by Wy'east Wolfpack
Welcome to Get After It PDX, a down-to-earth podcast featuring honest conversations with inspiring people in the creative hotbed of Portland, Oregon. Powered by Wy'east Wolfpack Host/Producer: Willie McBride Intro & Outro/Sound Engineer: Greg Pressler Follow along: @wyeastwolfpack wyeastwolfpack.com/get-after-it-pdx/
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November 11, 2022
<p>Hear physical therapist, small business owner and outdoor athlete Damien Jackson-Ricketts talk about growing up in a very rural area in SW Virginia (and how different it was from living in big cities later in his life), the genuine satisfaction of working with your hands and the example his woodworker father instilled in him from a young age, early nature experiences that informed his love of outdoor sports (like hiking, mountain biking, and surfing) later in life, his passion for film/movies and his previous desire to follow that career path, his developing interest in physical therapy and the steps he took to get in to PT school and his residency in LA, life in SoCal and how he and his girlfriend finally made the call to move to Portland and the Pacific Northwest, starting his private practice--Stoke PT--here in PDX, and much more! </p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Follow along:</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/stoke_pt/" target="_blank">@stoke_pt</a></p> <p><a href="https://stokept.com/" target="_blank">Stokept.com</a></p> <p><br></p>
May 6, 2022
<p>Hear Jennifer Maxwell--co-founder/creator of PowerBar, THE original energy bar, with her late husband Brian Maxwell--talk about growing up in Bolinas, California and what lead to her passion for running, athletics and food science, how she met Brian in Berkeley and together they created Powerbar, what runners ate before energy bars were a thing, what it was like to start a business in the "old days" before the advent of modern technology and how they grew it to eventually be bought by Nestle for $375 million in 2000, how she managed to keep moving forward and raise 6 children amidst the tragic passing of Brian from a heart condition in 2004, the importance of music to her and how drumming became a major and ongoing part of her life, the creation of JAMBAR and the blending of her passions--music, athletics/wellness, and healthy eating--into an exciting new venture where 50% of profits go to support music and active living, and much more!</p> <p>Follow along:</p> <p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/eatjambar/" target="_blank">@JAMBAR</a></p> <p><a href="https://jambar.com" target="_blank">Jambar.com</a></p>
January 12, 2022
<p>Hear baker and former park ranger turned pandemic entrepreneur Natalie Edwards talk about growing up in the PNW, her relationship to her grandmothers from a young age and how they inspired her baking years later, her father's job and the influence it had on her love of nature and the outdoors and career for many years, how attending college in the south connected her to another part of the country and her family there, what caused her to return to the PNW and pivot to a new career of creating delicious baked goods, what a poundcake really is and why she focused on that, how the business is going and what's to come in 2022, her love of going to the gym, and much more!</p> <p><br></p> <p>Follow along:</p> <p><a href="https://www.lucilleandanniespoundcakes.com" target="_blank">lucilleandanniespoundcakes.com</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/landapoundcakespdx/" target="_blank">@landapoundcakespdx</a></p>
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Welcome to Get After It PDX, a down-to-earth podcast featuring honest conversations with inspiring people in the creative hotbed of Portland, Oregon.
Powered by Wy'east Wolfpack Host/Producer: Willie McBride Intro & Outro/Sound Engineer: Greg Pressler
Follow along: @wyeastwolfpack wyeastwolfpack.com/get-after-it-pdx/
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