Shredding for Gold

Hello again, I hope you are finding your own adventures. We were on schedule to release a new episode as promised on November 28th. However, the user license on the screen reading software I use expired. Thankfully, I am finally back online. Because I feel really bad about not bringing you Emily’s excellent podcast on schedule. This episode is about the end of pre-race training and the beginning of training and competition. You can hear how excited Emily is to take advantage of all the chem

Hello again friends, I hope your week is getting off to a great start. Whether you have been following Emily’s progress for a while, or you are brand new to her podcast; you are going to love hearing about her journey towards winning Gold in the Paralympics for downhill snowboard racing. This episode is the first of her second season. And we are starting it off with a huge announcement. Torque Snowboards Has decided to fully fund Emily and her team! You can hear the excitement and gratitude

Hello again, As Emily’s producer we hope that you are all doing as well as possible given all the challenges the world is facing right now. So, here we are with episode 18. It follows a summer break from Emily’s position as a para-educator assistant. It also follows some much needed time at home with her family. Podcast Intro Experimentation First, I want to tell you that I am loving how Emily is playing around with the intro to her podcast. The combination of the race start sounds and some

Emily and I are so happy to share the latest happenings with you through the podcast. The episode starts out with her new intro music which I love. It reminds me of the start of ski races I’ve seen on TV during the Olympics and Paralympics. I can just picture Emily flying down the hill with a big smile on her face headed towards that first gold medal. Then she recaps the podcast and shares the teamstarfish.ca website. Then about 7:00 minutes in she gets to the good stuff. She explains how

Hello again, We hope you have had a good weekend. I am happy to tell you that Emily has a brand new episode of her show for you this week. As a world-class Paralympic athlete sometimes her training or racing schedules will get in the way of the podcast. We do our best to avoid that because we know you count on hearing about Emily’s continuing journey to that Gold Medal podium. But sometimes it is just unavoidable. We appreciate your understanding. This show is dedicated to her mom and all t

Hello again; This week Emily is going to share more about the relationship between her and her coaches. She talked about how critical a good relationship is and how much her and her team work on their communication. She played the audio from a video of a recent practice session. And she explains what all the terminology means that her and her coaches are using. She also explained how they worked together to come up with words to communicate upcoming conditions and how Emily is supposed to re