speaker 3: her climbing Mount Kilmanjaro too. Now she's actually a pilot,
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  Speaker 3: and we talk about the big aspirations she has when
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  Speaker 3: it comes to that.
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  Speaker 2: Lexi is so insightful.
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  Speaker 3: We have a really special conversation around the topic of
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  Speaker 3: fear and she fills us in all about her wild
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  Speaker 3: card spot on the Freeride World Tour, taking her some
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  Speaker 3: really awesome places starting this month. A huge kudos to
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  Speaker 3: Lexi for all of her accomplishments.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, girl for your time, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: excited to bring this one to the feed.
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  Speaker 3: Before we get into it today, I do want to
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  Speaker 3: With that, let's get to hurdling.
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  Speaker 2: Today.
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  Speaker 3: I am sitting down with Lexi DuPont. She is a
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  Speaker 3: pro skier. She also has some other cool things that
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  Speaker 3: we can throw into the resume, but I'll let her
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  Speaker 3: expand on those in just a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: So Lexi, how do you do it today?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I'm great, just up here in Canada watching the snow fall.
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  Speaker 3: It's wonderful watching the snow fall. We haven't had a
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  Speaker 3: lot of that here just yet. I'm in Brooklyn, not Canada,
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  Speaker 3: but I feel like I kind of miss pre the
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  Speaker 3: last two to three years when snow was a more
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  Speaker 3: regular occurrence.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, yeah, well, New York. It's the holidays, right,
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  Speaker 1: so you've got the New York holiday vibes. That's incredible.
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  Speaker 2: They are very special.
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  Speaker 3: I will say that speaking of snow, amazing time of
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  Speaker 3: year for you to be getting out there. I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: you said you just got back to Canada before we
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  Speaker 3: hopped into the recording.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I built a house up here in Revelstoke, British Columbia
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  Speaker 1: and finished like twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 4: Had six months in my new home, and then COVID.
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  Speaker 1: And so had to leave the country and I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: don't worry, friends, Like, I'll be back in a couple
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  Speaker 1: of months. They can't keep the borders closed that long.
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  Speaker 1: And fifteen months later made it back up to Canada
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  Speaker 1: to my house. I had left with like a small
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  Speaker 1: Duffel bag, my mountain bike and a surfboard, just you know,
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  Speaker 1: to get me through this summer. And then all last winter,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, all I'd have is bikini our bikinis
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  Speaker 1: and like ankle socks. This isn't gonna work.
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  Speaker 3: A small Duffel bag and a surfboard and a bikini.
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  Speaker 3: It sounds like a pretty like idyllic way to live.
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  Speaker 3: It also alludes to the fact that you don't just ski.
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  Speaker 3: Have you always been a super active person?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean my whole life.
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  Speaker 1: My parents when I was younger really encouraged me to
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  Speaker 1: try everything. So I was always doing you know, one
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  Speaker 1: hundred different sports at once. And then once skiing, I
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  Speaker 1: got really good at skiing and it was going well.
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  Speaker 1: It was like, okay, this is taking up a lot
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  Speaker 1: of my time. I kind of have to now pick
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  Speaker 1: and choose which sports I want to do, and just
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  Speaker 1: started dedicating most of my time to skiing. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean winter is seasonal, right, so we do travel
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  Speaker 1: and chase snow in the summertime, whether we go to
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  Speaker 1: South America to Chile or Argentina or Australia New Zealand.
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  Speaker 4: But that's you know, a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: And the rest of the time, it's like, I love surfing,
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  Speaker 1: so surfing's become a big part of my life.
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  Speaker 4: Mountain biking, the.
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  Speaker 1: Mountainers have so much to offer in the summer, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's rock climbing, mountain biking, hiking. And then my partner
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  Speaker 1: actually lives in Kawai, so we're spending a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time on the North Show over there surfing.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, it's cool to talk to someone who did have
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  Speaker 3: a super active upbringing like my parents. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: I still am trying to encourage them to move more
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  Speaker 3: regularly and like trying to find like little quick fixes
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  Speaker 3: or like tools to get them to just get out there.
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  Speaker 3: Whether that's like eyeing my mom a kayak for Christmas
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  Speaker 3: or getting my dad a tonal.
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  Speaker 2: So everyone's different.
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  Speaker 3: But for you growing up in this like super active family,
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  Speaker 3: what was it really like for you?
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  Speaker 1: I mean it was amazing. That's what we did as
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  Speaker 1: a family. We played outside.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 1: It was like if you didn't want to come, then
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  Speaker 1: you're you're home alone. And that wasn't fun. So they
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  Speaker 1: didn't get as many options. It was like You're getting
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  Speaker 1: in the car, We're going to the ski hill, We're
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  Speaker 1: going backpacking, you know, we're doing these things.
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  Speaker 4: Otherwise you're home alone. So yeah, and then recently.
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  Speaker 1: I became a bush pilot, So I've been flying airplanes
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  Speaker 1: and it's one of my It's just such an amazing
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  Speaker 1: thing to be able to do. Like I find my
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  Speaker 1: body is in line when I'm using my mind, body
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  Speaker 1: and spirit together, and flying is definitely a huge mental part.
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  Speaker 1: Like you, it's multicat tasking to the next level. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: my brain is growing with the flying aspect. And I
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  Speaker 1: get to go to all these really cool places. And
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  Speaker 1: there's so many backcountry landing strips in Idaho where we
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  Speaker 1: are in the summertime and you go, you know, fly
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  Speaker 1: into a little landing ship and go hot springing or
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  Speaker 1: hiking or fly fishing or Yeah, it's mostly you know,
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  Speaker 1: growing up in the mountains. I'd have to say, yes,
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  Speaker 1: my family was a big part of it. But the
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  Speaker 1: mountains themselves are so inspiring that you just can't help
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  Speaker 1: but get out out in them.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's so cool too, because I feel like when
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  Speaker 3: you start at that young of an age, like the
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  Speaker 3: great thing about kids in sports is like they don't
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  Speaker 3: have a lot of the fears or like inhibitions that
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  Speaker 3: adults might bring to them if they're like brand new
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  Speaker 3: to any particular sport. So for you getting on skis
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  Speaker 3: as such a young kid, that must have been such
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  Speaker 3: a game changer for what you were able to do
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  Speaker 3: coming of age.
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  Speaker 4: Oh one hundred percent. I mean this. Kids are little sponges,
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 1: They say if you want to learn a language, like,
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  Speaker 1: teach your kid a language at a young age because
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  Speaker 1: they'll have it forever and their brains are just open
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  Speaker 1: to it. But that's the same with skiing and sports
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  Speaker 1: like skiing. I learned to ski when I was two
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  Speaker 1: years old, and it like walking to me. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it was like, not only was it so fun, but
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of We were joking the other night at
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  Speaker 1: dinner that the ski hills I had some of my
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  Speaker 1: ski girlfriends over here. Have we've been friends forever? It
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  Speaker 1: was like the ski hill was our first nanny, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like mom and dad would drop us off and give
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  Speaker 1: us ten bucks for lunch, and you just went and
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  Speaker 1: played on the mountain all day. And that's that's where
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  Speaker 1: all of our friends hung out. And so I'm just
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  Speaker 1: so comfortable. It's second nature for me to slide down
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  Speaker 1: mountains and down snow. I'm so appreciative of that that
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  Speaker 1: my parents introduced me at a young age.
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  Speaker 3: Do you as like most I'm sure every skier does,
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  Speaker 3: like remembers the first time that they took like a
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  Speaker 3: tumble that like really scared the hell out of them.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember yours?
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  Speaker 1: Mine actually happened later in life. It was probably like
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  Speaker 1: ten years ago. I mean, I'm sure I fell a
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  Speaker 1: lot learning to ski, but they kind of disappeared because
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  Speaker 1: I just remember the fun times, but yeah, it was
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  Speaker 1: a while ago. Here in Revelstoke. Actually there's this kuar.
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  Speaker 1: So a kupar is a strip of snow between two
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  Speaker 1: rocks on either side, so you'll see like look at
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  Speaker 1: a mountain, you'll see this like white line coming down,
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  Speaker 1: so they're pretty narrow, right, And I was skiing down.
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  Speaker 1: It's called the sickle because it kind of looks like
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  Speaker 1: a you know, like a sickle knife.
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  Speaker 4: And I was skiing down.
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  Speaker 1: And like this, every turn you make, you kind of
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  Speaker 1: start a little mini avalanche with you. Like it's not
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  Speaker 1: gonna it just starts to pick up speed. It's just
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  Speaker 1: smooth snow.
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  Speaker 4: Moving with you.
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  Speaker 1: But by the end there's so much of it, and
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  Speaker 1: it just took me off my feet and I tumbled
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  Speaker 1: a good like seven hundred feet down this mountain.
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  Speaker 4: And we call it tomahawking.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's basically like when you throw a tomahawk through
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  Speaker 1: the air, it just spins, you know, head over butt
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  Speaker 1: head over, butt over and over. And so tomahawking down
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  Speaker 1: the mountain picking up speed, and I thought I knew
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  Speaker 1: at the bottom there was this big cliff and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, I'm going over this cliff,
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  Speaker 1: like this is gonna.
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  Speaker 4: Be the end.
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  Speaker 1: Like I had that near death moment, like the life
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  Speaker 1: flashing before your eyes type of situation, and came to
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  Speaker 1: a stop and just did like the whole body scan,
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  Speaker 1: tapped my head like, took a deep breath, got the
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  Speaker 1: snow out of my mouth, and was like I'm okay,
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  Speaker 1: totally fine, Like not a single scratch on me, like
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  Speaker 1: obviously like a little sore, but like nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, very lucky. So that one stands out for sure. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: And when you like after you kind of like spit
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  Speaker 3: the snow out of your mouth and like realize that
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  Speaker 3: your physical body was still a thing, Like were you
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  Speaker 3: picked up?
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  Speaker 2: What happened with that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: So then after that we were filming, right, that's what
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  Speaker 1: we do a lot with skiing, as we make these
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  Speaker 1: ski films, And the filmer was on the opposite mountain,
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  Speaker 1: and I got to watch the shot later and it
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  Speaker 1: was pretty terrifying. But I also had my friend who
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  Speaker 1: had up skied down before me, and he was tucked
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  Speaker 1: up under the cliff, and so I just got on
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  Speaker 1: the radio and I was like I'm okay and traverse,
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  Speaker 1: so like skied horizontally across the mountain to this way
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  Speaker 1: I could exit down and then the helicopter. We were
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  Speaker 1: heally skiing, so the helicopter picked us up.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that's nuts.
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  Speaker 3: And in skiing you are, you know, conquering so many
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  Speaker 3: different mountains, but and a completely different side of the
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  Speaker 3: coin here, you also have done insane things like climb them. Specifically,
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  Speaker 3: I'm talking about you climbing Mount Kilmanjaro, So talk to
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  Speaker 3: me about how that became something that was on your radar.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Kilmnjaro specifically. I mean, we climb mountains all the time,
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  Speaker 1: but Killy was a really special trip for me. I
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  Speaker 1: just graduated high school and my younger sister and I
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  Speaker 1: our parents really encouraged us if we wanted to travel,
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  Speaker 1: like this is before my whole ski career really took off,
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  Speaker 1: and they encouraged us if we wanted to travel, we
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  Speaker 1: should volunteer in different places. So we went to Kenya
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  Speaker 1: and volunteer in this orphanage at the base amount Kilimanjarro
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  Speaker 1: Kilimandraw Kids Care is what it's called.
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  Speaker 4: And we worked there for about a month and then.
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  Speaker 1: We did put a fundraiser together of climbing the mountain,
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  Speaker 1: you know, ask people for donation to go to the
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  Speaker 1: kids to the orphanage if we climbed the mountain to
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  Speaker 1: the top. So it was me and my younger sister,
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  Speaker 1: Mattie and her best friend Emmy O'Reilly. They were still
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  Speaker 1: in high school at the time. I had just graduated,
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  Speaker 1: and we went down to Africa for a month and
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  Speaker 1: Kilimandraw was so special. I'm trying to remember the date
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  Speaker 1: on this must have been two thousand and seven. And
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  Speaker 1: so there's still a decent amount of snow on the top.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard it's taken a pretty big plunge and has
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  Speaker 1: melted quite significantly. But what's so special about Kilimanjarw is
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  Speaker 1: you go through all these different climates on the way up.
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  Speaker 1: Every single climate I think that is in the world
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  Speaker 1: is on Kilimanjau on the mountain.
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  Speaker 4: I could be off on that, but I know that
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  Speaker 4: it's a ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: Amount of I won't judge you for it.
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  Speaker 4: You yah climates that you go through.
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  Speaker 1: It's like you start in the muddy jungle and then
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  Speaker 1: you get up into like kind of some like sparser
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  Speaker 1: trees and then it's almost like this arid desert for
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, and then it goes into like lava rocks,
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  Speaker 1: and then into winter and snow on the top.
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  Speaker 2: No big deal.
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  Speaker 4: It's very cool.
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  Speaker 3: It's like I have trouble like packing for like a
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  Speaker 3: weekend in one climate, and you're like, all right, let's
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  Speaker 3: experience every single climate ever and we'll carry all the
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  Speaker 3: things that we need on our back.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, layering, you just layer it. You would do so,
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  Speaker 4: you would do so well.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're a killer athlete with all of your accomplishments.
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  Speaker 4: You'd run up that thing with.
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  Speaker 2: No, you're so sweet, You're so sweet.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm sure that experience was just once in a lifetime,
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  Speaker 3: especially being able to go with so many people that
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  Speaker 3: mattered so much to you.
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  Speaker 1: It is so special, incredible, And I just remember, like
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  Speaker 1: you get to the top at sunrise and the sun
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  Speaker 1: is rising behind and you're looking over and you can
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  Speaker 1: see the shadow of Kilimanjaro like over Tanzania, just taking
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  Speaker 1: over the whole country, you know. And then as the
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  Speaker 1: sun comes up, the shadow kind of follows up with
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  Speaker 1: the mountain and you have to be on really high
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  Speaker 1: peaks to get the sunrise shadow.
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  Speaker 2: So dope, so dope.
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  Speaker 3: So you said this precursing a few years before you
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  Speaker 3: really started skiing super competitively. Talk to me about when
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  Speaker 3: you knew that skiing at that next level was going
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  Speaker 3: to be something that you really wanted to do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, okay, that's a great question. So I
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  Speaker 1: graduated from school in Sun.
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  Speaker 4: Valley, Idaho. I moved out.
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  Speaker 1: To my freshman year of college, went to Endocott College
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  Speaker 1: in Beverly, Massachusetts. I had a scholarship for sailing to
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  Speaker 1: be a pro sailor and full ride for the sailing team,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, all right, let's give this a shot,
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  Speaker 1: and really just missed winter, you know, and the snow
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  Speaker 1: and the mountains mostly like the East Coast. Don't get
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  Speaker 1: me wrong, great skiing, but compared to where I grew up,
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  Speaker 1: the mountains were just a little bit smaller and snow
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  Speaker 1: was a little less consistent. And so I like went
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  Speaker 1: to all these different ski hills and just tried to
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  Speaker 1: explore as many as I put on the East Coast,
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  Speaker 1: and eventually it was like, Okay, I need to be
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: back in like real winter. So I transferred to the
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: University of Colorado Boulder, and one of my best friends
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: from high school was going to school there, and we
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: had ski race together in high school, and she was like, LEXI,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: you got to come to these contests like they're super
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: rat It's the Three Ride World Tour and they've got
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: these different qualifiers and you literally just ski down the
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: mountain and they judge you and you have the best time.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: And I was like, all right, let's go.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: So we go to Tell Your Ride Colorado where the
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: first contest was, and there's this really beautiful peak called
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Palmyra Peak right off the back of Tell Your Ride
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: and we hiked to the top of it for the
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: contest and skied down and I ended up getting third
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: place and podium on like my first contest, and I
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: was like, they gave me this big check, you know,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: like the ones you see like they hold above their heads. Yeah,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: and I was like, this is so much cooler than
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: ski racing and I'm super.
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: Down with this, Like let's go. So after that, just
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: joined the tour.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: And then I started realizing that I was missing a
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: lot of clubs at the University of Colorado because we
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: had to travel for all these contests.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: So I did one.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Full year at Colorado are Boulder and then decided to
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: just do summer school. So I was on the six
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: year prop program at Bolder, going to school in the
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: summer and skiing all winter long. But I finished school
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: and came out with a solid ski career at the
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: same time.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Wow, And did you carry with you like any fear
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: when it came to entering those competitions. I chuckled when
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: you were like, and all they're going to do is
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: judge you, Like, did that ever make you a little
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: bit anxious?
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: Oh? For sure.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: So my mom she was a professional skier. She was
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: the first woman to do a backflip on skis. Actually
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: she was back in the seventies, like those awesome photos
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: of people doing huck and backflips. And so I had
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: never been in a judged contest before. I was always this,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: you know, a racer, and the time is very honest,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: and the judging is up for interpretation. So my mom
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: she's like, LEXI, you got to put on these pants.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: And there were her old Moguls pants. So they're bright
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: pink with stars on the butt and these orange circles
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: around the knees. And she's like, this is so they'll
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: notice you, and you'll they'll be able to see you
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: if you wear the bright pink pants. And you also
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: need to go down to the judges and introduce yourself
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: so they know your name before the contest. So I
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: go down and I introduce myself and I've got these
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: pants on, these freestyle pants. These are like not the
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: trend in the big mountain world, Like I was standing
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: out so gnarly.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: And they're like, oh, well, nice to meet you, Lexi.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: And then once I'm like dropping in, they have a
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: loud speaker and they're like dropping in off the top
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: from some valley, Idaho is little Miss hot Pants. That
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: was my name for years on the tour was little
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Miss hot Pants.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Oh man, and your mom thinking she's setting you up
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: here for success and you're like, thanks for the nickname, mom,
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: thank you, Oh my god, but talk about big shoes
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: to Phil right, did your parents feel some kind of way,
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: like positively encouraging you super sue this like career path
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: or did they just really were they just on the
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: mindset like whatever makes you happy is whatever we're stoked for.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: One hundred percent.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: It's like they just want me to be happy. And
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I know that competing definitely makes them a little nervous.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Like my mom used to come to the contest and
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: just like hold close your eyes at the bottom. But
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: then she was like so happy when I got made
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: it down safely. But they had an intervention a little
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: bit like years ago where they're like, Lexy, we don't
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: want you to go to Alaska anymore and see these
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: big lines like you're okay if you just stay here.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: We just want you to know like this isn't coming
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: from us, this is you and if you're happy, you
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: do it, but like no pressure.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: So that was really nice to have that support.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: That was really nice to not feel like you had
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: to just keep topping yourself. But I feel like also
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: like that's kind of human nature, right, whether or not
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: it was the influence from your parents. Once we conquer
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: one hurdles, so to speak, we're always like hunting for
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: the next thing to do.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: One hundred percent.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: I think that's why, you know, that's innately human is
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: to keep striving and searching and bettering ourselves. And I
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: also think it's a beautiful part about being human is
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: that we can constantly adapt and grow and learn new
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: things and every single day and that's really what inspires me.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: I recently this fall actually just got invited as the
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: wild card on the Free Ride World Tour.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Again. I thought I was.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Done competing, and then they just called me out of
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the blue, invited me. And now the tour has changed
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: significantly from when I was doing it ten years ago.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: And I've been talking to a mental coach actually to
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: like get my mind back in the competitive mind state,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: and it's been so profound. We've only had a couple
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: meetings so far. The first contest. We leave for Spain
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: on January fourteenth, so it's coming up. But it's basically like,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know, sometimes you get into your head or
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: like you have this voice of self doubt or insecurities
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: and someone's like talking it's I didn't know it was
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: a specific voice, but now after practice, I'm identifying her
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: and I call her La La, and she comes in
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: and and she's like talking to me in this voice.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: I I'm like, Okay, Laala, I see you. But here's
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: a better way of doing it. Instead of feeling insecure
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: about these things, here's a better, better way. And for me,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: the two words that I'm trying to harness throughout the
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: season is abundance and confidence. So that feeling of abundance
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: of like gratitude and love for everything around you. The
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: sun hitting your face, the snow falling, the people that
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: you love, like just full gratitude of abundance.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: And then the confidence is.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Like, badass, bitch, I've got this, you know, like shoulders back,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: head up, like I've got this.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm gonna start saying to myself every morning, badass.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Bitch, you've got this, You've got this.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: I'm just gonna start literally staring myself in the mirror
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: and using Lexi DuPont's affirmations.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you. Yeah, it don't work. I mean it's
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: so good.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: It's it's like I even feel it my spine, like
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I sit up taller, and like when I think of
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: some of the most inspiring women in my life or
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: people that I haven't even met, and I idolize like
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: they move with such confidence. And it's not this like bossy, mean,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: like rude confidence. It's like it's it's love. It's like
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: love just beaming out of them because they love themselves
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: and they love where they are in their lives.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I actually I love that. I love two things
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: about that. One, you having like inspiring women both that
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: you've met and that you haven't met, and that you've
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: in your own time and your own self work. Like
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: you've taken time to articulate who they are. But I
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: love that you've also been able to identify like a
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: common characteristic of these people that you admire, because I
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: think that that is such a helpful exercise because it
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: also guides you on who you want to be and
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: the values that you're trying to emulate in your day
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: to day hundred percent.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: And it almost gives you this visual picture, right You've
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: seen different things that they've done in their little instances
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: and then I can like easily grab that picture of
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: that person to help me in those high stress moments.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: So that I mean, that's the mental coaching is really
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: practicing these tools in the day to day so when
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: you are in that.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: High stress situation, it just comes instinctively.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, you have to tell us now, who's
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: some of the inspiring women that you look up to are. Oh,
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: it was coming, like you brought it to the fore time.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: I was like, you're seeing this up for me. I'm
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: attire Wood's this for you now.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: I set myself up.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: I mean my mom for sure is like she's always
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: been such an inspiring woman. Mother nature is like a
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: big one but Pancho, Mama Mama Earth is the most
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: grounding inspiring female.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: We have talk me through that one.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: She's the resilience, the perseverance, the beauty and everything the
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: like the time we take things so seriously and such
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: like thinking that everything's drastic right now. But like Mother
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Earth that takes as much time as she wants, Like
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: she's gentle with herself and she heals herself and time
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: doesn't really affect her in that.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: Same way that affects us.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: So that's like zoom out of like we're all kind
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: of these tiny little specks on this planet spinning through Earth. Like,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: don't take yourself so seriously and realize that it is fragile.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: It is like a small moment in time that we
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: get to experience it.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: So love it up.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: You know, having such a strong relationship with your family,
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Tell me a little bit about what it was like
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: when you really started to travel a lot to continue
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: and excel in your career.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean at first, well, when I was first
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: starting to compete, my mom had to come with me
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: because I could rent a car on my own, you know,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: so she was always there, and then there was always
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: some homesickness when you're traveling a lot. But we're all
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: so close. We FaceTime regularly, we chat all the time.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: And now it's travel has become such a big part
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: of my life. I'm literally like, I haven't unpacked my
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: like toiletry kit probably five years. It's it's like because
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: if I unpack it, it's like three days later, I'm
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: taking it to go again.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I have washed it, which is good.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: Wait, but okay, I have a few staples that come
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: with me no matter where I travel.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Do you have those two? And if so, what are they?
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I want to hear your yours too.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Okay, you go first.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Okay, So I'm a Crystal gal. I'm gonna put it
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: out there. I'm a Crystal gal. I'm like, I also
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: have like some Polisanto when you're sleeping in these crazy
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: hotels all the time, Like I need to save that shit,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: you know, I don't know who's been in there. And
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: then Crystal by my bed, I always have a good
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: book and a journal. I've got these little packing dividers
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: that are like my drawers, and they're like little zipper
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: pouches because when you're living out of a suitcase, it's
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: like you have all your T shirts in one bag.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: You got to stay a little organized, or like things
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: can get out of hand really quickly. A good face
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: cream and like lip moisturizer.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: I feel all of this.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: I mean it's so funny because you like started off
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: with like your crystals and your Palo Santo and I'm like,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: so mine starts with R and Co Dry shampoo and
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: then Sephora Wives And You're like, I need all these
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: things to cleanse my space. And I'm like, I just
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: really need to manage my sweat on a regular daily basis.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: But I feel you on having like these specific travel
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: to go pouch that you put your stuff in that
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: is also washable, and you know, the packing cubes are
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: game changers.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: Game changers. The drawers, Yeah, drawers in your bag for sure.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: So have you always been I mean you obviously as
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: we said here mentioned Palo Santo and your crystals. Have
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: you always been someone who is I would say, like
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: spiritual in that way?
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know if.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: It was like when I was I don't think when
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I was really young it really came around. I think
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: just being in nature all the time, like we say,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: you know, worshiping God, but it's the great outdoors and
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: it's like being outside all the time, and our worship
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: with our skiing is a spiritual act. And I think
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: when you talk to a lot of outdoor athletes, like
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: they want to admit it or not, they have a
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: deep connection to Mother Earth and it's a spiritual thing
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: that you're doing out there when you're when we're skieing
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: these mountains, like we're in the back country so much
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: so it's not like you have a ski patrol or
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: someone mitigating the avalanche hazards, Like that's all on us.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: And there's so much that we dive into with like
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: the snow science. We're constantly learning about how avalanches work
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: and the risk management, how to you know, wilderness first
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: aid safety. But there's also this like this other element
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: that can't really be we can't really talk about it
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: or quantify it, but it's the connection that you have
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: with Mother Earth and like the asking for permission and
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: the respect to be able to go do what we
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: enjoy to do and play within her mountains, you know.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: So yeah, I think that is pretty spiritual.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: When you mentioned you started traveling and your mom would
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: come along with you, obviously, time went on, you got
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: to be old enough to drive yourself. What were some
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: of the first trips that you took on your own
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: that really.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Kind of blew your mind and gave you a new
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: appreciation for your sport.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: Oh gosh, yeah, that's an awesome one.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: So literally the same year that I started competing, I
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: got picked up by Eddie Bower and K two still
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: my sponsors that have been with me from the very start.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: Love them shout.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Out, but they were like, hey, Lexi, there's this awesome
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: trip with Warren Miller, this legendary filmmaker, and they want
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: you to go to Svalbard, Norway, which is the island.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: It's the furthest north you can ski, so it's four
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: hundred miles south of the North Pole. You're gonna They're like,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: you're gonna camp on a glacier, on a fjord and
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: a glacier for two weeks. And here's all the gear,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: these awesome down suits, Like the high will be minus
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: twenty degrees fahrenheit. You're gonna have to carry a little
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: flare gun on your ankle for the polar bears because
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: when you go to the bathroom, like they might come
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: get you and so I was like, all right, like
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: this is what we're doing. And they're like, oh, and
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: by the way, you're the only girl and you're with
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: all dudes and they're all forty years old or over,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: and I was I think I was like nineteen at
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the time. On this trip, I had done a little
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: bit of winter camping, but not like two weeks like
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: in the North Pole, you know what I mean. So
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: that one was very adventure. That one was like, can
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: I use a sat phone to call my mom, because
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: like I'm just gonna pull my goggles down and cry
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: right now if I don't get to talk to her.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I cannot even imagine the next level
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: amount of cold. Like this morning, I was holding a
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: coffee cup walking to Fort Green Park and I said
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: to myself, I shouldn't have brought coffee because my hand
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: is freezing. Meanwhile, you are like needing to like keep
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: your goggles on for fear of actually like get catching
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: frost bite instantaneously in the eye region.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: That's true. It was a reezing Oh my.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: I think now if I were to do that trip now,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: you know, years later, I would have so much more
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: respect for the whole experience.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: But at the time it was like I was just suffering. Yeah, like,
• 30:05
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  Speaker 2: It's so interesting.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's actually a really interesting thing that you said,
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: because I feel that way about some of the trips
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: that I went on when I was younger too. Granted,
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: like I wasn't like skiing peaks like four hundred miles
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: south of the North Pole, but like I even went
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: to Israel when I was in college, and looking back
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: on that trip that I took when I was nineteen,
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: I almost wish that I had waited until I had
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: a greater understanding for everything from like the political climate
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: to the lands that I was seeing.
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: No one you can't replicate it, you know.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and when you're younger sometimes we might take a
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: little bit of an advantage of like, oh this is
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: I'll do this trip again or well, and just with
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: the winter camping, it was like now I'd be so
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: much more prepared for that whole situation, but at the
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: time it was like just be cool, stay warm, and
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: like get this thing done, like get it over with.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: And that's so cool, right, because again, your first trip,
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: what an unbelievable experience, and I'm sure that was a
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: great introduction. It was a great introduction to what was
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: coming next. We were shooting on.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Film too, like it wasn't digital, like the guys in
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: the black bag with his hands like in the Freezing
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Changing film as polar bears are walking towards us, and
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: we saw the polar bears. But from that until now,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: it's like going from being in these awesome films to
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: then realizing that I wanted to use my creative voice
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: to be able to create some of my own content
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: owned films. So I've made a few and you know,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: being the producer, the director, all of the levels that
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: goes into making your own piece. So I did that
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: for a while and then now going back into the
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: film and I honestly never thought that I'd be competing again,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: and here I am going back on the free Ride
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: World tour. So it's like just being prepared for anything
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: and we're seeing it's like these storms they come, you
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: get like forty eight hour notice and you got to go.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: It's like very quick.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: So just rolling with the punches, being adapt being able
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: to adapt at any moment has been I think one
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: of the greatest highs and lessons from this whole experience.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: What an interesting analogy about like the storm being such
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: like an integral part of your entire process. Without the storm,
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: you can't arguablead to a lot of the stuff that
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: you hoped to do, and the conditions are better after
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: the storm. Wow, there's like so many like metaphors that
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: I could like really bring into the mix here. But
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: at first, when you started chasing these storms, I'm sure
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: there had to be like a certain level of anxiety
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: or nervousness that went hand in hand going into so
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: much unknown.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, yeah, I mean it's like the greatest unknown.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: My whole life revolves around the weather. It's like every
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: morning I get up and I look at like global
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: weather of where these storms are happening.
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: For example, last year, we go up to Alaska.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: I've saved all of my money for Alaska in the
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: spring from my sponsors, and it's they're having a killer season.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: It's snowing every day. We're like, oh my gosh, this
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: spring's going to be incredible. So we went up there,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: sat in this fishing village for three to I think
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: it was like three and a half weeks while it
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: was just pounding snow, and then we see this high
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: pressure coming. We're like, oh, the sun's coming, Like we're
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: going to be able to fly to helicopters and get
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: out there. And so we go down the first sunny day.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: All these film crews are flying in from all over
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: the world for this particular storm and system that was happening,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: and then this big high pressure. So we're at the
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: airport at the helicopter and we're like, it's like six am.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: The sun's barely even up, and we're like, well, it's warm,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: like it is really warm, and we're like unzipping our
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: jackets at the helicopter pad, and all of a sudden,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: it went. We could have time laps it going from
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: January to July in like twenty four hours. All the
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: snow melted, like the sun came out and the mountains
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: just like avalanched and the snow fell down. So we
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: didn't get a single day of skiing and we were
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: up there for a month. So yeah, the weather rules
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: are rules.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: Are world wow.
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: Wow, I like cannot even imagine all the effort that
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: went into it just for you to have to make
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: that big pivot. But again, like we're on this metaphor tangent,
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: and it's like how often does that happen?
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: Like how often do you put in so much work
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: just for something to not go as you had hope
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: it would.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: And I always come back to like, I really truly
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: believe everything happens for a reason, and a lot of times,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: like our karmic energy will bring that upon us in ways,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: and like what we put out in the world, we receive.
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: But there's also like the lessons.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: At each time you have these huge pivots where you're like, hey,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: change a plan, start over, back to the drawing board,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: But like, what did I learn and take away from
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: that experience?
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: And sometimes it might just be like, oh, I'm.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Learning to adapt better and like roll with the punches
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: and change and not let things hold on to things
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: so tightly, have a little like looser grip on it.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: And sometimes it just really sucks and you're like, Okay,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: now I'm just learning how to grieve. Other times it's
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: the best ever, and that like those when you have
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: those lows, it makes you really appreciate the highs.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: Definitely, definitely so for you now at this point, having
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: gone on all of these different seemingly awesome expeditions of sorts.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: You also, as you had mentioned, start to integrate like
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: a lot of other things into the flow of your
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: every day. And so we're talking about hiking, and then
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: earlier you mentioned like getting your pilot's license. So talk
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: to me about what it looked like for you when
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: you thought that you were going to be done competing.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I was so into the film world, right,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: So competition was took a full back seaters like, all right,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: I'm done with that. What I really want to do
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: is create content, tell stories, and ski these mountains and
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: the far corners of the earth.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was kind of a hard line of like,
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: all right, competing.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Isn't really happening anymore. This is feels much better. I
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: didn't feel like a loss at by any means of
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: like stopping competing. It felt just like a natural progression
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: of what my heart wanted to do. And then with
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: this new invitation as the wild card. So the wild
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: card is basically they give you don't have to qualify,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: They just call you out of the blue for they
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: picked one skier and one snowboarder, and usually the skiers mail.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: There's been some legendary male skiers that have been a
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: part of the tour as a wildcard, and they picked
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: a female this year, and I was like, what, Like
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: it was just so validating and felt so honored, you know,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: and it just gave me such a big boost of
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: confidence of like, oh wow, that these people are still.
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: Like know who I am and what I'm doing and.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Are like aware that I can hang and like bring
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: some spice to this the other snowboarders. Manuel Diaz, he's
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: from Chile. Yeah, So the point of the World Card
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: is to spice things up, give like the leader a
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: run for her money, and we'll.
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: See how it goes. I'm pumped. I'm really excited.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: Where else does the tour go?
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: So we go from Spain to Andorra and then to
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Kicking Horse British Columbia, and then Feverburn, Austria and Verbier Switzerland.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: Also, like you being able just to like wrap those
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: out real quick is quite impressive.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly what schedules As long as we keep these
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: borders open, That's a whole other thing. Right with COVID,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: It's like this could all just get canceled in a second,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: and then then.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: What and then we're exercising all the strategies that we
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: were just on talking about when it comes to being
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: able to pivot and adapt.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: So you said the buzzword, the sea word.
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: We don't love to talk about it, but we will
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: talk about it when it comes to COVID. How has
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: that impacted what you've had going on over the last
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: two years.
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been pretty significant.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Actually, you know, I was talking about not being able
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: to come up here to Rebelstoke to my house, Like
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: that was pretty gnarly to not like to be literally
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: out of your house for fifteen months all my belongings,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Like I had to go buy all new clothes everything.
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: So that was a big one.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: But it also brought this beautiful level of like with
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: what we've been doing with skiing, we're so travel focused
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: on going around the world to different places and just
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: like exploring our own backyards of wherever we were and
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: finding the beauty, like what's right out your back door?
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: And that was really cool.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Up here in Canada, it's definitely a lot stricter than
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: down in the States. How so, just you know, vaccine
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: checks at every restaurant, COVID tests now, I think as
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: of today, no more gathering is larger than ten people again,
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: masks everywhere. Yeah, you know, it's like you're on this like,
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: oh we're getting better. Oh oh up and down.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, here we are.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm with you on the like finding the
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: small joys and like appreacing the things that we do
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: have and exploring in your own backyard. And when COVID
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: was at one point what was deemed at that point
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: to be the worst here in New York, back in
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: March of twenty twenty, that was when I started cycling
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: in a way that I never had before. And so
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: I was able to get out of my bike and
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: like check off my first century and just like keep
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: kind of going from there and exploring New York.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: And New Jersey.
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: I can't even say that, like I'm sitting here saying
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: that New Jersey was like beautiful but in ways that
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: like I had never done before. And so I hear
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: you with those finding of the simple joys and exploring
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: your own backyard.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: And you know, when the world opened up again, I
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: kind of lost.
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: A little bit of that, like a little bit of
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: the joy and the spice for the things that had
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: brought me so much joy. So to be honest with you.
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: Sometimes I'm like, what the hell is going on in
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: our world? And right now I definitely am, but a
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: big part of me is like we need to get
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: back to finding those like small silver linings and maybe
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: that we were getting just like a little bit greedy.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: One hundred percent greedy and jaded, you know, and that
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: it really changed everyone grounding us all back down of
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: like you know, the lockdown was like whoa is this
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: really happening? Everyone's listening and doing this around the world,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: like everyone is at home. Yeah, and you know, cleaning
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: out your house of all these old drawers that needed cleaning,
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: or learning how to cook a fun new thing, or
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: getting into yoga in your living room, whatever it was,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: you know, spending time with your family. There's all these
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: little joys that was a great lesson for us to
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: still incorporate when our lives to pick up speed again.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: Talk to me about the decision to get into flying.
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, wow. So my dad's a pilot.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Grew up flying with him in the back of his
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: one eighty says nine, just a four seater around Idaho,
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: and a lot of my family on my dad's side
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: were big aviators, like all my uncles and aunts were pilots,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: so it just kind of felt natural.
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: Of like this is what my family does. Yeah.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: So as I was getting my private when I was
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: getting my private license in twenty sixteen, my dad gifted
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: me my aunt's journal says my aunt Alice was the
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: first woman to fly the Amazon in the twenties in
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: an open biplane, so the open capsule, hair's flowing in
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: the wind, and she just had a paper map and
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: a compass, like no radios, nothing. And so when I
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: heard that story, I was like, oh wow. Like, as
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: being a filmmaker, I'm like I want.
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: To do that.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: I want to refly her flight down the Amazon. So
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: that's really inspired me to like get the next endorsements.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: I just got my instrument rating this last summer, which
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: allows me to fly in clouds and above eighteen thousand feet.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: But flying is just like there's constantly new aircraft to learn,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: there's new ratings to get, and you're just constantly learning.
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: So that is like keeping my brain going. I love it.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: First question, what does scare you in your life?
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: What scares me? Yeah, fear is It's an interesting subject.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: I definitely have fears, you know, I'm scared of heights,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Like I totally am. I on somebody's walking a pro
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: skier who is now flying above eighteen thousand feet and
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: her first fear that she highlights is, I am certainly
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: scared of heights.
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: I'm certainly scared of heights.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: I am. My younger sister laughs with me all the time,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: like we'll go climbing, and she knows when I'm like
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: get gripped and she could like see, She's like, are
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: you scared of I'm like, yeah, She's always laughing because
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: she has like no fear of heights whatsoever. She's like,
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: it just blows my mind. You jump off cliffs for
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: a living, and you're scared of heights. And I think
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: that fear is something that we can practice and our
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: comfort with fear, befriending fear is kind of like a superpower.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: And you know, when I get those those nervous feelings
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: or those butterflies, when fear conjures those up, I've, through practice,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: have learned to enjoy that feeling and to like harness
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: it into energy to like perpetuate me forward instead of
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: like paralyzing me.
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: Do you remember a specific moment where you kind of
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: did that for one of the first times that dramatically
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: impacted how you move forward with fear, because I feel
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: like those moments are how we adopt the attitude and
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: the mindset that you have now, right.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's started when I was younger.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: We'd go cliff jumping and my dad would be like,
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: he'd drive the boat up to these cliffs at the
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: lake and he'd be like, we're not going back until
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: everyone jumps. And I remember some of my friends were like,
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: your dad's crazy, I'm not jumping, and then they would
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: like they would. He's like he's serious, they're not, And
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: he's like, I wonder why my girls are so extreme.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: Oh wait, Like I was one that made them jump
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  Speaker 1: off cliffs when they're.
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: A little.
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  Speaker 2: This is what he gets for not having any boys.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so I thank.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Him for that, but I just remember even I think
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: actually my first one was where we call the bodywomping.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Would be in the ocean, just like tumbling in the waves,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: and I'd come out and I'd.
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: Be like, oh my god, I was so scary. But
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: I'd look at my dad and he'd be like.
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  Speaker 2: That was awesome.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, hot, Bob, good.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: Job, and so I'm like, oh, this feeling I'm feeling
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: of nerves is actually a good feeling, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Like just had that that switch?
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: I love that. I love that.
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: And then I mean the part two when I after
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: I said part one, what are you scared of? Part
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: two is when do you foresee yourself trying to duplicate
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: this journey?
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: Okay? Part two?
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: The journey it's like a three to five year plan.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: There's a couple more things that are coming into works.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a very big project, and I'm trying
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: to incorporate a really large humanitarian giving back aspect. There's
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: also some electric planes that are coming up around, so
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: waiting on that development. There's just more pieces, some other
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: things I can't talk about.
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: But three to five years.
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: Talking about social media, obviously, as you have succeeded in
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: your career, you have gained a little bit more of
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: a following. How has that been for you having a
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: larger platform to both share your stories and what's going
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: on in your life, but also, as you've made very
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: clear something that's very important to you, do good by
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  Speaker 3: other people.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's an incredible tool to be able to
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: tell stories and to get information across. You know, it's
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: all of us have at our fingertips access to the
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: entire world all the time, like twenty four hours a day.
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  Speaker 1: I think it could you know, when used inappropriately or
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: an unhealthy manner, it can be pretty toxic. But used
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: in the right way, it's an incredible tool to be
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: able to share our experience. And I mean, for example,
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: this house where I'm sitting right now is fully off grid,
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: fully passive house. It's rainwater entrapment, so all of the
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: plumbings rainwater, solar for the electricity, and then an geo
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: thermal for the heat. And then being able to build
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: sustainably like this and share that with people to inspire
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: them to want you know, all of our building plot
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: practices should change. And I at first I was like,
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: do I really want to share my house on the media.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: It's such a personal space. But then it was like, no,
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  Speaker 1: I want to inspire people to build differently and that
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: you can still have a beautiful home and it can
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: be sustainable.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: And how about when it comes to the social media critics, I.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: Was thinking, with the mental coach I'm talking to when
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: we have that evil voice that's like talking us down,
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: La la my evil voice. When Lala's talking to me,
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: it's like you invite her to the table. It's like
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: if you have a bully in high school and they're
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: like wanting to like flip your lunch tray, if you're like,
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: how about you sit with us, like you do you
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: need a hug? Like you just completely disminish that you
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: put water on their fire, like there's no fuel. So
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: just killing with kindness, I think is very beneficial if
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: you want to choose your battle. I love.
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  Speaker 3: I love the idea here or the through line here.
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: That kindness is, without a doubt, one of your biggest values.
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: If I had to ask you to name perhaps like
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: one or two others, what would you say? Two more
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: of your personal key values would be speaking.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: My last name, DuPont actually means of the bridge. And
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: so I think I have the superpower of bridging people
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: together where people need to be connected to create, you know, better,
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: themselves better the world. Connecting people is I think a
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: superpower that I have. And then I feel like I
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: was blessed with a puzzitive attitude, like I just see
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: you having a good time and smiling, Like, of course
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: I have bad days, but I feel like relatively, I'm
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: just like happy, And I think that's just loving every
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: moment of this life.
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  Speaker 4: You know, good end of bed.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: I love that for you right now.
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: If someone wants to go over to your Instagram, they
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: would see someone who identifies as a pro skier and
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: a pilot. You're obviously this wild card thirty five thousand followers.
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: When you look in the mirror, what is it that
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: you see looking back at you?
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's a really good question.
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: I honestly sometimes picture my like nine year old self
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: in the mirror and like just want to hug and
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: embrace her and speak to her kindly and encouragingly.
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: And it's it's definitely been a practice. You know.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: There's sometimes you look in the mirror and you're like
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: wanting to correct things or nitpick things, and that doesn't
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: do any good. Just look at her and love her
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: every time. But I see, you know, I see a
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: sister and a friend and like a bright light all around.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: What excites you right now?
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: I think what really has fired me up right now
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: is this free Ride World Tour. I am so excited
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: to travel to Europe and meet new people and we'll
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: be in kind of this crude traveling together around the
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: around Guro up in Canada. So excited to meet new friends,
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: to ski these like iconic mountains that I've never skied before.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: So that's it's so energizing.
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: You mentioned a partner earlier.
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: How does traveling like that impact you and that partnership.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Okay, So I've just I'm with the
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: love of my life. I've just relieved I've finally found him.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: So much hope coming from LEXI.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: Right now, I will say this, I am positively affirming
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: that within one year's time, I'm like closing my eyes
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: and saying this, because no one's gonna be watching this video.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: Within one year of my life, I will meet the
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: love of my life. And I will be saying this
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: in such a gushing manner that is very similar.
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: Yes, it's I thought it was impossible. I didn't know
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: that he'd be out there. I was like very specific
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: of what I wanted.
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: Okay, tell me about him.
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: Oh, okay.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: So his name is Matthew Monty. He's a doctor. He's
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: a surf doctor, primarily orthopedics, but now he does functional medicine,
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: so putting things in the body that our body actually
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: wants and can use as fuel. And he's coming with
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: me on the tour this year. So he's my doctor,
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: my chauffeur, my messuse my love. This is his first winter.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: He lives in Kawai, so this is his first winter
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: away from the ocean, and I was kind of like
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: Kenny hang like Anny snowboard and he's absolutely ripping.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: Did you meet surfing?
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: We actually met in Alaska Helly skiing, So I was
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: up there filming and he came up on a Helly
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: trip as one of the clients and we were staying.
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: In the same lodge.
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: We started dating a couple of months after that, but
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: that's where we met and we've been hooked at the
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: hip ever since.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: I love this for you. There's hope for us.
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: All Okay, heading toward the I here on a positive note.
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: So the final question I have for you, Although I
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: feel I could like gab with you all day every day,
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: right now, you have an opportunity to offer yourself a
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: piece of advice. Right when you were getting into professional skiing,
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: starting to travel, kind of finding your own feet, you
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: have an opportunity to offer that younger woman a piece
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: of advice.
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: Looking back on it, right now what would you tell.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: Her, man, do you think I'm want to be rad
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: if this was real? Like you're older, but more much
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: yourself to come back and talk to you. Okay, Someboddy
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: myself in her shoes, little college LEXI just starting to
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: become a pro skier, you know, not take things too seriously.
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: And I maybe mentioned this earlier.
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: I think when we're younger, it's like when things don't
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: go your way, it's like the world's crashing down on you,
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: and it's just so serious. It's like the end of
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: the world, Like, oh my god, nothing's going to get
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: better than this. And just to realize that that is
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: a waste of energy and it takes so much more
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: energy to have those negative thoughts than it is to
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: just like be easy, take it easy, put one foot
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: in front of the other every day and just keep
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: plugging away, and just love yourself the most, because that
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: if you don't love yourself, then how can you love
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: anything around you and appreciate anything Like I know all
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: of us need to practice self love more. Every single
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: person on this earth needs to practice it more. So
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: I wish I would have known earlier to start practicing.
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: Definitely, definitely Lexi, you are array of light. I'll be
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: cheering from you as you're traveling the globe. I know
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: the hurdlers will be to tell us how do we
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: follow along with you?
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: How do we try to keep up with you? Give
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: us all your details?
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: Oh awesome, Yeah, thank you so much. You can follow
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: me on Lexi DuPont on Instagram. I'm I'm posting regularly.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure we're going to be putting together a
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: little web series while we're traveling on tour. Eddie Bauer
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: always is posting amazing things for my progress and our
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: entire team K two skis, palk helmets and goggles and
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: BCA backpacks. They're all supporting me throughout this winter. So
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: just a big shout out to them and they'll be
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: We can check out on their channels of what we're doing.
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: Love it.
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: I'm over at Hurdle Podcast and at Emily a Body
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: Another Hurdle conquered.
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  Speaker 2: Catch you guys next time