Shopping season has arrived and if you’re like me, maybe you hate shopping. Not only does the change of the seasons come with the need for new gear but also? it’s time to find gifts for the holidays. I cajoled my good friend Jason Munzke, former river guide,  to share with us some of his best shopping tips because he my friends, is a professional dirtbag shopper and he’s going to open up his tool kit for us today. 

Links:

Ski specific

TGR Gear swap

Bikes

MTBr

Pinkbike

Deal and Sales sites

Deal News

Active Junky for rebates

Steep and Cheap

Clean Snipe

Sierra Trading Post

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Today, Joe Johnson - Salomon’s outdoor marketing manager in the Americas joins us to share his long and winding journey to a very cool job, and even cooler lifestyle. It’s a story of survival on free breakfast burritos, taking risks, and dedicating oneself to good work and good relationships. 

Also discussed: 

How to keep work you love from keeping you from doing other things you love. 

Listen up, then go out, do what you want to do, make connections and be memorable. 

Where to find Joe: 

@johnsonjoe at Twitter and Instagram

Global social media for Salomon freeski (Twitter and Instagram)

Salomon TV Youtube

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Today’s episode will change the way you think about thinking big and what success really is. Dan Abrams had an idea. He didn’t know how it would happen or what would come of it. He took calculated risks, he made backup plans in case of worst case scenarios, he overcame “down-on-his-luck moments,” and didn’t think too much about where it was headed.

Dan is the founder of Flylow Gear, backcountry ski apparel. And today he we talk about:

How do you take an idea as a college kid and make it happen?

Solve a problem in the backcountry ski marketplace and compete with the big brands?

I had been a huge fan of FlyLow gear and of Dan Abrams for at least 10 years when I had the pleasure of skiing with him and his now wife Megan Michelson at Schweitzer Mountain when I did the PR for the ski resort. Megan is a freelance writer and rad freeskier.

Some things we discuss:

• The problem Flylow Gear solves.
• Taking a big gamble to make an idea happen.
• Taking a big leap and the unacceptable alternative: when you are driven to be an entrepreneur and taking smart risks. 
• How to make a business partnership work.

Dan’s Role models

• Steve Sullivan – Sully – founder of Cloudveil
• Brian Cousins
• Yvon Chouinard
• Let my People Go Surfing – Shrink for an entrepreneur in the outdoor apparel world.

Where to find Dan:

• Flylow Website – dealer  locator

Jill Damman had a biking accident that would change her life forever. She could let the incident define her, or she could decide how she would let it define her. Jill shares with us a very difficult time in her life and how she made it into something better than she was before. There are so many silver linings in this story, I hope it changes what a “bad day” means to you.

We discuss:

• Losing your face/your identity
• Finding purpose when things go entirely wrong.
• Resilience and turning adversity into a net positive.

Links:

• EMDR (eye movement therapy) - emdr.com/what-is-emdr/
• Center for Healthy Minds
• Mindful

Find Jill online at www.jilldamman.weebly.com