Podcasts about alpine start

Today I'm joined by young professional ski mountaineering "skimo" racer and ultrarunner, Grace Staberg. Grace is 19 and already taking the mountain athletic racing calendar by storm, competing for the USA National Skimo team at the World Cup and World Championship level, and also winning mountain running races. We talk skimo racing 101, nutrition for performance, her struggles with an eating disorder, the perils of social media, and plenty more. Keep up with Grace's adventures over on Instagram @grace.staberg, her website gracestaberg.com, and her new podcast, Alpine Start. 

In this episode I chat with Andrea Szekely, rock climber and coach. We talk a lot about disordered eating in the rock climbing community and she shares her personal insight. Andrea started climbing in Hungary when she was 8 years old and competed nationally and internationally for 20 years. She has coached youth climbers of all levels since 2011. She has an MBA from IE University and a degree in Psychology from Stanford University. She currently resides in Boulder, CO, where she works for a small startup, Alpine Start. You can usually find her out climbing or hiking/running after her workday is over almost every day of the week. The documentary that is discussed in this episode is LIGHT and can be found on YouTube: https://youtu.be/thtDQJGrO5s This episode is brought to you by the Female Athlete System of Transformation: Click here to Book a Call & learn more Learn more about Lindsey's Services and the Team at Rise Up Nutrition: www.RiseUpNutritionRUN.com

Professional rock climber Matt Segal knew that climbing would never be enough for him. Plus, he was fed up with drinking bad coffee on climbing expeditions. As a result, Segal founded Alpine Start, an artisan instant coffee company, while continuing to raise the bar in climbing. In this episode of the Out and Back podcast, Abby and Shanty catch up with Segal to learn how he redefines what’s possible in climbing and how he juggles sports with running a business.

Matt Segal is a professional rock climber and the founder/owner of Alpine Start, a company that makes “Instant Coffee That Actually Tastes Good”. We talked about how Matt got started in climbing, his nickname ‘Miami Vice’, early mentors, losing friends in the mountains, recovering from a paragliding accident, starting a business, and innovating new products.  Alpine Start Kickstarter:  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mikeycrouch/alpine-start-with-benefits  Support the Podcast:  patreon.com/thenuggetclimbing   Show Notes:   http://thenuggetclimbing.com/episodes/matt-segal  Nuggets:  2:49 – “Still starting at the bottom and trying to go to the top”  3:53 – Miami Vice, training at a young age, Tony Yaniro, and the PCA   7:19 – Matt’s first highball in Hueco  13:32 – Mentorship of Eric DeCaria, Micah Dash, and Jonny Copp  17:55 – Losing friends  20:13 – Yuji Hirayama, kids bicycles, and Beat Kammberlander  22:10 – Studying Tibetan Buddhism and Psychology in school  25:07 – The beginning of Alpine Start, and Matt’s role with the company  32:00 – “You should surround yourself with people that are smarter than you.”  34:12 – Hiring good employees  36:59 – Waterproof Mini Notebook  37:57 – Matt’s writing practice, and writing letters that you don’t send  39:13 – Fulfilment and focus   39:59 – Paragliding with Cedar Wright, and Matt’s accident  44:44 – Recovery, skiing, and building back up to 5.14  47:07 – Returning to trad climbing, and trying ‘The Path’  49:06 – Calming his mind for a headpoint attempt   49:45 – Patron Question about Matt’s accident, dark times, and “My number had been called”  52:41 – Another Patron Question, and unfinished business  54:22 – Patron Question: Any tips for training for trad climbing specifically?  55:44 – Patron Question about small gear, and Matt’s story about ripping gear in China  59:16 – Sneaky ways to equalize gear  1:00:25 – Climbing ‘Primate’ in the Flatirons  1:01:33 – Cutting his hand open at a silent zen retreat, proving the doctors wrong, and teaching Ethan Pringle how to trad climb  1:03:46 – Takeaway from the Bugaboo saga, and “partnerships are way stronger than names and grades”  1:04:58 – Grateful for wine, and cooking  1:07:27 – New products from Alpine Start and the Kickstarter (link above in show notes)  1:10:49 – Matt’s upcoming St. George trip  1:13:08 – The project on Mt. Hooker, local projects, and Matt’s cooking/climbing mashup road trip  1:16:26 – Freedom of the Wheels …2?  

"I've had that experience working for a big company of being like, what goes on in that boardroom? And why does this group of people have so much power over my career and over my life and over this company? Why is it so secretive and why is it all men?" This week we're joined by Alex Hanifin, co-founder of Alpine Start Foods and Women on Boards. Alex chats about being a young woman in big pitch meetings, how her team got Alpine Start off the ground, and what she's working on now to encourage diversity in the boardroom.  Follow Alex: ​@ahanifin LinkedIn @alpinestartfoods alpinestartfoods.com   Follow us on Instagram: @wheeliecreative View past episodes, transcripts, and more info about the show: wheeliecreative.com/podcast Don't forget to subscribe and if you haven't already, please leave us a review to let us know what you think about the show!

What does a normal day look like for an expat in Kathmandu? In this episode, your hosts Big and White discuss what a typical day looks like for them, including an 8 minute commute, potentially leaving work to wash their hair, drinking copious amounts of coffee, and of course all of the bad habits that they plan to change. Eventually. Be sure to check out Alpine Start coffee, they are totally not official sponsors but dang their coffee is delicious and sustainable and all that good stuff. Thanks for your patience with the audio quality as we continue to record episodes while traveling! Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/bigwhitepodcast

How did Miami, FL native Matt Segal become one of the world's top rock climbers? And in a departure from expedition-bound Netflix-binges, how did he turn inspiration from a book into a business opportunity with enough focus and purpose to find success in a crowded market? In episode 29 of The Stokecast, The North Face team climber and Alpine Start founder, Matt Segal takes us on a journey from his start in competitive climbing to a body-breaking paragliding accident and the growth he's experienced personally and professionally since. For more from this episode, visit: https://exploreinspired.com/matt-segal To grab some Alpine Start for your next adventure, visit: https://exploreinspired.com/alpinestart

Josh sits down with Alpine Start founder Matt Segal. Alpine Start is a coffee brand offering an incredibly delicious instant coffee that will change the game of mornings in the backcountry. As a pro climber (and coffee enthusiast) Segal has spent his fair share of days drinking instant coffee. It wouldn't be until he drank one too many rough cups of coffee to make him seek out a better option. Within the span of six months from the idea of conception, he partnered with Alex Hanifin and spent over a year of drinking just about every other instant coffee brand to better their scope on the instant coffee market and really fine-tune what they were looking for. After becoming experts in the instant coffee world and having their product perfected a year later, it wasn't long before their took off landing themselves on the shelves of REI.

I had you at coffee, didn't I? Something about coffee taps into a universal language for so many of us hard-chargers who reach for a caffeine kick instead of considering that we may just need to back off and recharge sometimes. Alex Hanifin is no stranger to the concept of hard-charging. She is scrappy. She is smart. She is accomplished well beyond her years. She is the 28 year old founder of a company that is changing the world. The world of coffee. You’ll get the sense immediately that I know Alex. I do. I met her through a CEO group I participate in and immediately sensed that I was in the presence of someone who was meant to do big things. Alex started her first real business in high school. She didn’t go to college, but it wasn’t because she wasn’t smart or driven. She is in fact one of the smartest and most driven women I know. She just struggled in school and that environment stifled her instead of helping her grow. So she trusted her gut and her heart to lead her down her path to happiness. Today we talk about: The importance of health: "If you're not healthy, your business is not healthy" How what our parents say and do matters Her unique path to entrepreneurship Starting a business in high school Talking your way into a job when you have no idea what you're doing! Listening to your gut Alpine Start coffee: How much love and care goes into her business And more Happiness is a brand that is kicking serious ass and completely blowing open a really old, crotchety category – instant coffee.  It's called Alpine Start and is making the most delicious, high quality coffee – it’s just such a great surprise when you have your first sip. Instant coffee doesn’t have to suck! Alex is offering you 50% off online at alpinestartfoods.com. Use code skirtsports. Definitely try their original Instant Coffee, the new dirty chai latte or coconut creamer latte – so good. If you are a supporter of women-led business ventures, forward this one. And if you want to actually SEE Alex in person, check out the Skirt Sports website. I talked her into modeling this season. She has such incredible energy I wanted to capture it! All right then, let’s chug some more coffee and get out and move your body because you know what time it is. It’s time to get out and run this world! Have a great workout and I’ll see you next week!

At 28-years-old, Alex Hanifin is a rock star in the natural foods industry. Just two years ago she and her business partner pooled together $25,000-every cent they owned- to co-found Alpine Start Foods, a premium brand of instant coffee that has been something of an overnight success. The single serving instant coffee can already be found on the shelves of grocery stores including Whole Foods and sporting goods stores like REI. "This isn't your grandma's coffee," the Boulder, Colorado native quips in describing the brand, which uses high quality beans and a special roasting process to produce gourmet flavors like Coconut Creamer and Dirty Chai Latte. Listen in as Alex, who didn't get into a single college she applied to, shares the story of how she built her career simply by asking lots of questions, networking like crazy and, yeah you guessed it: breaking the rules.

This episode's FREE downloadable guide Real shopper loyalty is earned not found on plastic cards. Your brand’s real strength is its ability to convert casual customers into brand ambassadors. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE STRATEGIC GUIDE: Merchandising Checklist To Grow Sales and Shopper Loyalty Behind every successful entrepreneur is a thriving community mentoring, nurturing, and encouraging them. This explodes their personal and professional growth. Paying it forward to emerging brands is at the heart of what makes natural natural. Today's story has several different parts. The first is a story about someone who is passionate about food, who grew up in an industry that was inspired by the thought leaders around her that took that energy and that passion and turned it into a viable business that's very successful today. The next part is about how she inspired others around her by helping to build that community to help support other small nurturing brands. Her passionate, bright spirit is infectious. She's able to communicate that to help other brands, giving back to her community to help foster that spirit of growth and innovation to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs. The next part of our story is about how Alex was able to successfully build her brand in an alternative channel and help leverage that to gain traction at traditional retail. Here's Alex Hanifin of Alpine Start and Naturally Boulder Download the show note at:  brandsecretsandstrategies.com/session46

Growing up, Matt was an unlikely candidate to become a professional climber.  Mostly because the southern beaches of Florida were his home. However, early on he showed promising climbing ability and began competing all over the country and world. After moving out to Colorado he began doing things very few climbers were doing, garnering the attention of The North Face. He signed with them and did climbs and expeditions all over the world. Noticing the lack of quality coffee on the market for backcountry sports, Matt’s mind began working. When back home in Colorado he would experiment with instant coffee combinations until he was satisfied. After talking his sister and some friends into going in with him, they started Alpine Start, the premier instant coffee for backpackers, climbers, and anyone in the adventure sports world. Today we’re talking to Matt about his story and how he balancing life on the rock and life in the business world. IG: @mattsegal IG: @alpinestartfoods alpinestartfoods.com mattsegal.com **ANNOUNCEMENT** ADVENTURE GRANT APPLICATION OPEN  Go to athleticbrewing.com/adventure-grant-application to apply for our first ever $1,000 adventure grant, funded by Athletic Brewing Company!  Follow the link for all the rules and instructions for how to apply! Athletic Brewing Company is a pioneer in craft non-alcoholic beer. They make great-tasting beer for the healthy, active, modern adult. Athletic uses certified all organic grains and only 50-70 calories a can. With IPA, Golden Ale, stouts, and tons of seasonal style offerings. Save 15% by using ADVENTURE at athleticbrewing.com @athleticbrewing If you're in need of some personalized advice before buying your gear, go to backpacktribe.com. You're not only able to purchase the gear you need on their website but talk with someone with the experience and know how. They also offer gear bundles and free shipping. @backpacktribal CS Instant Coffee is 100% Arabica Instant Coffee. Their compostable packaging provides guilt-free convenience that is perfect for the trail, office, and fitness.  Visit csinstant.coffee and use promo code 'Adventure' for 20% off at csinstant.coffee @c.s.coffee The Nomadik, the first outdoor subscription box that helps you go more adventures with the latest gear by delivering themed monthly boxes with innovative products and an outdoor challenge to match!  Free giveaway at win.thenomadik.com/adventuresportspodcast @thenomadik Support the Adventure Sports Podcast by giving as low as $1/month to our efforts to produce this show at patreon.com/AdventureSportsPodcast Call and leave us a voicemail at 812-MAIL-POD or 812-624-5763 or send an email to info@adventuresportspodcast.com